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C'm on, guys, help me revel in memories of my grandfather's fish-camp hushpuppies. Here's the recipe � Fishing-Camp Hushpuppies
Ingredients
2 cups coarse [preferably stone-ground] yellow cornmeal
1 Tbs flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1 Tbs salt (or less if you prefer)
6 Tbs chopped onion
1 egg, beaten
1 cup buttermilk
0 tsp sugar [crucial omission!]
plenty of HOT peanut oil [a gallon, say � or more]
[all measures �more or less� � except, of course, �0 tsp sugar�]
� Mix and sift the dry ingredients.
� Add the chopped onion.
� Combine the egg and the milk. Add �em to the dry ingredients and stir all into a stiff batter.
� Drop by humongous spoonfuls (about 2� x 3� inches or more) into deep, HOT [as hot as you can get it] peanut oil while the breaded fish filets are frying, or after you take the fish out.
� They�ll rise to the surface of the oil when they�re done (when nearly all the inner moisture has been driven out of 'em).
� Scoop �em out.
� Drain �em on paper towels [or on old brown paper grocery sacks for historical authenticity and ambience!].
� You�re on your own from here. You�ll figger-out what to do with �em.
This recipe comes from watching Dr H C Fountain (1880-1977) make �em in camp.
Bass-fisherman, fox-hunter, houndsman, dentist, maternal grandfather of Ken Howell (in the order of his priorities!), he made �em several times a week for well over half a century. To tell when his oil was hot enough to fry the breaded catfish filets, he floated a kitchen match in the hot oil. When the match lit, the oil was hot enough. Make some, and enjoy 'em enough for bofus! 
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And 1 heaping tablespoon of red pepper flakes, for them what like it.
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Just don't cook 'em too long... I absolutely hate getting burned, dried-out hush puppies.
You're making me hungry!!!
Penny
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If I could eat 'em now, I'd add a jalape�o or two. Or a dash of chipotl� Tabasco sauce.
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The degree of my privacy is no business of yours.
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At the risk of being branded a heretic I will admit to (confess, if you insist) that Martha White Hush Puppy mix is my very favorite. Mix water with the package and let the mix stand for 5 minutes and it's ready to go. You could add any spice you like, of course, but they already have onions in it.
Y'all go ahead and heap all the abuse on me you wish....I can take it....I'm a river fisherman running trot lines, limb lines, jugs or what have you for almost 50 years and I know whereof I speak.
PS: Good to see you around, Penny.
Merry Christmas to all of y'all.
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Mickey, to a northerner like me, you speak with authority just because you're from Alabama.  And I do love hushpuppies. I'll have to try old Martha's hushpuppy mix. Penny
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Mickey, to a northerner like me, you speak with authority just because you're from Alabama. And I do love hushpuppies. I'll have to try old Martha's hushpuppy mix. Penny If you don't like them let me know and I'll refund your money.
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I used to wear them because I was supposed to - the same with wingtips, but I always thought that they were both ugly. 
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Definitely on the must try list the next time there is hot peanut oil in the vicinity!
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love me some hushpuppies!
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my daddy always said "hushpuppies can't have too much onion or black pepper!"......I like just a little flour in them, helps make them light.....
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MC, Think I'll go thaw out and cook some of those Tenn River cats out tomorrow and make up some of those hushpuppies. Plenty of onion and Jalapenos in them just make them better..
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Have you tried the Martha White mix, Terry? We used to have a fish fry at our benchrest matches and the women would be begging Dorothy for her 'secret' hush puppy mix. She finally broke down and told them.
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If I could eat 'em now, I'd add a jalape�o or two. Or a dash of chipotl� Tabasco sauce. YES! The above is a great recipe. Thanks for posting! David
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MC, I love the Martha White mix. It is absolutely YUMMY and easy to fix. 2 of my basic requirements. maddog
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I doubt that Martha was even born when I last had any of Doc's hushpuppies. Does her mix include sugar? (Common kiss of death!)
I don't fish, but I spent years � day and night � sculling among the SW Alabama chinquapins and cypresses on trot-line, bush-line, and jug duty with my Fountain uncles � and baited beaucoup hooks for em � plus not a few years with the over-size landing nets that I'd made for Doc.
BTW, FWIW, Doc heated his several-inches-deep peanut oil in a big enamel pan over I-don't-remember-how-many butane-burners.
Now, just thinking about those catfish filets and hushpuppies brings all that back.
Bass filets are delicious, of course � but deep-fried catfish filets are mucher deliciouser, and hushpuppies deep-fried with 'em or right away in the same oil are to kill for.
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� You're making me hungry! So make some Doc's way so that BOTH you and I can enjoy 'em, Sis!
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[quote]0 tsp sugar [crucial omission!]
Adding sugar to cornbread and hush puppies must be a northern thing, and should not be done.
I'm going to try your recipe for sure!
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