Hush puppies

My husband is from Georgia, so I get asked to make these quite a bit. I put my own spin on the origional recipe.

Recipe:

- 6 cups peanut oil

- 1 1/2 c self rising cornmeal 

- 1/2 c flour

- 1/2 tsp baking soda

- 1/2 tsp salt

- 1 small onion chopped

- 1 c buttermilk

- 1 egg lightly beaten

- 1 tbsp garlic powder

- 1 tbsp onion powder

- 1 cup jalepeno peppers 

* heat peanut oil in large pot or you can use a deep fryer

* mix the rest of the ingredients into a bowl.

* once oil is hot, drop spoonfulls of muxture into oil

Tip: to make sure oil is hot enough, put the back of wood spoon into oil. If it bubbles the oil is ready!!!