I'm of the NO sugar in cornbread camp. I do not eat it, if it has sugar - that's dessert for me. Your recipe is like mine, down to the iron skillet and jar of bacon grease. I love a good "wheel" of cornbread with summer vegetables! Plus, a leftover piece, heated just a bit with butter, for breakfast with a cup of strong coffee on the side (I got that from my Daddy).. Yum.
When I started watching this video, I thought to myself, please let that jar be bacon grease. So pleased. My mom's family was from Alabama, and so I was raised on southern food. I love cornbread and now I make it for my family. I live in Idaho now, and here they put sugar in it. It tastes like cake. I'm a purist when it comes to making cornbread, and so no sugar. I admit I looked at your recipe before you even started and was so happy not to see sugar in your recipe. My favorite part is the crust.
I’m a dyed-in-the-wool cornbread lover. However, I wasn’t raised with sugar in it, but I would never turn away a slice just because of the sugar!! I could eat cornbread every day. In fact, sometimes for supper I only have cornbread and milk. We had lots of that for supper as a child because that’s all we had. So, I love it to this day!! I use White Lily Buttermilk cornmeal mix. It’s my all time favorite!! 💔🙏🏼🐾🙏🏼💔
Tom, I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoy ALL your videos! I too scrape ALL my ingredients from measuring cups, etc. So I smile every time you scrape out ingredients 😊. Eating a lot of your recipes now too. Thank you and your lovely wife for your time & talents! I appreciate you both! Debra Nichols-Fry ❤
I’ve never seen southern referred to as sweet. My mother would put a tablespoon or less in the batter, sometimes She also used bacon grease rather than the butter. She would get the cast iron skillet smoking hot with the grease and pour the batter in. The sizzle was so good to hear and mom always had the best most crunchy crust I’ve ever had. You had to hear the sizzle! Haha!
I grew up eating cornbread, Pinto beans, and fried potatoes for dinner most nights. And I love it to this day and so do my grown children. But my husband grew up in the city and I still can't get him to eat cornbread or biscuits and gravy after 50 years of marriage.
True southern cornbread! That's how I make my cornbread except I haven't used bacon grease for a long time. But I set my oven at 425° it doesn't have to cook that long. I don't time it. I watch it and when it's a little brown on the edges and the top is cracked. Also I heat my iron skillet on the top of the stove. I pour little of the hot great into the mixture. I pour the mixture into the hot skillet on top of the stove. It sizzles and that's what I want..a nice crunchy crust. Then I bake it in the oven 425° and watch it until there's a nice browning on the outside of the cornbread and the top is cracked.
Y’all need to crumble up some of that cornbread, once it’s cool, into a cup or bowl, pour some milk over top, and eat it with a spoon! It’s delicious! I adore your channel. Thank you for the recipes.
Love regular cornbread! I was raised on it. Momma would make a cake of it in the iron skillet, set it on the table with sweet milk and that was supper! You just crumbled the cornbread in your bowl and pour the milk over it. Delicious! Still love to eat it that way! Thank you for your recipe. I’ll try it!
Me, too! We had cornbread a lot. Mama even liked it with eggs for breakfast. I do too! No sugar! I follow the recipe on the back of the White Lily Corn Meal mix. Wonderful!
I grew up like that, no sugar, I have a 10 inch iron skillet all I use it for cornbread, I use the Martha White like you but always taught to use SR flour, no eggs and no soda but I am going to try your recipe because the last few times it was crumbly.re is always buttermilk in my fridge. I cook and bake a lot. thanks for your videos, been cooking for 50+ years but I have learned some things, from you
I never heard of self rising cornmeal, and for the amount of times that I may make this I probably would not purchase it, but the recipe sounds very good
I love your videos. I was raised in Kentucky in the hills and hollers around London. You bring back so many memories. I cringe when someone says make dressing using Jiffy. No way! Thank you for making my life brighter.
I use baking powder. When I take my skillet out of the oven, I sprinkle yellow corn meal in the bottom first. When I pour in the mix, it crusts really well.i also let my mix sit to swell, then add a tough liquid to thin just a bit before pouring it in. Lastly, I have a square skillet just for cornbread. Nothing else.
You may already do this: spoon your flour into the measuring cup rather than using the measuring cup to scoop the flour out of the bag. Otherwise you may be getting too much flour. Hence the need for more buttermilk. ❤ your videos!
I grew up in SC with unsweetened cornbread and flat biscuits, the way Daddy wanted them. Once I discovered sweet caky cornbread and fluffy biscuits, I was hooked! I don't make them often. I also think it has to go with the meal (like chili). My husband (who's from WV like you) would like bread with every meal. Years ago, I think we had cornbread or biscuits every day to fill us up cheaply. Some nights, we only ate cornbread broken up in a glass of milk.
