Comments on: Southern Hoe Cake Recipe

By: Christy Jordan

Christy Jordan — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:54:47 +0000

Welcome to Southern Plate Lisa!!! I am so glad you stopped by and am thrilled to hear you liked the HoeCake. I hope you will come back for a visit and hopefully become a part of the Southern Plate Family. We always have room for another at the table!!

By: lisa

lisa — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:13:13 +0000

Found your blog when checking out some other blogger,s site for Salisbury steak recipe and she recommended your hoe cake to go with it so I had to check it out and make it.Super easy recipe and my kids and I loved it since we are big fans of bread. This will be my go to recipe when I want some bread to go along with a meal.Serving hoe cake with our roast beef dinner tonight since we’ll have beef gravy and hoe cake is awesome to clean off the gravy off our plates lol.

By: Eleanor

Eleanor — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:39:02 +0000

How much mayo does she use, i would like to make this

By: Holly

Holly — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:34:13 +0000

My grandmother usually used buttermilk instead (milk would be used if we didn’t have enough buttermilk to eat with supper) and rolled the dough into balls, but we called them biscuits. Funny how people have different names for the same things.

By: Carol Clark

Carol Clark — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:31:46 +0000

My Grandma would make us hoe cake and I have always tried to find just the right ingredient that made hers taste different from mine. Mine always taste good and is eaten up very quickly but hers was better. It just maybe the shortening…. I use self-rising flour and buttermilk mixed together and cooked on an a well greased hot iron skillet on top of the stove with an iron lid covering it to keep the heat in. Flip it once and it’s done in about 6 minutes. Tomorrow I’ll try making it with the added shortening. A friend told me about your site. I’m glad I checked it out. I too, do not know very many people who know how to make hoe-cakes or poor-boy bread.

By: Patti

Patti — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:13:06 +0000

That is EXACTLY how my Daddy made it…I have been searching for the recipe for years!! All the ones I have seen have cornmeal in it…my Daddy would flip it in the air to turn it, and then cut it like a pie or pizza. Our favorite as kids growing up!!

By: Odis Selph

Odis Selph — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:10:49 +0000

My nanny made these for me as a kid, but as you stated mine where made flat like a pancake. We ate them for just about any occasion. Personally i loved mine with jelly on top. Thanks for the loveing memories of my Nanny

By: Talea Ranker

Talea Ranker — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:32:28 +0000

I’m not the only one that knows this recipe!! We do ours in a cast iron skillet on the stove, but you are the only other person I have ever met outside my family that has even heard of this! It’s so nice to see we aren’t alone. We know all about the apple butter, but with us tbh it was sorghum. What my misplaced southern roots wouldn’t DO for Oma’s hoe cake with sorghum right now!

By: Angie Mcbrier

Angie Mcbrier — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:57:42 +0000

My grandparents made this for breafast when i was a kid. We use buttermilk instead of milk. And now i put sausage, bacon,eggs,jalapenos and cheese in mine and it is wonderful.

By: Steve Hylton

Steve Hylton — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:49:29 +0000

Thank you for this recipe! It’s exactly the way my grandmother used to make it in her old wood-burning stove that always made the kitchen seem way too hot! I’ve made it several times since I found the recipe, and I’ve put a big dent in our supply of apple-butter! This brings back a lot of great memories of my family and sitting around the table at breakfast with a big ol’ pone of hoecake. In fact, I believe that my aunt used to use this recipe to make a crust for pizza when she would babysit us! All the kids in the neighborhood wanted to be over when Binky made us pizza for Saturday breakfast.