[Resolute Conservative]

I make a sweet cornbread I bet would change your mind.

Take 2 boxes on Jiffy mix but add 1/2 cup of sugar and tablespoon of vanilla and a smidgen of extra milk. Cook in cast iron skillet as dirtected with butter wedges on top.

My kids eat it like a cake. I am required to make it at least once week and at all family get-togethers. :)

[tuffydoodle]

“Take 2 boxes on Jiffy mix but add 1/2 cup of sugar and tablespoon of vanilla and a smidgen of extra milk. Cook in cast iron skillet as dirtected with butter wedges on top.”

That sounds like pure heaven. I’m gonna have to try it....

[chesley]

Sounds like some cornbread I had once in Kentucky. It was more like a cake. It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t cornbread, either.

[ryan71]

I’ve had that exact recipe many times and it’s good and you’re correct, it’s like cake.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

In eastern Ontario sugar-bush country, we called cornbread “Johnny cakes” (I think they call it that in some northern states too). It was made without sugar — but, we usually slathered it with maple syrup before eating it.

[kalee]

I think his point is that Southerners don’t like sweet corn bread. My grandmother never used sugar in cornbread, my mother used a mix that was a little sweet. I will eat it almost anyway it is served. I LOVE cornbread. My husband is from TX and he likes it with real corn, cheese and peppers in it.

I do not eat sugar on grits though, heresy. lol

[twigs]

My daughter would ask you to adopt her.

[TexConfederate1861]

A “Yankee” cornbread.
No Southerner makes cornbread with SUGAR...yeeeech!

[toddlintown]

Well that sweet cornbread recipe has this Yankee frantically looking in the pantry for a box of cornbread mix I know is somewhere in there.

Cup of coffee and cornbread for breakfast tomorrow morning.

[gopheraj]

I always add a leveled off tablespoon of sugar in my cornbread. Does’t make it sweet but changes the flavor a little - better. I use buttermilk in all my cornbread recipes. Love dat but’milk.