Fried Cornbread – Southern Cornmeal Hoecakes🥰

The story behind the hoe cake is that “enslaved people baked hoecakes on a hoe in the fields for their midday meal” Black Food history.

Fried Cornbread – Southern Cornmeal Hoecakes

Ingredients 🛒

2/3 cup cornmeal

1/3 cup self rising flour

1/3 cup low fat buttermilk

1 large egg

oil for frying (I used about 3 tbsps coconut oil, but you can use whatever you like) Cisco✨

Instructions

Combine first 4 ingredients together in a bowl, mixing well. Mixture should be very moist but not soupy. Heat oil in skillet and drop by spoonfuls into oil. Cook til brown on one side and flip (it cooks kind of like a pancake) to brown on the other side. Place on plate with paper towels and blot any excess oil.

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