Fruit and fluffy Hawaiian dessert salad.
| Prep Time: | 10 mins |
| Cook Time: | 20 mins |
| Total Time: | 30 mins |
| Servings: | 8 |
Ingredients
- 1 ½ tablespoons shortening
- 2 cups self-rising flour
- 1 cup milk
- 2 pinches garlic salt
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C). Grease a well-seasoned cast iron skillet with the shortening, and place it in the oven as it heats.
- Whisk together flour and milk in a bowl, making a thick but still runny batter.
- Remove the hot greased skillet from the preheated oven, and quickly sprinkle a pinch of garlic salt over the bottom of the skillet. Immediately pour in the batter, and sprinkle the top with a pinch of garlic salt.
- Return the skillet to the preheated oven and bake until cake is risen and the top is golden brown, about 20 minutes.
- You can substitute bacon grease or canola oil for the shortening.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 147 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 25 g |
| Cholesterol | 2 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 4 g |
| Saturated Fat | 1 g |
| Sodium | 492 mg |
| Sugars | 2 g |
| Fat | 3 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Excellent and simple. For s little pizzazz, I added ½ a cup of fresh grated Parmesan cheese.
I doubled the recipe recipe to make it thick and I have a large cast-iron pan but it came out great
I have not made this version, but excited to try it! what we call Hoe Cakes in Kentuckiana is more like fried cornbread pancakes. still used the same and delish. main ingredient is white self-rising cornmeal, buttermilk, and cooked like pancakes, in bacon grease. great with soup beans or with butter and jelly
Wow. This is amazing and so easy. I didn’t have self rising flour so I used Bisquick. Great recipe!
When I don’t want to heat the house by turning on the oven I leave out the garlic salt and use either butter or bacon grease and pan fry the bread into what looks like hoe cake pancakes My 2 1/2 year old doesn’t talk much or eat much but he makes it very clear when he wants mommies special bread. This was so good.
Bacon fat subbed for shortening. Add more milk if batter is too thick. May require a little over 20 minutes. Delicious. VARIATION: For sweet rather than savoury, omit the garlic and serve with jam.
Sprinkled the pan and the top of the hoe cake with a little bit of sugar rather than garlic, thinking there’d be leftover for toast / breakfast . . . there wasn’t a crumb left. Delicious!
I had to use spreadable butter instead of shortening; cut the recipe in half; and use gluten free baking mix or some call it rice flour. I am gluten intolerant and the only one in the family with it. It doesn’t raise as much but is wonderful and also good with strawberry butter also. Very delicious!
Great tasting bread that reminds me of my childhood and the great, inexpensive dishes my Mother made. Easy and really good!
Loved this bread. I baked it in a 9″ pan and it rose to the top of the pan and cooked great in this size skillet. I didn’t use garlic salt just used table salt in case someone wanted to spread it with jam. I’m sure it would be great with garlic salt too. Thanks for the recipe I will make this again.
Tastes good but has several problems that can be easily fixed. The recipe doesn’t say what size pan to use but I found out the a 10 inch one worked wonderful. One cup of milk in the batter is WAY to little to make a thick but still runny batter. I had to add at least 1/2 cup extra if not more. Finally, if your going to serve this with apple butter or any kind of fruit topping for that matter don’t use the garlic salt, I’m sure you can understand why. The end product I think is worth doing the extra problem solving because it’s actually a surprisingly good bread considering it’s simplicity. It’s a really crust bread that I feel when sliced thin can be enjoyed with many soups.
My Great Grandma used to make these for me every time she made biscuits. One of my favorite memories! But no garlic salt. Not good with jelly. lol
This is a great tasting recipe! I have a 9 inch pan and it rises during baking 3/4’s to the pan top so it is not a thin bread as depicted in the picture though it is still good! I would love to know if everyone else has made their’s thinner. It is a great snack!
This is something I have never tried before. This recipe tastes like a flatbread, but a little more dense. I think it would be good dipped in marinara. Sorry, I’m not southern! It cooked for a little over 20 minutes and I had to add extra milk because the batter was too thick. I used the bacon grease instead of shortening. Quick and Easy bread to serve as a side. Would probably work well cooking over a fire for a campout.
Im glad i found it. My dad use to make this when i was a kid. I loved it i dont think it had the garlic salt because we ate it with jelly. great snack. 🙂 Thanks for posting it.
This was so delicious! I am a yankee who married a southern man and had my first “hoe-cake” last night when I went out to eat with my in-laws and husband and son. My husband begged for me to try to make it today. This recipe was WAY better than what we ate last night! Amazing!
I found this recipe and tried it one night when I was in a hurry. Fantastic! I didn’t change a thing, and we all loved it…definitely a keeper, both because its yummy, but also it is fast and very easy.
I registered just so i could comment this recipes name. I grew up on “Hoe cake”.We used bisquick mixed with water until the consistency is like a thick pancake.Put it in a hot oiled cast iron skillet,cooked both sides and served with butter and syrup like a thick pancake. This has been a hit with everyone I have ever made it for.I saw your name and just laughed,it brought back so many memories.”Hoe Cake”..haha