The Easiest Way Ever To Make Perfect Hotwater Cornbread
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Published 2020-04-09
Big Bite Tip: This hotwater cornbread recipe is make directly on the stove
Ingredients
2 cups cornmeal
21/4 boiling water
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
2 tablespoon sugar
4 to 5 ice cubes
2 cups of cold water
1/2 cup of frying oil
Kitchen Needs
1 medium size bowl - For ice water coating
1 medium size bowl- For measured cornmeal
1/4 cup scoop or large tablespoon- For forming patties
1 medium size skillet
1 medium size saucepan
Directions
1. In medium size bowl add water and ice cubes set aside
2. Bring hot water to rolling boil on high heat
3. Slowly add measured cornmeal to boiling hot water, lower heat to medium, stirring constantly to get all the lumps out of mixture.
4. Once well mixed add butter, sea salt, and sugar continue to stir till well mixed.
5. Cook cornmeal mixture for 3 to 5 minutes till mixture thickens and looks a rich yellow color.
Note: Sugar and salt can be adjusted to taste preference in this recipe. Taste mixture before forming hot water patties. Mixture is ready to start forming patties.
6. Put your hands in bowl of ice water completely immerse to get your hands cold, this will prevent your hands from burning from the hot cornmeal mixture. Next take 1 scoop of hot cornmeal mixture and place mixture in cold hands forming hot water patty into round or oval shape- Whatever your preference. Coat patty with ice water as you are forming patty. Patties should be about 3/4 inch thick. This will ensure you get a crispy fried patty.
7. Preheat oil in skillet over medium high heat for about 5 minutes. Important- Do not cook patties on high heat. They will burn if heat is to hot. Cook patties for 3 to 4 minutes on each side or until slightly golden.
8. Place fried hot water cornbreads on paper towelled plate to absorb excess oil.
Now you are ready to go down memory lane with every bite.
Serving Suggestions
These go well with your favorite greens, candied yams and I'm just going to say it- Fried Chicken......
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All Comments (21)
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Your recipe and technique are right on the spot and your cakes are so round and neat. I am in my 70's also, but love to see the younger folks cooking. However, I love those rough looking cakes, all uneven around the edges (my son loved the roughies too) but I only make the roughies for me and the hubby now. You are so sweet. Thank you for sharing our cooking culture😍
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This really made me smile. Born and raised in Little Rock, Ar. My granny was a phenomenal cook, this is her recipe to the tee. A plate of hot water cornbread with a glass of sweet tea. I didn’t need anything else. Thank you.
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I'm glad to see that black people are still making hot water cornbread. I'm a 80s baby and my parents still make it. Its crazy that many younger people don't know about this delicious side of black American culture.
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I've been dying to learn how to make the hot water cornbread. Thank you for this video!!
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Your voice is so soothing
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MY MOM AND GRANDMA USE TO MAKE THIS, AND I STILL MAKE IT TO THIS DAY. I TAUGHT MY OLDEST SON AND HIS WIFE HOW TO MAKE IT, AND THEY MADE IT EVERY DAY FOR 2 WEEKS AFTER THAT❗ I LOVE IT‼️
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This worked great. Much better than another recipe I tried. I first heard of and tried hotwater cornbread at a New Orleans restaurant in Los Angeles based on family recipes from NOLA. I had never heard of hotwater cornbread the 8 years I lived In New Orleans.
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That sizzle causes instant hunger. Delicious.
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I like to put a little finely chopped onion in mine. Delicious cold.
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Man this is the easiest way to make that cornbread I don't know if your grandma is still alive but tell her regardless in your prayers or whatever thank you thank you thank you this is so much easier than the way I've been making it and my elders have been making it. And to the guy who said that you didn't tell him how much it's just like making grits people you add into the thicket and stirred and if you're not happy with it then you add a little bit more grits to your water that's how you make it just like grits that's why I use that for an example simple and easy but one thing I do I mix all my dry ingredients together except for the butter I save until it's almost done I add the butter to it and stir it in. And once again thank you ever so much.
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Very good, Chef Rene. I don't know why, but my family didn't eat hot water cornbread. We ate a lot of cornbread. Also we ate a lot of mush, which is boiled cornmeal. We kept white cornmeal for mush. It has a milder flavor than yellow cornmeal. Mush is thinner than what she makes, but exactly the same. I can't have baking powder, (too much sodium). So I have been making hot water cornbread, but it just lacks something. I am going to follow this recipe exactly. When you start adding baking powder, it's no longer the old way. Some sweetening is traditional, but it would have been honey, molasses or ribbon cane syrup, sugar was expensive. I'm 80 years old and have been cooking since I was 4. I grew up in rural Arkansas and Texas.
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I make this but I make it also without the sugar and make it a little thinner. Thinner and just dipped out with a spoon so it's not smooth like hot water cornbread. We called them crunchies because they get super crunchy. I eat it this way with bacon and fried eggs. It's delicious dipped into a runny egg yoke. The way your making it is so delicious with greens, fried cabbage or a bowl of beans.
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Super funny, when you said she said, "Cook it on the stove". I was GURL...Hot water CB is not meant for the oven! I thought I better watch what this crazy girl is going to do with the oven. Then it hit me COOK IT ON THE STOVE! Eureka! Cook it, then fry it. (all on the stove!) Brilliant! One more thing, I now remember the cold water bowl with ice! My nannie did the same step! I hadn't thought of that ice bowl until I saw you using it! Thanks Chef Rene! Forgive me for passing judgement so quick. Paid off BIG time watching through the end! XO PS. hey all, this is JUST cornmeal. Not self rising, not a mix with flour, just ALL cornmeal.
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Hi Miss Johnson:) I was born and raised in Eastern Europe ,Romania and I remember my grandparents they used to cook that for me when I was little 😁Now I have been living in Canada for the past 10 years ,and I decided to do it by myself thanks to your channel 😁 You seem an amazing lady ! Best Regards !
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I still cook the hot water cornbread as of now my grandkid Love it ❤
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Thank you so much for this delicious recipe can’t wait to try it...you sure have beautiful hands those long fingers...greetings from Mexico
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Thanks so much for this recipe I've never seen any one cook the corn meal first like you did, and I bet that makes all the difference, so thanks to yr grandma and to you 🎉 ☺️🖐️
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I made some lastweek and man I can’t wait to make some more
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You are spot on with your hot water corn bread! My Louisiana grandmother taught me how to make it using the same ingredients and method of putting it together!
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You are so darling! Grettings from Utah!!
