With the county fair in our rear-view mirror, I was feeling the need to fry up some comfort food and drown my sorrows at having missed it. (Okay, not really - I'm just stretching for a segue. None-the-less...)
And what better deep-fried goodness than the humble corn dog? Being in possession of a deep-fryer, I thought it would be great fun to make corn dogs with homemade batter. I selected a recipe, on trusty all-recipes, read the reviews for tips & tricks, then grabbed my camera to chronicle what was sure to be a stunning success.
I was surprised to find that I had, on hand, everything I needed to make corn dogs from scratch.
Corn dogs wouldn't be corn dogs without cornmeal.
I mixed in flour, salt & pepper, sugar and baking powder.
Then added an egg and some soy milk.
And stirred up a nice batter.
At this point, I had read some different ideas in the reviews as to how to make the batter stick on to the dogs best. I decided to try just dipping them in (as the original recipe calls for) as well as rolling some in flour first as some Allrecipe members had suggested.
So I inserted the bamboo skewer like this...
and dipped the turkey frank in the cup of batter.
Other of the dogs got rolled in flour first, like so:
And dipped:
Without further ado, I placed the first two dogs in the basket of my deep fryer and gave them a dip.
While they were frying, I assembled a small army of additional raw corn dogs.
Including my favorite, a half-sized dog:
This may be a good time to mention that I had no guests coming over to help me eat these, and my husband is not a fan of corn dogs either. But what else was I to do with so much batter!?
Meanwhile, back in the fryer...
Ah... sweet success! I just can't wait to pick those up, dab them off, and consume them whole. (Well - maybe not the stick.)
Uh... wait a minute.
*tear*
"But they were tasty, right?"
Sadly, no. They were not. Even this cute little guy left something to be desired.
So this all leads me to my question:
Does anyone out there know how to make good corn dogs at home??