HUSH PUPPIES:
Heat oil to 350\
Mix dry ingredients.
Add onion, cheese, egg and milk.
Drop into hot cooking oil from a spoon.
The hush puppies will float on top when done.
Serve with fried fish.
This recipe is about 60 years old.
Serves 8 to 10.
Hush Puppies:
Combine onion, buttermilk, 1 egg and jalapeno. Combine 1 1/2 cups cornmeal, the sugar, baking powder, soda and 3/4 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper.
Stir wet ingredients into dry.
Shape dough into 1-inch balls.
When oil is at 350\u00b0 add hush puppies.
Fry until golden brown.
Mix cornmeal, flour, salt, baking powder and pepper in bowl. Add milk and eggs.
Stir to blend.
Add onion and blend.
More milk or cornmeal may be needed after onion is added to produce desired consistency.
(Hush Puppies should be fried after fish is fried as heat should be reduced somewhat for them.)
few seconds until the Hush Puppy releases from the spoon
Clean and skin catfish, then cut into thick slices.
Dip slices into crackers or cornmeal, then into a mixture of egg and milk and again into the crumbs or meal.
The traditional Southern fat is lard, but vegetable oil may be used, if preferred.
The fat must be very hot.
Put the coated fish into a frying basket, immerse in the fat and cook until golden brown (do not crowd the fish, the kettle should be large and roomy).
Serve at once with Hush Puppies fried in the same fat as the fish.
s golden brown, turning the hush puppies to cook evenly, 6 to
Mix dry ingredients together.
Add eggs, sweet milk and onion. It may not take the entire can of milk.
Have batter stiff enough that you can drop by small spoonfuls into hot Wesson oil where the fish have been fried.
(Use a deep pot or Fry Baby cooker.)
The hush puppies will pop up; turn over and cook on the other side. Drain on paper towels.
Combine all the ingredients in a large bowl.
Shape into small balls and deep fry until golden brown and crusty on the outside. Makes 35 to 50 hush puppies.
Combine cornmeal, flour and onion.
Add egg, gradually beat in milk or water.
Drop from a spoon into hot fat where fish was fried.
Fry until golden brown.
Drain on absorbent paper and serve hot.
Makes 16 small hush puppies.
Combine corn meal, flour and onion.
Add egg.
Gradually beat in milk or water.
Drop from a spoon into hot fat where fish was fried.
Fry until golden brown.
Drain on absorbent paper.
Spread with butter and serve hot with fish.
This makes about 16 small hush puppies.
Mix all ingredients together.
Add onion, then milk and last the beaten egg.
Drop by spoonfuls into a deep kettle or deep fryer in which fish is being fried.
Fry to a golden brown.
Drain on paper towels.
If a deep kettle is being used, then hush puppies will float when done.
Combine meal, baking powder, sugar and salt.
Add slowly to 2 1/2 cups boiling water, stirring briskly on low heat until stiff, about 5 minutes.
As soon as mixture is smooth, remove from heat. Stir in butter; cool.
Form into finger shaped rolls.
Fry in 2-inches hot fat at 375\u00b0 until golden brown.
Drain on absorbent paper.
Yield:
About 3 dozen hush puppies.
Combine corn meal and onion; gradually beat in milk or water and egg.
Allow to sit 5 minutes.
Drop from a spoon into hot fat where fish was fried.
Fry until golden brown.
Drain on absorbent paper.
(For added flavor, add more chopped onion, 1 tablespoon at a time.)
Makes 20 hush puppies.
Mix all dry ingredients together.
Add onion, then milk and beaten egg.
Drop by spoonful into pan or kettle, where hush puppies are fried to a golden brown or done in hot grease.
Put unsifted cornmeal into a bowl.
Sift flour, salt and baking powder into this.
Add finely chopped onions. Beat eggs and add the eggs and milk to dry ingredients.
Drop from tablespoon or shape with hands.
Fry hush puppies in deep fat (375\u00b0) until brown.
Be sure they are done on the inside before removing from fat.
These are very tasty served with fried fish, coleslaw and hot coffee.
Mix cornmeal, flour, salt, baking powder and sugar.
Add eggs, onion and buttermilk.
(Should be thick enough to spoon into hot oil.)
Fry hush puppies in oil fish was fried in.
Use an ice tea spoon to dip batter, drop into hot oil.
The batter can be refrigerated up to one week; flavor is better.
Makes 2 to 3 dozen.
Combine corn meal, flour, onions and egg.
Gradually beat in milk or water.
Drop from a spoon into hot fat where fish was fried.
Fry until golden brown.
Drain on absorbent paper.
Spread with butter and serve hot with fish.
Makes about 16 small hush puppies.
Mix dry ingredients.
Add onion, buttermilk and eggs.
Stir in squash.
Drop by teaspoon into hot, deep fat.
This makes a lot of hush puppies.
The recipe would be easy to halve.
Mix all ingredients well and drop by a teaspoonful into hot oil (preferably oil that you have fried fish in).
Dough will rise to top of oil.
Turn once if the hush puppies don't turn themselves.