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[Vonz90]

The only place I've ever encountered cornbread was in the US., and the only place I've ever found PROPER cornbread is south of the Ohio River.

Th' Darlin' Daughter will tell you "As you start north on I-65, eventually you'll find a point where they've stopped putting sugar in their tea, and started putting it in their cornbread. At that point, you are officially out of the South."

My wife's family is from much further south than I am (south of the Mason-Dixon line) and they eat their corn bread very sweet, like cake (I don't care for it).

[First Shirt]

That's what my mom refers to as "rich folks cornbread." Real cornbread has no flour and no sugar, and is ideally baked in a cast iron skillet, preferably the one used to melt the bacon grease that went into the batter.

[MiddleAgedKen]

I like my cornbread just a little sweet, but actually I'd as soon have fried cornmeal mush (leastaways at breakfast). Great with apple butter.

[skb12172]

The only place I've ever encountered cornbread was in the US., and the only place I've ever found PROPER cornbread is south of the Ohio River.

Th' Darlin' Daughter will tell you "As you start north on I-65, eventually you'll find a point where they've stopped putting sugar in their tea, and started putting it in their cornbread. At that point, you are officially out of the South."

My mom always said the same thing as Darlin' Daughter. That usually starts somewhere just north of the Ohio River.

[skb12172]

Personally, I think cornbread is disgusting.

Communist...

[skb12172]

That's what my mom refers to as "rich folks cornbread." Real cornbread has no flour and no sugar, and is ideally baked in a cast iron skillet, preferably the one used to melt the bacon grease that went into the batter.

This ^^^

[Netpackrat]

Personally, I think cornbread is disgusting.

Communist...

Hick.

[First Shirt]

Personally, I think cornbread is disgusting.

Communist...

Hick.

Yes. But a discriminating and well-fed hick!

[Weetabix]

Anybody want to share a recipe for authentic southern cornbread?

IIRC, my wife's grandmother's recipe was "a handful of corn meal, and handful of flour, and egg if you've got it." There must have been leavening. She was from Arkansas.

I grew up in Indiana, so we had some sugar in ours. I loves me some ham and beans and cornbread. The beans were Great Northerns.

[SoupOrMan]

Anybody want to share a recipe for authentic southern cornbread?

IIRC, my wife's grandmother's recipe was "a handful of corn meal, and handful of flour, and egg if you've got it." There must have been leavening. She was from Arkansas.

I grew up in Indiana, so we had some sugar in ours. I loves me some ham and beans and cornbread. The beans were Great Northerns.

I had a philosophical quandary with cornbread for a short time in college. It was corn, which is something you feed to cattle; so why were we making bread with cattle feed? The cows needed the grain more than me, and would help keep the cows delicious. Both sweet and regular versions of cornbread were available to me growing up. The sweet stuff was for holiday dinners, the regular stuff was for everyday meals.

We'd always use navy beans in our ham & beans, mostly because you could get more beans into the pot. I think they were also cheaper.