Southern Food Quiz

[BBF]

OK, one more question from me.
I've tried cornbread and found it bitter. Is there more than one type of corn flour? I found it strange because corn isn't bitter when you get it fresh on the cob or even flash frozen.
What makes it bitter in the bread?
 
 
 
OMG I just realized how I spelled flour( flower)

[streak]

OK, one more question from me.
I've tried cornbread and found it bitter. Is there more than one type of corn flower? I found it strange because corn isn't bitter when you get it fresh on the cob or even flash frozen.
What makes it bitter in the bread?

Taste depends on type of ingredients used in the cornbread mix. Corn bread made from yellow cornmeal, flour, baking soda, eggs, salt, milk, can be a little " bitter" but most people either add sugar or honey to the mix! That is what I call making it from scratch. As far as cornmeal you can get white or yellow. The best cornmeal I ever experienced was when my grandpa took me to the grist mill at the mill pond and had some of his corn that he had dried and shucked and shelled grind up into cornmeal. That was quite an eye opening experience to see the water from the mill pond cascading down on big paddle wheels that turned the  big grinding stones! Made great cornbread!! And also was great to use for breading catfish, bream, crappie before they went into the frying pot!
It was also used for breading okra before frying it.

[Ranger99]

there is corn flour, that hispanic folks
use for making corn tortillias and tamales,
and is called masa. that is not used for
making cornbread. most masas have been
treated with lime during processing.
corn meal is simply untreated plain
coarsely ground dried corn. maybe if you
used masa the lime is the bitterness?
also, if you use buttermilk in your cornbread,
you're supposed to use baking soda. if
you use sweetmilk, you use baking powder.
the different leavenings react differently
with the different types of milk.
maybe that is the bitterness?


better luck next time, or just buy jiffy mix.

[BBF]

Thanks people. I have to see what is available around here.

[Ranger99]

if yall can find it, get some of that jiffy
brand mix in the little blue box. it's
purty close to the real deal. not bad
at all for store-bought- eh?