Cornbread Quiz

[nw_hunter]

How any of you yankee folk on here like Cornbread? And do you ruin it by adding sugar to the mix? We call that cake down south!

[Bob Riebe]

Sweet exists but usually not but then I eat it warm with honey and butter.

[JeffG]

I make mine in a cast iron skillet, and add sweets after it's made. Butter is usually plenty for topping if it's still warm. 

[TrumpWon]

No sugar. Our hillbilly tradition is to jam a couple slices in a tall glass then fill with milk- soakies!!!!

[oldandslow2]

My wife found that Corn Kits is just as good as homemade. I was quite surprised when she told me she had  been using it for years when I asked her what her recipe was as it tasted just like my mother taught her to make. I love cornbread, plain ol' Texas style corn bread which has no sugar. Sometimes I will have an addition piece with butter on it, melted or cold is fine, for desert. If I desire it sweet I'll add honey. Give me a bowl of red beans (that translates to pinto beans around here) with cornbread and I'm a happy eater. Like TrumpWon said, cornbread and sweet milk goes down nicely. I also agree with JeeffG. Cast iron is the utensil to cook cornbread in.

I see the sweet cornbread kits but they sell slowly. Not many yankees here I suppose.

[mcbammer]

  If my memory serves me right , I believe the school lunchrooms here in Alabama used that sweet cornbread back  in the 60's & 70s . It certainly  didnt  taste like the
   
corn bread I was eating at home .

[Casull]

I just like cornbread . . . period.  I like it with sugar, without sugar, either way.  I always get a kick out of my uncle with that lame remark "if you put sugar in it that's cake", and then he'll pour honey over it, making it sweeter than a couple of tablespoons full of sugar would make it.

[Mule 11]

I love cornbread with or without sugar. I like it more without and like corn in it sometimes...

[Casull]

I love cornbread with or without sugar. I like it more without and like corn in it sometimes...

That's good too.

[Dee]

We don't use mix. Home made cornbread crumbled into a big tea glass, ice cold milk poured in, and a raw sweet onion on the side.

[mcbammer]

  My Grand parents  along with my parents loved to crumble cornbread in their buttermilk , I cant stand buttermilk never drank a glass of it in my entire 65 years .

[phalanx]

Cornbread, great with pinto beans.

[Ranger99]

Learned to make cornbread and biscuits
and skillet bread a long time ago.
Lotta mandatory culinary skills used to
be taught to all kids my age in this region.
It got lost or deleted somewhere along
the way.  I've had to teach more than a
few things I've taken for granted, like
picking and sorting dry beans first off
before washing and soaking

[oldandslow2]

We don't use mix. Home made cornbread crumbled into a big tea glass, ice cold milk poured in, and a raw sweet onion on the side.

"WE" doesn't count in my wife's kitchen. She is quick to tell someone that questions her that it's "My kitchen, my rules". Me? I can't cook for sour apples and content to let her do it her way. I will hand her stuff and get it down from the cabinet but that is just about the limit of my abilities. When it comes to cooking I can open a can and turn on the stove. Since she likes to cook and is excellent at it I'm keeping my mouth shut.

When we have a get together at our place our daughter and grand daughter have been doing the cooking chores since she has been seriously stove up for most of this year. Neither can equal her. They do pretty good but not as good as Grandma.

[Ranger99]

. . Since she likes to cook and is excellent at it I'm keeping my mouth shut.

Very wise decision  ^ ^ right there

[nw_hunter]

Not many southern cornbread eaters on here. That texas style ain't southern, and those red beans ain't pinto. Pinto's are brown. Now, if you want some lip smakin great cornbread, add cracklins to the mix. If you don't know what cracklins are, you have never butchered a hog. And sweet milk and cornbread is considered Yankee food in most southern homes. Buttermilk or none. Any sugar added to cornbread is a misdemeanor, and punishable by going to bed hongery. Thoes lil boxes of corn meal stuff in the stores sure ain't cornbread mix. Living away from my southern upbringing (West Coast) I have my cornbread fixins mailed to me. Martha White, or Aunt (Not Auntie) Jemima corn meal. White or yellow. "Yellow looks better, but tastes about the same.

[Drilling Man]

How any of you yankee folk on here like Cornbread? And do you ruin it by adding sugar to the mix? We call that cake down south!

  Don't add sugar but do add whole kernel sweetcorn.

