Granny’s Hot Water Cornbread
1 cup Self Rising White Corn Meal
1-1/4 - 1-3/4 cups boiling water
1/4 teaspoon sugar
Shortening and bacon grease for frying
Heat about 1/8 inch shortening & bacon grease in a heavy skillet. Measure corn meal into a bowl. Add sugar. Stir in boiling water to make batter the consistency of grits. When grease is hot, drop batter in by spoonfuls. Fry over medium heat until brown on one side, then turn and fry until brown on the other side. Serve hot.
This is a 100 year old recipe of the Timberlake Family of West Tennessee that Celeste and Alice are now serving as the next generation gathers around the table.
EASY, MOUTHWATERING,
You just can't believe it.
SERVE WITH: Grilled Ribeyes; a bowl of Chili or Bean Soup; a plate of your Favorite Vegetables;
Slathered with Butter . . .
OR DRESS THEM UP with a little crème fraîche and top with caviar, chives or even smoked salmon. I've passed them on silver trays at cocktail parties to rave revues!
1 cup Self Rising White Corn Meal
1-1/4 - 1-3/4 cups boiling water
1/4 teaspoon sugar
Shortening and bacon grease for frying
Heat about 1/8 inch shortening & bacon grease in a heavy skillet. Measure corn meal into a bowl. Add sugar. Stir in boiling water to make batter the consistency of grits. When grease is hot, drop batter in by spoonfuls. Fry over medium heat until brown on one side, then turn and fry until brown on the other side. Serve hot.
This is a 100 year old recipe of the Timberlake Family of West Tennessee that Celeste and Alice are now serving as the next generation gathers around the table.
EASY, MOUTHWATERING,
You just can't believe it.
SERVE WITH: Grilled Ribeyes; a bowl of Chili or Bean Soup; a plate of your Favorite Vegetables;
Slathered with Butter . . .
OR DRESS THEM UP with a little crème fraîche and top with caviar, chives or even smoked salmon. I've passed them on silver trays at cocktail parties to rave revues!
9 comments:
I love anything cornbread! Wish I had some of the self-rising right now to whip these up. Thanks, Libby!
O, Libby...I grew up on Hot Water cornbread and make it regularly. Mr. Sweet and I both can make a meal of it and plenty of buttah!!:)
My mama used to make it and we would all just sit down at the kitchen table and wait 'til she got a skillet full cooked. Oh, my...it is so so good.
Guess what we'll be havin' for supper tonight!! lol
hugs, bj
This sounds like something my granny would have made. I'm gonna try to whip up some tomorrow :)
Hot water cornbread is one Southern food I am not familiar with. I'll have to ask my dear mother if she has had it. I'm quite sure it is delicious Libby. Happy Twirls to you, girl!
Donna
Libby girl...what is it about cornbread!!!
I think it's like eating a childhood memory!
Comfort food from the word go...
When ever I serve it...there are NEVER any left overs...pass the honey!
xoxo~Kathy @ Sweet Up-North Mornings...
I will definitely be trying that. I've never seen them done this way before and I love this idea.
Looks wonderful, Libby!
XO,
Sheila :-)
hmmmm... grits style cakes. Sounds really intriguing
Like Chris above, will be trying these soon
those cakes look very tasty, Also I have to admit that is so nice, only to see them, in fact I am hungry just to see them.
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