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Re: Hushpuppies - was Ahem! (blush)



There is another part of the Hush Puppy history commonly told.  It says that
African American cooks came up with the concoction in antebellum days. This
folklore says that when the cooks were preparing meals the dogs would gather
around and begin to bark because they liked the smell and wanted to be fed. The
barking was aggravating to those gathered for the meal. To keep the dogs quiet,
the women dropped batter into the grease and then tossed the balls to the dogs
saying "Hush puppy!"

I was for six years a newspaper food writer and I read this story more than
once.  Unfortunately I can't remember the sources. You might check the
Encyclopedia of Southern Culture.

However they came about they were ingenious additions to Southern eating and my
hat is off to the creator.  Have a good evening.

Arlette Copeland

Ginny Jones wrote:

> Hush puppies are a southern delicacy made from corn meal, egg, milk, and
> chopped onion; rolled into bite size balls and fried to a golden brown.
> After 5 days the drippin' you fried them in may take on a new life form!  To
> keep the thread pertinent (pardon my toungue in my cheek) - historically
> hush puppies were a "poor man's" food because they are very filling and
> require commonly obtainable and inexpensive ingredients.
>
> The name supposedly comes from using them as a quickly concocted, somewhat
> nutritional and cheap way of feeding dogs and puppies that have been weaned
> or have lost their mothers.
>
> Ginny Jones
> (Virginia A. Jones, CRM)
> Newport News Waterworks
> Newport News, VA
> vjones@ci.newport-news.va.us
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Archives & Archivists [mailto:ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU]On
> > Behalf Of Linda Nakamura
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2000 2:44 PM
> > To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> > Subject: Re: Ahem! (blush)
> >
> >
> > Hello to everyone:  Just to become an
> > object of ridicule myself, I have to
> > ask: what is a hush puppy?  Why are they
> > dangerous after five days?  I thought
> > they were shoes.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Linda
> > lnakamura@aao.org
> > "Can hear the smirks now..."
> >
>
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