hushpuppys

[Lloyd Smale]

When i was in the service down in VA i went home with a buddy from NC all the time. His ma made the best fried chicken and hushpuppy dinner i ever ate in my life. Ive tried some recipes for hushpuppys on the internet and they just werent what i remembered. the ones she made didnt have as much of a cornbread gritty taste more like a bread almost. Anyone help me?

[gunther66]

Lloyd
I'm not the cook in this house but I can suggest that the reciepe  needs more flour and less cornmeal.Also an important addition is a small amount of sugar to taste.Lastly add some garlic and chopped onions to the mix. Good luck, G66

[blind ear]

What else do you remember? They were more bread than cornbread. were they sweet? salty? hot? beer flavored? sour? Similar to anything else that you have eaten? What can you remember?
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My hushpuppies. cornmeal, cornbread or hushpuppie mix , not the kind with sugar. Add yellow or red onion cut up in 3/8 to 1/2 " squares. some japalino chopped fine and some bell pepper cut like the onion but about half as much. Use beer as the liquid to make the batter. When ready to drop the batter stir down the batter each time to get the gas out or the puppies will come apart. Brown um, flip um, cool um, eat um. ear

[subdjoe]

I use equal parts self rising flour and either white corn meal or the Safeway house brand corn meal (it's a bit finer grind than most).  If you use a cup of each, then add a few pinches of poultry seasoning and grate in (not chop or mince, grate - it makes a difference) in about 1 or 2 TBS of onion.  Add a cup or so of buttermilk to make a batter to your preferred consistency.  If still too gritty, then up the amount of SR flour and decrease the corn meal.

[Lloyd Smale]

this was back in the 70s so my memory is cloudy. I do remember they were not sweat though and did seem as gritty as the ones i tried to make.

[SHOOTALL]

I though it was the 60's that clouded memory 

[charles p]

I'm from NC.  I bet she soaked her chicken pieces in buttermilk overnight and put a lot of black pepper in her chicken batter.  Did you eat a pulley bone at her house?

[Ranger99]

my guess would be that most folks nowdays
don't use deep enough grease to float anything
being fried, and using vegetable-type oils
instead of grease. hush puppies need to be
able to float around instead of laying on the
skillet bottom like a pancake. i never use
but maybe a tablespoon or two of flour
to a cup of yellow corn meal, and the other
stuff gets chopped very fine.




maybe the meal was milled finer?
did you cook your chicken first to get
the chicken taste in the grease?
my folks always used to use left-over
grease from frying bacon and such in
addition to lard when stuff got fried.

[Lloyd Smale]

70s were a bit cloudy for me too

I though it was the 60's that clouded memory 

[Lloyd Smale]

what is a pulley bone?

I'm from NC.  I bet she soaked her chicken pieces in buttermilk overnight and put a lot of black pepper in her chicken batter.  Did you eat a pulley bone at her house?

[blind ear]

what is a pulley bone?

I'm from NC.  I bet she soaked her chicken pieces in buttermilk overnight and put a lot of black pepper in her chicken batter.  Did you eat a pulley bone at her house?

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Wishbone, you pull it apart to see who gets the wish. ear

[lakota]

We ate at a Resturaunt in South Carolina called Charleston Crab House. They had the best hushpuppies we have ever tasted and they handed them out for free while we were waiting for our meals. I dont even remember what I ordered all I remember is the hushpuppies. Anyone know that place?

[SHOOTALL]

Was that thr resturant with the hole in the middle of the table for trash ?

[Lloyd Smale]

hers were surely not made from yellow corn bread as i can remember them being white.