Fried Cornbread

[oneokie]

IMO, fried cornbread with diced SPAM is much better than baked. Frying seems to pull some of the fat from the SPAM.

[mold maker]

My dear departed Mom used to add BBQ in her baked corn bread batter. She also made up fried corn fritters, (pan cakes) that we ate with tomato jelly.
Those are good memories.

[GSM]

Made a batch yesterday. Didn't have any bacon grease to cook them in, though. Wished I had some Spam now. Good with maple syrup (all I had).

Left over baked cornbread? Bowl, cornbread, milk, syrup, microwave, spoon. Mmmmm.

[brow_tines]

I grew up called them cornbread fritters

[Dean D.]

My paternal Grandmother used to make cornmeal mush. She would put any leftovers in a bread pan and chill overnight in the fridge. The next morning she would slice it and fry it in bacon grease. MMMMMMMM Good!

[10 ga]

Johnnycake, hoecake, cornpone, corn sticks, hushpuppies, cornfritters, scrapple, fried mush, etc... All cornmeal products and all delicious. Plain, topped with sweets ie... syrup, molasses, preserves, jam, honey or topped with white, brown, redeye, bacon gravy, ketchup, it's all good eats!!! 10

[rockrat]

My Grandfather liked his cornbread with regular milk, but Grandmother like it with buttermilk. Me, I like it with butter and strawberry preserves and with Chili over it too. Taught my Daughter to like it, but wife doesn't (we get it all to ourselves!!)
Hushpuppies with a little honey butter or cinnamon butter, yum.

[Got-R-Did]

All this talk of fried corn bread brings back some powerful and happy memories. My Grandmother had a nack for making it in prodigious amounts for the huge extended Family that spent the Christmas break at the farm in SW Tennessee(Chester Co.). Even my Mother does not know the recipe as my Grandmother never wrote it down, but she has her own version that is comparable. We live in KY now and have discovered Weisenberger's waterground corn meal made near me in Midway, KY, premium stuff! The mill is on the banks of the South Elkhorn creek. My G-Mother used to add "cracklins" to the thin batter and fry it in little cakes about 3" in diameter so they were thin and crispy. My Mother makes her batter a tad thicker and adds trimmings from country ham chopped up fairly fine to the mix. Pours a 4" cake and frys until crispy around the edges. Devine! Whatever is left over is eaten for breakfast with butter and sweet sorghum.
Guess what I am cooking for dinner tonight!!
Got-R-Did.

[mold maker]

I'm not a real cornbread enthusiast, but you guys are whoppin a craven on me.

[dale2242]

Dean D, Fried corn meal mush. Brings back childhood memories....dale

[Shooter]

IMO, fried cornbread with diced SPAM is much better than baked. Frying seems to pull some of the fat from the SPAM.

As a cornbread and spam lover, your post intreaged me. I tried a batch this morning, and you are right, it is great.
Thank you sir.

[GSM]

Scare that cornbread & spam with a little bit of Tobasco. Mmmmm.

Start the day off right.

[Dave Bulla]

Is the cornbread fried up in a pan like a pan cake the same thing as a "Johnny cake"?

I'm not from the south but have spent a lot of years there and never heard anybody talk about "Johnny cakes" but I see it a lot in old western books and stuff like that where somebody from the south is eatin' "Johnny cakes". Always wondered exactly what they were.

I'm a sucker for good cornbread with melted butter and maybe some honey.

[wire nut]

Yes Fry just like a pan cake. To make extra good use a little hog lard instead of cooking oil to keep from sticking

[testhop]

the only reason i dont have cornbread and buttermilk is i cant get the buttermilk.all i see in fake stuff

[MoldyJoe]

Please excuse my Northern Ignorance, but what's the difference between Fried Corn bread and Hush Puppies? I love them both by the way. Joe

[oneokie]

Please excuse my Northern Ignorance, but what's the difference between Fried Corn bread and Hush Puppies? I love them both by the way. Joe

From my experience growing up, hush puppies are cornbread balls that are a side dish at fish frys. People have different ingredients that they mix in with the cornbread dough for their personal liking. The dough balls are dropped into the fish fryer and cooked along with the fish.

Fried cornbread is any type of cornbread that is cooked over a fire, not in an oven. A griddle or a skillet, depending upon the cooks preference.

[oksmle]

+1 on what oneokie said....

[HiVelocity]

Anyone here ever put pork "cracklings" into the cornbread mix.

Here in the South that's how we do it. Put a couple handfulls of cracklings into the cornbread mix and bake in a cast iron skillet.

Cornbread and hot coffee.............nothing finer!

HV in SC

[oksmle]

"Cornbread and hot coffee.............nothing finer!"

You forgot "real" country butter..... And don't just put a little on like Mrs. oksmle does. It has to be "slathered" so that it runs down your elbow.