After you lower a fillet into the hot oil, leave it alone.Instead, fry in several batches if necessary. Like many home cooks, I just do what “looks right.” So use the measures as a guideline and add more or take away some if you think you should. It was really difficult for me to write measurements for this recipe since I’d never measured any of the ingredients. I always recommend peanut oil for deep frying. Oil (You’ll need a high-temperature oil for frying.You’ll need plain cornmeal, not cornmeal mix or cornbread mix for this recipe.) If you can’t source this product, you could try combining medium cornmeal and flour. Fine White Cornmeal (Unlike many fried foods where flour is used for the coating, catfish are breaded with finely ground cornmeal.Catfish are bottom feeders which can cause them to have a somewhat “muddy” taste. Milk or Buttermilk (Use either to soak the catfish before dredging and frying.Catfish Fillets (If you don’t have access to fresh catfish, frozen is fine! Just remember to allow time to thaw – either overnight in the fridge or under slowly running cold water in a colander.).Even though it had been years since I cooked fried catfish myself, I found that I hadn’t forgotten how :-) I sometimes order it at a local seafood place, but I couldn’t remember the last time I’d cooked any myself.Īnd, since no one in our house is a fisherman, I just trusted my local grocery store to provide the fillets. It’s been at least 50 years since I’ve eaten there with my family and I still remember it like it was last night! 🐟 No Fish Camp Nearby? Make Your Own!Ī while ago I decided it was high time for some home fried catfish. Like I said, not fancy.īut they served the BEST fried catfish south of Macon. No tablecloths, of course, and a roll of paper towels on each table.
In fact, it was the complete opposite of fancy.Īs I recall it from the early ’70s, there were probably six tables each with six straight-backed wooden chairs around them – the kind that made that screeching noise when you pulled them across the concrete floor…you know what I mean. Pace’s, like every other fish camp around there, was not a fancy eating establishment. I remember Mama and Daddy loading up me and my sisters in the station wagon and heading for Pace’s Fish Camp. A “fish camp” is a locally owned restaurant where loads of delicious fish, with accompanying side dishes, are cooked and served. Now, if you weren’t the fishing type or you just had a craving for some fish in between one of those occasions, you could always make a trip to one of the local fish camps. After the day’s catch was cleaned, the call would go out to friends to come over for a fish fry. The catch in our area was typically either bream or catfish. Most fish fries back in those days were impromptu events prompted by a lucky fisherman having a good day on the water. Some of the most fun get-togethers we had while growing up in south Georgia involved friends and neighbors getting together for a good old-fashioned fish fry.
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