I love good cornbread, so long as it is not sweet. This is different from what I grew up with and am looking forward to making it. Thanks for sharing your recipe. PS: Love your channel!🙂
Thank you so much for your encouraging words. Like you, I grew up eating cornbread that wasn't sweet. But when I married into this family, they quickly started the conversion to sweet cornbread. I now can say that I like both.
I've always put bacon grease in my batter and used bacon grease in my cast iron skillet 🍳. I had to try butter since that's what you use. I'm sticking with the butter 🧈!! Still use bacon grease in my skillet but love love love the butter in the batter! No sugar, though 😅
I love Tom and Melissa you guys are such a blessing to share really good food recipes ❤️ 🌟 I wish I had enough sense to marry a guy that can cook like this. lol
Thankyou so much for your videos and wonderful recipes. You both are so refreshing because you add a real touch of hominess. Enjoy y'all so much. God bless you and your family.
I know Southerners use cornbread stuffing for Thanksgiving stuffing. However, I’ve never made it with cornbread. My family has always used (in my Mom’s case) stale bread. It’s not stale, but she’d put the ends of a loaf of bread in a paper bag, and they’d get dried out. Sounds gross, but it was delicious stuffing (or dressing if it didn’t get stuffed in the turkey). When I make it, I place white bread or leftover hot dog or hamburger buns in an oven at a low temperature and sort of toast them. I start out with that for dressing. I’ll try cornbread someday.
This is how my grandmother made her cornbread, except I think she used yellow cornmeal. She also added paper to it. She always made cornbread. She would mix cornbread in some butter milk, and eat it with a spoon
Hi Tom and Melissa, my mother never put sugar or an egg in her corn bread, I didn’t put any in my bread either, my husband thought I should put an egg in the bread he doesn’t like sweet cornbread and I don’t either, but now I put a teaspoon or so of sugar and I put 1 egg! God Bless you both! 🙏❤️🇺🇸
I love cornbread with beans, soups & stews. Your recipe is very similar to mine except for the baking soda. I'll try that next time.😊 I also make mine in a cast iron skillet with bacon grease except when I'm making it for dressing. Then I use a sprayed cake pan or 9 x 13 baking pan because I don't want it crusty for dressing. That's the only time I like my cornbread soft. Thank you for always putting the recipes in the description box.👍
👍 i didn't grow up with sweet corn bread. My father did not like sweet cornbread. His. Mother always added a onion to her corn bread. I do too sometimes, especially when i do cornbread for dressing, it adds flavor. Yes we save our bacon grease, i freeze it too. My Andrew makes the best cornbread, he always use a cast iron skillet. He only use that for cornbread. We was always told have one cast iron skillet for cornbread, never use that skillet for cooking anything else, well we have several castiron skillets for different sizes of corn bread. But we have added sugar to yellow cornmeal for certain dishes. No we don't eat cornbread everday, but we have some kind of breaf or rolls. We eat more cornbread with nrans,peas,greens.. God Bless. Love, Respect and Positivity Always. Vee,Andrew and Family.✌️💕🕯️✨🦋🌻🙏🤗🙂👋👣.
My mom had a recipe given to her from her grandmother for southern fried cornbread. I! guessing it goes back over 100 years. Paula Dean has a similar recipe I found years ago. My mom's recipe was: 2 cups of cornmeal (white) in a liquid measuring cup. Then she filled it to the top with flour. I think that ends up being about 1/4 of a cup of flour. 1 tsp of salt and a tbsp of baking powder. If she was making stuffing, she added an egg. Add water, a little bit at a time, until it ends up with the same consistency as cream of wheat. Fry in bacon grease in patties so that you can flip them half way through. Cook each side until golden brown. Super crunchy on the outside and moist inside. Very dense but amazing! Its great hot, sliced in half with butter and/or peanut butter. Without the egg it is thinner and harder to slice in half so I usually use the egg. It spoiled me when I tried everyone else's. I think of all others as corn cake. Lol.
I Love sweet corn bread but not too sweet i have to eat it with turnip greens and green beans and cabbage and for my dressing. Your looks delicious and fantastic thanks for sharing 👍🏼😊
Tom, I don’t remember which video I was watching and saw how you remove the shell from boiled eggs but I tried it today and was jumping for joy that it worked… I love your videos
This is what I needed to make the dressing.. I have my mom's recipe but you having you to follow helps a lot. I want to find your sweet cornbread recipe and use that to make jalapeno cornbread.
Tom suggests adding between 1/2 to 2/3 cups sugar (depending, of course, on how sweet you're wanting it) to the recipe if you want sweet cornbread. Good luck with the jalapeno cornbread! And thank you so much for watching! We appreciate it.
Growing up my Gram had several cornbread recipes , without sugar for stuffing; added jalapenos & shredded cheddar for serving with chile and Johnny Cake, cornbread with added maple syrup and either brown or white sugar which did taste like cake especially when served in muffin cups. Thanks for reminding me how much I enjoy corn meal for baking.
