Cornbread is a staple in our house. We eat it with gumbo in the winter, we eat Fried Cornbread year round but mostly with Bar-B-Q. I usually use the recipe on the back of the Aunt Jemima Cornmeal bag and I usually make it SWEET. Now I live in the south – don’t make sweet in the Deep South. But I am 1/2 Hoosier and 1/2 Cajun and I like my cornbread sweet. Blame it on my Yankee Dad – Mom used to make cornbread with Ham Hocks and White Beans. I ate the ham and cornbread. They ate the beans. And it was not sweet cornbread. What can I say – I’m 1/2 Yankee and 1/2 Rebel
Where is that leading? It’s leading to the next bread on the Slow and Steady BBA baking list – Corn Bread!
What can I say about this cornbread except – It’s Good!! Real Good!!
And it is not like any cornbread I have ever made. Why??
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First step is to make a soaker. This was new to me.
Next step is mix the soaker with the rest of ingredients. Including crumbled bacon and corn kernels.
The bacon is crumbled on top, but spreads through the rest of the bread. The instructions called for an 8″ cake pan, but I always make our cornbread in a cast iron skillet with melted butter. So I did that here. Worked just fine.
This is definitely a keeper. Tasty! Moist! Easy!
Please visit the other members — Kayte, Nancy, Cathy, Audrey, Jessica, Melissa, Sarah, Di, Karen, Natalia, Tracey, and Leslie, of the Slow and Steady BBA and see their takes on the Corn Bread.
And if you want to see where the not so slow and steady BBA group are doing you can visit them.
September 21, 2009 at 2:35 PM
Love that inside photo of your cornbread…that looks so perfect. It all looks great, and happy you enjoyed it, b/c I could tell you enjoyed it…LOL!
September 21, 2009 at 3:32 PM
I am in Canada and I like it sweet too. We really liked this one. Looks great!
September 21, 2009 at 5:32 PM
Your cornbread looks great. Glad you liked it.
September 21, 2009 at 8:23 PM
Beautiful cornbread! I enjoyed doing a quick bread but found that I missed the yeast.
September 21, 2009 at 10:46 PM
Great looking corn bread!!
September 22, 2009 at 7:17 AM
Yummy ! I really can’t wait to bake it ! I forget about the soaker every day !
September 22, 2009 at 2:02 PM
looks yummy! i’ve only made cornbread from the box n they are bleh! too bad we can’t get the recipe…
September 22, 2009 at 2:06 PM
Glad to hear that you liked this one. I think most of my problems with it stemmed from not using the right pan. Oh, well, can’t win them all. =)
September 22, 2009 at 4:45 PM
I really really loved this corn bread, too! I also used a cast iron skillet, but I used bacon drippings instead of butter to grease it 🙂
September 23, 2009 at 2:43 AM
Your cornbread looks wonderful! I’m glad you liked it so much! I thought it was good, but not good enough to warrant all of the extra time and dishes…
September 23, 2009 at 8:55 PM
I think that your pufflets look lovely!
September 23, 2009 at 8:56 PM
Sorry, I forgot to mention your cornbread. It looks great!
November 2, 2009 at 1:16 AM
Mmm, I’ll take cornbread just about any way it’s baked! I made mine in a skillet too, and it turned out well. Glad you liked it and that you learned something in the process. That’s what it’s all about, right?
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