Cornbread! What do you know about cornbread? Probably that it comes from corn, and folks often have it with gumbo, or maybe collard greens, or fried catfish. All I knew about cornbread...

Robert J Samples Loc: Round Rock, Texas

What do you know about cornbread? Probably that it comes from corn, and folks often have it with gumbo, or maybe collard greens, or fried catfish.

All I knew about cornbread was almost every Saturday, I was detailed to go and shuck, then shell a burlap bag of ears of corn. We would be going into town on Saturday and that would require about 10 to 15 pounds of shelled corn. This was our standard practice for a long time.

Upon getting into town, our first stop was the grist mill and dropping off the burlap bag of shelled corn. We would leave it there and upon leaving town to go home, we went by the grist mill again to pick up our share of the corn meal. Which had been ground into meal. This was only half of the shelled corn we had brought to the mill. The other half was payment for the chore of grinding the shelled corn we had delivered earlier.

I never thought about it, or ever asked about this process. I didn’t even know that you could buy ground corn meal at any grocery store in town!

Our corn provided as good corn meal as any that could be purchased. It was simply one of the chores I was asked to perform.
I have a short memory, but believe I was to load up a burlap bag of corn still on the cob, run these cobs through a mechanical device that separated the corn from the corn cob.
When ground, provided half for us and half to the grist mill to pay for their work. I never considered that we were paying too much, but only it was a fair trade.

As far as taste, I suppose it is acquired taste, before one begins to like cornbread. If you grew up as I had, cornbread at lunch and supper, you never gave it a second thought.

This reminded me of an old joke. A young man goes off to college and after a number of years came home with a new PhD. One of his countryfied uncles said, Jimmy, speak to me some of your new PhD. Now, Jimmy aware of the uncle’s ability to hand out sarcastic comments and was probably anxious to do so after Jimmy made some statement about his education, said “Pie R Square!” To which the Uncle guff hawed and slapped his knee and was almost rolling on the ground with mirth. He then said, "Jimmy, you aint learned nothing. Pie are round, Cornbread are square!” Just Sayin...RJS

Chuckay Loc: Central Florida

Robert J Samples wrote:

What do you know about cornbread? Probably that it comes from corn, and folks often have it with gumbo, or maybe collard greens, or fried catfish.

All I knew about cornbread was almost every Saturday, I was detailed to go and shuck, then shell a burlap bag of ears of corn. We would be going into town on Saturday and that would require about 10 to 15 pounds of shelled corn. This was our standard practice for a long time.

Upon getting into town, our first stop was the grist mill and dropping off the burlap bag of shelled corn. We would leave it there and upon leaving town to go home, we went by the grist mill again to pick up our share of the corn meal. Which had been ground into meal. This was only half of the shelled corn we had brought to the mill. The other half was payment for the chore of grinding the shelled corn we had delivered earlier.

I never thought about it, or ever asked about this process. I didn’t even know that you could buy ground corn meal at any grocery store in town!

Our corn provided as good corn meal as any that could be purchased. It was simply one of the chores I was asked to perform.
I have a short memory, but believe I was to load up a burlap bag of corn still on the cob, run these cobs through a mechanical device that separated the corn from the corn cob.
When ground, provided half for us and half to the grist mill to pay for their work. I never considered that we were paying too much, but only it was a fair trade.

As far as taste, I suppose it is acquired taste, before one begins to like cornbread. If you grew up as I had, cornbread at lunch and supper, you never gave it a second thought.

This reminded me of an old joke. A young man goes off to college and after a number of years came home with a new PhD. One of his countryfied uncles said, Jimmy, speak to me some of your new PhD. Now, Jimmy aware of the uncle’s ability to hand out sarcastic comments and was probably anxious to do so after Jimmy made some statement about his education, said “Pie R Square!” To which the Uncle guff hawed and slapped his knee and was almost rolling on the ground with mirth. He then said, "Jimmy, you aint learned nothing. Pie are round, Cornbread are square!” Just Sayin...RJS

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Good story Mr. Robert, I grew up in Florida but my father was from Kentucky and mom from Tennessee and they moved to Florida about 5 months before I was born and they cooked very southern so I know all about cornbread, corn fritter, fried corn nuggets, and crackling corn bread all are good and we also raised most of our food we had a corn crib that we stored corn on the cob for the hogs and dad had a hand grinder to make our cornmeal, we went to town every other week and that was a treat for me and my brother maybe we would get a ice cream at the drugstore I remembered sitting on the barstools that would spend around just a few of the best memories of my childhood...🙏🙏 Chuck

dbed Loc: POMME DE TERRE LAKE MISSOURI

I grew up on a farm in northern Nebraska We ate a lot of corn bread corn meal mush and fried corn meal mush. Although we raised thousands of bushels of corn mom bought corn meal in town. Dad bought wheat and we ground it to make whole wheat cereal. Dad my brother and I always had it for breakfast after eggs or pancakes.

