Buttermilk Hush Puppies

(from Lucianolinda’s recipe box)

Source: Southern Living mag.- Neil Grantham

Categories: bread

Ingredients

  • 2 cups self-rising flour
  • 2 cups self-rising white cornmeal
  • 1 tsp. sugar
  • 1/2 tsp. salt
  • 1/2 tsp. pepper
  • 1 large onion, grated
  • 1 jalapeno pepper, seeded and minced (optional)
  • 2 cups buttermilk
  • 1 large egg
  • vegetable oil

Directions

  1. Combine first 5 ingredients; stir in onion and, if desired, jalapeno.
  2. Whisk together buttermilk and egg, add to flour mixture
  3. Pour oil to a depth of 3 inches in a Dutch oven; heat to 375 degrees. Drop batter by level tablespoonful into oil; fry, in batches, 5 to 7 minutes or until golden. Drain on paper towels.

  4. makes about 5 dozen

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