Taverner
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Wed Jul-12-06 12:17 PM
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Why is cornbread called bread when it's so clearly a cake? |
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Wed Jul-12-06 12:19 PM
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Wed Jul-12-06 12:23 PM
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2. it's only like a cake in certain situations |
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If you get it at a restaurant above the Mason Dixon line, it's likely to have a lot of sugar and oil in it. Then it's really cake-y. And Northern cooks generally add a quarter or half cup of sugar to a pan of it, too, which makes it a little sweet, but not cake. Southern cornbread has no sugar.
By your reasoning, banana bread should be called cake, and most muffins should, too.
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Wed Jul-12-06 12:29 PM
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3. People really put sugar in cornbread? Yyyyuck! |
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I don't think it's a northern thing. My grandma was born in Missouri, moved to Chicago, and then I knew her once she moved to Philadelphia where she was famous in her church and college community for here excellent cornbread. And she never put a grain of sugar in it.
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Wed Jul-12-06 12:53 PM
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10. She was born in Missouri. |
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That's why she didn't put sugar in cornbread. Missouri is generally considered to be part of the Southern U.S.
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Wed Jul-12-06 12:31 PM
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4. I like it with whole corn and jalapenos in it. |
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I don't think it qualifies as a cake.
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Wed Jul-12-06 12:36 PM
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5. It can be made in a bread-like fashion |
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What exactly defines bread and cake?
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Wed Jul-12-06 12:36 PM
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6. technically it's a bread |
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Wed Jul-12-06 12:37 PM
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7. My family refers to it as 'johnnycake'. |
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I'm not sure what Johnny has to do with it.
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Wed Jul-12-06 01:07 PM
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11. Sounds like you'd eat it sitting on the toilet |
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Got my johnnycake in one hand and my corncob in the other
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Wed Jul-12-06 12:41 PM
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8. around these parts we call it a "cake of cornbread".... |
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we are pretty country around here...
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Wed Jul-12-06 12:43 PM
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9. Around here it's a "pone" of cornbread |
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i.e., a "pan of cornbread. Hence the word "cornepone."
The way I make it is savory, with just cornmeal, no wheat flour. And most definitely no sugar! :P x( it rises a little just with baking soda and baking powder.
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