Corn Dogs

Kathy
Well, this recipe calls for packaged pancake mix but I don't use pancake mix since I went on my mission where I got used to making pancakes from scratch.  Anyway, I used my favorite Pancake/Waffle Recipe but I cut it in half because I only had 3 hotdogs.  Here is what I did:  this is the measurements of my 1/2 recipe
Mix together
3/4 c flour
1 t salt
2 t baking powder
1/4 c sugar
to this I added 3 T corn meal
set aside
Mix together
1 egg
1/2 c water (would have used milk if I had it on hand)  for pancakes I would use more liquid
1 t vanilla
1 T margarine melted
add to dry ingredients
Okay this made a nice pasty batter which was a bit more corny than I expected.  As I added the cornmeal to the flour, I thought it looked too white so I added more.  However, once I added the wet ingredients, it seemed to activate the cornmeal.
I laid my hotdogs into the batter and turned them in order to coat them well and placed them into hot oil
But I forgot to test the oil so when I laid the first hotdog, the oil was not actually hot. Then I remembered to drop small sprinkles of water into the oil to know whether it is hot or not.  Anyway, the 2nd dog came out better.  The batter held to it better and I dripped a bit more over the area that was bare.  On the 1st dog the batter slid off of it on the oil side.
I decided to cut up the 3rd dog, I cut it into 3 pieces and made bite size corn dogs.
The flavor was good but the shape looked just plain silly.  I have no idea how to fix that problem.
Maybe a good hot oil that is not too hot.... I finished up by dropping the remaining batter into oil in clumps which made nice hush puppies