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I remember ‘crackling cornbread when I was a kid. Haven’t seen it too much around now.

Great, so now I.ll have to bake some cornbread, course it will call for butter, or some fat, and sorghum. My belt is tight enough the way it is.

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.

A friend of my Dad's was a grocery store manager in Texas for many years. He moved back to Montana and got a job managing a store up here.


First day he inspected shelves. To his horror there were only 2 bags of Pintos on the shelf.

He quickly ordered a pallet.

He had to send it back. People up north eat kidney beans and great northern beans.......not pintos.

But have any of you had blue cornbread. One of the few benefits living in Kalifornia is the variety of food products. I can buy Yellow, White and Blue corn meal at the same general grocery store. Not to mention the 10 plus different kinds of flours and brands I saw yesterday as well.

I had a blue tortilla chip once.

Tasted like the yellow or white chips I had eaten.

and wabi didn't believe me

Make cornbread out of candy if you like Mister e, I ain't gonna scrub the pan.

I'll take one color of cornbread and a dozen fewer ridiculous gun laws.

We have been married for 49 years and eating cornbread for that length of time. I never thought much about her cornbread as it has always been good. I printed out this recipe for her to look at and she was willing to try it. We both decided it is the best cornbread recipe we have ever tried. Will be eating with a new cornbread recipe for the next 49.