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 ...

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.

Fried Cornbread, aka Hot Water Cornbread Serves 10. 2 cups self-rising cornmeal; ½ teaspoon kosher salt; 1 jalapeño, seeded and chopped; 2 to 2 ½ cups boiling water; ¼ cup bacon drippings, for ...

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 ...

Menu: Hot Brown Casserole Roasted Spring Lamb with Sorghum Mustard Glaze Asparagus with Country Ham and Brown Butter Derby Chocolate Bourbon Trifle. ... Fried Cornbread. Versatile fried cornbread ...

“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.