Authentic Cornbread Recipe United States of America, North America

Mainly associated with the South, in its simplest and most traditional form cornbread — also known as corn pone — is made from cornmeal, salt, and water batter and is baked in a cast iron skillet over an open fire. Today, there is a general divide on how cornbread is prepared depending on where you are in the United States. In the South, the batter is prepared with white cornmeal, sometimes buttermilk, and little to no sugar, while in the North they will use yellow cornmeal, and add wheat flour, eggs, milk or buttermilk, a leavening agent, and some sugar, which gives for a sweeter, more cake-like cornbread. The most popular way to cook cornbread, however, is to skillet-bake it, meaning the prepared batter is poured into a hot, greased cast-iron skillet and then baked until the cornbread is lightly brown. Albeit, cornbread, and its many derivatives — hush puppies, johnnycakes, and spoon bread — can also be baked, fried, or steamed, depending on the recipe. This ... Read more