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Cook the Book: The Cornbread Gospels

20080407-cornbreadgospels.jpgI love cornbread. When I'm out for lunch or dinner somewhere and it on the menu or—better yet—on the plate as an unexpected side, my meal's pretty much made. My only problem then is, do I greedily eat it right away or wait till I'm done with everything else so as to hold on to the anticipation of the thick, crumbly, savory golden square?

I've tried to make it at home, but it never comes out as good as the versions made professionally. And, I've got a small confession to make, too: All the super from-scratch versions I've made at home have never lived up to that damn light-blue-and-white Jiffy box mix. Why is that? What am I doing wrong?

I'm hoping this week's Cook the Book can answer that. The Cornbread Gospels by Crescent Dragonwagon has more than 200 cornbread recipes in it, so I've got faith that I'll find cornbread religion in this good book. So, in a little bit, we'll bring you the first of this week's daily featured recipes. But first, as is always the case with Cook the Book, we've got a number of Cornbread Gospels to give away to Serious Eats readers.

Win The Cornbread Gospels

All you have to do is tell us in the comments section of this post where you get your favorite cornbread, whether its homemade, from a relative's kitchen, or from some hole-in-the-wall down-home-cookin' joint.

Five (5) people will be chosen at random from among eligble comments below. Comments will close Monday, April 14 at noon ET. The standard Serious Eats contest rules apply.

Comments are closed: 313 Comments:

I love my homemade cornbread. Make it right on the smoker and comes out awesome!

My friend Jenn makes fabulous cornbread. Sadly, she lives so far away now, I haven't had any in ages! Perhaps I had better learn to make it myself.

The key is a preheated cast iron skillet-- that makes for a super crunchy outside crunch. So good!

I make cornbread all the time, but on New Year's Eve I pull out all the stops and add smoked cheddar, caramelized onions, and some chopped fresh jalapenos and it is fantastic.

throw some pulled pork and bacon pieces in the batter.... shooo!

Mine. With jalapenos, cheddar and corn. But looking to expand my repertoire.

I always enjoyed my mom's or my grandmother's. I think I need some cornbread now.

The best cornbread comes from my grandmother's house.

My favorite meal there consists of purple hull peas from her field, tomatoes from her garden, tea so sweet it makes your teeth hurt, and about a million cornbread muffins.

Good thing I'm going to visit her later this week...this post has me in the mood for some cornbread!

I don't have a favorite. That's why I need this book -- so I can figure out how to make one that is worthy of being called my favorite.

Definitely homemade.

My friend makes a good cornbread

Ooh, almost forgot: cracklin' cornbread. You might develop heart disease just reading the recipe, but it is so. unbelievably. good.

http://www.thatsmyhome.com/mainstreet/beans/cracklin-corn-bread.htm

(not my site, but that's pretty close.)

I make my own - I finally was able to find a recipe that is on the sweeter side which I prefer.

When we dine at the House of Blues, I always order their skillet cornbread - warm, not too dense or moist, with garlic on top - it's heaven, authentic or not.

I also admit to making Jiffy boxed cornbread because all my scratch recipes fail me.

There are chicken and rib trailers along US-12 east of Michigan International Speedway (in the summer of course) where everything's made from scratch. The cornbread they serve with their meals is some of the best I've had anywhere.

My school's dining hall, seriously! The dining hall serves lukewarm boiled carrots, holds "Macaroni Weeks" (Monday is macaroni and cheese, Tuesday is macaroni salad, Wednesday is macaroni soup...you get the idea), and is just pretty much atrocious...but they make some mean cornbread. It's pretty funny to see a whole bunch of pimply, stressed-out, sexually-repressed college students line up for cornbread!

My favorite cornbread comes from my kitchen, but I have to admit I have a secret love for Boston Market cornbread.

Jiffy, it is the Cadillac of cornbread.

Homemade.

That way I can easily tweak the recipe if necessary.

Isa Moskowitz's recipe from Vegan with a Vengeance is mighty fine and none-too-sweet. Sometimes I toss in sun-dried tomatoes or jalapeõs. So good...

Embarrassingly, I really like the Kraft honey cornbread mix. But the recipe in the Cook's Illustrated Best Recipes cookbook is only a little more work, and is amazing.

The best I've had is Hoggy's BBQ here in Ohio. I am trying my darndest to replicate it though!

Glad to hear to hear there are other Jiffy cornbread devotees out there! I have a friend from North Carolina who make a mean skillet version which is my favorite non-Jiffy cornbread.

have to say homemade

Homemade beats anything else; I'm another fan of the Cook's Illustrated recipe.

