Comments on: A Family Recipe: Yankee Cornbread

By: Judy

Judy — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:05:14 +0000

I am southern also and although we never put sweet in the cornbread, with Karo Syprup was a dessert or often for breakfast the next morning. Yes we were poor not white trash we never went hungry. We always had cornbread or biscuits to eat. Add what ever is available.

By: Natalie

Natalie — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 01:15:22 +0000

When we lived in Atlanta, Houston’s would serve their salad with cornbread croutons. It was amazing. Now that I’m back in Canada, I make cornbread, then cut into squares and toast to make my own croutons.

By: Lisa in Seattle

Lisa in Seattle — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 03:03:23 +0000

I come from southern roots and we’ve grown up eating our cornbread with chili or beans but for dessert we ALWAYS had it split open with lots of butter and KARO SYRUP! After reading all these posts, I’m horrified! This must make me a REDNECK, or worse yet, “poor white trash”! Oh, dear!

By: Sharrieboberry

Sharrieboberry — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:26:38 +0000

I’m a southern girl and I like my cornbread SWEET! But I like my iced tea unsweet. Go figure!

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 22:03:08 +0000

I always eat cornbread with real butter and honey! YUM

By: Kerry

Kerry — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 19:54:57 +0000

oops, wrong comment section, sorry!!

By: Kerry

Kerry — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 19:52:02 +0000

Typically I do not have very many cooking responsibilites on this holiday as my mother and aunts and grandmother do all the cooking but I would like to help out a bit more this year and learn how to prepare more than just a side – so we’ll see who has the patience to teach me this year…

By: Lisa Lettenmaier

Lisa Lettenmaier — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 15:51:09 +0000

My momma always makes extra cornbread with her brown beans and fried potatoes!! Then later that night she crumbles up the cornbread into fresh buttermilk!! I like it with butter and honey myself and my Hubby thinks we are both crazy !!! hahahah

By: Margaret Robeson

Margaret Robeson — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 01:51:36 +0000

My late neighbor always said that cornbread without sugar (or other sweetener) was “dog food” because that was what they made for the dogs when she was growing up. In the days before commercial dog food was available, corn bread and milk or sour milk was fed to the farm dogs and cats when there were no table scraps for them.

By: Kathi

Kathi — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 19:04:00 +0000

“Larrupin”…that’s a term my grandpa used to say all the time. Although he enjoyed his cornbread crumbled in a glass with milk poured over it. This brings back wonderful memories.