Wóžapi, berry pudding
Chokecherries or other berries cooked into a thick pudding: eaten by the Lakota with frybread.
Traditional use
- Time
- 15 minutes, plus cooling
- Makes
- 4 servings
Wóžapi is a Lakota berry pudding, traditionally made from chokecherries, the wild cherries of the prairie. In this present-day version, from the Lakota school St. Joseph's in South Dakota, it is thickened with cornflour and sweetened with sugar. You eat it plain, on crackers, or the Lakota way: with frybread.
Ingredients
- 300 g pitted chokecherries, or other fresh or frozen berries
- 125 ml water
- 150 g sugar
- 3 tbsp cornflour
Step by step
- Bring the berries to the boil with the sugar and half the water.
- Stir the cornflour smooth with the rest of the cold water.
- Pour this into the boiling berries while stirring and simmer for 2 minutes until the pudding thickens.
- Let cool for 5 minutes and spoon into bowls.
Tips
- Blueberries or blackcurrants come close to the taste of chokecherries.