I haven't met a slice of cornbread that I didn't like...whether it's homemade, restaurant or store bought.

From my friend in college. I've been missing it since I graduated!

My own, from my mom's recipe (so, really, hers too).

Treebeards in Houston has the best corn bread I've ever eaten.. They have New Orleans red beans and rice with New Orleans French Bread but I still must have the corn bread, too.

My East Texas side of the family has always made what they call Hot Water Corn Bread. Most people would call it a hush puppy. It is fried and about as big as a Crab Cake. Boy are they good. I never did but a lot of them crumble it up in milk and eat it that way as a snack or breakfast.

Muddy River Smokehouse in Portsmouth, NH

Homemade in a cast iron skillet, with lard, pickled jalapenos, and aged cheddar cheese.

My mom's homemade is the best I've had - though I'm arguably not too seasoned.

Mammaw. Southeastern KY cuisine at its best.

Jacques Imo's in New Orleans. Yum yum!

my homemade cornbread - I like to throw in sausages

Dorie's corniest cornbread muffins, hot from my own oven.

Or any type of cornbread eaten at a family celebration. My aunts, bless them, are the most wonderful cooks :)

yay looking forward to seeing the cornbread thread develop over the week. my favorite is homemade in a cast-iron skillet; with buttermilk. crunchy and dry and definitely no sugar added.

My own. With or without flour, depending on my mood.

I love the cornbread at Buddies', a little restaurant in Beaverton OR - they serve it with a cup of chili for $2.97 - I cut the cornbread horizontally, spread it out on the plate, and pour the chili (with onions and cheese, of course) over - mmmmmm! A tall glass of iced tea completes the meal, but if its cold out, I'll go for a cup of hot tea.

I just love Crescent Dragonwagon's cookbooks - if I win this one, I can try to fix some cornbread and chili for my hubby! Wish me luck!

@Adam - it may be that you prefer Jiffy because it really is ridiculously delicious. Just sayin...

That said, I liked my gram's even better. Done in a cast iron skillet, a little sweet, the corn meal rough. With butter and a little honey, oh my goodness.

My homemade cornbread is good, very good, but its not my gram's, though on a good day, when I'm totally in a Zen cooking mode, it can beat Jiffy.

I love the cast iron skillet baked rosemary cornbread served with maple butter at the House of Blues in Chicago.

that little blue and white box of jiffy cornbread always pulls me in.

My recent favorite is from Sel de la Terre in Boston...they have a brunch item that includes butter roasted cornbread, poached eggs, spinach and hollandaise sauce...yum!

I grew up on true Southern cornbread, which does not have any sugar (or flour) in it. Therefore, I never developed a taste for the Jiffy mix. My cornbread is simply cornmeal (preferably yellow), buttermilk, egg, and shortening (plus leavening, of course).
And it must be baked in a smoking hot cast iron skillet.
But, I also loved my grandmother's johhny cakes, which were fried on the stove, also in a cast iron skillet.

My favorite cornbread comes from Famous Dave's, though my own isn't half bad either.

My favorite cornbread is easily the version that my dad serves alongside his spicy bean soup. It's a savory, southern style cornbread with plenty of butter, and a almost custard-like texture. Even better toasted the next day with some melted butter and a drizzle of honey or mild sorghum molasses. I believe that it was originally from one of Beard's cookbooks, but he hasn't consulted a written version of the recipe in over a decade, at least.

I have to go for Jiffy ... I've tried others that are good, but they're always too sweet for my liking.

Jiffy all the way!

The first time I tried cornbread was in a restaurant in Dallas (many many years ago). I never had it before and it was absolutely addictive! I've been trying so many recipes at home but I could never settle on the right one. I really hope to win this book and try the recipes - maybe I'll finally find the right match.

The best cornbread is my homemade cornbread. I almost never enjoy the cornbread from restaurants and don't even get me started about that dry, yellow stuff that the cafeteria at work tries to pawn off on us!

I've tried different cornbread recipes, but I always come back to the one on the back of the Quaker Cornmeal package. I make it in a square cake pan. It keeps well for a day or two. If it is going to be used all at one setting, you can other bits into it -- chili peppers, corn, etc.

Homemade. But I try different recipes all the time, and I tend to tweak a lot -- adding things to it depending on my whims and what's in the fridge.

I like homemade, although cornbread isn't such a common thing here in the Great White North.

The best cornbread is of course homemade. I like to jazz mine up with jalapenos and cheese.

I've never had cornbread that I didn't make myself, so I'd have to say homemade! :)

It used to be at Alto Cinco, little American-Mexican joint in Syracuse, NY. Jalapenos and bacon. Recently, they've really modified the menu to make it veg-friendly. It's still decent, but bacon is supreme, right?

