However, before cornbread became the bouncy, sweet, cake-like quick bread we all know and love, it was a simple blend of cornmeal, salt, and perhaps sugar bound with hot water and fried into corn ...

Specifically, his grandmother Anna Mary Motley’s hot water cornbread, which is fried in small balls that he likens to “unleavened hushpuppies.” ...

Cornbread baked in sizzling hot cast-iron skillets, the batter pooling in a puddle of butter that yields crispy edges. The fritters we call hush puppies are cornbread, too, deep-fried by the spoonful.

To make the cornbread crab cakes, whip up a batch of old-fashioned hot water cornbread or get a store-bought one. Allow the cornbread to cool before crumbling it up into a bowl, ensuring you get ...

Myra Edwards of Miami asked for help making a fried cornbread that her late mother-in-law made and her husband loved. She remembered that “she started with three parts regular flour to one part ...

“The most romantic thing I do is make hot water cornbread,” she tells PEOPLE of the simple recipe. The pan-fried cornmeal cakes are an old-fashioned, Southern dish.

Specifically, his grandmother Anna Mary Motley’s hot wat… Between Texas Independence Day and the start of Rodeo Austin, Swift’s Attic chef Mat Clouser has been thinking a lot about cornbread ...