Granny's Cornbread
Recipe: #10372
August 22, 2013
Categories: Breads, Side Dishes, Eggs, Corn Southern, Deep Fry, Evaporated Milk, more
"This is my Granny Ganus' recipe. Everyone loved Granny's cornbread! I remember as a child biting off one end and spooning out the dough, then filling it with peas and snaps then eating it...lol! It was the best! I love making these and my kids love eating them! The cornmeal for this is labeled "extra fine" and I've been able to find it at Winn Dixie and Walmart, but only in the South. It can be labeled as Halls, Hoover or others, but the texture is very close to that of flour. This is not a "healthy" type of cornbread. My granny used lard when making these but you can use any type of oil and it's still awesome! I also use a cast iron just as she did and a "special" large metal spoon that is just the right size to make these. I dip it into water before scooping up the mix and drop it into the hot oil. I get almost the same shape as Granny's! This can be deep fried as well. Update: I now use cookie or ice cream scoops to drop these into hot oil. I quadruple this recipe but this is so there is plenty to go around. Please let me know if you like it!"
Original is 15-20 servings
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (44.7 g)
- Calories 55.3
- Total Fat - 2 g
- Saturated Fat - 0.6 g
- Cholesterol - 60.7 mg
- Sodium - 132.5 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 6.6 g
- Dietary Fiber - 0.6 g
- Sugars - 0.3 g
- Protein - 2.8 g
- Calcium - 37.4 mg
- Iron - 0.6 mg
- Vitamin C - 0 mg
- Thiamin - 0 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Mix cornmeal, salt and baking powder together, set aside side.
Step 2
Bring water to a boil in microwave. Add boiling water to the cornmeal mixture and stir well. (the boiling water will start the cooking process before you fry it).
Step 3
Add egg and evaporated milk until well mixed. The batter should be like a waffle batter, thick but pliable.
Step 4
You can wet hands and shape into submarine shaped ovals and drop into hot oil like Granny did (you must keep hands wet or batter will stick to hands). Or drop by spoon fulls or use a cookie/ice cream scoop. I use a medium cookie scoop. If you use a cookie scoop and deep fry it you don’t have to turn them. They should “turn” on their own. Sometimes they may not, so keep a close eye on them.
Step 5
Brown on all sides and remove.
Step 6
I place mine in a wire basket on paper towels inside a baking pan to drain off excess oil and to keep them crispy. The longer you fry them the more crispy they get.
Step 7
Serve and enjoy!
Tips
- A mixing bowl
- 1 cup measuring cup
- Wire basket
- Baking pan
- Paper towels
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