Right from my Mama's kitchen!

My aunt, who uses Paul Prudhomme's recipe.

My mother makes pretty darn good cornbread, her mother did too. I make pretty darn good corn bread as well.

I use the Lee Brother's recipe.

Make my own cornbread....have to eat right out of the oven....the hotter the better.

I have a cornbread recipe that was passed on to me from a dear friends grandmother. By far, it is my favorite cornbread. So, I guess I'd have to say "homemade" is my fave.

Its homemade cornbread here. There aren't any decent places to get cornbread in my area.

Good old Jiffy

I had great cornbread at Chevy's in NJ, believe it or not.

I will take cornbread wherever and whenever it is offered to me. I usually just make Jiffy, but I keep wanting to try the America's Test Kitchen recipe.

The best cornbread I've ever had came from BITTER SWEET FARMS in Westport , Ma. Soooooooo moist , with kernels of fresh sweet corn ......YUM ! I've never been able to duplicate it .

My favorite cornbread comes from Chef Wayne's Big Mamou in Springfield, MA. Moist, buttery, sweet-- delicious.

Dorie Greenspan's corn muffins are great
most recipes are too dry and bland...

Homemade cornbread is delicious with a bowl of blackeyed peas!

I used to work at a large research university and our building was attached to the university hospital. I frequented the hospital cafeteria and I would always buy the soup so that I could justify a cornbread muffin as a side (even when the soup wasn't particularly appealing). Seriously, they were the best cornbread I've ever tasted and I still miss them! Incredibly moist, a little sweet, and lots of corn flavor.

The timing on this sweeps is perfect. Last nights' dinner was ham and bean soup with home made cornbread (I always add shredded sharp cheddar to my cornbread.)

My favorite cornbread is made from a recipe in my Betty Crocker wedding edition cookbook. Its comes together in no time, is baked in an 8x8 dish and comes out sweet, moist and just dense enough. YUM!

I love my homemade cornbread and it comes out perfect everytime, especially when I make my blackeye pea casserole.

Going down south and since I am corn fed...it has to be homemade but now there are so many ways of making it and simple I would eat any type of cornbread. YUMMY FOR THE TUMMY!!! ;-) Thanks.

My fav cornbread is from a bakery up the street from my house.

My favorite cornbread is the stuff my Mom makes. Must get that recipe!

...the best cornbread is baked at home using my Grandmother's cast iron skillet; as for the recipe, this remains a tightly held secret !!!

My favorite cornbread came from a lunch that used to be offered at Bethune Cookman College. I worked right around the corner and would go there to get the cornbread. I have tried to make it, but have been unsuccesful. I could really use this cookbook.

I'm torn on cornbread.

I'm from Louisiana, so my mom's cornbread isn't sweet at all. In fact, she makes three different kinds: hot water cornbread, "regular" cornbread, and the completely different cornbread she makes for dressing.

My wife is from Texas, and her cornbread is sweet. It's not like cake or anything, but it's quite sweet compared to my mom's. The only problem is, her recipe has too much baking powder, giving it a slightly "chemically" taste. If you tell her I said this, I will, of course, disavow it. :)

I am on a quest to create my own recipe. I've been tweaking my wife's recipe to add polenta (for the crunch), reduce the baking powder, add corn kernels, add heavy cream or sour cream for richness, etc.

If I ever get it right, I'll be sure to publish it.

blushing...........love Jiffy! My SIL just made me a corn souffle with half a box of Jiffy in the recipe and it was to die for. I can't wait to make it.

I'm generally a purist with cornbread. No cheese, onions, etc. please.

I love cornbread but have been to nervous up to now to try making it myself. I made a corn pudding using corn muffin mix, but that shouldn't really count. I only got caught up in baking recently, so I guess I'm still on the hunt for my favorite.

I love the recipe my Mom makes it's buttery and so good!

My brother makes an awesome cornbread, I have tried to replicate, but it just isn't as good as when he does it!

I make my own cornbread. I have been learning to make "southern" style cornbread with an iron skillet. I think that I still like mine the best. As a kid, I loved Marie Calendar's cornbread with honey butter.

I use my mother's own southern recipe that uses a little extra sugar and sometimes green chillies!

I was fortunate enough to learn how to make cornbread from both of my grandmothers back home in Tennessee. Now that I live in California, the only cornbread I've found worth eating is what I make for my family.

I'm a huge Crescent Dragonwagon fan and would truly love to have this addition to my collection of her cookbooks!

My friend Kim makes the best cornbread, but she won't share her "Mamaw's" recipe!