Your cornbread is almost like mine. I use self rising flour instead of all purpose, so I don't need the added dry ingredients. You are right, low fat buttermilk does not work for good cornbread. You need the full fat! One thing I never do is cut my cornbread in the skillet. I always turn mine over onto a plate. For my family, the bottom is the best part and they want it crunchy instead of the heat/steam making it soft. I live in Ohio now and most of my Buckeye friends use Jiffy Mix Cornbread Mix and RAVE over mine. I call theirs CAKE! LOL Blessings to you and Melissa!💝
I live in ohio too. Have lived here since I was 4yo 49yrs. Yes most people Ik here use jiffy. Tbh....I've NVR had any other cornbread by have always wanted to try homemade...guess ill be making toms cornbread asap. 😊
I love cornbread, and yours looks delicious. I'm going to have to try it. I've never thought about adding bacon grease, but i will from now on! Thanks for the recipe ❤❤
That is my mother's recipe right down to the baking powder and buttermilk, lol. I still cook it this way sometimes and sometimes I use the box mix. My wife does love my cornbread mixed in with sweet milk. So do I. I love buttermilk also. I buy a qurt just like that every time I go to Walmart. Needless to say, my family doesn't like buttermilk so I don't have to share it. Great video & recipe. Thumbs up. Stay well & safe. Btw, Have you ever heard of Stickey Bread? My sister use to make it. It looked like this except the bottom crust was thicker & the crumbs stuck together when you break it apart. Sadly she passed away before I could get the recipe also.
I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for, my Grandmother made her cornbread like this recipe but when she put the iron skillet into the oven to melt the grease she also lightly sprinkled cornmeal over the grease. This would just about start popping when she'd pull it out of the oven and immediately pour the batter in...it would sizzle and bubble around the edges. Bake as directed then when done, take it out and flip it onto a platter which will show that golden crunchy top that is just waiting for a good slathering of butter!
Suggestion: if keep an empty bowl at prep area, would save time if put all cups in it & utensils as you empty them, will not make several trips to sink with each empty cup as you use. Also I have seen many cooks immediately dump/flip baked cornbread out on a plate upside down. Starts it to cool for cutting to serve. Love crusty edges bacon grease makes.
South Mississippi here..Mom's receipe as well on the Cornbread. it looks Delicious.! Mom would cook Cornbread at our house at least once a week.very Delicious with Collard, and turnip greens.o'yeah
Hi Tom and Melissa! I love your channel. I just discovered it a few weeks ago. Today I made this recipe and it turned out great. I did add 1/2 cup of sugar, as I don't care for cornbread that isn't sweet. I used bacon grease that I had from Saturday's bacon. I hope you all are well! Thanks.
I worked on a mowing crew in high school in Nashville. Every day our noon meal was cornbread and beans. I loved it. I moved north at 33 and found that these Yankees put way to much sugar in their cornbread....lol.......Give me plan ol' unsweeted cornbread any day.....
I had never had any sweetened cornbread until I married into Tom's family. They did make sweetened cornbread, a lot, and it took some getting used to. But if you've grown up with it unsweetened, it takes some getting used to that's for sure. However, if we are making the cornbread for dressing, we NEVER sweeten it.
I like cornbread with butter & blackberry jam on it i got that from an older lady i worked wih when i seen her do it i wasnt to sure about it so i tried at home i loved it
I worked in a Nursing Home a few years ago, in the kitchen. One day someone made a mistake & served the lemon cake instead of cornbread, with the beans. All the residents were raving about how good the cornbread was lol😊
My husband's family comes from the Chattanooga area (TN, GA, AL) and that man HATES sweet corn bread. He says sweet bread is a dessert, not a bread. I grew up with only ever having sweet corn bread. So that's been a bone of contention for almost 51 years now.
If you accidentally get a piece of shell in your bowl, take half of the shell and scoop it out. Since the egg came out of the shell , it will be naturally drawn back into the eggshell! Really works! 😊
One of the yardsticks by which I judge a cooking channel is, “how do they crack an egg.” Tom, you pass with flying colors: one firm, confident, no-drama tap on the countertop results in a clean, fragment-free split which reduces the likelihood of errant bits of eggshell where they are not wanted!
The recipe for cornbread on the back of White Lily Cornmeal Mix is wonderful. I use that recipe. Don't put extra flour in it----the cornmeal "mix" has flour in it already. Follow the recipe exactly (I don't use sugar!), and use a couple tablespoons corn oil in my cast iron skilled to keep it from sticking. Yummy!!
My cornbread is made with Three Rivers mix without sugar, but bacon grease in skillet. Like you said, I only make it with pinto beans and in winter I like cornbread muffins with vegetable beef soup.
