Has anyone got a good recipe for savoury cornbread? They used to serve it here in TGI Fridays and they stopped :bash: and I want some! Gimme gimme! :lol:

Can you buy cornmeal there? :huh:

cornmeal
egg
buttermilk
bacon grease

That's all I put in my cornbread. But I cook it in a cast iron skillet. I don't know measurements. I start with the cornmeal and put it in a bowl. Add the egg and some buttermilk a little bit at a time until it gets to the consistency that I want it. Thick, but not clumpy??? Add a little hot bacon grease (the bacon grease has been in the iron skillet in the oven getting hot. Pour it all in the skillet and bake it at 425 or 450 until it's golden brown. Eat it hot with butter. Yummy!!

I put in 2 cups of cornmeal and I use a cast iron skillet also. I use cooking oil instead of bacon grease. I buy the buttermilk cornmeal mix though. :P

Oooooh thank you :kiss: we can get cornmeal yes ;)

I feel somewhat asshamed... I'm from Texas, and don't like cornbread... UNTIL that is my cousin made it, and loved it! (I have found I only like hers tho.)

Here's how she did it... she got a bag of corn bread mix (ok, so living in the south you can pretty much get this stuff anywhere including gas stations :rolleyes: ) You make it like the directions say, BUT add a cup of sugar and cook it in a cast iron skillet thats been used for a 100 years or more and has been pasted down for years that when your grandparents died.. the family fought over that skillet (I so wish I made that last part up)

Now I'm not sure if you are talking about a certin style or kind of cornbread, as I've seen it made a million ways with a million different things in it. But if you would like I would be happy to send you a package of down home southern style cornbread mix. :D

Southerners don't put sugar in their cornbread Lei! :whip: :P

maybe its just because my family has always kinda had a sweet tooth.... (seriously the only "skinny" person in my family is the well, this isn't nice but the crack ... ok, I can't say that.. the person with the drug problem whose momma used to be skinny like that but is now in prison and has finally started gaining the family pounds)

OH.. and I make a killer corn casserole (which is like corn and cornbread) I love it.. my family kinda likes it, but asked me to PLEASE stop making it.

Ready for a laugh? Okay... this is my favorite cornbread. Ready?

Buy one Jiffy brand cornbread mix
Buy one Jiffy brand yellow cake mix

Mix 'em together and bake.

I know, I know.... it's SO freaking good though.

We just inherited DH's grandmother's cast iron skillet. It is heavenly! I hated cast iron skillets up to now because I had only used one that someone gave me that I had to season myself and lets just say that it sucked so bad and needed a good 50 years of bacon grease in it to make it just right. So now I happily use my ancient skillet! Oh, and luckily there wasn't any fighting over it. My MIL snuck it out of her mom's apartment when they were cleaning out her apartment and moving her into an Alzheimer's unit a couple of months ago. She didn't tell her brother's wife or her nieces either! :whistle: She gave it to us as a house warming gift! :bananadance:

I have a couple of my grandmother's cast iron skillets that are well seasoned. Probably close to 75 years old and also a couple of my moms. I've also bought used ones. The one I use for cornbread is never washed. Just wipe it out with a paper towel and it's good to go.

:rofl: Oh so true!

Yep...got have a well seasoned cast iron skillet. Mine too was handed down in the family.
I'd be happy to share my recipe for cornbread if I could give you the measurements. I just dump the stuff in too cause I've been making it so long. I do add a few shakes of onion powder to mine. If Brian's not home to eat it, I'll throw in a handful of chopped onions too. Like Cheesy, I just use oil now instead of bacon grease. Though bacon grease tastes better, it goes rancid before I use it all.

I freeze my bacon grease! Gotta have it for my cornbread :D

I think the problem will be a lack of a skillet (what is a skillet??? :lol:) rather than ingredients..... and can I use something other than bacon fat please? Cos I don't do meat :blush:

:lol: This is a cast iron skillet



I use plain old vegetable oil. About a tablespoon maybe a smidge more. You heat it up in the skillet until it's good and hot then pour the cornbread batter into it, then pop that in the oven. That's how you get the outside of the cornbread nice and crispy.

that's a FRYING pan :lol: I thought that was it but I thought I'd better check....thanks

ok veggie oil it is. I will make some next week and let you all know what happens.......

A skillet is a cast-iron frying pan, preferably your grandmother's or mother's :lol:
with 50-100 years of grease coating it's pores so that whatever is cooked in it slides out better than a non-stick pan. You just wipe it out after each use, or at the most, run a quick stream of hot water in and immediately wipe it out.

I use corn oil. Preheat the skillet in the oven before pouring in the batter and your cornbread comes out with a nice crust.

Checking what you mean by savory - A dish of pungent taste, such as anchovies
on toast or pickled fruit, sometimes served in Great Britain as an hors d'oeuvre or
instead of a sweet dessert...

Sounds more like southwestern cornbread which has jalapeno peppers in it.
Joy of Cooking says make southern cornbread , adding a tablespoon of sugar
(I'd use brown sugar) then add to the wet ingredients 1-2 fresh minced
peppers (you choose how hot you want to go). You can fold in 1 cup sharp cheddar as well.

Seems like cheese and cayenne pepper would be good too - kind of like cheese straws but with cornmeal instead of flour.

Another variant from JOC: add two tablespoons sugar, 3/4 teaspoon salt, 3/4
tsp cinnamon, 1/4 nutmeg, 1/4 ginger, 1/4 cardamon to dry ingredients.
Then into batter 2/3 cup raisins and 1/2 cup chopped nuts.

There's another one with rosemary and pinenuts.

All of these sound delicious, but they're pretty much off my list so I can't try them
out for you. Let us know what you decide on and how it turns out.

Mmmmmm now I am REALLY hungry - but tonight I am making a yum chick pea curry (which you can eat I think Rannie) with rice. So I suppose I better go chop onions..... Or shall I do roasted vegetables instead..... decisions decisions.... :lol: