Corn bread with molasses?

maxine in ri said:

DH went to his church supper tonight, and made and brought corn bread
and the bottle of molasses. We seem to have come home as much
molasses as we brought.

I had never heard of molasses on corn bread and am wondering if it's a
New Jersey thang, or just some kind of food peccadillo of my
beloved's.

When I was a kid at Girl Scout camp, we had a Native American meal
with corn bread, maple syrup and butter. Now _that_ was good!

maxine in ri

DW loves cornbread with molasses on it. I generally make Arkansas
cornbread as we don't care for the sort with sugar and flour in it. I
like it with beans over it, chili over it occasionally, and even with
milk over it. Don't care for the lasses over cornbread though, much
rather have cane syrup, Steen's to be exact.

George

George Shirley said:

maxine in ri said:

DH went to his church supper tonight, and made and brought corn bread
and the bottle of molasses. We seem to have come home as much
molasses as we brought.

I had never heard of molasses on corn bread and am wondering if it's a
New Jersey thang, or just some kind of food peccadillo of my
beloved's.

When I was a kid at Girl Scout camp, we had a Native American meal
with corn bread, maple syrup and butter. Now _that_ was good!

maxine in ri

DW loves cornbread with molasses on it. I generally make Arkansas
cornbread as we don't care for the sort with sugar and flour in it. I
like it with beans over it, chili over it occasionally, and even with
milk over it. Don't care for the lasses over cornbread though, much
rather have cane syrup, Steen's to be exact.

Pinto bean chili with cornbread and molasses is/was pretty common in
Texas in the 50s and 60s, probably before.

I posted this to RFC (mispellings and all) quite a few years ago:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mjw/recipes/soup/farmworkers-chile-soup.html

The flavors of corn, chili, and molasses (blackstrap) mix well
together.

I like cornbread with molasses for breakfast, using last night's
cornbread. Split and butter your cornbread, toast it, then eat it
with molasses.

Tara

maxine in ri said:

DH went to his church supper tonight, and made and brought corn bread
and the bottle of molasses. We seem to have come home as much
molasses as we brought.

I had never heard of molasses on corn bread and am wondering if it's a
New Jersey thang, or just some kind of food peccadillo of my
beloved's.

Growing up in rural, western Kentucky during the 50s, we used molasses on
corn bread, corn cakes, biscuits, pancakes, etc. Still do and now my
suburban Missouri-born, grown children do also. What's not to like about
molasses - I like prettymuch every kind except blackstrap, though even that
gets used sometimes in baked-goods. Sorghum molasses is my favorite with
Brer Rabbit Full Flavor molasses running second.
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Quoted message said:

DH went to his church supper tonight, and made and brought corn bread
and the bottle of molasses. We seem to have come home as much
molasses as we brought.

I had never heard of molasses on corn bread and am wondering if it's a
New Jersey thang, or just some kind of food peccadillo of my
beloved's.

When I was a kid at Girl Scout camp, we had a Native American meal
with corn bread, maple syrup and butter. Now _that_ was good!

maxine in ri

I've heard of molasses even sorghum (??SP??) but my tastes go more toward
not so sweet.
This is my preferred cornbread recipe, sometimes I add all the optional
stuff other times I leave out one or more of the optional ingredients.
But never ever leave out the green chiles. I like it just plain only
buttered.

To me corn bread doesn't need to be very sweet to enjoy. This is very
good with chilli, soup or stew or even as a coffee time snack at work.

I'm not that traditional that I need to bake it in a cast iron pan.

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Alan's Green Chile Corn bread

-----wet stuff-----
1/2 cup sour cream
1 (4 oz.)can green chiles, optional
2 chipotle chiles in adobo sauce; minced, optional
4 strips bacon; cooked & crumbled, optional
1 cup shredded cheddar cheese, optional
1 (14 oz) can creamed corn
3 eggs
3 tbsp. vegetable oil
----dry stuff----
1-1/2 cup cornmeal
3/4 tsp. baking powder
3/4 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
2 tbsp Sugar; more or less

preheat oven to 400F

Combine wet stuff in a bowl...mix well.
Combine dry stuff in another bowl... mix well.

Add the 2 mixtures together and stir well and immediately pour it into a
Pam Sprayed 9'X9' pyrex pan.

The Idea is to to get it into the preheated oven soonest.

Bake at 400 F. for 40 min or so. Cool in pan for 10 min., then transfer
to wire rack to cool completely.

