Leftover cakes for breakfast. They're already done! What could be better? I suppose what could be better would be somebody else making them up fresh just for you, then cleaning up the mess. Yes, that would be better. In lieu of that, this is the best.
Really, this sort of thing is best deep-fried. These were pan fried then re-heated in the microwave ⚡⚡dzzzzit⚡dzit⚡⚡dzzzzit⚡⚡ZAP⚡⚡dzit⚡zit⚡ for one minute. Not the best treatment for a bread-y cake or for fish. Yesterday I reheated one in a pan but that took too long. I don't have the patience for that. Grew gray hair on my head just waiting for it. I stood there with an instant-read thermometer and kept sticking it in the cake while it cooked watching the temperature slowly rise. It took fooorrrreeeeever and I hate that.
So what to do? I do not know. I suppose the best thing to do would be to keep a covered pot of oil ready on the stovetop, and uncooked prepared mixture in the refrigerator. Then keep heating up the oil over a period of a few days until all the mixture is used or until the fish begins to turn, whichever occurs first. The mixture also has raw egg in it so that too would limit the whole thing to a mere few days, but it would allow fresh-out-of-the-oil fish-infused hushpuppy cakes or balls. Howz that for an idea? Then the oil could be filtered and put away as if this little deep-frying episode never happened.
That's the only way I would serve these for, say, a brunch. That is, straight from the oil. That way they'd be crunchy on the outside, tender fresh fish with lightened cornmeal on the inside.
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