Corn dogs are incredible. Hot dogs were already good, but a hot dog coated in thick cornmeal batter and deep fried? Mm!
Well, I'm vegetarian so I'll take your word for it! I do love just about anything coated in batter, so perhaps you can tell me a little about these corn dogs.
Sure! They were originally sausages that newly arrived German Texans were having trouble selling. So, they introduced the corn dog, although it didn't have a stick back then.
Are those the ones on a stick which are sold at county fairs? They always look delicious!
, granted in 1929, for a "Combined Dipping, Cooking, and Article Holding Apparatus," describes corn dogs, among other fried food impaled on a stick; it reads in part:
In "300 Years of Kitchen Collectibles", author Linda Campbell Franklin states that a "Krusty Korn Dog" baker machine appeared in the 1929 Albert Pick-L. Barth wholesale catalog of hotel and restaurant supplies. The 'korn dogs' were baked in a corn batter and resembled ears of corn when cooked.
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Corn dog
A corn dog (also spelled corndog) is a sausage (usually a hot dog) on a stick that has been coated in a thick layer of cornmeal batter and deep fried. It originated in the United States and is commonly found in American cuisine.
History.
Newly arrived German Texan sausage-makers, finding resistance to the sausages they used to make, have been credited with introducing the corn dog to the United States, though the serving stick came later. A US patent filed in 1927