Has anyone a recipe for "Hush Puppies"?

Question

Whilst on a visit to North Carolina some years ago, we were served in a seafood restaurant, and along with masses of superb seafood, some delicious, (but I suspect incredibly fattening) things called "Hush Puppies" - they were crispy and golden and scrumptious.
I have never come across them in any recipe book, and wondered how they were made.

Answer 1

Piping Hot Hush Puppies


We ate a lot of cornmeal based foods when I was
growing up because corn meal was cheap. In fact,
we could even take grain to the local mill and
have it ground into flour, meal, livestock feed,
etc. Cornbread or biscuits were almost always
served at any meal I attended at many houses in
the neighborhood. They were usually pretty good
too, although I preferred the lighter tasting
hush puppies. Eaten fresh out of the fryer, they
practically melted in your mouth. Here is my
recipe:

Ingredients:
2 cups yellow corn meal
1 cup plain flour (flour is what gave it the
lighter taste and you can experiment with the
amount you use if you want)
2 eggs
1 cup buttermilk (you can also use plain milk in
a pinch, but nothing compares to buttermilk)
3/4 teaspoon seasoned salt. I use Lowreys but just
about any brand will work as you are just looking
for something to spice things up a little
1/2 teaspoon ground pepper blend (again, the idea
is to spice things up a little).
1 teaspoon baking powder
2/3 teaspoon baking soda
1/8 cup bacon grease. This is another big key to
the flavor. In a pinch you can use other types
of cooking oil, but bacon is my favorite.

You also need some type of cooking oil to deep fry
these in. I usually use Crisco oil although peanut oil
and some of the lower fat oils work well too.

Mix all of the dry ingredients in a bowl. Add your
eggs, oil, and buttermilk. Stir it all up until
the flavors are thoroughly blended.

Turn your cooker on medium-high heat. When it's
hot you can drop your hush puppies in using a
table spoon. Allow them to brown on all sides.
They should begin floating when done, but if they
don't, don't overcook them.

Serve as a side dish with just about any meal. I
loved eating them with fried catfish or fresh
chopped or pulled pork barbecue. Most of the local
resturants added them as a standard feature when you
bought plate meals.

After getting to Alaska, I visited a restaurant that
also added yellow corn to their hush puppies and a
touch of sugar. If you want to give this a try,
precook the corn, but don't overcook it. Use 3/4 cups
in the recipe above. On top of that add 2 table spoons
of white sugar. The recipe at the restaurant in
Alaska was so popular that customers often ordered
side orders to take home. I always though that it
tasted pretty good.

You can also store this mixture in the refrigerator
for a day or so if you are only cooking for a smaller
group. Before cooking let it reach near room
temperature.

Answer 2

I really like the rhythm, it moves along quickly and then pulls to a halt between each stanza with 'hush'. My one critique would be the rhyming, neither 'wish' nor 'trust' fit the 'ush' rhyme. You could either change the first stanza so that none of it rhymes (except for the 2nd line of each stanza), or change the 2nd and 3rd stanzas so that they fit the pattern. If you can't think of any more rhyming words that you like, perhaps you could bring 'hush' into each stanza, giving it a different adjective each time. If you choose to do this I would reccommend using it in the same line of each stanza. Off the top of my head, all the words I can think of that rhyme with 'hush': blush mush gush lush EDIT Ok I just read Jon M ǝpısdn uʍop sı unɟ's post about the degrading rhyme and I didn't get that the first time I read it but that's really cool, so just ignore me :)

Answer 3

I think that Madamspud169 has a good recipe going... My Nana likes to add finely chopped onions (usually Vidalia) into it. I don't much care for onions but it's good in the hush puppies. To me, they're best served with fried catfish and collard greens (you can cook mustard or turnip greens with the collards, it's delish! Bacon or ham is a good addition to the collards too.) Corn-on-the cob, black-eyed peas, or fresh snap beans (green beans) are good with the meal too....

Answer 4

Hush puppies are shoes, good luck in trying to cook them lol

Answer 5

Here is a recipe off a website..........

Answer 6

Last time I had one it tasted like boot leather.

Answer 7

Try this website and see if this is what you want. If not, just google it.

http://southernfood.about.com/od/fritters/r/blbb283.htm

Answer 8

Hot dogs, perhaps?

Answer 9

dont know