Recipe Wednesday! PUPPIES + FRITTERS!

Here are recipes for the kind you eat, not the kind that chews your shoes and whines! One savory, one sweet, and hot apple fritters. MMMMMM...The first cool nights in fall make me want to fry up delicious snacks. They bring back autumn memories of homemade, spicy, cinnamon-sugar dusted DONUTS; bouncy, chilly, scratchy HAYRIDES; and fresh-pressed, cold, UNpasteurized CIDER. FALL is my FAVORITE SEASON!

SOUTHERN HUSH PUPPIES (Yield: 30 medium hush puppies) >>>Ingredients: * 2 cups all-purpose flour * 2 cups yellow cornmeal * 1 Tb baking powder * ½ tsp baking soda * 1 tsp salt * ½ cup sugar * 3 eggs beaten * 1 ½ cups buttermilk * ½ tsp garlic powder * (optional - 1 Tb minced onion) >>>Directions: Mix the flour, cornmeal, baking powder, baking soda, salt, sugar, eggs, buttermilk, and garlic powder together to make a thick batter. Drop the batter into hot oil by tablespoons. Fry to a golden brown for about 3 to 4 minutes. Drain. **************************************** SWEET CORN HUSH PUPPIES >>>Ingredients: * 1 cup cornmeal * 1 cup flour * 3 tablespoons sugar * 1 (16 ounce) can creamed corn * 1 onion, diced * 1 egg * 1/2 cup buttermilk * 1 teaspoon vegetable oil * vegetable oil (for frying) >>>Directions: Mix all ingredients until blended. Drop by teaspoonfuls into hot oil. Fry until cooked. ***************************************** APPLE FRITTER RINGS >>>Ingredients: * 3 apples, cored, peeled and sliced into rings * 1 cup flour * 2 tablespoons sugar * 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder * 1/4 teaspoon salt * 2/3 cup milk * 2 eggs * 1 tablespoon butter, melted * (vegetable oil, for frying) >>>Directions: In a medium bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. In a second bowl, add milk, one egg yolk and butter. In a third bowl, add 2 egg whites and beat until peaks are stiff. Whisk contents of bowl #1 into bowl #2 until smooth. Gently fold in the egg whites. Pour oil into a medium, pot until it is 2 inches deep. Heat oil until it reaches 350°F. Dip apple rings into batter, then fry for approximately 3 minutes or until golden brown. Turn once. Serve while warm. ******************************************* "Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree." ~Martin Luther