Tom, I made your cornbread today for your dressing I’ll be making. Of course I had to try a little bite to make sure it was good. It’s the best cornbread I’ve ever made or eaten. Your recipe is a definite keeper. Thank you! Cindy from Texas panhandle….. 🌼🌸🌻🌺
If you get your skillet hot enough, the grease will rise up the sides as you pour in the batter. No need to twirl a hot skillet. AND, the cornbread is crispy, not too much, around the edges. YUM
Yeah, I forgot ONCE to shake my buttermilk. Luckily, I was measuring into a separate bowl to show my mother how to make it. Usually I just just eyeball it 😂 right into my mixing bowl.. Disaster avoided !! That was 43 years ago and I never forgot to shake it since lol!
Sometimes he does make sweet cornbread but this time he was putting it in dressing for Thanksgiving and he never wants sweet cornbread for that. Thanks so much for watching our channel. We really appreciate it.
Enjoy all of your videos. Q. please, have you/anyone ever used Silk almond milk in any of your recipes? Or do you know if it can be altered (vinegar/ lemon juice) as buttermilk substitute? Thank you for your time and sharing.
I am making you dressing for Christmas this year so I just baked your cornbread! I always like to know brand of cornmeal and flour you use!! Thanks for sharing! I too scrap every drop out of the container!! I have made many of your recipies. Just made your chicken chili yesterday! Had it again tonight! Yummy! Had to order Randal beans as my stores do not carry them.
I leave the bacon grease in the oven till it starts to smoke just a bit, then pour a little of into my batter, quickly whisk, & the batter sizzles as it hits the cast iron pan. That's the best way to do cornbread in my humble onion lol. So so so good. I do add a little sugar even when I'm doing it for stuffing. But I don't make it real sweet. It works for me lol.
I’m a Southern Cook and I’m Originally from Tennessee [middle Tennessee] I’m always looking for different ways But I Would Love for Y’all to teach me and anyone else how to treat my new Cast Iron Skillet
How much sugar do you add for sweet cornbread? Thank you so much for putting the recipe in the description. It saves me so much time and mistakes, much appreciated. Love your videos!
I had to share my Grand daughter want respacys I make in my hand writing. So I turned to your channel. And started writing thanks . Keep up the good work
Love the channel - how would you recommend adding corn into this recipe for additional corn flavor and texture? Creamed corn, whole kernel corn? Thank you
That looks amazing , I’ve never seen cornbread made without sugar ,hence I don’t make it as it’s not diabetic friendly but I’ve visited the USA and eaten cornbread and loved it so thank you so much for showing this recipe I just subscribed .
Cornbread and Pinto beans. That type of food makes this country feller happy
One of my family's favorite meals!! No left overs!
And fried taters!
Fried taters and onions
I'm of the NO sugar in cornbread camp. I do not eat it, if it has sugar - that's dessert for me. Your recipe is like mine, down to the iron skillet and jar of bacon grease. I love a good "wheel" of cornbread with summer vegetables! Plus, a leftover piece, heated just a bit with butter, for breakfast with a cup of strong coffee on the side (I got that from my Daddy).. Yum.
When I started watching this video, I thought to myself, please let that jar be bacon grease. So pleased. My mom's family was from Alabama, and so I was raised on southern food. I love cornbread and now I make it for my family. I live in Idaho now, and here they put sugar in it. It tastes like cake. I'm a purist when it comes to making cornbread, and so no sugar. I admit I looked at your recipe before you even started and was so happy not to see sugar in your recipe. My favorite part is the crust.
I’m a dyed-in-the-wool cornbread lover. However, I wasn’t raised with sugar in it, but I would never turn away a slice just because of the sugar!! I could eat cornbread every day. In fact, sometimes for supper I only have cornbread and milk. We had lots of that for supper as a child because that’s all we had. So, I love it to this day!! I use White Lily Buttermilk cornmeal mix. It’s my all time favorite!! 💔🙏🏼🐾🙏🏼💔
LOVE my White Lily!!
I love White Lily ! Feels like silk. Tastes wonderful !
I love cornbread, but I won't have any cornbread with sugar in it.
I remember cornbread in milk when I was a kid 😂
I HATE sweet cornbread! And cornbread made with a cake mix--Gack!
Tom, I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoy ALL your videos! I too scrape ALL my ingredients from measuring cups, etc. So I smile every time you scrape out ingredients 😊. Eating a lot of your recipes now too. Thank you and your lovely wife for your time & talents! I appreciate you both!
Debra Nichols-Fry ❤
I’ve never seen southern referred to as sweet. My mother would put a tablespoon or less in the batter, sometimes She also used bacon grease rather than the butter. She would get the cast iron skillet smoking hot with the grease and pour the batter in. The sizzle was so good to hear and mom always had the best most crunchy crust I’ve ever had. You had to hear the sizzle! Haha!
That sizzle will equal delicious when it comes out of the oven! Thank you so much for watching our channel. Have a great day!
Cornbread was an everyday must have on table. Or much wanted!
Tom, you are great. Loving cornbread my whole life. With my electric cooktop😡, I can finally bake it, as per your instructions! Thank you!!!!