My mom's homemade cornbread is the best.

I make my own cornbread.

The Moosewood recipe is perfect.

I love this book. For years, i've been using organic corn flour for my corn muffins-tender like you woudn't believe!

i like my sweet maple cornbread/cake!

I like my own homemade cornbread in a cast iron skillet made with buttermilk and no sugar.

Jiffy - although I used to live with several people who felt very strongly about cornbread and I always felt the need to hide the little blue box. I'd empty out brownie boxes and stash my Jiffy mix in there. Sadly, my secret was found out when someone wanted to make brownies and found my secret, guilty pleasure cornbread mix.

My mother's has always been the best, to me at least...

I am a cornbread junkie, and would KILL for a copy of this book. Cornbread is one of my most cherished foods, since it brings back to life the summers filled with scout camp, fishing competitions, campfires and a hearty meal of beans, franks and cornbread. It just doesn't get any better that that!

I have to have it homemade. Don't forget the honey!!

My favorite cornbread is homemade. I love my recipe but I will always try new ones to see what else is out there.

from the box. Jiffy's is the bomb

It's found in MY kitchen first. And in my MIL's kitchen (Tennessee) next. They're different recipes and both excellent. Although hers may have a slight advantage over mine, because it's always so nice to have somebody else do the cooking now and then.

I would have to say Jiffy
though I did make it from scratch once for stuffing and that came out pretty good - I believe that recipe was from Cook's Illustrated

I love Jiffy cornbread with a warm bowl of homemade soup or chili! I would love a good homemade cornbread recipe so I really want to win this cookbook!

Jiffy cornbread mix is my favorite! I love cornbread!

My grandmas homemade corn bread

I bake my own. I like plain ol' corn bread, no additions, with honey butter on top.

My favorite cornbread is the one I make myself. I follow the recipe on the back of the Quaker cornmeal box and I adore it, especially when I make it with the white cornmeal. It's awesome!

My favorite is from Dinosaur BBQ in Harlem. I also like homemade, if it isn't too fiddled-around-with (no meat or peppers, please), or Jiffy.

I love cornbread! My husband makes some good cornbread, but I've never had any that I didn't like.

My cracklin' cornbread. The best.

I love cornbread no matter how it's made. One of my favorite variations is a Southwestern Cornbread Pudding I had at a little hole-in-the-wall (now out of business) steakhouse in Burns, Kansas.

I like several different recipes, some a little sweet. But my husband still prefers Jiffy, so I make that.

homemade......add cheese, onion, peppers and corn......yum!

I make my own buttermilk cornbread using an iron skillet. I try to make it as good as my Mom used to, but mine is not quite as good. She never used a recipe.

The best cornbread, other than homemade from a sizzling skillet in the oven, can be had at Max's Memphis Barbecue in Red Hook, New York. This area is certainly not a hotbed of cornbread eateries, but these folks have a great recipe and bring their cornbread to your table to enjoy as soon as you sit down in the restaurant. Great stuff!

My favorite way to eat cornbread is with chili. The chili is homemade, but I have to admit I usually use the Jiffy mix for the cornbread.

My favorite cornbread is this one:

http://find.myrecipes.com/recipes/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&recipe_id=222034

This cornbread is much lower in fat and sweeter because of the addition of the can of creamed corn. The key is baking it in the vintage and very well-seasoned cast iron skillet that our friend's mother gave to us. When not in use for cornbread or other cooking purposes, it doubles as a home security system.

I hate to admit it but my favorite cornbread is from my local Whole Foods store. It is moist, sweet and delicious!

Well, I moved from Europe and I have to admit I never had any cornbread until we lived here. My friend's cornbread is the best but I would love to win this book to start making cornbread myself. Thanks for the great give away!

Homemade but I wish I could get the corn muffins from my childhood. They were round and about a 1/2 " thick and purchased at the Star Market in Newtonville. Toasted and buttered, they were perfection.

i'm my own cook

I can't get my favorite corn bread any more because it came from a little mom-and-pop BBQ joint thousands of miles from me in Clarksville, TN. It's actually a griddle cake, with lots of buttermilk flavor, and good country butter melting into it. Yum! Of course, they would never give out the recipe... Thanks for the offer!

tony roma's makes the best cornbread

Homemade from Jiffy mix served with honey butter.

there are these super tasty jalapeno cornbread from this bbq place in portland, me...oh my god, *drool*

I love cornbread from any where! I had some today at work..my mom makes it great

Mom makes it and we eat it with beef stew.

My grandma made the best corn bread.

I cook my own Cornbread, Then use the leftovers for dessert with ice cream and strawberries.