** Exported from Now You're Cooking! v5.81 **

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It'll be a sunny day in August, when the Moon will shine that night-
Elbonian Folklore

This sounds like a good education for the taste buds

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Quoted message said:

DH went to his church supper tonight, and made and brought corn bread
and the bottle of molasses. We seem to have come home as much
molasses as we brought.

I had never heard of molasses on corn bread and am wondering if it's a
New Jersey thang, or just some kind of food peccadillo of my
beloved's.

When I was a kid at Girl Scout camp, we had a Native American meal
with corn bread, maple syrup and butter. Now _that_ was good!

maxine in ri

George Shirley said:

DW loves cornbread with molasses on it. I generally make Arkansas
cornbread as we don't care for the sort with sugar and flour in it. I
like it with beans over it, chili over it occasionally, and even with
milk over it. Don't care for the lasses over cornbread though, much
rather have cane syrup, Steen's to be exact.

George

Judging from your response and several others, it's a Southern
thing. DH makes his cornbread with little sugar but does use flour.

Thanks, all
maxine in ri

maxine in ri said:

George Shirley said:

DW loves cornbread with molasses on it. I generally make Arkansas
cornbread as we don't care for the sort with sugar and flour in it. I
like it with beans over it, chili over it occasionally, and even with
milk over it. Don't care for the lasses over cornbread though, much
rather have cane syrup, Steen's to be exact.

George

Judging from your response and several others, it's a Southern
thing. DH makes his cornbread with little sugar but does use flour.

Thanks, all
maxine in ri

You're absolutely right. Cornbread with flour and sugar is considered to
be cake around here. Real cornbread has only cornmeal, buttermilk, eggs,
salt and baking soda in it. Easy to make: two cups cornmeal, blend in
the tspn each of salt and baking soda, beat two eggs, put eggs and two
cups buttermilk in the dry stuff, stir well. Meantime be heating up a 10
or 12-inch cast iron skillet with a tblspn of oil in it in a 450F oven.
When oven is ready, pour the cornbread mix in the skillet and leave to
bake for 20 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean from the
middle. Let sit a minute or two and scarf it down with whatever you want
on top or just a little butter. Been making it 50 years myself and my
mother and grandmothers for another 50 or 60 years before me.

I particularly like to crumble up a hunk, pour over milk, a little black
pepper, some chopped onion. Makes a quicky meal that stays with you for
awhile. Used to eat that a lot when my Dad was on strike back in the
fifties. Made a welcome relief from fried yard bird.

George

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George Shirley said:

DW loves cornbread with molasses on it. I generally make Arkansas
cornbread as we don't care for the sort with sugar and flour in it. I
like it with beans over it, chili over it occasionally, and even with
milk over it. Don't care for the lasses over cornbread though, much
rather have cane syrup, Steen's to be exact.

George

Judging from your response and several others, it's a Southern
thing. DH makes his cornbread with little sugar but does use flour.

Thanks, all
maxine in ri

They're talking about putting molasses *over* the cornbread not in it when
you make it. Different thing.

Ms P

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On Jun 8, 10:18 pm, George Shirley <[email hidden]> wrote:

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DW loves cornbread with molasses on it. I generally make Arkansas
cornbread as we don't care for the sort with sugar and flour in it. I
like it with beans over it, chili over it occasionally, and even with
milk over it. Don't care for the lasses over cornbread though, much
rather have cane syrup, Steen's to be exact.

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

George

Quoted message said:

Judging from your response and several others, it's a Southern
thing. DH makes his cornbread with little sugar but does use flour.

Quoted message said:

Thanks, all
maxine in ri

They're talking about putting molasses *over* the cornbread not in it when
you make it. Different thing.

Ms P

As did my DH. But at his church, notta lotta folks knew what to do
with the
molasses, and so we brought it home, where I use it in my whole wheat
bread<g>. And spice cookies. And Boston baked beans.

maxine in ri

maxine in ri said:

DH went to his church supper tonight, and made and brought corn bread
and the bottle of molasses. We seem to have come home as much
molasses as we brought.

I had never heard of molasses on corn bread and am wondering if it's a
New Jersey thang, or just some kind of food peccadillo of my
beloved's.

When I was a kid at Girl Scout camp, we had a Native American meal
with corn bread, maple syrup and butter. Now _that_ was good!

maxine in ri

Nope, it's a good ole southern thang Maxine. There's a reason them yankees
didn't take to it.

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maxine in ri said:

DH went to his church supper tonight, and made and brought corn bread
and the bottle of molasses. We seem to have come home as much
molasses as we brought.

