Re: Friday Night Vittles? 7/11/2025

On Fri, 18 Jul 2025 3:07:21 +0000, Bruce wrote:

On Thu, 17 Jul 2025 18:59:43 -0400, Jill McQuown
<j_mcquown@comcast.net> wrote:
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On 7/12/2025 4:42 AM, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:

On 2025-07-12, Bruce <Bruce@invalid.invalid> wrote:
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I hadn't added any sugar or eggs. It tasted ok, but almost as if I
should have added sugar to make it sweet. I like that it didn't
require any kneading, just mixing. We'll have the rest with breakfast
tomorrow.

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I add one egg and sugar. Many, in the American South, don't add sugar.
Extra vegetable oil may make an egg unnecessary. I will never know.

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I add egg to my cornbread, it makes it turn out so much more moist.  I
also add a little bit of sugar, but not enough to make it taste sweet.
Bruce actually made a nice looking loaf of cornbread!  Kudos!

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Thank you. And next time I'll add egg, because it was very dry indeed.

Very dry is perfectly normal for cornbread. The picture looks more like
a corn cake rather than cornbread i.e., very finely textured. You could
try experimenting with more flour to cornmeal and adding more oil as
well as egg. Eating cornbread with soup or slathering it with butter is
a common practice in the US.
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