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Jane Burbank's Hushpuppies 

This recipe will only make about thirty, more or less, enough to serve 
4 or 5 normal people, less if you know the vultures I do... 

1 cup self-rising corn meal 
1/2 cup self-rising flour 
1/2 cup pancake mix 
(if you prefer regular flour, etc. in place of the self-rising type 
- meaning if you're a type A personality - then add a tablespoon baking powder 
and a teaspoon of salt to the dry ingredients) 

Pinch salt 
1/2 tsp sugar 
1/4 fresh ground pepper 
1 egg (a big 'un) 
1 medium onion (of course - I'm a Cajun) 
1/2 cup milk or so 
Oil - or better fish drippings if you have them - for frying 

combine all the dry ingredients in a bowl or something suitable; whisk the heck out 
of the egg in a measuring cup and the add the onion and enough milk to fill the cup 
to the 1-cup mark. Mix the liquid stuff from the measuring cup into the dry ingredients 
till moist - if it don't work, add a little more milk. 

Put oil/drippings in a real (black iron) frying-thingy, add enough oil to get about 
1/4 inch in the thing; heat until it sizzles when you drop a little bit of the batter in
... now comes the hard part....this is more art than science: Drop a teaspoon of the batter 
in - if it spreads out like a pancake then it's too thin - add a tablespoon or two more of 
cornmeal...if its too dry, then add a tablespoon or two of milk....when it's right, 
then just go ahead and slop 8 or 10 of the little suckers in the fry pan and have at it, 
just don't put so many in they overlap or touch one another (practice safe-frying...). 

cook 3-4 minutes till lightly browned and turn and brown the other side for another 
2 or 3 minutes. Drain on old newspaper or, if you're the Type A personality mentioned 
above, clean paper towels, keeping hot while you attempt to cook the remaining batter, 
adding oil as needed - but only a little at a time to keep the temp up. 

- pax - 
Andrew H. Auld; Lockport, NY 

From: "Andrew H. Auld" 
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 
Subject: Recipies again - Easter Dinner