How many of you know about hoe cake?

Question

Like hushpuppies it is a southern name or a rural country raised persons word for a tasty morsel.
I know from at least one answer that I'm not the only person raised on them.
Only my 2 oldest children grew up eating them.
I think too many people associate hoe cake with poverty.
I hope we can explain what it is and how to make them so our friends from around the world can make them and let us know what they think about them.

Answer 1

they are not a poverty food, they are a food born of the Civil war, back in the war when the Rebel soldiers were craving corn bread they had no ovens to bake it in, so they found a nice flat hoe and cleaned it up real nice then they made their cornbread batter and held the hoe over a fire and let it get hot then put a spoon or two of the batter on the hoe cooked it on both sides and ate them for a little bit of home on the campaign.
there is nothign shameful about them,

Answer 2

it relatively is a sort of biscut. HOE brownies a million a million/2 c. corn meal a million c. all-purpose flour a million/4 c. Crisco oil a million a million/4 c. buttermilk a million/3 c. sugar 2 eggs, crushed a million tsp. salt a million tsp. soda combine cornmeal, flour, sugar, salt and soda in medium bowl. upload eggs, oil and buttermilk. Stir purely till components are moistened. Pour into heavily oiled skillet a million/4 cup of batter for each hoe cake. Fry over medium-extreme warmth a million or 2 minutes or till golden brown on the two factors. Use extra oil if necessary. Drain on paper towels. Serve right this moment.

Answer 3

I still make hoe cake...and journey (johnny) cakes and home made cornbread and fritters.

All of that fancy "polenta" everybody is wild about these days - so very gourmet - is nothing more than corn mush like my grandmother made. I still make that too, put it in a bread pan and refrigerate it...then slice it about 1/2 " thick, dip in beaten egg and flavored bread crumbs and fry in hot, hot oil until crisp----YUMMY. Also can just lightly flour it, fry it up - add a little butter and honey or maple syrup.....WOW-breakfast.

Answer 4

I learned about them from Paula Deen on her show. She said they were made on a hoe in the sun, thats how they got their name.I am from the east US and have had hush puppies but never hoe cakes, but as I remember they are corn meal batter cakes,without anything savory like the hush puppies. They are thin and eaten with maple syrup or corn syrup.

Answer 5

My mother, who was born in 1908 in Florida, Yearling country, used to tell me about them. A hoecake is a type of cornbread which is very thin in texture and fried in a skillet, used to be maybe a hoe, but for her a skillet.

My father called just about any piece of cornbread a "hoecake." He always wanted a "hoecake of cornbread."

Answer 6

Hush puppies are great -- this is the first I've heard of hoe cakes, they sound tasty enough and backhome nuff to try though.

Answer 7

Love em. I learned to cook in the south. I make hot water bread. I still bake and taught my kids to cook. They all know hoe cakes, corn pone and greens. UMMM!!!

Answer 8

We still eat them, easy to make corn meal water salt That's home made .Today I add a little sugar and oil. If they ask tell them their corn pone same thing

Answer 9

I'd never heard of them before. We often ate hushpuppies and my neighbor made 'corn pone' which I thought was delicious.

Answer 10

I guess that that is what I call fried corn bread. I have made hot water corn bread,baked or fried when I did not have milk.