First of all, I got myself set up. In true 21st Century style, I was using a recipe from the internet so I took the laptop into the kitchen to refer to.

Next, as the recipe is American, it uses silly ‘cup’ measures. Fortunately, I am ready for this, so I got out my lovely ‘cup’ measures, which I only really bought because they look nice.

The first step – measure out all the ingredients. This may look like some form of OCD, but I have found that getting everything prepped in advance really does make life a lot easier.

Then basically, you mix up all the ingredients to make a batter. This is one bit which didn’t go quite as planned. I couldn’t get ‘corn meal’ which is what the recipe specifies. After a bit of research, a few sites on the net suggested polenta. However, our completely rubbish branch of Morrisons only had pre-made polenta, so I got a corn crumb coating thing which looked about right. Possibly it was drier than required though becuase the batter was very thick – so I added some more milk to loosen it up, and it seemed to work ok.

Next stage – coat the hotdog with flour to allow the batter to stick properly. After a couple of tries, I found the easiest thing to do was to put the hotdog on the stick first, then roll them in the flour to get properly coated.

Then, dip the dog in the batter to get a nice coating (this is much easier if you follow the very good advice on the site and use a tall beaker type thing for the batter.

Then, of course, fry!

Done.