Thread: cornmeal.....

man rango you killing me I have cook any but I've eat my share and might have to give them a try.

but one question is them the same thing as hol'cakes???

Originally Posted by rango

cornmeal,, a staple of our diet when we was coming up. wonder how many of you had fried flat cakes when you was growing up. take corn meal, salt and pepper and diced onion. mix with enough water to make it soupy. ladle in a cast iron fry pan and fry till brown and crispy around the edges. we use peanut oil now rather than the fat back or bacon grease like momma did for obvious reasons. several johnny cakes, a couple pieces of fat back and some cold milk and you was ready to face the day.... you can get fancy and add some other stuff in the mix. diced jalapeno pepper pickles, cream corn or shredded cheese should get everyones attention. im slow grilling two racks of ribs and we gonna have some cornmeal johnny cakes with em. glad my cardiologist aint coming for supper....photos to follow

Sounds good to me. I grew up eating either those or hushpuppies or something like that most weekends after catching our supper at Wateree.

grew up in the Miss. hills on corn flitters. used home ground meal from my grandfather's gristmill.

try making flitters out of grits. cook the grits as you normally would, put in refrig. and leave there long enough for them to congeal. usually a day or so. mix in your favorite ingredients, spoon onto wax paper, flatten'em out, drop in the skillet and brown. make you slap your mama.

I stop at a bar-b-que place in Kinston named King's - on Sunday they have a buffet and they have the jonny cakes - growning up we always had baked or fried cornbread - maybe buscuits - and our snack after school was cold cornbread and fatback and maybe a spring onion

Well, well, well, All of you old people doing stuff-- eating and writing about old times. Here was my snack for after school. A cold biscut, made with lard, run your finger in the biscut, pull out the inside of the biscut, and pour home made, leftover, cold cream corn in the biscut or the big treat---pour some cold Grandmaw's molassis inside the biscut. Spilt a 6.5 oz coke out of the bottle with your little brother. I wish I could do it all over again.

sometimes we just had an "old cold tater" most times when we got home from school, we would have a baked sweet tater left from the day before for a snack before we hit the fields. if we were lucky we might have some bisquits left from the morning meal that we would punch a hole in with a finger and pour in some good old ribbon cane molasses. how many folks, do you think, could do that now if they had to?

STOP IT, You guys are killing me!!!!!

Gerald K4NHN
Cayce, SC

now that's "soul food"