Breadings are dry ingredients used to coat fish such as cracker crumbs, bread crumbs, flour or cornmeal. Usually the fish is dipped into an egg mixture and then into the dry mixture.
Batters tend to result in a thicker, breadier coating after the fish is fried.
Cornmeal breading is the favorite way to prepare Southern favorites like catfish and crappie. Welcome to Martha White's Goodness Gracious, It's Good E-Mail Newsletter, featuring Linda Carman of Nashville, Tennessee. Linda has baked more biscuits and cornbread than anyone you'll ever meet.