Cornbread

[Dahlia]

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[Mystical Bunny of Destiny]

Yum!

[Patrick Bauer]

In a loaf?
In a skillet?
With sugar or without?
Added whole kernels?
With buttermilk or sour cream?
Fried cakes or in muffins?

[Wigmeister General]

Pie are round.
Cornbread are square.

[Jasper07734]

I once had homemade cornbread when I was in the South. Mmmmmmmmm! :tup:

[1695814]

In a loaf?
In a skillet?
With sugar or without?
Added whole kernels?
With buttermilk or sour cream?
Fried cakes or in muffins?I would not, could not,in the rain.
Not in the dark.
Not on a train.
Not in a car.
Not in a tree.
I do not like them, Sam, you see.
Not in a house.
Not in a box.
Not with a mouse.
Not with a fox.
I will not eat them here or there.
I do not like them anywhere!

[Samantha]

In a loaf?
In a skillet?
With sugar or without?
Added whole kernels?
With buttermilk or sour cream?
Fried cakes or in muffins?

Any of the above. Add honey-butter ... mmmmmmmmmmmm

(now I'm hungry)

[Abstract Actuary]

I vote somewhere in the middle of yum and yuck. It can be pretty good, but it can be pretty average (too dry, etc.). In general it is average.

[Wigmeister General]

Cornbread stuffing: An excellent side dish to Thanksgiving Day Turkey

[Guest]

Order stone-ground, unbolted cornmeal from here -
http://www.fallsmill.com/store.html - and follow the recipe on the bag.

Best. Cornbread. Ever.

[Actuarial Groupie]

Good stuff, Maynard

[dinosaur]

Any of the above. Add honey-butter ... mmmmmmmmmmmm

(now I'm hungry)

i'm used to having semi-sweet cornbread but then i'm not from the south. if you order cornbread almost anywhere in the south, its NOT sweet. with hone-butter, its awesome...without it, i might pass but really varies on who's making it.

[Salzmann]

My husband makes it with whole kernels, and then we have it with homemade navy bean soup. My mother always served bean soup with chopped fresh onion and vinegar on the side. Good stuff- and a pretty cheap meal.

[oirg]

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Overrated.

[Redhead]

Love a good cornbread...ditto on the honey-butter.

[JMO]

My family always poured on molasses. Even sweeter and stickier than honey-butter.

[soyleche]

"Corn bread, Corn bread, nummy nummy nummy num"

A song my 2 year old composed.

[Meshuga]

moist, with butter or honey-butter.

also good with chili

[QMO]

My wife's recipie for cornbread:

Mix up two boxes worth of Jiffy corn muffin batter
Mix up one box worth of yellow cake batter
Stir them together
Put in how ever many pans you need
Bake

The result is sweeter, moister and less crumbly than regular cornbread.

[Patience]

I like sweet dessert/snack cornbread, but usually prefer it for savory things like chili or even a braised short rib

[E. Blackadder]

My husband makes it with whole kernels, and then we have it with homemade navy bean soup. My mother always served bean soup with chopped fresh onion and vinegar on the side. Good stuff- and a pretty cheap meal.

I'm a big fan of navy bean soup, but I don't get it here, and I've never made it. If you have the time and inclination, please post the recipe.

[Kid Notorious]

Cornbread is really yummy, especially when slathered with butter, but I like sweet corn cakes better. I first experienced them when I moved out to so. cal. and went to an authentic mexican restaurant for the first time. Mmmm-mmm. I could mack on those sweet corn cakes all day.

[Dahlia]

I'm a big fan of navy bean soup, but I don't get it here, and I've never made it. If you have the time and inclination, please post the recipe.

Agree, post a recipe!

[Dahlia]

An aside for the cornbread thread....this weekend I also made chocolate banana bread made entirely from oat flour, with caramelized pears on top. Quite awesome! I'd like to bake without using any wheat flour so I have been experimenting with my wheat flour based recipes by substituting other flours. Anyone been baking with rice flour?

[Darkness Falls]

An aside for the cornbread thread....this weekend I also made chocolate banana bread made entirely from oat flour, with caramelized pears on top. Quite awesome! I'd like to bake without using any wheat flour so I have been experimenting with my wheat flour based recipes by substituting other flours. Anyone been baking with rice flour?

Sounds tasty.

Best Corn Bread I ever had was the bread with pieces of bacon inside. Sounds weird but was amazing.

[Slainte]

Ain't nuttin' wrong with that!

[Maine-iac]

Yeah, the variant baked with bacon fat and/or bits of bacon is not that uncommon. Tasty, but of course, a heart-attack-on-a-plate.

I baked a carrot/cornbread variant once that was surprisingly good. The carrots offset the cornbread's occasional tendency toward dryness and made a very moist bread.

[Salzmann]

Here it is.

"You can use virtually any kind of beans but I prefer a mix of either navy or great northern and others, mostly for color. The cooking instructions are simple enough:

Wash two cups of beans in a pot, sorting out obviously bad ones, strain them, rinse, return them to the pot.
Add enough water to completely cover the beans and bring them to a boil for a couple of minutes.
Set them aside and let them soak, covered, for an hour or so.
Pour the beans into a strainer again and completely wash them with fresh water.
Return the beans to the pot and add six cups of hot water, add a cured ham hock, cover and bring them to a boil for a few minutes.
Reduce the heat to simmer, cover the pot with the lid slightly ajar and continue simmering till tender, usually about two hours, stirring very occasionally.Salt to taste when they are nearly done.
Serve with yellow cornbread and raw onions, black pepper to taste.
My brother would eat the lean portions of the ham hock but, then, he never was too picky. Lacking a dog, we leave it out for the neighborhood critters."

My note on cured ham hocks- we can find them at the grocery store and they're darn cheap.

[Lucy]

My wife's recipie for cornbread:

Mix up two boxes worth of Jiffy corn muffin batter
Mix up one box worth of yellow cake batter
Stir them together
Put in how ever many pans you need
Bake

The result is sweeter, moister and less crumbly than regular cornbread.Exactly the wrong direction for my tastes - what I like about cornbread is the crumbliness, and while I do like Jiffy mix, I find it a bit too sweet.

I make both corn muffins and corn bread. My muffins use a lot more sugar (less than Jiffy if I make them from scratch, but distinctly sweet.) My bread is "baked" on the stove in a cast-iron frying pan and uses very little sugar, maybe a tablespoon or two for the recipe.

Anyone else vary the recipe depending on the shape you cook it in?

. . .My note on cured ham hocks- we can find them at the grocery store and they're darn cheap.Alas, my daughter has sworn off pork, so I can no longer use them to season my bean soups. At least, not if I want her to eat her supper. :(

[E. Blackadder]

Thanks you, S. I have NB soup in the crock pot. As with some other people I've largely sworn off directed federal spending, so I used a combination of yesterday's theme meat and its canadian variant.

and I added a few extra vegetables, but I wouldn't have done any of that without your inspiration. ;-)