Bcmech1 Loc: Clinton Wisconsin

Robert J Samples wrote:

What do you know about cornbread? Probably that it comes from corn, and folks often have it with gumbo, or maybe collard greens, or fried catfish.

All I knew about cornbread was almost every Saturday, I was detailed to go and shuck, then shell a burlap bag of ears of corn. We would be going into town on Saturday and that would require about 10 to 15 pounds of shelled corn. This was our standard practice for a long time.

Upon getting into town, our first stop was the grist mill and dropping off the burlap bag of shelled corn. We would leave it there and upon leaving town to go home, we went by the grist mill again to pick up our share of the corn meal. Which had been ground into meal. This was only half of the shelled corn we had brought to the mill. The other half was payment for the chore of grinding the shelled corn we had delivered earlier.

I never thought about it, or ever asked about this process. I didn’t even know that you could buy ground corn meal at any grocery store in town!

Our corn provided as good corn meal as any that could be purchased. It was simply one of the chores I was asked to perform.
I have a short memory, but believe I was to load up a burlap bag of corn still on the cob, run these cobs through a mechanical device that separated the corn from the corn cob.
When ground, provided half for us and half to the grist mill to pay for their work. I never considered that we were paying too much, but only it was a fair trade.

As far as taste, I suppose it is acquired taste, before one begins to like cornbread. If you grew up as I had, cornbread at lunch and supper, you never gave it a second thought.

This reminded me of an old joke. A young man goes off to college and after a number of years came home with a new PhD. One of his countryfied uncles said, Jimmy, speak to me some of your new PhD. Now, Jimmy aware of the uncle’s ability to hand out sarcastic comments and was probably anxious to do so after Jimmy made some statement about his education, said “Pie R Square!” To which the Uncle guff hawed and slapped his knee and was almost rolling on the ground with mirth. He then said, "Jimmy, you aint learned nothing. Pie are round, Cornbread are square!” Just Sayin...RJS

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Robert, I hope you find this as funny as I did. I almost rolled off the couch, I was laughing so hard.
I grew up poor as a church mouse so we had beans and cornbread as a regular meal often.

1Oldboat42 Loc: Kearney, Nebraska

People like my cornbread, and I mean My cornbread. It took me a few years to "perfect" it to my liking but I will pat myself on the back for the number of people who say it's the best they have had. Add a bowl of hot chili or fried crappie and that's a meal.
I was raised a city boy so I missed out on the farm chores and everything came from the local A&P grocery store.

GlsJr40 Loc: Dallas, Tx.

Robert J Samples wrote:

What do you know about cornbread? Probably that it comes from corn, and folks often have it with gumbo, or maybe collard greens, or fried catfish.

All I knew about cornbread was almost every Saturday, I was detailed to go and shuck, then shell a burlap bag of ears of corn. We would be going into town on Saturday and that would require about 10 to 15 pounds of shelled corn. This was our standard practice for a long time.

Upon getting into town, our first stop was the grist mill and dropping off the burlap bag of shelled corn. We would leave it there and upon leaving town to go home, we went by the grist mill again to pick up our share of the corn meal. Which had been ground into meal. This was only half of the shelled corn we had brought to the mill. The other half was payment for the chore of grinding the shelled corn we had delivered earlier.

I never thought about it, or ever asked about this process. I didn’t even know that you could buy ground corn meal at any grocery store in town!

Our corn provided as good corn meal as any that could be purchased. It was simply one of the chores I was asked to perform.
I have a short memory, but believe I was to load up a burlap bag of corn still on the cob, run these cobs through a mechanical device that separated the corn from the corn cob.
When ground, provided half for us and half to the grist mill to pay for their work. I never considered that we were paying too much, but only it was a fair trade.

As far as taste, I suppose it is acquired taste, before one begins to like cornbread. If you grew up as I had, cornbread at lunch and supper, you never gave it a second thought.