I grew up eating cornbread, Pinto beans, and fried potatoes for dinner most nights. And I love it to this day and so do my grown children. But my husband grew up in the city and I still can't get him to eat cornbread or biscuits and gravy after 50 years of marriage.
True southern cornbread! That's how I make my cornbread except I haven't used bacon grease for a long time. But I set my oven at 425° it doesn't have to cook that long. I don't time it. I watch it and when it's a little brown on the edges and the top is cracked. Also I heat my iron skillet on the top of the stove. I pour little of the hot great into the mixture. I pour the mixture into the hot skillet on top of the stove. It sizzles and that's what I want..a nice crunchy crust. Then I bake it in the oven 425° and watch it until there's a nice browning on the outside of the cornbread and the top is cracked.
I do it this way too!
Y’all need to crumble up some of that cornbread, once it’s cool, into a cup or bowl, pour some milk over top, and eat it with a spoon! It’s delicious! I adore your channel. Thank you for the recipes.
My mom used to do that.
@@WestTNPatriot I still do that!!
Cornbread, pinto beans' collards , and country fried potatoes and onions.
This cornbread looks so delicious. I could eat this every day. Thank you.
You are so welcome! We hope you enjoy it.
And yes if you are southern you use bacon grease😊
Tom has a collection of it in the refrigerator.
Love regular cornbread! I was raised on it. Momma would make a cake of it in the iron skillet, set it on the table with sweet milk and that was supper! You just crumbled the cornbread in your bowl and pour the milk over it. Delicious! Still love to eat it that way! Thank you for your recipe. I’ll try it!
That's how we ate it too, from MI. So yummy 😊
Me, too! We had cornbread a lot. Mama even liked it with eggs for breakfast. I do too! No sugar! I follow the recipe on the back of the White Lily Corn Meal mix. Wonderful!
That is perfect Southern cornbread. Northern cornbread has sugar in it and it tastes like corn cake.
I grew up like that, no sugar, I have a 10 inch iron skillet all I use it for cornbread, I use the Martha White like you but always taught to use SR flour, no eggs and no soda but I am going to try your recipe because the last few times it was crumbly.re is always buttermilk in my fridge. I cook and bake a lot. thanks for your videos, been cooking for 50+ years but I have learned some things, from you
I never heard of self rising cornmeal, and for the amount of times that I may make this I probably would not purchase it, but the recipe sounds very good
I love your video. Everything you make sounds great and I am going to enjoy every one of them over the next few weeks. Thank you for all you do.❤
This is the cornbread my grandma made! Thanks for the southern cooking.
You can never out cook a grandma! Thanks for watching !
Looks amazing. I didn't grow up eating sweet corn bread, but I too make both.🎉 Thank you for sharing.
I have enjoyed watching you make cornbread
Looks great
You should complete a cookbook...I'd buy it even if it a paperback lol..
I am from Wa state and keep a jar of bacon grease in my frig just as my mom did. Not just a southern thing ♥️♥️
I love your videos. I was raised in Kentucky in the hills and hollers around London. You bring back so many memories. I cringe when someone says make dressing using Jiffy. No way! Thank you for making my life brighter.
I use baking powder. When I take my skillet out of the oven, I sprinkle yellow corn meal in the bottom first. When I pour in the mix, it crusts really well.i also let my mix sit to swell, then add a tough liquid to thin just a bit before pouring it in. Lastly, I have a square skillet just for cornbread. Nothing else.
You may already do this: spoon your flour into the measuring cup rather than using the measuring cup to scoop the flour out of the bag. Otherwise you may be getting too much flour. Hence the need for more buttermilk. ❤ your videos!
I grew up in SC with unsweetened cornbread and flat biscuits, the way Daddy wanted them. Once I discovered sweet caky cornbread and fluffy biscuits, I was hooked! I don't make them often. I also think it has to go with the meal (like chili). My husband (who's from WV like you) would like bread with every meal. Years ago, I think we had cornbread or biscuits every day to fill us up cheaply. Some nights, we only ate cornbread broken up in a glass of milk.
Nice work, and excellent looking Cornbread. Thanks for posting.
Hello Tom and Melissa, I just made your Cornbread recipe; OMG sooooooo DELICIOUS 😋. Thanks for sharing 😊
If you're using self rising corn meal why don't you use self rising flour as well ? Is there a reason ? I love your channel. Thank you for sharing
Fixed this tonight and it was DELICIOUS. Will make it again. Thank you so much for this video.
I love good cornbread, so long as it is not sweet. This is different from what I grew up with and am looking forward to making it. Thanks for sharing your recipe. PS: Love your channel!🙂
Thank you so much for your encouraging words. Like you, I grew up eating cornbread that wasn't sweet. But when I married into this family, they quickly started the conversion to sweet cornbread. I now can say that I like both.
