Hush Puppies

And while our catfish are cooking, I'm going to move over here and I'm going to start mixing up those delicious little hush puppies

We're going to start with self-rising cornmeal and self-rising flour. And as you know, if you're using a self-rising cornmeal or a self-rising flour, they already have the leavenings in them

And they also have salt. But I'm still going to put a little extra salt in these just because you want your hush puppies to have a little salty taste to them

And I'm going to add a half a teaspoon of bacon soda

We're just going to stir that up. And I'm going to put one small chopped onion

And a hush puppy is not a hush puppy without the onions. And we're going to add one egg

And then our milk. Actually, this is buttermilk. That's why we're using the soda

And I'll tell you why these are called hush puppies. All fish fries are usually done outside, and naturally all the dogs are going to gather

around all the good smelling food, and they are looking for something to eat

And the cooks would throw the little fried bread to the dogs and say, hush puppy, hush

And so they became known as hush puppies. You see how I having to take my fingers and scrape the batter off the spoon Well I going to show you a little trick when we frying them that your hands will You never have to touch your batter And while our fish is frying I gonna go ahead and drop some hush puppies into the grease And this is the little trick I wanna show

you. All you have to do is drop your spoon into a glass of tap water. And you scoop your

hush puppy into that, and the water allows that hush puppy to fall right off. There's

no doing with your other finger. And you see it's popped up to the top, and we're gonna

to put just a few in there, and then as soon as they start browning, we're going to just

flip them. And if you wait too long to flip your hush puppies, they'll get bottom heavy with the

grease and they won't want to flip on you. So you kind of want to start flipping them pretty soon until they're nice and brown and done

You can just take your cooking utensil and just kind of give them a little nudge and

they'll turn right on over. These are looking grand. Since I've got a little bit more room over here, I'm going to drop a few more

Now, if I was cooking this outside, if I was cooking for 20 or 25 people

I would have my pan just full of my fish, and then the hush puppy would be the last thing that I would fry

And we're going to take our hush puppies out. Looks pretty tasty, doesn't it

And I'm going to run out here, outside. I can't resist using the fresh herbs

And look how easy our catfish and huss puppies were