Hush Puppies I

I followed the recipe to a tee and it was still to goopy so I added the following: 3/4 C flour, 1/2 tsp. more salt, 1/2 C. sugar and they turned out Perfect!!! Everybody loved them! Thanks for the recipe.

i would recommend reducing the measures of the liquid ingredients, the batter was entirely too loose, i had to add a lot of flour and corn meal to achieve consistancy. however, they did end up tasting really good.

This is a great recipe. I used beer in place of the milk and water. My husband really enjoyed it give it a try.

better then any in a restaurant

taste better than the restaurants!!

As a child I hated hushpuppies. But I saw a recipe that made me want to try it again. I checked here for a quicker one an....WOW, this was the best thing I had ever tasted. It was fast, easy, little clean up and I was able to do it while chatting on line. Now that is what I call a recipe.

These had a really great texture - but the flavor just wasn't there.

These were okay. But I thought they were pretty bland. Maybe next time I will add a bit of corn and just a little sugar.

I made this recipe for my family. To make some thing different. The kids loved them with ketchup & so did my husband.

These were awesome! I added 2 tablespoons of sugar, two tablespoons of pureed vidalia onion and cut 1/4 cup of the milk. The bonus is they are terrifically easy too!

Not the prettiest hush puppies I ever had (mine stuck a bit) but definitely the tastiest.

I spent a lot of time down south and these were awful. We tried it twice because we thought we made a mistake. They were soupy and tasteless. Missing flour and sugar would be my guess. Somebody forgot something. Stay clear!

Well this was my first attempt at making hushpuppies. Normally I buy the mix in the store and do it the easy way, but we were having fish at the last minute and I didn't feel like going to the store just for hush puppy mix. I had all of the ingredients for this recipe in the house and figured I would give it a try. I have to say, that after making some "adjustments" they were the best hush puppies I have ever had. I won't be buying the mix and taking the easy way out anymore (smile). I did add milk as others suggested in previous reviews. I wound up adding just a little more than 1/4 cup though. Also since I was making fish, I decided to add some old bay seasoning into the hush puppy mix and man that really made a difference. I think next time I am going to try adding some green pepper into the mix as well. Thank you for the recipe.

A good base recipe.

I only rated a 4 because the recipe gives a good BASE to start hush puppies. Add one or more of these: garlic salt, a splash of hot sauce, chili powder, creamed corn, diced jalapenos or bell pepper. Also, use flour to thicken...not more corn meal, try using a cheese grater on the onion instead of dicing it and use BEER instead of the water.

As one reviewr did, I tried this without reading the reviews. Bad mistake. After adding more cornmeal and some obviously omitted flour to get a decent consistency they were still one of the blandest tasting things I've tried. I tried to doctor it up some by adding whole kernel corn and chives. It helped a bit but with so much cornmeal in it they still turned out very grainy. My suggestion if anybody wants to risk this recipe again is to half the cornmeal and replace it with flour and also half the liquid. A little seasoning of choice wouldn't hurt either.

We really like these. It makes a TON of hush puppies, so half the recipe if you aren't feeding a lot of people!

Why does this have so many stars? I made the mistake of making up the recipe without reading the reviews first. It was absolutely gloppy. Will not make this recipe again. about 1 cup of flour later an additional cup of corn flour and a 1/2 a cup of suger i was close to good to go. :(

As a previous review suggested, I used beer instead of the milk. I also added cajun seasoning, black pepper, and sugar. Really easy and came out great!

This was the most awful hushpuppy recipe I ever tried. It was a runny mess. Shape into small ball??? I don't think so. Something, (like flour) had to have been left out of this recipe.

They were hard as a rock on the outside. I kept adding flour, but ended up dumping the whole thing. There has to be a better reciepe out there.

These were great!! My husband ate them up fast!

This was the best but I added corn and a cup of flour. and will for sure will make again .. the recipe makes to much for us so I made half the mix.

Good recipe if tweaked a little. I cut back the milk to 3/4 c., 1/4 c. water, added 1/4 c. sugar, 2 tsp. salt, and added some chopped up jalepeno pepper. It gave it the little kick it needed.

Followed the recipe to a T. The flavor was bland to us. I would up the seasoning if I made again, but I don't think we will be cooking these again.

These hush puppies are great! The batter does seem a bit loose and we were afraid of using it, but they turned out great! We eventually added a bit more flour and corn meal towards the end - just to see what happened and they weren't nearly as good. Mix as directed. Cook as directed - they are perfect...and taste amazing with the Tartar Sauce I recipe here.

I prepared the recipe as written and was very disappointed. The hush puppies turned out rubbery and har

This recipe is not good, the batter was way to goopy, I had to add flour and more cornmeal to it. This is not a traditional southern Hush Puppy recipe, I would never use it again. I am shocked that it received 4 stars. I thought the receipe had too many wet ingredients, I should have trusted my first instinct.

This is a great recipe. I have used a very similar recipe for years. It used baking soda as opposed to the baking powder, but the same otherwise. I like to add some cayenne pepper or chopped jalapenos to step up the flavor, since my family like spicy foods.