This reminded me of an old joke. A young man goes off to college and after a number of years came home with a new PhD. One of his countryfied uncles said, Jimmy, speak to me some of your new PhD. Now, Jimmy aware of the uncle’s ability to hand out sarcastic comments and was probably anxious to do so after Jimmy made some statement about his education, said “Pie R Square!” To which the Uncle guff hawed and slapped his knee and was almost rolling on the ground with mirth. He then said, "Jimmy, you aint learned nothing. Pie are round, Cornbread are square!” Just Sayin...RJS

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Well, I know how to eat cornbread and I love it. I grew up in a farm community/town area and we ate lots of vegetables, home-made bread, etc. My mother every day of the year made a pan of scratch biscuits for breakfast and a skillet of fresh corn-bread for supper. Cornbread was always the basic version, but on rare occasions maybe with some cracklins in it. (I wish we had learned to put in some jalapenos.) Sometimes now I make some cornbread, crumble in a bowl, pour milk over it and eat it as if it were dessert.

Robert J Samples Loc: Round Rock, Texas

Wow! All those versions or addons sound terrific! Suppose that crumbled bacon, or jalapenos would be a treat. I expect that cornbread was also eaten by Indians since corn was discovered here (new world)? Just Sayin...RJS

lil mutt Loc: North Texas

Mr. Samples, you do come up with some good subjects. Yep, we ate a lotsa cornbread growing up and still do today. My Momma's Momma, Grand is what we called her, was from Louisiana and she made what she called "hot water" cornbread in a frying pan. She taught Linda how to cook it just after we married. Now she will fry "hot water" cornbread about half the time. The other half is baked in the over in the frying pan. The red beans and cornbread with a half a onion is to kill for. I stopped by one of the freezers this morning and took out some frozen green beans. Supper tonight is green beans with potatoes in them. Pork ribs and, you guessed it, CORNBREAD!

Robert J Samples Loc: Round Rock, Texas

Lil Mutt: Thanks for your kind words. Folks could not dine on anything plainer than having some cornbread. Nothing fancy! But cornbread has kept many poor folks and not so poor folks well fed and healthy. It is a shame that some treat it as poor folks 'fodder' and not as a wholesome compliment to any meal. Just Sayin...RJS

smitty Loc: maine

Robert J Samples wrote:

What do you know about cornbread? Probably that it comes from corn, and folks often have it with gumbo, or maybe collard greens, or fried catfish.

All I knew about cornbread was almost every Saturday, I was detailed to go and shuck, then shell a burlap bag of ears of corn. We would be going into town on Saturday and that would require about 10 to 15 pounds of shelled corn. This was our standard practice for a long time.

Upon getting into town, our first stop was the grist mill and dropping off the burlap bag of shelled corn. We would leave it there and upon leaving town to go home, we went by the grist mill again to pick up our share of the corn meal. Which had been ground into meal. This was only half of the shelled corn we had brought to the mill. The other half was payment for the chore of grinding the shelled corn we had delivered earlier.

I never thought about it, or ever asked about this process. I didn’t even know that you could buy ground corn meal at any grocery store in town!

Our corn provided as good corn meal as any that could be purchased. It was simply one of the chores I was asked to perform.
I have a short memory, but believe I was to load up a burlap bag of corn still on the cob, run these cobs through a mechanical device that separated the corn from the corn cob.
When ground, provided half for us and half to the grist mill to pay for their work. I never considered that we were paying too much, but only it was a fair trade.

As far as taste, I suppose it is acquired taste, before one begins to like cornbread. If you grew up as I had, cornbread at lunch and supper, you never gave it a second thought.

This reminded me of an old joke. A young man goes off to college and after a number of years came home with a new PhD. One of his countryfied uncles said, Jimmy, speak to me some of your new PhD. Now, Jimmy aware of the uncle’s ability to hand out sarcastic comments and was probably anxious to do so after Jimmy made some statement about his education, said “Pie R Square!” To which the Uncle guff hawed and slapped his knee and was almost rolling on the ground with mirth. He then said, "Jimmy, you aint learned nothing. Pie are round, Cornbread are square!” Just Sayin...RJS

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anudder winner rj

Stilltrying Loc: FTW-Tx

Thank you Mr Samples
I agree to all above
Poor family and didn’t matter
Good parents who taught us kids to keep try’in

lil mutt Loc: North Texas

Mr Samples, I thought of something that we failed to mention in the corn lineup. Corn Tortillas! And what reminded me was when Linda fixed breakfast this morning, along with my six eggs and pile of sausage, she had a platter of hot corn tortillas with butter. Oh, she put out the jar of Smuckers strawberry jam, too. And after four cups of coffee I returned to the shop for more piddling(threw in the piddling for you, Wolffy).

smitty Loc: maine

mahoney makes a kinda nm style cornbread [she claims]
regular cb recipe with creamed corn and some hatch green chile
dontnokit tilu tryit

smitty Loc: maine

is there any cb thats so bad that no cb is betta?