Peggie Hall wrote:
JimL wrote:
I don't know about Doug's recipe, but for a store bought mix, I
strongly suggest 'House of Autry'. It's excellent by itself, but I
like to add some chopped jalapeno's.
I know people who also like to add some finely chopped onion...and/or
some fresh or frozen corn kernels.
Their seafood breading mix is
also very good. It's light and doesn't change the taste of fish
from being overloaded with spices like other brands.
Sounds like it would be great for fried okra--another purely southern
delight...why, btw, is nothing like boiled okra, which is dreadful.
I understand your 'boo'boo' for not getting that recipe from your
mom, but I was wondering if you had any old cookbooks of hers or if
another family member might. It's just possible she wrote that
recipe down before she had it committed to memory.
If she cooked like my grandmother (an AL farm gal) did, it's
doubtful...'cuz Grandma was a "pinch of this" and a "handful of that"
cook. One of my uncles was determined to get her "recipe" for cornbread
(REAL southern cornbread, not the gawdawful stuff that most yankees and
city folk eat that isn't even close)...the only way to do it was by
following her around the kitchen each time he was around when she made
it, grabbing and measuring her pinches and handfuls till he came up with
the average amounts. Then he'd make some to find out how close it was to
hers. It took him several years of doing that, but he finally nailed it
and then gave the recipe to everyone in the family.
Peggie
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For those who are really interested:
("hVS "pVpI) [f. hush v.1 + puppy n.]
1. U.S. (See quots.)
1918 Dialect Notes V. 18 Hushpuppy, a sort of bread prepared very
quickly and without salt. 1942 M. K. Rawlings Cross Creek Cookery 28
Fresh-caught fried fish without hush puppies are as men without women.
1947 This Week Mag. (U.S.) 4 Oct. 27/1 What's a hush puppy? You mean you
don't know that Southern fried bread like a miniature corn pone—but
glorified? It's made of the white cornmeal of the South, smooth and fine
as face powder. 1960 Harper's Bazaar July 48 Crisp, brown ‘hush
puppies’, crunchy morsels of deep-fried cornmeal batter. 1964 Cookbk.
(Amer. Heritage) (1967) 220 Hush Puppies are usually served with fried
fish. 1967 Daily News (N.Y.) 5 Mar. ii. 4 I'm going to eat
hush-puppies, wear a snuffler and every night sing ‘Silent Night’.
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