Fried Hominy Cakes With Spinach and Bacon

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Fried hominy was listed often arsenic broadside crockery successful a 1904 paper diary that survives from Biltmore, George Washington Vanderbilt II's 125,000-acre property successful the lush mountains of Asheville, N.C. A cookbook utilized there, "The Encyclopedia of Practical Cookery," contains a look for fried hominy successful which a paste of cooked acold hominy, egg, food and beverage is chopped into circular cakes that are dredged successful flour and fried successful "a good-sized lump of butter."

Quick grits and canned hominy are the instauration for these crisp, cheesy Biltmore-inspired cakes, made each the amended with spinach and bacon. They marque a large Thanksgiving broadside dish. Be definite to usage good-quality bacon.

You'll request a 2 1/2-inch biscuit cutter.

The hominy tin beryllium prepped, covered and refrigerated successful its baking crockery a time successful advance, past fried conscionable earlier dinner.

From cookbook writer and erstwhile cook David Hagedorn.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 10 (makes 20 2 1/2-inch cakes)

10 ounces frozen/defrosted chopped spinach (may substitute 12 ounces caller babe spinach)
4 ounces best-quality sliced bacon, specified arsenic Benton's oregon Nueske's
2 cups full milk
2 cloves garlic, chopped
1/2 spoon bulb powder
1/4 spoon freshly grated nutmeg
1 spoon kosher salt
1 spoon freshly crushed achromatic pepper
1 cupful dried, quick-cooking grits
20 ounces canned hominy, specified arsenic Manning's, breached up into abstracted kernels (3 cups)
1/2 cupful freshly grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
1/4 cupful flour, for coating
3 tablespoons rendered bacon fat
3 tablespoons canola oil