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Date Posted: 09:27:31 01/18/05 Tue
Author: Mary Cheatham, www.FWLCookbook.com
Subject: Cheryl's Hot Water Cornbread

Below is my dear friend Cheryl's recipe for hot water cornbread and the story of the day she taught me to cook it. ML

Hot Water Cornbread
1. Place approximately 1 cup of cornmeal and a teaspoon of salt or 1 cup of cornmeal mix into a bowl.
2. Pour approximately � cup boiling water over the mix. The mix should be firm.
3. Stir well.
4. Shape by hand. (To avoid burns, wet hands with cool water before picking up batter.)
5. Fry in hot oil.
6. Turn when one side is a little brown.
7. Remove from oil when the other side is brown.
Cheryl Sowers

The following account will clarify any questions about the procedure.

When Cheryl Sowers stopped by to visit, Mary Lou told her that she was planning to serve collards for supper.

Cheryl asked, �Are you going to make hot water cornbread?�

�No, I don�t know how.� Mary Lou hated to admit her ignorance.

�Let me make you some. I�ll teach you how to do it.�

She poured cooking oil about two inches deep into a big heavy skillet. Then she filled a saucepan with water. �Get the water and the grease real hot. I mean the water has to be boiling.�

Cheryl said, �I usually use white cornmeal with a little salt. If I don�t have any cornmeal, I�ll use white cornmeal mix.�

Mary Lou asked, �Could you use yellow cornmeal mix? That�s all I have.�

�Yeah, that�ll do. Anything will work.� Cheryl poured about one cup of cornmeal mix into a bowl.

�Will that be enough?� (Paul was planning to eat supper with Mary Lou.)

Cheryl poured another cup of cornmeal mix into the bowl. �Now, turn on the cold water,� she said. �I�ll need to mix it over here by the sink.� She poured hot water into the cornmeal mix. �Pour just enough to make it firm and smooth.�

�You don�t want it mushy, do you?�

�No, you don�t want to let it get soupy,� Cheryl said as she stirred quickly.

�My mama makes hers in round patties, but I make long pods,� Cheryl said as she wet her hands in cold water and rolled an elliptical mass of cornmeal mix and water in her hands. �Come on. You try it.�

Mary Lou made cakes in a tube shape.

Cheryl dropped the smooth cakes into hot crackling cooking oil. When the bottoms were golden brown, she turned them. �My mother-in-law cooks hers until they are dark brown, � she said. When they were brown on both sides, she placed them on paper towels and blotted them.

�It�s time to go pick up my boys at Mama�s,� she said, and then she was gone.

Paul said the hot water cornbread was wonderful.

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