From
the table
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Recipes from the kitchen of Gladys Jennette
Scarborough ~
Kinnakeet,
North Carolina
Fried
Corn Bread
Ingredients:
1 C. Corn Meal, 1 tsp. baking powder, 1/4 C.
flour, 1
tsp. salt, Water or Milk, Vegetable oil
What
to do: Mix
corn meal, flour, salt and baking powder. Stir in
enough water or milk to
get a thin (pancake like) consistency. Heat frying
pan, cover bottom with oil, when hot, drop batter
by tablespoons in pan. Cook until brown on
one side, then turn and brown the other side. Drain
on paper towel. More oil may be needed as
cooking.
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Stewed Fish With Corn Meal Dumplings ~Kinnakeet
style
Ingredients:
1 blue fish, mullet, or channel bass, 3
T. salt pork, cubed, 3 or 4 potatoes cut in half,
1 lg. onion cut up, 1/2
c. sliced green onion, 2 T. flour,
Corn
Meal Dumpling Ingredients (Dodgers):
1
c. corn meal, 1tsp. salt, 1/4 c. flour, water
What
to do: Steak
fish into 2 inch pieces. Do not fillet. In heavy
pot fry
salt pork pieces until brown, sauté onion for a
minute add
flour and stir. Then add fish, potatoes and
onion and
enough water to barely cover fish. Bring to
a boil and drop dumplings around sides and
sprinkle green onion on top. Cook
until potatoes are done and gravy has stewed down.
Dumplings:
Mix ingredients with enough water to hold
together. Roll into balls and flatten.
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