Jiffy, thats why I need this cookbook

The Golden Northern Cornbread from ATK's The New Best Recipe is just about perfect.

Martha
Throwing Spoons

We have a place called Big Time Diner that is run by one of the big churches in our city. They make the BEST cornbread ever. I'm usually a fan of the sweeter cornbread but there's isn't sweet at all and I still enjoy it. Everytime I'm there I get a couple cornbread muffins and then cornbread dressing.

I usually use the recipe on the back of the cornmeal box, throw in some chillis and bake it my iron skillet ~ yum

My mom's cornbread is amazing! I've tried making the same exact recipe, but it's not exactly the same...

Ooh, I love homemade cornbread on a cast iron skillet. A second favorite is a restaurant I used to frequent when I lived in Chicago: Bandera. There's is also in a cast iron skillet and has a wonderful crust.

Homemade sweet buttermilk cornbread in my grandmother's cast iron skillet.

mom's house. and it always comes with grandma's cream of tomato soup.

From my NC-transplant friend's kitchen.

I like my cornbread not too sweet and crumbly... so I usually make it myself

I like my mom's cornbread the best!

jacques imo's in new orleans

My cornbread is the best, but I'm always interested in seeing new recipes.

My cornbread is my favorite, just like my mother used to make.

My mother's was the best ever.

Marie Callender mix is the only kind I've made. I'd like to try making it from scratch with a good recipe.

My favorite is cracklin' cornbread on New Year's Day with a bowl of collard greens. Yes, I'm from the South and that's what my Granny raised me on. Thank you.

Corn bread is my absolute favorite food. I love the kind my dad makes. Soft, moist, corn, and a little sugar!

Hello! I am determined to win a cookbook on this site. I have been trying for months! They are all wonderful. My husband makes a from scratch cornbread/corn dish that our whole family loves. Believe me, we have a couple of picky sons! Please enter me in your drawing. My husband would really enjoy this cookbook. Many thanks.....Cindi

mines from a secret family recipe, shhhhhh

Homemade can't be beat :), I'd love to win this cookbook

I have a recipe that used jalapenos and cheese. It's really good.

We used to live near a local bbq place that had the best cornbread I have ever had. We've moved and I can't find another place to get my cornbread fix. So I have a recipe I use when I get cravings.

At the church supper once a year.

Homemade of course! Baked in a "stove-top bread baker" so you don't have to turn the oven on in the heat of summer, crusty all around, at the end of a meal buttered and drizzled with sorghum syrup, oh my...
I also loved the cornbread served in the Ole Miss dining hall and student union food court. Buttery, a little sweet for my taste, more like dessert. YUM.

Any cornbread as long as there's some bbq or brunswick stew with it.

One of my best friends, Alli, makes THE BEST Cornbread in the world...and she always has it whenever I visit...YUM!!!!!!!!

My MIL makes the best cornbread with jalapeños & green chiles~soo good!!
I also love cornbread & sausage dressing-makes me wish it was Thanksgiving, 'cuz it's the only time of the year I make it!

Jiffy mix, it's easy to find in the store, easy to make, tastes great, etc. I've been eating it for years and I look great (maybe that's my secret). I even bring a box or two when I go to a friends, just in case they don't have any yet, especially when we're doing out chitlins and deep fried gizzards on Sunday. And it's a perfect side for homemade buffalo chili.

JIFFY! My boyfriend and I joke it will be the only thing we eat if we ever go poor. A box is 39 cents, and we can eat it all in one sitting. Delicious!

From scratch using a recipe that I have used for years from Quick Thrifty Cooking

Homemade in my grandmother's cast iron skillet with buttermilk & stone ground yellow cornmeal, piping hot with butter and a glass of ice cold sweet tea.

Jiffy Brand, made in a cast iron skillet, with a little sugar sprinkled on top.

My favorite corn bread comes from a favorite local Creole restaurant. Love it! Thank you!

Although I make a delicious cornbread, my favorite is from a local restaurant, East Coast Grill. It's very rich, and moist, and I don't want to know how many calories are in the generous slice they give you...

Depends on the mood I'm in. Less sweet it's homemade, a little sweeter it's Jiffy. No matter which one it is it's baked in a cast iron skillet.

Jiffy rules, although the old Dromedary box was great as well. I like to add sliced jalapeños but was always leery of the "add a can of corn" variations. I've tried it with a chiffonade of fresh sage from the garden, yummmm...now I am hungry for cornbread! I'll have to give this moist recipe a try.

My husband makes great jalapeno cornbread.

