Cornbread!!!

MArie Callendar's cornbread is sickeningly sweet, and every time I've been dragged there by Gail, I've b!tched about it to the waitress.

[David M. Bueker]

It's all what you grew up with.

My beloved Grandma had this little aluminum container with a perforated, recessed lid, that she kept by the stove for bacon drippings. The perforated lid strained most of the solids out, as it was designed to do. Anyway, when she made cornbread, she would pour some of the bacon grease in the cast iron skillet and swirl it to coat the surface, then pop it into the oven to get hot. When she mixed the cornbread batter, she used White Lily cornbread mix (with the leavening already in it), buttermilk, and a little more bacon grease. That went into the hot skillet, and the whole thing went into the oven.

Sometimes she added cracklins, but I never liked that version much, and my vegetarian Mom would never eat Grandma's cornbread because of the bacon grease.

Robert, I still have one of those bacon grease cans sitting on my stove. It must have taken me a month of looking to find it though, not many around. Now on the cracklin cornbread, I gotta disagree! Cracklin bread is GOOOOOOOOD, the key being that the cracklins have to be crunchy. Now, I am sure there will be a few that don't know what cracklins are, but folks they are AKA as pork skins. One cuts pork skin into strips, and renders the fat out of them, and what is left is pork skins, or cracklins. A key factor there is to have the fat that you are frying them in HOT. Not particularly good for you, but they are particularly good. Here is a link to such good eating and living. http://www.deltablues.net/cracklin.html Matter of fact folks, there is some darn good (and funny, read the last paragraph) reading on this web site. It takes me back to when I was in primary school. Speaking of being raised poor...I remember taking cold biscuits that has some sorghum molasses on them for my lunch.

Speaking of being raised poor...I remember taking cold biscuits that has some sorghum molasses on them for my lunch.

Bob, your stories always remind me so much of my Mom (sniff). That sounds like something she would have eaten, too.

Speaking of being raised poor...I remember taking cold biscuits that has some sorghum molasses on them for my lunch.

Bob, your stories always remind me so much of my Mom (sniff). That sounds like something she would have eaten, too.

Hi Linda.

Memory lane is a nice path to follow from time to time.