Hoe Cake
Hoe cake is a kind of bread made from corn meal, boiling water and salt. My mother learned about hoe cake from a neighbor of ours who made it all the time. It was delicious. The neighbor made it for her lunch a lot and she would eat onions with it. You got the water boiling and then poured it over the corn meal with salt in it (the amount of water was enough to make a stiff dough).Then after mixing that well you made it into small round patties and fried them in hot bacon grease. MM good. They were somewhat hard to get brown but slow and easy did it.Originally the hoe cake was fried on the flat side of a clean garden hoe over a wood fire (thus the name, Hoe Cake). Then a new improved method of cooking them, in a skillet, came into use. There are other names for the hoe cake, such as; johnny cakes, corn cakes, mush bread, pone, journey cakes and Indian fry bread ( from Native American cooking).
If you have not tried this, do--because it is mouthwatering delicious! Probably fattening but still delicious.
posted by kyra lafain @ 3/26/2008 02:10:00 PM
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