Will definitely try your recipe using the bacon grease. I bet it really has great flavor and really crispy 😋
I've always put bacon grease in my batter and used bacon grease in my cast iron skillet 🍳. I had to try butter since that's what you use. I'm sticking with the butter 🧈!! Still use bacon grease in my skillet but love love love the butter in the batter!
No sugar, though 😅
I love Tom and Melissa you guys are such a blessing to share really good food recipes ❤️ 🌟 I wish I had enough sense to marry a guy that can cook like this. lol
We always pour a bit of the bacon drippings back in to make perfect consistency, then pour in pan.
My mom does that, too!
Thanks so much for watching. We really do appreciate it.
Oh you need to try your country cornbread with a bowl of your chili..fanominal!
Had no idea about the sweetness thank you both…love your cooking shows!
This Country Cornbread recipe looks so delicious 😋 Mr. Tom.
Thankyou so much for your videos and wonderful recipes. You both are so refreshing because you add a real touch of hominess. Enjoy y'all so much. God bless you and your family.
Thank you! We really appreciate your kind comments.
I know Southerners use cornbread stuffing for Thanksgiving stuffing. However, I’ve never made it with cornbread. My family has always used (in my Mom’s case) stale bread. It’s not stale, but she’d put the ends of a loaf of bread in a paper bag, and they’d get dried out. Sounds gross, but it was delicious stuffing (or dressing if it didn’t get stuffed in the turkey). When I make it, I place white bread or leftover hot dog or hamburger buns in an oven at a low temperature and sort of toast them. I start out with that for dressing. I’ll try cornbread someday.
This is how my grandmother made her cornbread, except I think she used yellow cornmeal. She also added paper to it. She always made cornbread. She would mix cornbread in some butter milk, and eat it with a spoon
Oh my goodness..my dad cooked white gravy on the stove. Served over toast for a meal. Yummy. I still cannot make white gravy like he did.
Thank you for sharing
I love, love, love this corn bread. I also love your videos.😁
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Hi Tom and Melissa, my mother never put sugar or an egg in her corn bread, I didn’t put any in my bread either, my husband thought I should put an egg in the bread he doesn’t like sweet cornbread and I don’t either, but now I put a teaspoon or so of sugar and I put 1 egg! God Bless you both! 🙏❤️🇺🇸
I love cornbread with beans, soups & stews. Your recipe is very similar to mine except for the baking soda. I'll try that next time.😊
I also make mine in a cast iron skillet with bacon grease except when I'm making it for dressing. Then I use a sprayed cake pan or 9 x 13 baking pan because I don't want it crusty for dressing. That's the only time I like my cornbread soft.
Thank you for always putting the recipes in the description box.👍
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👍 i didn't grow up with sweet corn bread. My father did not like sweet cornbread. His. Mother always added a onion to her corn bread. I do too sometimes, especially when i do cornbread for dressing, it adds flavor. Yes we save our bacon grease, i freeze it too. My Andrew makes the best cornbread, he always use a cast iron skillet. He only use that for cornbread. We was always told have one cast iron skillet for cornbread, never use that skillet for cooking anything else, well we have several castiron skillets for different sizes of corn bread. But we have added sugar to yellow cornmeal for certain dishes. No we don't eat cornbread everday, but we have some kind of breaf or rolls. We eat more cornbread with nrans,peas,greens.. God Bless. Love, Respect and Positivity Always. Vee,Andrew and Family.✌️💕🕯️✨🦋🌻🙏🤗🙂👋👣.
Looks delicious. I like sweet too.
My mom had a recipe given to her from her grandmother for southern fried cornbread. I! guessing it goes back over 100 years. Paula Dean has a similar recipe I found years ago. My mom's recipe was: 2 cups of cornmeal (white) in a liquid measuring cup. Then she filled it to the top with flour. I think that ends up being about 1/4 of a cup of flour. 1 tsp of salt and a tbsp of baking powder. If she was making stuffing, she added an egg. Add water, a little bit at a time, until it ends up with the same consistency as cream of wheat. Fry in bacon grease in patties so that you can flip them half way through. Cook each side until golden brown. Super crunchy on the outside and moist inside. Very dense but amazing! Its great hot, sliced in half with butter and/or peanut butter. Without the egg it is thinner and harder to slice in half so I usually use the egg. It spoiled me when I tried everyone else's. I think of all others as corn cake. Lol.
Thank you for scraping bowls clean when mixing recipes..hate when cooks leave gobs of batter, etc. in bowl..waste not.. 🤗
You need to used a liquid measuring cup as a pose to dry ingredient measuring cup so you don't have to eyeball things.
I Love sweet corn bread but not too sweet i have to eat it with turnip greens and green beans and cabbage and for my dressing. Your looks delicious and fantastic thanks for sharing 👍🏼😊
Tom, I don’t remember which video I was watching and saw how you remove the shell from boiled eggs but I tried it today and was jumping for joy that it worked… I love your videos
Delicious, we love this cornbread.
Thank you so much for your cornbread recipe.
I would love to see a recipe for sweet, corn bread also.
