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Kingfish
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Reply to Jim- hoe cakes
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8/31/2006 11:14:47 AM
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I realize this is far down on the postings, but I think Jim might like to read. I was born and raised in south Georgia and really grew up on hoe cake corn bread! My mother used to make it almost every evening meal and quite honestly, it took me several years and a bunch of corn meal to learn. I am actually the last person in my family that can do it. It is really nothing more than fine, water-ground corn meal, salt and pepper mixed with water until it actually falls through the fork that I use to mix it. Just enough peanut oil in the bottom of an iron skillet (8 inch) to cover the bottom (about an ounce or two). Heat at medium high until you feel with your hand over the top that it is hot but not hot enough to pop! Turn down to medium low and pour in mixture slowly until the pan is covered thinly or about an 8th of an inch. Now is the time to be patient and wait until the corners of the bread have slightly browned, and then turn. Watch carefully, and turn frequently until the bread has browned slightly and sufficiently on both sides. Mrs Queenfish and I enjoy this true southern delicacy several times a week with almost anything. It is a shame that it is an art almost lost in modern times. I love it and could have it every day. Kingfish
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spud
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Reply to Jim- hoe cakes
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8/31/2006 12:26:43 PM
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do you know how they came to be called "hoe cakes"?
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JIM
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Reply to Jim- hoe cakes
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8/31/2006 2:52:29 PM
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Naw, tell us Tater.
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roswellric
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Well since you asked
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8/31/2006 3:10:01 PM
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Back during the plantation days way down in the bottoms of Mississippi a cook was whippin the kids for stealing the cookies from the shelf and she whipped so hard it bent the spatula she was beating them with. She tried and tried to straighten it out but it just wouldn't do it. so when she made the cornbread she was so upset she put in too much baking soda and the cornbread instantly rose up and started looking cake-like. Since the spatula was bent and actually looked like a small hoe (the kind you hoe with in the garden except a minature version) she had to try to turn the cornbread that looked kinda like a cake with the spatula that looked kinda like a hoe. When asked what she was cooking she said I guess these are hoe cakes.......
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| Name: |
ot
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Well since you asked
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8/31/2006 4:32:55 PM
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neat story, if you are not trying to pull our leg...my moma always called them fried cornbread, and when i go home i love for her to make 'em.
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roswellric
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Well since you asked
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8/31/2006 4:41:39 PM
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it was a ..shall we say spontaneous response. I love hoe cakes too. Get 'em at a place in Downtown Atl called Son's (Place) near Moreland and Memorial. Along with perfect fried chicken, fresh collards, fried okra, all kinds of beans, banana pudding.....and the list goes on.
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ot
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Well since you asked
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8/31/2006 4:43:50 PM
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i thought our legs were being pulled, but it was clean and entertaining and not racist.
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JIM
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Well since you asked
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8/31/2006 4:54:43 PM
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RR, you are aI brave person to go around Memorial Dr. and Moreland Ave., use to go to Harold`s Barbeque on Ridge Ave. years ago,never again.
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roswellric
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Harolds
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8/31/2006 5:06:01 PM
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I haven't been there in years but the BBQ was tops at one time. Might see the shoe shine boy sittng next to the governor.
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JIM
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Harolds
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8/31/2006 5:13:46 PM
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Harold`s is the same as it was 50 years ago, but the neighbor hood has gone to yell as most have when the transition is complete.
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spud
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plantation days were part
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8/31/2006 7:02:25 PM
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of the facts.but not quite the same as has been told.The slaves were kinda short on cooking utinsels and used the hoes that they labored with each day to hold the cakes over an open fire to cook.and so the name "hoe cakes came to be"
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JIM
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plantation days were part
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8/31/2006 7:12:12 PM
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What a buncu of B.S.
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spud
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open date
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8/31/2006 8:03:47 PM
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my invitation still holds from years back!!!!
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Lakeman
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Reply to Jim- hoe cakes
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8/31/2006 8:26:29 PM
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Kingfish my mother used to make 10" flour Hoe Cakes on top of a wood burning stove. As the family grew, six boys, she had to make a couple more. Believe me it was better than " loaf bread ".
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Lakeman
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plantation days were part
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8/31/2006 8:27:50 PM
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Didn't it burn the hoes hands?
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roswellric
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My Story
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8/31/2006 9:11:08 PM
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Was a lot better......
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roswellric
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Easy Now!
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8/31/2006 9:11:44 PM
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| Name: |
Feb
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Well ---
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8/31/2006 10:11:41 PM
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This was on the internet???
URL: Hoe Cake
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