Comments on: Sweet Southern Cornbread

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 17:33:05 +0000

I love reading your stories! I was raised by grandparents and make her teacakes, cornbread, etc just like hers. We ate cornbread and milk all the time!

By: ELIZABETH

ELIZABETH — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 22:22:07 +0000

I wasn’t raised in the south, but come from southern stock (both sets of paternal great-grandparents were born and raised in Alabama before moving to Oklahoma where their children (my grandparents, who raised me) were born. My Grandmother made sweet cornbread, with white flour and white cornmeal, just like her mother before her did, and just like I do now. I agree that the best way to make cornbread is the way you like it, and I like it sweet (unless I’m making it for cornbread dressing, ’cause “sugar don’t belong in dressin”, I also switch to yellow cornmeal when making cornbread for dressing, just as Grandmother did.)
I do love cornbread with butter and maple syrup for breakfast, so I will be trying your recipe soon.

By: Cynthia Rusincovitch

Cynthia Rusincovitch — Fri, 04 Nov 2016 15:28:50 +0000

In reply to Patricia Rowell. Google says you can! LOL! But I have never tried it. Let me know if it works!

By: Patricia Rowell

Patricia Rowell — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 18:12:15 +0000

Can you use coconut milk or other non-dairy milks to make homemade buttermilk?

By: Thalia @ butter and brioche

Thalia @ butter and brioche — Thu, 03 Dec 2015 20:56:25 +0000

I love good, comforting and homely southern food! This cornbread looks so soft, moist and delicious. Definitely feeling like some now – with a lot of honey!

By: Jenni

Jenni — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 12:08:41 +0000

Wonderful! And I love that you say the right kind of cornbread is the one you grew up with. If everyone could just understand that food is a very personal issue and that there are very few absolutes, there wouldn’t be all those feuds about Texas chili versus Cincinnati chili or what’s the right kind of barbecue sauce.

An old boyfriend of mine learned to eat his Southern (non-sweet) cornbread broken up in a glass with buttermilk poured over. I grew up in the south but my parents were from the north and the only time I ever had cornbread was at the school cafeteria. I sorta feel like I missed out on a part of my Southern birthright!

Lovely story of baking with your kiddo, and next time I make cornbread, I’ll sweeten with either maple syrup or maybe with sorghum. Either way, yum!