Hoe cakes in the waffle iron, feasible?

[BLAHUT]

You left out dump the mess over spaghetti noodles... BLECH

I just made a batch of chili

Hand chopped chuck trimmed of all silver skin/ gristle/most of the fat(use fat to to render then brown the meat!)
Mild chili powder to taste, I use around 1/4 cup per pound
chopped onion
beef base
beer
my own blend of HOT chili powder

that's it... no corn, no tomato, no other weird veg and NO BEANS

So just meat and gravy that's good too

[GregLaROCHE]

Who says you can’t smell or taste things over the internet? You guys are making me really hungry!

[jdfoxinc]

Fried corn bread

1 1/2 cups of plain corn meal (preferably
from a North Carolina mill), unsifted
1/4 cup of all purpose flour, sifted
1 level teaspoon salt
1 level teaspoon black pepper (or more)
1/2 cup milk
water

I add 1 egg and 1 tsp baking powder for a more pancake like consistency. Of course fried In bacon grease.

[yeahbub]

I like chilli and the many variations of it, even that Cincinnati concoction, but I never ciould figure the bean thing. What in the world are THEY doing in there? I once ran into another heresy, chilli with lots and lots of sugar in it. I wasn't sure what I was consuming and when I asked, I was told it has to be in there, it's not possible to eat chilli without lots of sugar in it. . . . Nice folks, but I came away realizing they reeeaallly needed to get out more.

Hey, what's this "hot water cornbread"? I've not heard that term before. . . . Maybe I need to get out more.

[Winger Ed.]

Hey, what's this "hot water cornbread"? I've not heard that term before. . . . Maybe I need to get out more.

You probably would recognize it as a 'hush puppy'.(It's a cool story on how those were 'invented')

They're cornmeal, salt, boiling water, a bump of bacon grease, salt, and a spoon of sugar.
Mold it into a patty or ball, then deep fried.

[jaysouth]

Several years ago, my daughter had a summer job as a uniformed docent at Mt Vernon, the home of George Washington. Her job was to wear a period correct 1760s dress and cook hoe cakes on a chopping hoe heated in a wood fire. Field hands would carry a cornmeal cake mix in a leather bag and mix with water to form a dough. A chopping hoe would be heated in a fire. When hot enough, dough would be dropped on the hoe blade to cook. The finished product was a "hoe cake".

[yeahbub]

I see. When I get a need for fried fish, few things go better with it than hot hush puppies and good cole slaw. Alright, but why boiling water I wonder? Wouldn't tap water do the job or does this have something to do with making the constsency correct?

[owejia]

We always referred to them as Johnny cakes. When Johnny was in the Civil War, fried corn meal cakes, made with water was a staple or so have been told.

[Winger Ed.]

Wouldn't tap water do the job or does this have something to do with making the constsency correct?

I never tried it with corn meal, but it makes a difference for things like tortillas made with flour.
I'm not sure why, it just does.

I guess it works like trying to make oatmeal or grits in cold water.

[MaryB]

Hot water helps hydrate the corn meal negating some of the gritty texture.

[yeahbub]

That does make sense. Probably makes it easier to guess-timate how it's going to turn out after baking. When making plain cornbread, I've taken to generously adding unsweetened apple sauce to the batter so it's moist and not so crumbly that it needs a hazardous material warning. Inadvertantly inhaling the crumbs of drrryyyy corn bread will put me in serious coughing fits.

[hc18flyer]

Hot water helps hydrate the corn meal negating some of the gritty texture.

Boiling water is used to make the 'Hot water cornbread that is fried, dried rather than baked. Awesome at camp!