Made these once for a fish fry at my Lodge and am now in charge of hush puppies for all times. Very simple recipe and perfect old-fashioned taste.

These were so nasty! Very little flavor if any at all. It was very runny and didn't form into a ball. There is deffinately some flour missing.

Excellent! I added a bit of onion powder & garlic powder to these (my preferance) Also had to add 1/2 cup more cornmeal to the batter for the consistancy to be correct. All and all these were Excellent! Great Basic recipe !! They are up there with Restaurant quality! My family Loved them!! I will use this recipe again and again! (maybe with some gr pepper or jalapeno!) GREAT!!

These remind me of my mom's hush puppies, I never got her recipe, cause she never had one. she just knew what to do. I had to vary the cornmeal to obtain the right consitency. But that isn't hard to do. Peggy/ Panama City, FL

followed the recipe exactly and they were WAAAY TO WATERY.I wish I would have read the reviews. They fell apart in the oil and were dry as a bone...I don't understand how the reviews can be so mixed.

TIPS: Add about a tablespoon of sugar and a dash of cayenne pepper for flavor, otherwise they are sorta bland. Also, I added diced bell pepper. They were delish!!! You can form them as they cook, but they'll be big, light and crispy. Enjoy!

This tasted very grainy and bland . After the first couple , I added a few tablespoons of sugar and a cup and a half of flour . It helped some but i didnt have time to really work out all the kinks . I think I will just search for a better recipe to use next time .

I did not care for these much, there just wasn't much flavor to them. I even added more onion and garlic powder. They were also very dry. We were really disappointed =(

The ingredients are simple and they are easy to make but the flavor is bland and they did not keep well over night.

i used flour instead of cornmeal and cut out on the water.. and used about 5 or 6 onions.. TURNED OUT AMAZING!!!!!! So oniony.. loved it. will make again ;)

Great tasting! I reduced the water to less than 1/4 cup, based on other reviews. Instead of minced onion, I used powdered onion (about 1/8 tsp).

Quite good. Fantastic taste. Much better than I've had in quite some time. The only thing I needed to do was add a bit more corn meal to stiffen up the mixture. Apart from that, a great recipe!

I thought that by following the reviewers advice of adding more self-rising cornmeal and flour would insure that these hush puppies would turn out reasonably well. I even used a thermometer to bring the oil to 365 degrees to insure success with this recipe. I studied other hush puppy recipes and found this recipe lacked sugar which is a staple for hush puppies and added 1/2 cup. With all the improvements and advice I took, the careful watching of oil temperature, these were a big flop. The oil temp. of 365 is way to hot producing burnt outsides and mushy insides, the batter with the addition of 3/4 cup of additional flour and 3/4 cup of additional cornmeal still was not enough. If that wasn't enough, the taste was just plain. I can typically doctor up a iffy recipe with success but these were a waste of time, ingredients and just stunk up the house with that oily smell. I'm sad to give such a bad review when I had such high hopes of hush puppy success.

This recipe awesome! As soon as they came out of the oil, they were gone. I usually just use onion powder, but this time I used fresh minced onion. What a difference. Also, I added dried parsley but strictly for presentation purposes.

edible... but not delicious. it was corn meal overload.

I luv this recipe. I have made it at least a dozen times. I drain my mexican corn and mix everything dry. That way it's not too watery. Also ,I added buttermilk instead of milk. I add plenty of diced onion and peppers. The eggs make this recipe flufffy, not hard. Thank you so much for this great recipe.

These are yummy!! They were definately a runny mess. I added extra flour, but I left them really sticky and dropped them into the oil. I also added a bit of sugar more salt and some garlic and onion salt. Yummy!!

These turned out really well. Kids loved them!

Very delicious and light!! Best served with catfish or king fish with a side of cold cole-slaw

I made these for American Night here at my German university and they were a hit. We had some trouble thickening the batter, but other than that they were great!

horrible, i tried it twice thinking i might have screwed it up, it made a cornmeal soup, measurements must be off

It's tough to find good hush puppies in the northwest, so I had to make my own... this recipe is awesome! Exactly what I had been craving!

Didnt turn out at all. Batter was VERY runny. Probably wont try again.

Did not have the taste or texture of hush puppies. It was ok but it wasn't hush puppies

Very good for my first attempt. Added an extra egg cause it seemed too watery and they came out great. Next time I will use buttermilk and more onion.

I tried to half this recipe because we didn't need 2 dozen hush puppies but 1/2 an egg is just not possible (LOL!!) so I did everything half and left the 1 FULL egg in. It was still pretty goopy so I added about 3/4 cup flour to thicken it up. It looked goopy but when I added a ball to the oil... it came out AMAZING! It went really well with the topsail catfish we caught the day before! Best hush puppy recipe I have ever made!

I tried this recipe and left out the water because before it was time to add the water, it was already too mushy and wet. I added some seasonings of my own and it still turned out with no flavor. They looked like hush puppies on the outside, but on the inside they were just yellow. That is not how the hush puppies I have eaten in the past have looked. They need more flour than anything else.

salty cornbread. I didn't care for this.

too grainy

i found this recipe to be none helpful. it was to runny and it did not stick. i tryed to add about 3 or more cups flower, about 2 cups sugar, and 2 tbs of cornstarch and it was still bland and not sticky enough. please check and see if you made a typo.

