I remember ‘crackling cornbread when I was a kid. Haven’t seen it too much around now.
we use to have it all the time growing up. my grandmom usually cooked supper, and would line the bottom of the iron pan with real cracklins, not the ground up stuff now at kroger's, etc. then pour the cornbread mixture on top of it. was so good.
and there's nothing wrong with yellow corn meal, not implying that, it's just that we always had meal ground from white corn, usually hickory king variety -- big kernels and cobs off of very tall corn stalks. hickory king was sought after for other uses as well.