My mother's. I just can't seem to get it right.
(if God had intended for cornbread to have sugar in it, He'd have called it CAKE)

Cornbread - manna from heaven!

My current fave is the cornbread at Indigo Smoke, a BBQ joint in Maplewood NJ

homemade
THANK YOU GOD BLESS

Homemade of course :)

Sadly I don't anymore, since it's 250 miles away in Syracuse at Alto Cinco.

@Littlebluesiren Oh no! They changed it?! That's tragic. Though, I don't expect to return anytime soon so my memories of delicious will have to suffice either way.

Homemade in a cast iron skillet.

This would be nice to have.

I'll eat any cornbread. Loads of butter and honey!

I make it from scratch

Definitely homemade. And the edges where it browns is the best part! Not so much a fan of the cakey middle...

I make mine from scratch & use cast iron as others do so that it gets extra crispy. I do have to say that my grandmother's is the best. Makes me want to make bean soup and cornbread covered with butter.

My mother's homemade cornbread, sweet and delicious.

My daughter-in-law makes great cornbread. Thank you for this giveaway!

We've got the company that makes the blue-and-white box cornbread nearby, and it's very good, but we improve upon it by adding creamed corn, sour cream, grilled onions, and cheddar cheese.

Homemade, baby. I just got this recipe for Sweet Cornmeal Coconut Butter Drop Biscuits in an interview with Eco-Soul Chef Bryant Terry. Could be my new favorite.

It's not my favorite, but I love that "Marie Callendar's" give you FREE cornbread with whipped honey butter at ever meal. C'mon now that's class!

I have a recipe for cornbread that I like - if i'm in a hurry I use the Jiffy box mix, which the family also likes real well

Homemade is my favorite. I love cornbread and being southern it's the first thing I learned to cook. I always make mine in a cast iron skillet just like my Mom and Grands.

I make mine following the recipe on the back of the cornmeal box. I have honestly never added anything to it. After reading these suggestions I may have to.

I like cornbread with spaghetti casserole, among other things.

I've only had success with the Jiffy box mix. My homemade versions have all been horribly dry and dense--I'm the first to admit I'm not a baker, but this is really embarrassing. Obviously I would benefit from owning this book.

I love the cornbread at a restaurant here called Cock of the Walk. It is real southern style corn bread.

While I don't think I've ever found a cornbread I don't like, what I really miss is my dad's cornbread with cheese and corn kernels that he'd bake on the grill in the backyard on weekends.

cracker barrel

I unfortunately don't think I've had cornbread enough times to pick a favourite yet. But I wouldn't be surprised if it came out of my own oven one day!

Homemade all the way!

My Aunt Dora made the BEST cornbread. I really should have paid attention while she was still with us. Alas, Aunt Dora is know serving cornbread in heaven.

Homemade in a cast iron skillet

I often make my own., but in a pinch, Jiffy is a terific product. I always have some in my pantry.

Homemade, cast iron skillet, plus a little reserved bacon fat.

Usually only have it at home for some reason. Like others have commented, Jiffy in a box is just as good or better than mine turns out.

My wife makes the best cornbread, doesn't she??

My favorite cornbread is my own: I called it Mexican Corn Cheesebread, but it's basically yellow cornbread with finely diced onions, green chiles, a can of cream style corn and cheddar or jack cheese in it.
My kids love it, and it goes with anything.... at least in Texas :)

I think my cornbread is best -- with a little chipotle in it. YUM!

Ive got a good buddy that learned how to make southern cornbread in the Air Force.. It is killer.. and he wont tell me how he does it....dang him!!!

My moms is the best thanks for thisgreat contest

It's true--my favorite cornbread is from a Crescent Dragonwagon recipe! "Sizzling Skillet Cornbread" is in her "Soup and Bread" cookbook, and it is wonderfully rich, buttery, and moist (but not heavy). My family loves it with black bean soup.

I love my iron skillet especially for camping.

Home of great cornbread - Albuquerque roadside stand - it was terrific. The best with chili.

The best cornbread I ever had was made by Mrs. Byrd in Hurricane, WV. I have tried for years to duplicate it, but nothing quite measures up to it.

I love my Mom's cornbread. I especially love the corner and side pieces. Bad thing is that she doesn't have a recipe so I can't make it myself.

I love the cornbread at Jestine's Kitchen in Charleston, SC.

I love when my stepmom puts cornbread overtop the chilli she makes!

box of jiffy...

