Recipe: Tallahassee Hush Puppies (The Southern Cook Book 1939)

TALLAHASSEE HUSH PUPPIES
Source: The Southern Cook Book, 322 Old Dixie Recipes, 1939

2 cups corn meal
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups milk
1/2 cup water
1 large onion, chopped fine
Oil or fat for frying

Sift the dry ingredients together and add the milk and 1/2 cup water. Stir in the chopped onion. Add more meal or milk as may be necessary to form a soft but workable dough.

With the hands, mold pieces of the dough into pones (oblong cakes, about 5 inches long and 3 inches wide, and about 3/4 of an inch thick).

Fry in deep hot fat or oil until well browned.