Cornbread
 

Northerners like their cornbread with some sweetness to it. Down South, you'll get crucified for adding even a touch of sugar to your batter.

So do you like cornbread? What's your preference, Northern or Southern style? Do you make it, and if so, what's your recipe?

Northern but with jalapenos.

Paula Deen's cornbread. So I guess that's southern-style. But her's calls for sugar—but I use stevia. This is the most moist of any recipe I have ever tried. Easy too!

Moist and Easy Cornbread

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Sometimes I add things like corn kernels etc. depending on the entree.

Plenty of southerners use sugar.

The recipe I use, adapted from Jamison and Jamison's BBQ book. I typically make in an iron skillet:

3 slices bacon
1.5 cups stone ground cornmeal
1/2 cup flour
3 T sugar
1 T baking powder
1/4 t salt
1 t baking soda
1.5 C buttermilk
3 eggs
1 cup fozen corn
2 T butter, melted
2 jalapenos, seeded and diced <-- my addition

Preheat oven to 400F

Cook bacon in skillet, drain and crumble. Leave 1 T of the grease in the skillet and keep warm.

Mix the dry ingredients.

Add the buttermilk and eggs. Stir just until dry incredients are moistened, leaving some lumps.

Stir in corn, bacon, jalapenos, and butter.

Pour into skillet and bake 20 minutes.

The box Jiffy mix is decent and very easy.

I grew up with Jiffy, and therefore it defines corn bread for me. Everything else is just an impersonation.

My wife prefers it to my cornbread.

Correct, they do, but traditional Southern cornbread does not.

I'm definitely pro cornbread.

Oooo...that sounds good.

I prefer to add sweetness via a butter blend. Not the cornbread itself.

I never used to like cornbread as it was usually too dry for my taste. My wife makes a really good moist (GF) cornbread now, though, so have changed my mind about it. Not sure if qualifies as northern or southern.

This.

Great on a cold night with a bowl of chili.