For Thanksgiving Day dressing. I had a little time Monday, so I cooked six big pones and froze them. We'll make the dressing early T-Day morning. Got to boil the hen over the weekend for to have plenty of good, rich broth.
Great minds, think alike!!!!!! I just took out my batch of cornbread not 10 minutes ago...Here I sit feeding my face with cornbread and 1/2 stick of butter. The beans aren't quite done.
It's made me all warm and comfy now. Where's the big ole easy chair?????
Boy, does that ever tell where you hail from!!!!!! My dad used to do that, got me to doing it...He also like to crumble saltine crackers in warm milk, before bed.
My wife made some just this week. You can't beat an old cast iron skillet for cooking it. I can remember my grand dad crumbling it up in a glass of buttermilk when I was a kid. Thanks for the memory finesse_r!
My mom used to make cornbread either one of two ways. She had a cast iron pan that made the rolls look like little ears of corn, or she would just pour them into the skillet and make corn cakes that looked like pancakes. Either way, I didn't care. Lots of butter, big pile of pinto beans and a big glass of iced tea. Maybe even some roast beef on the side.
But for y'all that ain't made your cornbread yet, just remember the words of the immortal Lewis Grizzard. "It says somewhere in the Bible, 'Thou shalt not put sugar in cornbread.'"
I have an eight-inch cast iron skillet that has been in use in my family (maternal side) for around a hundred years. I use it only for baking cornbread, which it does superbly.
The cornbread is unsweetened, and made with stone-ground white cornmeal, buttermilk, and bacon grease.
With a bowl of pintos or one of my homemade soups it will keep you on your feet clearing fence rows for two days, whether you much want to be or not.
I use my grandma's iron skillet and the "corn cob pan", went to see Lewis Grizzard on stage, read his columns in the Atlanta paper, and, I am ashamed to say, sometimes use a mix.
But the black-eyed peas always have a proper dose of ham or bacon, and the cornbread soaks up the juice just right.
In my family, if it ain't cornbread dressing, it ain't dressing. Corn is truly the miracle grain. From fresh, hot buttered corn on the cob, to popcorn, to masa, to cornbread. Hoecakes to hominy, I love it all.