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Hushpuppies
Simple cornmeal hushpuppies with buttermilk and chopped onion.
Ingredients
- 1 cup cornmeal
- ½ cup flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 cup buttermilk
- Pepper, to taste
- 1 onion, chopped
- Grease or frying fat, for frying (quantity unspecified)
Notebook directions
- Combine all ingredients.
- Fry in grease.
The notebook does not specify frying temperature, portion size or cooking time. Those details have not been invented.
Family story: “Hush, puppies!”
The creator recalls her father explaining that hushpuppies got their name when women cooking long ago would fry leftover cornmeal mixture into balls, let them cool, and throw them to the dogs while saying, “Hush, puppies!” This is preserved as the story her father passed down, not as a conclusively established origin of the name.
This is the family notebook's hushpuppy recipe, separate from the earlier cornbread and cornmeal preparations.