Cornbread

[Barriehie]

I use this too when I make cornbread. It's the bees knees!

 

[Morning Glory]

Here’s hands-down the best cornbread I’ve ever made:

Recipe - Lemon-Buttermilk Corn Muffins

I was telling my mom about them when I’d made them, and how I’d gotten the recipe from America’s Test Kitchen (she was familiar with the show), and her response was:

“Lemon, huh? In the cornbread?…Well, that fella is a Yankee, if I ‘member right.”

Not sure I get the jist of your Mum's response. Cultural ignorance on my part...

 

[Morning Glory]

Here is Felicity Cloake's analysis from a Brits perspective (from 10 years ago):

How to cook the perfect cornbread

 

[TastyReuben]

My Mom would eat those and we'd have to hide the buttermilk since Dad hated it.

What used to make me laugh growing up…it’d be mid-afternoon, Dad and I would come in from working this or that, we’d sit at the table, heavy with the dinner Mom was still busily trying to clear away, he’d sit down with the skillet of cornbread to his right, and the pitcher of buttermilk to his left, glasses right behind him on a little table, and he’d say:

“Jean! JEAN! Quit that foolin’ aroun’ an’ git over here an’ make me a glass o’ cornbread an’ buddahmilk…an’ don’ ferget tah pepper it real good!”

Then she’d stop, huffing and puffing, and come over and stand right next to my dad, get him a glass and a spoon, crumble his cornbread for him, pour in the buttermilk for him, shake the pepper for him, do the same for me, and then she’d go back to work.

 

[TastyReuben]

Not sure I get the jist of your Mum's response. Cultural ignorance on my part...

No self-respecting country gal with a mix of Mennonite and hillbilly heritage would ever put lemon in her cornbread.

 

[JAS_OH1]

My Mom would eat those and we'd have to hide the buttermilk since Dad hated it.

In my house (as a child and also an adult), it's food other people liked that you had to hide. I can't wrap my head around hiding food/drink that someone doesn't like.

 

[JAS_OH1]

No self-respecting country gal with a mix of Mennonite and hillbilly heritage would ever put lemon in her cornbread.

Well I got some of the hillbilly without the Mennonite, but my family always said I was a bit of a contrarian.

 

[Morning Glory]

No self-respecting country gal with a mix of Mennonite and hillbilly heritage would ever put lemon in her cornbread.

Yes, but I thought you were all yankees in the US? I'm obviously very lacking in my understanding US culture. So your family weren't Yankee?

 

[TastyReuben]

In my house (as a child and also an adult), it's food other people liked that you had to hide. I can't wrap my head around hiding food/drink that someone doesn't like.

Yeah, we’d have to hide stuff from my dad because he wouldn’t allow certain things in the house, and if he found them, then in the garbage with it, followed by a profound ass-kicking.

 

[JAS_OH1]

Yes, but I thought you were all yankees in the US? I'm obviously very lacking in my understanding US culture. So your family weren't Yankee?

Oh boy. TR's mom and my grandmom would have said something like, "Dem der's fightin' words!"

 

[TastyReuben]

Yes, but I thought you were all yankees in the US? I'm obviously very lacking in my understanding US culture. So your family weren't Yankee?

Oh my god, no. Pardon me, I’ve got to go sit down a minute and recover from that…

 

[JAS_OH1]

Yes, but I thought you were all yankees in the US? I'm obviously very lacking in my understanding US culture. So your family weren't Yankee?

Yankees are northerners. Some people never really got over the (un)Civil War.

 

[Barriehie]

In my house (as a child and also an adult), it's food other people liked that you had to hide. I can't wrap my head around hiding food/drink that someone doesn't like.

He didn't want to see it.

 

[Barriehie]

Yankees are northerners. Some people never really got over the (un)Civil War.

JAS_OH1 has a map:

 

[Barriehie]

K JAS_OH1 Cornbread