Re: [london.food] Cornbread

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From: Kake L Pugh
Subject: Re: [london.food] Cornbread
Date: 07:56 on 06 Oct 2004

On Wed 06 Oct 2004, Mike Jarvis <mykej@xxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> Sorry for the lack of reasoning there, it's just that cornbread is a
> huge part of southern culture.

I think I need a different word for what I'm making.  It's not
traditional USian cornbread at all.  Then I can change it about as
much as like without any spinning ancestors.

> Cornbread should be pretty dense.  The one cup milk to one cup corn
> meal/polenta sounds kinda off tho.

Maybe cornmeal and polenta work quite differently.  I got a sort of
sloppy batter that seemed exactly right.  Another cup of polenta and
it would have been almost a kneadable dough.

> You'll have to make a batch and feed it to Candace so she can judge
> the polenta.

I shall do that, when I start my dinner parties up again.

I shall also see if I can locate any real cornmeal and have a go with that.

Kake

There's stuff above here

Mike Jarvis 07:41 on 06 Oct 2004
Sorry for the lack of reasoning there, it's just that cornbread is a
- Kake L Pugh 07:56 on 06 Oct 2004
  I think I need a different word for what I'm making. It's not
- Simon Wistow 09:46 on 06 Oct 2004
  If it's any help Candace gave me a copy of Mama Dips' Cookbook for
  - Kake L Pugh 21:00 on 07 Oct 2004
    I've just been poking around the website. I love that you can buy a
- candace 19:23 on 06 Oct 2004
  shock horror, we put flour in our cornbread in my part of mississippi.
  - James Bywater 20:44 on 06 Oct 2004
    I thought cornmeal was just cornflour? Or am I totally wrong?
  - candace 19:19 on 08 Oct 2004
    okay so i made this stuff tonight, following that recipe, except with

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