I loved my Dad's homemade cornbread. It could have been Jiffy for all I know, he's been gone for years. But I remember that smell in the house and the sweet cornbread with just a touch of butter. What a wonderful memory. Thanks for the giveaway

Dorie's corn muffins with plenty of fresh nutmeg and corn, hot from the oven, smeared with butter. Tied with that are my grandmother's corn cakes, which are crisp and savory and nothing short of heavenly.

homemade, no sugar

my mother-in-law's homemade, from scratch, in an iron skillet, cornbread is my favorite

Homemade is always best- that way I can enjoy it straight out of the oven.

Best corn bread my mom makes...How I don't know

We've been a Jiffy Mix family for a long, long time.

I really could use this cookbook because I can't make a desent batch of corn bread to save my life! I try and try and still not the same as the stuff by dear sweet Grandma use to make us when I was a child.

A friend of mine makes my favorite corn bread.

Once a year at a local fair I get the best cornbread in the world! Too bad I only have access to it once a year!

I used to make pretty good cornbread, but then my wife went South Beachy on me, so it's been a while.

I'm seriously jonesing now, though.

I head to a hometown place called Boyd's New Generation Family Diner in Springfield, Illinois. They make some killer cornbread.

The best place to get perfect cornbread is at my Mom's house. She makes the absolute best.

My grandmother's cornbread is fabulous-every Sunday after church she makes it in a well seasoned cast iron pan in the leftover oil from frying chicken. Everyone looks forward to church now!

Homemade cornbread filled with my fresh sweet corn (or leftover frozen!) and heavy cream baked only in the cast iron skillet, omg I about died the first time I made it. Heaven.

My mother made wonderful cornbread but she's been dead for years. I have her cast iron skillet but unfortunately not her talent!

Homemade with cheddar, bacon and jalapenos OR homemade plain with honey butter OR a variation from a restaurant - more cake than bread, sweet, but soooo good OR when I need it in a jiffy, I go with....Jiffy!

I live in Alabama and I do not know how to make cornbread.. how sad is that?

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I love my own homemade

I make my own cornbread in a cast iron skillet. Great crust! I am sensitive to wheat, so I either use all cornmeal, or substitute rice flour or sorghum flour for the wheat flour. I got a great wheat free recipe off the internet, but found one of the recipes you listed from this book was exactly like the one from the internet. Thanks for all your hard work.

i get my cornbread out of a box! that's the best kind, hahah!

WE LOVED THE CORNBREAD AT CHI CHI'S TOO BAD THEY ARE GONE

i actually like the cornbread casserole thingy at tony roma's - my husband just likes when i make marie callendars out of the can...

Talk about your breakfast of champions! It sounds delicious, of course, I could eat cardboard if it had honey and butter melted on to it. Sometimes the simplest combinations are the most divine.

I've never been able to pick a favorite. Almost any hole-in-the-wall kind of restaurant down in Georgia can usually whip-up a good cornbread.

My homemade stuff rocks!

My own cornbread recipe is still being perfected. As a kid I remember eating at Pioneer Pies (now non-existent) and I loved the cornbread! There's a recipe I have that's full of cheese and jalapenos... usually a show stopper but expensive and way fattening!

A restaurant right down the street from me - perfect!

Sweet cornbread made at home.

My mama of course!!

I have a recipe for something called cornbread salad and it is delicious and very different.

Crescent Dragonwagon! Except in this case, it was in the Passionate Vegetarian. I add a leeeetle more sugar to it because I'm a damn yank, but not too much!

I went to school in Tennessee, and a friend's mother was the best southern cook! She'd have us home for a weekend a semester, and I always looked forward to her cooking -- and her cornbread!

My wife makes the best homemade cornbread, but said she'd love to try new recipes, so this sounds great!

Love to make cornbread from scratch. Use cornmeal grinded at a mill.
thank you

I make homemade cornbread. My family likes a sweet cornbread and I have a great recipe I've used for years.

Ms Dragonwagon's original recipe for skillet cornbread that I found in the Dairy Hollow House Cookbook is the best I've ever made. If that recipe is in this newer book, it's worth the price just for that.

I'll have to say homemade; hands down 'cus I only know one restaurant in my realm that serves cornbread; and that is with grilled salmon. My daughter can make better. It will be hard to find a wedge of cornbread better than what my father made in his cast iron skillet after scorching the pan in the oven with some bacon drippings; straight up, course ground and not too much sugar.

I make my cornbread...can't wait to see all the recipes in this book!

My favorite cornbread was my grandmother's--made with no recipe, of course. Maybe I could find a recipe in this book that would taste as good as hers.

I make my own ~ simple, but delicious.

I currently get mine from Trader Joe's boxed mix. I would love to start making my own.

Mom's is the best!

My wife makes homemade cornbread that is delicious!