I had never heard of molasses on corn bread and am wondering if it's a
New Jersey thang, or just some kind of food peccadillo of my
beloved's.

When I was a kid at Girl Scout camp, we had a Native American meal
with corn bread, maple syrup and butter. Now _that_ was good!

maxine in ri

Nope, it's a good ole southern thang Maxine. There's a reason them yankees
didn't take to it.

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maxine in ri said:

DH went to his church supper tonight, and made and brought corn bread
and the bottle of molasses. We seem to have come home as much
molasses as we brought.

I had never heard of molasses on corn bread and am wondering if it's a
New Jersey thang, or just some kind of food peccadillo of my
beloved's.

When I was a kid at Girl Scout camp, we had a Native American meal
with corn bread, maple syrup and butter. Now _that_ was good!

maxine in ri

I don't think it's a NJ thing. Leadbelly sang about it. He didnt want
it--It hurt his pride:

Take This Hammer
by Leadbelly

Take this hammer, carry it to the captain
Take this hammer, carry it to the captain
Take this hammer, carry it to the captain
Tell him I'm gone
Tell him I'm gone

If he asks you was I runnin'
If he asks you was I runnin'
If he asks you was I runnin'
Tell him I was flyin'
Tell him I was flyin'

If he asks you was I laughin'
If he asks you was I laughin'
If he asks you was I laughin'
Tell him I was cryin'
Tell him I was cryin'

They wanna feed me cornbread and molasses
They wanna feed me cornbread and molasses
They wanna feed me cornbread and molasses
But I got my pride
Well, I got my pride

-bwg

maxine in ri said:

DH went to his church supper tonight, and made and brought corn bread
and the bottle of molasses. We seem to have come home as much
molasses as we brought.

I had never heard of molasses on corn bread and am wondering if it's a
New Jersey thang, or just some kind of food peccadillo of my
beloved's.

When I was a kid at Girl Scout camp, we had a Native American meal
with corn bread, maple syrup and butter. Now _that_ was good!

maxine in ri

My aunt in Alabama put dark Karo corn syrup on her
cornbread and on pancakes and french toast, etc.
I think she mentioned that they used to use molasses
when she was young.

Kate

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Until you bite their heads off.”
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maxine in ri said:

DH went to his church supper tonight, and made and brought corn bread
and the bottle of molasses. We seem to have come home as much
molasses as we brought.

I had never heard of molasses on corn bread and am wondering if it's a
New Jersey thang, or just some kind of food peccadillo of my
beloved's.

When I was a kid at Girl Scout camp, we had a Native American meal
with corn bread, maple syrup and butter. Now _that_ was good!

maxine in ri

In general I don't care for corn bread as a "bread" with
my meal, although it depends on the corn bread and the meal.
What I really like is corn bread buttered with honey on it.
Yum!

Kate

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Kate Connally
“If I were as old as I feel, I’d be dead already.”
Goldfish: “The wholesome snack that smiles back,
Until you bite their heads off.”
What if the hokey pokey really *is* what it's all about?
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maxine in ri said:

DH went to his church supper tonight, and made and brought corn bread
and the bottle of molasses. We seem to have come home as much
molasses as we brought.

I had never heard of molasses on corn bread and am wondering if it's a
New Jersey thang, or just some kind of food peccadillo of my
beloved's.

When I was a kid at Girl Scout camp, we had a Native American meal
with corn bread, maple syrup and butter. Now _that_ was good!

maxine in ri

My family always served cornbread hot with either butter and maple
syrup, or molasses, diner's choice. That's the only way we ever had
cornbread when I was young (and even now). I remember seeing
cornbread as a "side" with chili and thinking that was very odd. ;-)

(My family is mostly German and English, with a little French and
Irish thrown in.)

I love molasses, and use it interchangeably with maple syrup.

N.

maxine in ri said:

DH went to his church supper tonight, and made and brought corn bread
and the bottle of molasses. We seem to have come home as much
molasses as we brought.

I had never heard of molasses on corn bread and am wondering if it's a
New Jersey thang, or just some kind of food peccadillo of my
beloved's.

When I was a kid at Girl Scout camp, we had a Native American meal
with corn bread, maple syrup and butter. Now _that_ was good!

maxine in ri

....my comments would be about sorghum molasses, not any other kind.

N.

Nancy2 said:

...my comments would be about sorghum molasses, not any other kind.

N.

Actually.. I didn't know there was any other kind? I'm not a big
molasses user, but always have some tucked in the back of the pantry for
the odd time I need to use it.