Corn Cake With Suet Recipe

Fluffy, rich and delicately sweet, corn cake with suet makes a delightful side dish to holiday healthy meals and can be enjoyed as a filling snack or simple easy dessert recipes.



With a few simple ingredients, namely corn meal, flour, salt, baking soda, sour milk, and chopped suet you can make a one-of-a-kind corn cake that is versatile and highly pleasurable. Very tasty, corn cake makes an excellent dish for a Mexican-inspired Christmas Eve feast. This is also a very popular easy appetizers dish in the rural South of the United States and goes perfectly well with roast chicken or grilled meats.

Suet is the secret ingredient in this delicious corn cake recipe. It gives the cake a distinctive lightness and a rich and savory flavor without being obtrusive and allowing the flavor of the corn to shine through. Made from raw beef or mutton fat, suet is the hard fat found around kidneys and the loins. It as a melting point of 113 degrees to 122 degrees F and congeals at 98.6 to 104 degrees F. Its high smoke point makes suet ideal for pastry production.

Suet is often sold in supermarkets mixed with flour and in blocks that are cream-colored like lard. Vegetarian suet is also available, made from rice flour and palm oil but has slightly different taste and gives a different texture and end-result. Suet should be used within a few days of purchase and should be kept in the refrigerator during those few days of storage. Suet is often used in England to make kidney and steak pudding and Christmas pudding, as well as soft-textured pastries, mincemeat, dumplings, and haggis. Before using suet to make corn cake and other pastries, grate it coarsely with a cheese grater.

Because of its high energy content, suet is popular among cold weather explorers who add the fat to food rations to supplement the high energy requirement needed in their daily travels in a harsh climate. This recipe for corn cake thus has a high calorie and high energy content.

Ingredients:
100ml corn meal
100gms flour
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon soda
½ cup chopped suet
200ml sour milk

Preparation:
1. In a large dry bowl add all the dry ingredients and mix well.
2. Add suet and the sour milk to the mix. Stir well till it blends.
3. Pour this into a greased baking tray and bake it in a preheated oven for about 30 minutes at about 375 degree F.