Too much cornemeal. Not very tasty. Very bland

I checked this recipe with my old betty crooker picture cookbook. This is the exact same recipe. The only difference is the frying temp. The cookbook says to fry at 375. Which is what I did. They turned out just as I had remembered as a teenager making them for the first time 30 years ago. There is one thing I did do and that was add 1/4 cup of maza flour to thicken it up a little. They turned out great.

Very wet. I had to add much more cornmeal to get the goop to form balls. Very bland flavor too. I wouldn't recommend this one.

These did not turn out well for me. They were hard, and didn't have a good flavor. It could have been something I did though.

i followed the suggestions for increasing the viscosity of the batter. i ended up not adding any water and adding about 3 cups of flour. this resulted in the promised tasty morsels. it also resulted in about five billion servings. as yummy as these things are... that's a lot of hush puppies. i'm refrigerating the rest of the batter for later use. whew. next time i'll probably use less cornmeal and less milk, and no water.

Unmitigated disaster of a recipe. The batter was waaaaay to wet. Efforts at firming it up required a substantial amount of flour & cornmeal. The result was a flavor not worth eating. Find a different recipe.

I would recommend using self-rising cornmeal for one thing and use only half the amount and for the other half panko bread crumbs.

Good flavor but way too watery - added more cornmeal and some corn starch to thicken. Formed the balls and were way too hard on the outside after being fried.

Came out too hard...I may have done something wrong but mine looked like the picture....I'm new to cooking but maybe my taste run toward a flour/corn meal combo.

Not as flavorful as the ones I've had down south. Still searching for that elusive "something" that will make these puppies "pop"!

after i made these i tasted them and they were not that good they had bitter after taste

Runny and no flavor!

This is one of the best hush puppy recipe I have tried. Easy to make!

The first time I made this recipe, I had to add a lot of flour and cornmeal because it was very liquidy. We also thought they were a bit bland. The second time i made them I reduced the liquid and replaced the salt with creole seasoning, very good!

I added 1/2 cup chopped green onions Worked really well

This wasn't very good. We had to add more corn meal to make if be able to form a ball, we added about 1 more cup. It would have been pancakes had we tried to fry the original recipe. Sorry. The taste was lacking.

It was perfect. I’ll add a bit more salt and never add more cornmeal! Oh we only had almond milk so that may have made it a bit sweet

After reading the reviews, I used 1 cup of milk and 1/4 cup of water and it turned out fine. Next time I will add more seasonings but this is a good start as a basic hush puppy recipe.

I tried making this recipes using adjustments from those who commented, but it took a great deal more flour, sugar, and milk to make them edible, and they're still quite grainy. I think the right butter spread can help though.

The consistency of these was perfect. I did end up adding 1/4 c of flour as one reviewer suggested. First of all, you must let the batter sit for a moment to absorb all the liquid. Second, it is almost impossible to "shape the batter" as suggested. Simply scoop out about a teaspoon or so and drop into the grease. They will NOT be nice and round, but they will still come out great. Now as far as seasonings go, this recipe was bland. We added lots more seasonings like garlic, red pepper, etc. I personally thing some diced jalapenos and maybe even a little finely cut bell pepper would make these puppies perfect. The main reason I review is because I was really worried about this recipe after all of the reviews. However, I can promise you that if you add more cornmeal to the mix, it will not come out right. If anything, add some flour (self-rising is best I hear, but I just used regular flour). I added 1/4 cup, but maybe 1/2 a cup would have been better. My hard to please family really liked these. If you want pretty hush puppies for entertaining you will want to find a different recipe, but this is great for family dinners! :)

I had to add 2 cups of flour. Otherwise you dribble it into the oil. It wasn't thick enough to spoon it without the flour added. It was delicious once fixed. Better with dipping sauce.

I didn't like this. They turned out very bland, and the ratio of wet to dry ingredients is completely off. I did not add any water at all and still had to add extra flour to get the mix to a consistency appropriate for frying.

I followed the recipe leaving out the onions and added about 1/4 cup honey. Very tasty with halibut tempura.

I used tepid water (80f/27c) and let the batter rise 20 minutes before dropping in the fryer. Like I learned cooking at a fast food restaurant. No extras needed.

This is what I remember from childhood. Yum.

perfect recipe!

I thought this recipe was subpar. The hushpuppies fried up well, but they didn't have much flavor and overall were not a huge hit. Very lumpy/grainy texture.

I didn't like this. They turned out very bland, and the ratio of wet to dry ingredients is completely off. I did not add any water at all and still had to add extra flour to get the mix to a consistency appropriate for frying.

NUM YUMMY! I was in a hurry but wanted hush puppies with my fish. Thank goodness I found your recipe. It was quick, easy, minimal mess, and soooo good. I did cut the recipe to for servings and found I had to adjust the consistency but no big deal. made more than I wanted but they are a great grab and go snack. Thank you!