For 2-3
(No, I do not know who Mrs. Fishburn is or was, but she sure made very interesting corn pancakes. I got this recipe from my father.)
1 c yellow corn meal
1 c boiling water
2 T liquid (hot or warm) bacon fat (or oil or melted butter)
1 T sugar (white or light brown)
1 3/4 c milk
1/2 c flour
1 t baking powder
salt to taste
1 egg, lightly beaten
1. Pour the boiling water over the corn meal. Add the fat and sugar and mix well.
2. Sift the flour, baking powder and salt. Add this to the cornmeal mixture in three batches, alternating with the milk and mixing well after each addition. Mix in the egg. The batter will be very runny, since the cornmeal will not dissolve in the milk.
3. Oil and heat the griddle and keep it "fairly hot" (this is what my father's recipe says) during the cooking process.
4. Mix again before dropping each potential pancake on the griddle. Make each pancake NOT LARGER than the old fashioned silver dollar size. These cook very fast, so be ready to flip them over.
5. "Butter, honey, or maple syrup go very well," my father's notes say and I would agree.
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Thank you so much for posting this recipe!!! My dad, too, had a wonderful relationship with Mrs. Fishburn and her pancakes, and I have been looking for this recipe for years, searching from time to to time on the internet and in old recipe books. My dad passed away in 2004 and for the first time in many years, thanks to your post, this morning I had Mrs. Fishburn's amazing corn pancakes. I wonder where the original recipe came from? I mean, from Mrs. Fishburn obviously, but where do these dads find this?
No other cornmeal pancake I have tried over the years is as good as Mrs. Fishburn's recipe.
We used to eat them with lots of butter and jam, rolled like a crepe, one pancake at a time.
Although organic stoneground cornmeal is healthier, my pancakes this morning could have benefitted from some good old fashioned lighter powdery cornmeal; still, they taste incredible and breakfast this morning took me back to my childhood. Best of all, I was able to share Mrs. Fishburn's recipe with someone who'd never had cornmeal pancakes.
Thank you again!!!
Well, thank YOU chrystene!
I know that my Dad got this recipe from one of those community recipe books that used to be around in the 1950s, and I kind of imagine that it might have featured recipes from somewhere in North or South Carolina, Virginia (Williamsburg?), or Maryland. (The family lived mostly in or near D.C. from the mid 40s to the mid 80s).
Bill Routt
Aren't they great pancakes?
Hm, that's interesting about the community cookbooks. I don't even know about those. I grew up in Canada so my dad likely got this hand-written from someone, although it wasn't in his recipe box, which I went through several times looking for this recipe!
Thanks again.
And yes, they are incredible pancakes! The best.
Chrystene
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