Home Made Hush Puppies

[FishDFly]

Hush Puppies

For those who are tired of frozen hush puppies in a bag.

Ingredients
Vegetable oil
1 1/2 cups self-rising white cornmeal mix
3/4 cup self-rising flour
3/4 cup diced sweet onion (about 1/2 medium onion)
1 1/2 tablespoons sugar
1 large egg, lightly beaten
1 1/4 cups buttermilk

How to Make It
Step 1
Pour oil to depth of 3 inches into a Dutch oven; heat to 375°. Combine cornmeal and next 3 ingredients. Add egg and buttermilk; stir just until moistened. Let stand 10 minutes.

Step 2

Drop batter by rounded tablespoonfuls into hot oil, and fry, in 3 batches, 2 to 3 minutes on each side or until golden. Keep warm in a 200° oven.

 

[Kansas Jake]

Yum yum and now I’m drooling. I‘d just need some fresh fish to go along with them.

 

[Tumbledown]

I have never heard of frozen hush puppies in a bag... something tells me that's a good thing.

Here in the northeast, many have never even heard of hush puppies.

 

[Tumbledown]

For those who don't have buttermilk, there's a substitute: add a tablespoon of lemon juice per cup of regular milk and let it stand for a couple of minutes. Works for pancake batter, too.

 

[Bob McBride]

That's about my recipe but I like to throw a few fresh Jalapenos in the food processor and mix them in.....

..hush puppies in a bag reminds me of Fellowship of the Ring when the Hobbits are sitting in the Prancing Pony having an ale and Pippen says, "They come in Pints?"

 

[appalichian hunter]

JB76, you boys up north just aint living right, maybe you could open a hush puppy stand and educate them folks. there's more to life than Nathan's hot dogs.

 

[oldwood]

Will turn down best steak in the house for some hush puppies and plate deep fried catfish. Used to travel extensively in the South. Can tell you every place we ever stopped for catfish and hush puppies. Yummmmm...........oldwood

 

[Dale Lilly]

Agree … except make it crappie. Polecat

 

[oldwood]

Pass the crappie and hush puppies , please....oldwood

 

[tenngun]

Ain’t a fan of catfish my self. I’m here you tell you most any meat, fish fowl or footed goes with hush puppies.
Even by them selves.

 

[1950DAVE]

Hush puppies , warmed over with scrambled eggs and sausage patties for breakfast.
Dave

 

[jonathan hawkin]

They sound rather tasty, was confused for a while as hush puppies are a shoe brand here in UK!

 

[FishDFly]

I remember that brand of shoes, do they still make them?

Probably not, remembering that brand of shoes dates a person.

 

[Tumbledown]

Ain’t a fan of catfish my self. I’m here you tell you most any meat, fish fowl or footed goes with hush puppies.
Even by them selves.

If they ain't good by themselves, they ain't good.

 

[Dave James]

Mmmmm, hush puppies and fried rattlesnake,only thing better is skip the snake and use small mouth bass

 

[tenngun]

Don’t skip rattle snake they can strike half their body length
Ummm
Snake-fried bass hard choice

 

[mooman76]

A restaurant I went to once had Hushpuppies with little bits of shrimp and crab mixed in. Buy they was good. And yes they still make Hushpuppy shoes, you just don't see them much.

 

[Ames]

I was going to say....I make mine with diced crawfish tails mixed into the batter. Crab meat works in a pinch too. Both call for some extra fresh ground black pepper.

 

[jonathan hawkin]

I remember that brand of shoes, do they still make them?

Probably not, remembering that brand of shoes dates a person.

It does!, but have just checked and they still seem to be going strong

 

[Jaegermeister]

Add a few thick slices of strong onions on my plates please.