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Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 21:44:28
Subject: Hush Puppies
From: [log in to unmask] (Z Pegasus)

  Title: Hush Puppies

    6 c  Cornmeal
    6    Eggs
    2 tb Sugar
    1 ts Salt
    2 ts Baking soda
         Buttermilk

Combine cornmeal, eggs, sugar, salt, and soda. Add enough buttermilk to make
a thick dough. Drop by tablespoonfuls into hot fat along with the fish
fillets and fry for 2-3 minutes.

Justin Wilson [cookbook author but not of the above recipe] says, "Hush
puppy is an old Southern term that originated after the Civil War. People
didn't have enough for themselves to eat let alone feed their dogs, so when
the old hounds started barking from hunger, they would throw pieces of fried
corn bread to them, yelling, 'Shut up, dog! Hush puppy!"

Note from Don Wiss:

Z Pegasus also posted several other recipes for hush puppies, but they all
included flour. However, some of them did include ingredients that could be
used to jazz up the above recipe, e.g.:

  1/2 c  Parsley, finely chopped
    1 x  Ground cayenne pepper
    1 c  Green onion, finely chopped
    2 tb Bacon drippings, hot
  1/2 ts Garlic powder (to taste)