Corn Dodgers
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
In a bowl, combine cornmeal, salt, and sugar.
Pour enough boiling water to wet the mixture.
Shape the mixture into small, flat cakes about 1 inch thick.
Fry and serve
Fry the cakes in boiling fat for 15 to 20 minutes.
Serve hot.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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What each ingredient does
- Cornmeal
- Forms the main body of the dodgers, and boiling water turns its starch soft enough to shape.
- Boiling water
- Hydrates the cornmeal so it holds together into a workable dough.
- Sugar
- Adds a little sweetness and helps the cakes brown as they fry.
The step that matters
Frying the cakes in boiling fat. The fat must be hot enough to crisp the outside quickly. If it is too cool, the cakes absorb more grease and turn heavy and soggy inside.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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