I make it myself from a recipe I got from a friend

Johns restaurant in downtown, Birmingham, Al. had the best corn muffins I have ever eaten.
A secret recipe that would just melt in your mouth. They were light, crispy, airy and full of flavor.
I have tried many cornbread recipes in hopes of duplicating that texture and flavor, but no luck yet.
My cornbread is just sad compared to Johns.
I really need that cookbook, just ask my family!

Brasa in Minneapolis makes the BEST cornbread!

I'm still waiting to experience amazing, transcendent cornbread. I make an okay cornbread, but have to fall into the Jiffy box camp -- it's as good as anything else I've tasted, and certainly the best (and easiest) cornbread I can make at home. Maybe this cookbook will provide the perfect recipe I've been waiting for!

My favorite cornbread is from Famous Dave's. I tend to like cornbread that's on the sweeter side vs. the salty side. I make it at home from Betty Crocker pouches and everyone seems to like that too.

My ex-mother-in-law made the best, with pieces of corn in it.

At Banta Senior Center for lunch!

my mom makes awesome cornbread :)

My hubby makes the most mouth watering cornbread!

I make my own cornbread, and it's delish...

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My cornbread is my favorite, hands down.

my wife makes the best cornbread. she adds a tablespoon of molasses to the batch to make it a tad sweeter.

Rose Beranbaum Levy's recipe -- oohhhhh - delicious!

Rose Beranbaum Levy's recipe -- oohhhhh - delicious!

Grandma's of course!!

always my homemade!!!!

my homemade cornbread with lots of butter!

My Grandma made the best cornbread in the world. I used to eat it for breakfast every day I was at her house.

I have not made it in a long time but I have a good recipe (if I can find it) that includes whole pieces of corn. It is great.

my sister makes the best cornbread

I think that I make a pretty good cornbread.

My mother makes the best corn bread.

Our family favorite is from a local restaurant called "Tulsa Rib Co." All their food is great, but we've been known to go just for the cornbread.

my friend's homemade green tea cornbread

I love the cornbread drizzled with honey at Hometown Buffet

My grandma's homemade cornbread is my favorite!

Nobody can cook down-home Southern cornbread like my Mama-
she has the BEST smelling kitchen in SC!

homemade-I bake my own. I have heard people talk about Cracker Barrel and the Georgia Department of Corrections.. They swear its good with pinto beans.

my mom makes great cracklin cornbread! ty 4 the great contest!

I must say, I make some pretty awesome cornbread. Of course I add honey! Delish with butta!

Nothing beats homemade jalapeño cheddar cornbread!

Anywhere I can. Mostly I try to go to southern food restaurants. They open and close every 5 minutes in NYC.

I get some from a friend.

My husband makes some pretty good cornbread!

My first husband had an aunt who was known for her cornbread. Nobody else's came close. I asked her once if I could have her recipe. She laughed and said there was no recipe, it was a handful of this and a pinch of that. Well, she agreed to make cornbread and to let me measure the handfuls and pinches before they went into the mixing bowl. I later learned that she'd never given the recipe to anybody else - ever. I make it when I need a cornbread fix. Not quite as good as hers, but still my favorite.

My favorite cornbread is homemade, just the way Grandma taught me. I miss her.

Living in the South cornbread is a staple of any meal. I keep trying different recipes and enjoying each one. So far I like the one by Chef John of Food Wishes. Good eating for sure.

I make my own cornbread but I need some new ideas.

I use the one on the Alber's cornmeal box and my north carolinian girlfirend's tip: melt the butter in the baking dish before you pour in the batter. Perfect, every time.

My grandma's homemade cornbread. ~ :)

Both my husband and I love corn bread, this looks like a great book, it's the first I have heard of it. Oh and of course I make it the best!

I always use the cornbread recipe from the Fanny Farmer cookbook.

My favorite was my mother's homemade cornbread. She's gone now...sure wish I'd gotten her recipe.

My favorite cornbread was my mother's. She started it in a cast iron skillet over a flame then finished it in the oven. Sometimes she added cracklins. Awesome!

Jiffy Mix made in a preheated cast iron skillet, greased with some bacon drippings. I love the crusty brown portion! Gotta eat it with real BUTTER! Thanks for the opportunity to participate in this giveaway!

I had the most amazing cornbread at Marie Callendar's restaurant in Oklahoma City.

I have to admit, mine is the best I've eaten. I just use a yellow cornbread mix (usually Martha White), add Pace's Picante Sauce, grated cheddar cheese and whole kernal corn. Extra cheese goes on top. Yuuummmy! For restaurant cornbread, it has to be Mama's Daughter's Diner in Lewisville, Texas.

Homemade is the best!

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