I decided to try the corn dog recipe, as I had some time free. It didn’t go 100% smoothly, probably due to the fact that I’m not really that sure what a corn dog is supposed to look like
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First of all, I got myself set up. In true 21st Century style, I was using a recipe from the internet so I took the laptop into the kitchen to refer to.
Next, as the recipe is American, it uses silly ‘cup’ measures. Fortunately, I am ready for this, so I got out my lovely ‘cup’ measures, which I only really bought because they look nice.
The first step – measure out all the ingredients. This may look like some form of OCD, but I have found that getting everything prepped in advance really does make life a lot easier.
Then basically, you mix up all the ingredients to make a batter. This is one bit which didn’t go quite as planned. I couldn’t get ‘corn meal’ which is what the recipe specifies. After a bit of research, a few sites on the net suggested polenta. However, our completely rubbish branch of Morrisons only had pre-made polenta, so I got a corn crumb coating thing which looked about right. Possibly it was drier than required though becuase the batter was very thick – so I added some more milk to loosen it up, and it seemed to work ok.
Next stage – coat the hotdog with flour to allow the batter to stick properly. After a couple of tries, I found the easiest thing to do was to put the hotdog on the stick first, then roll them in the flour to get properly coated.
Then, dip the dog in the batter to get a nice coating (this is much easier if you follow the very good advice on the site and use a tall beaker type thing for the batter.
Then, of course, fry!
Done.
There wasn’t anything tricky here really, nice and straightforward. How did it taste? Like a deep-fried hotdog I guess. For my taste, the batter was too sweet – sort of like a doughnut batter, and I would make it more savoury if I was doing it again. But the batter was nice and light, and was perfectly cooked. I don’t think corn dogs are going to become part of my regular diet, but it’s another thing to add to my skill set I suppose
Tags: corn dogs • food
Categories: food diary
“I couldn’t get ‘corn meal’ which is what the recipe specifies.”
I’ve found you can pick this up in health food shops, Polenta isn’t a great substitute as it’s already been boiled and dried.
Loved the lamb recipe a few posts down, but to be quite frank this one left me feeling slightly ill! Why on Earth would you think that looked nice? Eeeeew!
>Mongrel
I didn’t think of health food shops – nice one!
>Sam
It’s very hard to explain, but came about as the result of a joke which turned ‘Corn Gods’ into ‘Corn Dogs’ and it just got out of control.