Recipes with Soul

Many of the early recipes were born from necessity. Cooks in the plantation houses would send leftover scraps to the slave quarters, where the women would fry them with flour, egg, and onion. They would then throw this fried bread to the dogs to keep them quiet while food was being transferred from the kitchen to the table, hence "hush puppy." Those dogs had their day–these puppies are too good to share.

Recipe: Lela's Hush Puppies