Ingredients:

  Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
--------  ------------  --------------------------------
   1      cup           cornmeal
   2      teaspoons     baking powder
     1/2  teaspoon      salt
   1      medium        onion
   1                    egg
     1/4  cup           milk or water

Preparation:

Mix ingredients well, scoop with spoon and fry in oil until golden brown. She goes on to write that she was shown by a another cook to pat out the dough and then poke a hole in it so that there would be more crispy crustwhich she thought was good. She also noted that she had heard of people adding corn but she believed if you added corn you could no longer call them Hushpuppies.