The American Corn dog

Ingredients

3/4 cup yellow cornmeal (polenta)

3/4 cup all purpose flour

1.5 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp baking soda

1 tsp sugar

1/2 tsp salt

1/8 tsp nutmeg

3/4 cup buttermilk

2 eggs

4 hot dogs

all purpose flour for rolling

vegetable or for frying

Instructions

Preheat the fryer.

To make the batter, whisk to combine the cornmeal, flour, baking powder, baking soda, sugar, salt, and nutmeg.

In another small bowl, whisk to combine the buttermilk and eggs, and mix this into the dry ingredients until there are no more streaks of flour, but be sure to leave lumps in the batter (do not stir those out, as you may overmix). Transfer the batter to a tall glass.

Skewer the hot dogs onto wooden sticks and roll the hot dogs in flour to coat, then shake the excess off.

Dip the floured hot dogs into the tall glass of batter and put them straight into the fryer for about 3 minutes. Depending on size, you might need to make two or three batches. The corn dogs are ready when it is golden brown.

Serve the corn dogs with ketchup and mustard if desired, and enjoy!