Name: Hush Puppies
Yield: Makes about 20
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 125 ml (4 fl oz) buttermilk or whole milk; Salt and freshly ground black pepper; 100 g (4 oz) sweetcorn (frozen or canned will do); 4 spring onions, finely shredded; Vegetable oil for deep-frying; 1 free range egg; 175 g (6 oz) fine yellow cornmeal or polenta; ½ teaspoon cayenne pepper; 65 g (2½ oz) plain flour; 2 tablespoons sugar; 1½ teaspoons baking powder

Preparation info

Makes about
20

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

A Passion for Vegetables

By Paul Gayler

Published 1999

About

Ingredients

175 g (6 oz) fine yellow cornmeal or polenta
65 g (

Method

Hush puppies are delicate, spicy fritters of onion and corn that originate from the Southern US states. The story goes that, to keep hungry dogs from begging for food while dinner was being prepared cooks used to toss scraps of fried batter to them with the admonition, ‘Hush, puppies!’

Place the cornmeal, flour, sugar, baking powder and cayenne in a bowl. Add the buttermilk or milk, egg