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Friends,
As 2 members have now asked about the fried cornbread that I mentioned in another post, I'm going to save us all some time and post my G-G-G grandmother's recipes.
(From my G-G-grandmother's "journal" of the "escape" to Northeast Texas from Lake Corinth, MS in late May 1865, when Mother's family was fleeing the revenge of the Yankee Army. - Rebel Partisan Rangers were NOT "too popular with" the DYs and the DY had planned a "necktie party" for several of the men in the family. Fyi, the journey from MS to TX took about 5 months, according to her journal.)
The first recipe can use either sweet or buttermilk.
(IF you are using buttermilk, add a 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda to the mix.)
To a cup of cornmeal add a 1/2 cup of flour, a teaspoon of salt and a tablespoon of baking powder. IF you are using buttermilk, add in the baking soda.
Heat the grease (I use lard and bacon fat mixed and about a 1/2 inch deep) in a pot until it is just short of boiling.
Mix the milk and one beaten egg into the dry ingredients and spoon the mixture into the hot grease, frying until well-browned on both sides.
ENJOY.
(Most adults in my experience will eat about three 4inch "corn dodgers".)
The other recipe is REALLY simple and my G-G-grandmother said that when "vittles were scarce" that her "Mother made a great deal of Hot Water Cornbread to fill empty bellies".
(My G-G-grandmother was a 17YO bride at the time of "the escape to Texas" and she was later a farm wife and "schoolmistress". - Her husband was a swine farmer both in MS & in Red River County, TX.)
To a cup of cornmeal, add a teaspoon of salt and enough boiling water to form soft patties. Allow the meal/salt/water mixture to cool enough to handle the patties.
Drop cornmeal patties into hot grease and brown on both sides. Serve with whatever you can gather or kill.
(These days, our family only serves the hot water recipe when we are having fried fish or "wilted green salad". - Dip the patties in hot pepper sauce and enjoy.)
yours, satx
As 2 members have now asked about the fried cornbread that I mentioned in another post, I'm going to save us all some time and post my G-G-G grandmother's recipes.
(From my G-G-grandmother's "journal" of the "escape" to Northeast Texas from Lake Corinth, MS in late May 1865, when Mother's family was fleeing the revenge of the Yankee Army. - Rebel Partisan Rangers were NOT "too popular with" the DYs and the DY had planned a "necktie party" for several of the men in the family. Fyi, the journey from MS to TX took about 5 months, according to her journal.)
The first recipe can use either sweet or buttermilk.
(IF you are using buttermilk, add a 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda to the mix.)
To a cup of cornmeal add a 1/2 cup of flour, a teaspoon of salt and a tablespoon of baking powder. IF you are using buttermilk, add in the baking soda.
Heat the grease (I use lard and bacon fat mixed and about a 1/2 inch deep) in a pot until it is just short of boiling.
Mix the milk and one beaten egg into the dry ingredients and spoon the mixture into the hot grease, frying until well-browned on both sides.
ENJOY.
(Most adults in my experience will eat about three 4inch "corn dodgers".)
The other recipe is REALLY simple and my G-G-grandmother said that when "vittles were scarce" that her "Mother made a great deal of Hot Water Cornbread to fill empty bellies".
(My G-G-grandmother was a 17YO bride at the time of "the escape to Texas" and she was later a farm wife and "schoolmistress". - Her husband was a swine farmer both in MS & in Red River County, TX.)
To a cup of cornmeal, add a teaspoon of salt and enough boiling water to form soft patties. Allow the meal/salt/water mixture to cool enough to handle the patties.
Drop cornmeal patties into hot grease and brown on both sides. Serve with whatever you can gather or kill.
(These days, our family only serves the hot water recipe when we are having fried fish or "wilted green salad". - Dip the patties in hot pepper sauce and enjoy.)
yours, satx
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