Thank you
This is what I needed to make the dressing.. I have my mom's recipe but you having you to follow helps a lot. I want to find your sweet cornbread recipe and use that to make jalapeno cornbread.
Tom suggests adding between 1/2 to 2/3 cups sugar (depending, of course, on how sweet you're wanting it) to the recipe if you want sweet cornbread. Good luck with the jalapeno cornbread! And thank you so much for watching! We appreciate it.
Growing up my Gram had several cornbread recipes , without sugar for stuffing; added jalapenos & shredded cheddar for serving with chile and Johnny Cake, cornbread with added maple syrup and either brown or white sugar which did taste like cake especially when served in muffin cups. Thanks for reminding me how much I enjoy corn meal for baking.
Your cornbread is almost like mine. I use self rising flour instead of all purpose, so I don't need the added dry ingredients. You are right, low fat buttermilk does not work for good cornbread. You need the full fat! One thing I never do is cut my cornbread in the skillet. I always turn mine over onto a plate. For my family, the bottom is the best part and they want it crunchy instead of the heat/steam making it soft. I live in Ohio now and most of my Buckeye friends use Jiffy Mix Cornbread Mix and RAVE over mine. I call theirs CAKE! LOL Blessings to you and Melissa!💝
I live in ohio too.
Have lived here since I was 4yo 49yrs.
Yes most people Ik here use jiffy.
Tbh....I've NVR had any other cornbread by have always wanted to try homemade...guess ill be making toms cornbread asap. 😊
I myself have 4 jars (quart) of bacon grease. Can't seem to throw that stuff away! Thanks for the awesome recipes!!!
I love cornbread, and yours looks delicious. I'm going to have to try it. I've never thought about adding bacon grease, but i will from now on! Thanks for the recipe ❤❤
Give it a great flavor ! I sprinkle aTbsp or so of the cornbread mix on top of the hot grease makes a crunchy crust that way !
That is my mother's recipe right down to the baking powder and buttermilk, lol. I still cook it this way sometimes and sometimes I use the box mix. My wife does love my cornbread mixed in with sweet milk. So do I. I love buttermilk also. I buy a qurt just like that every time I go to Walmart. Needless to say, my family doesn't like buttermilk so I don't have to share it. Great video & recipe. Thumbs up. Stay well & safe. Btw, Have you ever heard of Stickey Bread? My sister use to make it. It looked like this except the bottom crust was thicker & the crumbs stuck together when you break it apart. Sadly she passed away before I could get the recipe also.
I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for, my Grandmother made her cornbread like this recipe but when she put the iron skillet into the oven to melt the grease she also lightly sprinkled cornmeal over the grease. This would just about start popping when she'd pull it out of the oven and immediately pour the batter in...it would sizzle and bubble around the edges. Bake as directed then when done, take it out and flip it onto a platter which will show that golden crunchy top that is just waiting for a good slathering of butter!
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Suggestion: if keep an empty bowl at prep area, would save time if put all cups in it & utensils as you empty them, will not make several trips to sink with each empty cup as you use. Also I have seen many cooks immediately dump/flip baked cornbread out on a plate upside down. Starts it to cool for cutting to serve. Love crusty edges bacon grease makes.
this looks so delicious! Finally I understand the difference between sweet corn bread and stuffing corn bread! Love it!
South Mississippi here..Mom's receipe as well on the Cornbread. it looks Delicious.! Mom would cook Cornbread at our house at least once a week.very Delicious with Collard, and turnip greens.o'yeah
Hi Tom and Melissa! I love your channel. I just discovered it a few weeks ago. Today I made this recipe and it turned out great. I did add 1/2 cup of sugar, as I don't care for cornbread that isn't sweet. I used bacon grease that I had from Saturday's bacon. I hope you all are well! Thanks.
I worked on a mowing crew in high school in Nashville. Every day our noon meal was cornbread and beans. I loved it. I moved north at 33 and found that these Yankees put way to much sugar in their cornbread....lol.......Give me plan ol' unsweeted cornbread any day.....
I had never had any sweetened cornbread until I married into Tom's family. They did make sweetened cornbread, a lot, and it took some getting used to. But if you've grown up with it unsweetened, it takes some getting used to that's for sure.
However, if we are making the cornbread for dressing, we NEVER sweeten it.
This is the way I was taught to make cornbread! Thank you!
We are so happy to have you watching. We love having you at the table with us.
I love cornbread and I prefer it without sugar. I really don't care for sweetened cornbread. Thanks for sharing your recipe. Y'all have a Blessed day.
😊Tom and melissa I love all your videos, ALL your recipe's are GREAT.
LOVE cornbread and make it about once a week! I also like savory cornbread. My son loves sweet!! Thanks for sharing! God bless! 💕🤗🙏🏻
Love cornbread! My mom always kept a jar of bacon grease in the fridge.
