Hush Puppies - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 3/4 c. sifted corn meal
1/3 c. sifted flour
3 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
1/4 c. finely minced onion
1 egg, slightly beaten
1 c. buttermilk or sour milk
fat for frying

Preparation

Sift corn meal and flour; measure, mix together and sift again with baking powder and salt.
Stir in onion.
Combine beaten egg and milk and add all at once to dry ingredients.
Stir only until well blended.
Drop by heaping teaspoons into hot fat (365\u00b0) and fry until golden brown, turning as necessary.
Drain on absorbent paper.
Serve at once or keep hot in a slow oven (250\u00b0) until served.