  DM

[nw_hunter]

Bobby Bear loves him some side meat, Blackeyed Peas and cornbread. Some folks call side meat pork belly.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsApHwVRtMQ

[Ranger99]

Just me-  I've never been a fan of
crumbled up cornbread with milk.
The only way I use cornbread other
than the obligatory side for a meal
or with greens or like my grandpa
used to do, and put a couple of big
spoons of ribbon cane syrup over the
top as a "cake " with coffee in the
late evening.  They seldom left cornbread
overnight in his day since it dries out
and gets stale pretty quickly.
My aunt on my mother's side always
crumbled up old cornbread in a big
glass and put "blinkey" milk in with it
and ate that like a bowl of ice cream.
That's milk that's curdled and on it's
way to spoiling for the uninitiated.
Also,  I see on a couple of sites where
people think they're making "buttermilk "
by adding vinegar to sweet milk.
Wrong
Once whole milk has been separated
from the cream ( with the butter in it)
you can't make buttermilk from sweet milk
again.  You can make curdled milk
from sweet milk by adding vinegar, but
you can only get buttermilk from whole
milk from the teat

[oldandslow2]

(Pinto's are brown)

 Agreed but they are still called red beans here for some reason Been that way my entire life. Texas style cornbread isn't southern but it is still the best. As to the blinky milk someone mentioned, that's hog feed. Zip lock baggies take care of the drying out problem.

[phalanx]

My wife makes pinto beans and cornbread. Just like my mom made when i was a kid. Taste the same.  She’s from TEXAS. So was my mom.

[mcbammer]

My wife makes pinto beans and cornbread. Just like my mom made when i was a kid. Taste the same.  She’s from TEXAS. So was my mom.

   Around here its dry butterbeans & cornbread .

[phalanx]

How do you guys make your grits. But that is defiantly Southern. You guys are making me hungry. Open a can of ranch style beans, use the cornbread to soak up the juice.

[Ranger99]

. .  Zip lock baggies take care of the drying out problem.

Weren't invented or available in my grandfather's
time. They covered things with a cloth or an
inverted bowl if they had one

[Bob Riebe]

  My Grand parents  along with my parents loved to crumble cornbread in their buttermilk , I cant stand buttermilk never drank a glass of it in my entire 65 years .

One of the oddities of youth, I did not like butter milk when I was young all the way into the forties, yet it taste similar to sour cream and I have alwyas loved sour cream.
Now I can drink a quart of butter milk in two sittings, rarely use a glass..

[mcbammer]

How do you guys make your grits. But that is defiantly Southern.

Myself ,I use stone ground grits made locally , I simply put  about a 1/4 cup of water  in a small corning ware bowl & microwave to a boil ( 90 seconds) then open door and stir in enough grits for a single serving , If theyre   too soupy I zap them a few seconds more to get the texture I like .

[Casull]

Not many southern cornbread eaters on here. That texas style ain't southern, and those red beans ain't pinto. Pinto's are brown. Now, if you want some lip smakin great cornbread, add cracklins to the mix. If you don't know what cracklins are, you have never butchered a hog. And sweet milk and cornbread is considered Yankee food in most southern homes. Buttermilk or none. Any sugar added to cornbread is a misdemeanor, and punishable by going to bed hongery. Thoes lil boxes of corn meal stuff in the stores sure ain't cornbread mix. Living away from my southern upbringing (West Coast) I have my cornbread fixins mailed to me. Martha White, or Aunt (Not Auntie) Jemima corn meal. White or yellow. "Yellow looks better, but tastes about the same.

You sound like my uncle.  He won't admit when he's wrong either.   

[nw_hunter]

Not many southern cornbread eaters on here. That texas style ain't southern, and those red beans ain't pinto. Pinto's are brown. Now, if you want some lip smakin great cornbread, add cracklins to the mix. If you don't know what cracklins are, you have never butchered a hog. And sweet milk and cornbread is considered Yankee food in most southern homes. Buttermilk or none. Any sugar added to cornbread is a misdemeanor, and punishable by going to bed hongery. Thoes lil boxes of corn meal stuff in the stores sure ain't cornbread mix. Living away from my southern upbringing (West Coast) I have my cornbread fixins mailed to me. Martha White, or Aunt (Not Auntie) Jemima corn meal. White or yellow. "Yellow looks better, but tastes about the same.

You sound like my uncle.  He won't admit when he's wrong either.   

Well, I do admit when I'm wrong. (Sometimes) That said I'm some whut of a xpert on Conebread, and beans. I fart ya new!

[nw_hunter]

I bet GB knows i'm joshing. Us southern boys have a different sense of humor. Good cornbread is in the taste buds of the eater. Sweet, plain, with sweet milk (Pasteurized and homogenized to you yanks or butter milk. What ever makes you smack your lips, is the way corn bread should be. It is cake though, when you make it sweet. . I've made myself hungry, and I'm going to talk sweet to this beautiful thing I've been hooked to for over 50 yrs, and see if she will make me some cornbread and pinto beans for tomorrow nights supper. She does have a way with farm food.

[nw_hunter]

In New England cornbread is often the basis for strawberry shortcake, which is all the better with stewed chilled rhubarb added to the berries.
.

  RHUBARB in strawberries?  That stuff will pucker your lips tighter than sucking on a persimmon. 100% Yank food right there.