I like cornbread with butter & blackberry jam on it i got that from an older lady i worked wih when i seen her do it i wasnt to sure about it so i tried at home i loved it
I worked in a Nursing Home a few years ago, in the kitchen. One day someone made a mistake & served the lemon cake instead of cornbread, with the beans. All the residents were raving about how good the cornbread was lol😊
My husband's family comes from the Chattanooga area (TN, GA, AL) and that man HATES sweet corn bread. He says sweet bread is a dessert, not a bread. I grew up with only ever having sweet corn bread. So that's been a bone of contention for almost 51 years now.
If you accidentally get a piece of shell in your bowl, take half of the shell and scoop it out. Since the egg came out of the shell , it will be naturally drawn back into the eggshell! Really works! 😊
One of the yardsticks by which I judge a cooking channel is, “how do they crack an egg.” Tom, you pass with flying colors: one firm, confident, no-drama tap on the countertop results in a clean, fragment-free split which reduces the likelihood of errant bits of eggshell where they are not wanted!
I love watching your show. Great recipes
The recipe for cornbread on the back of White Lily Cornmeal Mix is wonderful. I use that recipe. Don't put extra flour in it----the cornmeal "mix" has flour in it already. Follow the recipe exactly (I don't use sugar!), and use a couple tablespoons corn oil in my cast iron skilled to keep it from sticking. Yummy!!
Sounds great!
My cornbread is made with Three Rivers mix without sugar, but bacon grease in skillet. Like you said, I only make it with pinto beans and in winter I like cornbread muffins with vegetable beef soup.
Your recipe sounds great, as well. Thank you so much for watching our video. We really do appreciate it.
Tom, I made your cornbread today for your dressing I’ll be making. Of course I had to try a little bite to make sure it was good. It’s the best cornbread I’ve ever made or eaten. Your recipe is a definite keeper. Thank you! Cindy from Texas panhandle….. 🌼🌸🌻🌺
We are so happy to read that you made the cornbread and enjoyed it! Have a happy Thanksgiving!
Ima little south of you- Abilene!
If you get your skillet hot enough, the grease will rise up the sides as you pour in the batter. No need to twirl a hot skillet. AND, the cornbread is crispy, not too much, around the edges. YUM
Yeah, I forgot ONCE to shake my buttermilk. Luckily, I was measuring into a separate bowl to show my mother how to make it. Usually I just just eyeball it 😂 right into my mixing bowl.. Disaster avoided !! That was 43 years ago and I never forgot to shake it since lol!
I never had sweet cornbread ! Til after I got married. I really love my southern country cornbread best.
NI SUGAR IN THE CORNBREAD!!! WE'RE KENTUCKY FOLKS!
Sometimes he does make sweet cornbread but this time he was putting it in dressing for Thanksgiving and he never wants sweet cornbread for that. Thanks so much for watching our channel. We really appreciate it.
Enjoy all of your videos. Q. please, have you/anyone ever used Silk almond milk in any of your recipes? Or do you know if it can be altered (vinegar/ lemon juice) as buttermilk substitute? Thank you for your time and sharing.
I am making you dressing for Christmas this year so I just baked your cornbread! I always like to know brand of cornmeal and flour you use!! Thanks for sharing! I too scrap every drop out of the container!! I have made many of your recipies. Just made your chicken chili yesterday! Had it again tonight! Yummy! Had to order Randal beans as my stores do not carry them.
I always add a little sugar to my cornbread. I like it sweet. My Grandfather called it Johnny cake. He made the BEST Johnny cake.
I leave the bacon grease in the oven till it starts to smoke just a bit, then pour a little of into my batter, quickly whisk, & the batter sizzles as it hits the cast iron pan. That's the best way to do cornbread in my humble onion lol. So so so good. I do add a little sugar even when I'm doing it for stuffing. But I don't make it real sweet. It works for me lol.
I’m a Southern Cook and I’m Originally from Tennessee [middle Tennessee] I’m always looking for different ways But I Would Love for Y’all to teach me and anyone else how to treat my new Cast Iron Skillet
If you go to the Lodge website it will walk you through the process. That's what I did til I learned it.
How much sugar do you add for sweet cornbread?
Thank you so much for putting the recipe in the description. It saves me so much time and mistakes, much appreciated. Love your videos!
I had to share my Grand daughter want respacys I make in my hand writing. So I turned to your channel. And started writing thanks . Keep up the good work
Love the channel - how would you recommend adding corn into this recipe for additional corn flavor and texture? Creamed corn, whole kernel corn? Thank you
Love you guys. Thanks
I love it with pot liquor! yum!
As a kid often we had cornbread with butter and syrup for dinner on Saturday night
I make dressing quite often all year long!!!
That looks amazing , I’ve never seen cornbread made without sugar ,hence I don’t make it as it’s not diabetic friendly but I’ve visited the USA and eaten cornbread and loved it so thank you so much for showing this recipe I just subscribed .
This year I will definitely use your recipe.