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PORTER’S ANSON COUNTY HUSH PUPPIES
INGREDIENTS:
1 cup plain white corn meal 1
cup all purpose flour
White Lily
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup buttermilk (whole not skim)
1 teaspoon salt 3 tablespoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 cup
diced onion, white
1 egg, lightly beaten
Fill a 2-quart saucepot half full with oil and heat to 350 to 375 degrees. In
a large mixing bowl, sift together the flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda, sugar; then stir in the cornmeal and onions. In a separate
bowl, combine the egg and milk, then pour into the mixture; stir to blend.
This stiff batter should be thick enough to stay
on a spoon without dripping off the sides. You may need to stir in
more cornmeal if it's too runny or milk if it's too dry. Let batter
rest in refrigerator for 30 minutes. Very carefully drop
the batter by teaspoons into the hot oil, and cook until golden brown, about 2 minutes on each side. The puppies
sometimes will turn over by themselves
to cook the other side, but you might have to help them out a little.
Drain on paper towels and serve immediately. If using peanut oil
for deep frying, you can run the temperature up to 400 degrees F. which will
quickly seal the outside of the hush puppies and the hush puppies will
retain less oil.
YIELD: about 2 dozen
NOTES: You can substitute beer for the buttermilk if desired. Our original
recipe that my bride
“Tweet” came up with back in the early 1970’s
got lost or misplaced, but I believe it was one of those recipes that you had
committed to memory only. Anyway, this is one that I have been working
with the past few weeks/months changing the ratio of corn meal to flour and
leaving off any Cajun type seasonings but you can add, cayenne, onion
powder, garlic powder, paprika, etc to your liking, but I guarantee this
recipe will work for you! I believe the addition of the sugar makes
all the difference. These “puppies” are light, but not as
light as a fritter and will
melt in your mouth. It would be scary to see all the fish, fries, slaw
and hush puppies we prepared over the years! For a couple decades we
used a “humongous” size black cast iron skillet for all the
fish frying but now do all the fish frying outside using a propane fish
cooker which is more convenient but really can’t say the fish taste any
better! I know fish do taste better when prepared soon after being
caught. Some of our best fish cooked were caught from the Pee Dee
River, Anson County and cooked at the shore’s edge while
camping on
Jerry Ingram’s property near the old boat landing, Blewett Fall’s Lake. Our
“kids” still talk about all the good times we had back in the
1970's to middle 1980's before their estrogen and testosterone kicked in.
Grin if you must!
Comments and recipe by Bill aka Mickey Porter 05-27-07
Below pix of hush puppies served with some
BBQ and
marinated slaw on
09-22-08.
ALTERNATE HUSH PUPPIES RECIPE
INGREDIENTS:
1 cup self-rising
corn meal 1
cup self-rising
flour
3 tablespoons sugar
1 cup buttermilk (whole not skim)
1 egg, lightly beaten
1/2 cup chopped onion
1/2 teaspoon salt Mix corn meal, flour, salt and sugar. Add chopped onion, then
buttermilk and egg and stir until well blended.
Let rest in refrigerator for 30 minutes. Drop by spoonful into hot oil
350 to 375 degrees. Batter will sink and then will
float to the top of the oil. Sometimes, they will turn by themselves,
but most of the time will need a nudge to turn them over to brown both sides. Drain
on taper towels. Serve while hot.
This recipe is for those that use only self-rising corn meal and self-rising
flour. YIELD: About 24
 Above hush
puppies deep fried on 03-23-13 by Bill aka Mickey Porter. Served with
my beef stew. Click on thumbnail sequence pixs
for a larger screen view:
Bill aka Mickey Porter 04-01-09. LEAVING ON A
SPIRITUAL NOTE
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attained.
Romans 10:9 “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord
Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the
dead, thou shalt be saved.”
Open this
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Hebrews 4:12 “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and
sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of
soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the
thoughts and intents of the heart.”
Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is
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God;”
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