I grew up on fried cornbread. When momma didn't have anything for me to eat before school she would fry some cornbread and pour corn syrup on it and that was my breakfast. Sometimes for dinner momma would fry corn bread and chop up a bunch of onions put that in the batter and then fry it. We usually had a mess of pintos or butters when she cooked it that way. God bless
Your comment was like a page of my life. :) I think I can "one up" you though... We were so poor that once, all we had was cornmeal, so Mama once made fried cornbread from meal and water and then made "gravy" with the meal... That was horrible! :) (had it been made with flour, it would have been OK.)
I had forgotten about the corn syrup. Plenty of homemade butter and corn syrup. I didn't care for them, but, of course, either ate them or went hungry :)
@@RonRay I have been there my friend...we were dirt poor. Momma raised me on her own. We moved a lot! We never had the money to stay in one house for long. I am 55 yrs old and I have moved 53 times in my life. A majority of those moves were when I was at home with momma. Times were hard but we made it through it didn't we my friend. Our mommas did the best they could do. God bless
@@catherineengle4196 my Grandma was poor when they were growing up too and one of the things they would do with the leftover cornbread would make scrambled eggs and cornbread. You crumble up the cornbread and then add it to a hot skillet with a bit of grease (bacon grease is the best) and then fry that up a bit and add your eggs and just cook until the eggs are done. Omg that's probably one of my favorite dishes!!
In Robeson County, NC people eat collard sandwiches which are two pieces of cornbread with collards in the middle. Sometimes people add chow chow or bacon and likely vinegar.
Finally, after 40 years, I found the fried cornbread I was served as the houseguest of a Southern family who were, like you, Tipper, from North Carolina. I've never seen it mentioned in any story about Southern cooking. The family just called it cornbread, but I watched the women folk mix it up and fry it, and anyway there's no mistaking the cooking method from the way it comes out, crispy on the edges and flat as a pancake. For the family I stayed with it had the advantage of being amenable to last-minute decisions about supper.
We just called it fried corn bread and still do, my dads mother fried corn bread in bacon grease made with yellow mill ground corn, a touch of flour, salt and baking powder and butter milk. My mothers folks never fried corn bread, baked pone in the stove with store brought white self rising meal, an egg , a touch of salt, regular cows milk straight from the barn and a squirt of yellow mustard, grandmother said she had; had enough of roughing it and it was store brought meal or nothing. A good mess of purple hull peas and some mustard greens would make a fine meal with either corn bread. The pone corn bread was also used for desert, a small sliced buttered and covered with ribbon cane syrup was not to be beat! Thanks for sharing.
Oh, Lord, that dinner sounds so damn good. I used to buy and cook purple hull peas but haven’t even seen them in years. I live in Seattle now and have to buy frozen baby Lima beans to go with my black eyed peas and okra, to to have with greens. At least I can get mustards, collards, and turnips here.
I used my regular cornbread recipe and put it in my waffle maker. It was so tasty! And I wanna thank you for your channel! I’ve been learning about Appalachian culture since we moved to West Virginia a year ago.
Living here in Canada, we didn't see cornbread too often. Sometimes though, my mother would bake it for breakfast. A corner piece, still steaming hit from the oven, slathered with butter and honey, and a tall glass of cold milk was my absolute favourite breakfast. Still is
@@lisaanderson2900 for my family on the west coast it depended on what we were having. Breakfast was usually with sugar or if corn on the cob for dinner my dad buttered one then rolled his corn in it to butter that.
@@CathyHendrix1 Cathy, I live in Georgia, and have purchased cracklins in Ingles grocery store. My Uncle Jim would make a pan of cracklin cornbread every New Year's Day.
@@georgiapines7906 There are a couple of Ingles within an hour of me. I live in Virginia. I will surely check to see if they have cracklin's. Thanks so much for the reply! Have an awesome evening!!
My grandmother would make fried cornbread in the summer when it was “too hot to use the oven” as she said. It was so good with a mess of beans cooked long and slow. We started calling them “corn dodgers” because that is what Rooster Cogburn carried in his saddle bags on the trail, made for him by his housekeeper, Chen Lee. We still call them corn dodgers and love to watch True Grit, the movie. Used as targets, a drunk Rooster Cogburn even shoots them! My wife wants us to make some now. Thanks for the inspiration!
Daddy always loved when Mommy would fry cornbread in the summer. He loved it with fresh green beans and potatoes that she fixed in a pressure cooker. She would fry up a pound of bacon first and use fresh bacon grease and we would have the bacon for our meat. Delicious! The only thing we needed was a slice of fresh tomato, green onions and cucumbers & onion in vinegar, a small dash of sugar and water. Precious memories for me. Mommy and Daddy have gone on to be with the Lord. 🙏
Love cornbread. I fondly remember my Mother would make hoecakes with navy beans. I never knew why they were called hoecakes until you mentioned it. Thank you. I love your videos.
Fried corn bread is clearly a pallet for the artistic cook. My Wife and family are from Kentucky and we have it so may ways. We have lived in Texas for 42 years so now Jalapenos and onions are common fare.
@@OldWaysGardeningandPrepping my husband made bacon wrapped corn on the grill tonight… now I know what I’m making with the leftovers for dinner tomorrow night. Thank you ❤️🙏
Mom was from the mountains of East Tennessee called Del Rio but further into the mountains . She called it hoe cakes . I still make them especially with fried potatoes and pinto beans....these I cook all night... slowly...mashing at least at least a cup full...putting it back into the pot of beans to thicken the bean soup! Soooo good!!!
My Mama (who, thanks to your channel, I recently found out was from part of NC Appalachia region) use to fry cornbread. Oh my goodness, I'd eat until I was sick. Butter on that fried cornbread......YUMMMMM. Explaining my earlier comment, I noticed that my mothers accent and words reminded me of many of your "Appalachia Education" videos. So I searched the area where she was raised and the region is considered part of the NC Appalachia. So thank you for all the information you include in your videos!!
Seeing this makes me think of my grandma, a girl from West Point Arkansas. She made us the best fried cornbread for just about every meal. grandpa would break up some day old cornbread into a glass and pour some buttermilk over it and let it soak up. Man, that was good. We topped it off with a handful of fresh green onions and have lunch. Oh, the memories. Thank you for your video.
I grew up on fried cornbread patties. My mother was a good cook and when we had fresh vegetables, or beans and especially cabbage - she would fry these delicious patties. I haven't made fried cornbread in a while. Our boys really liked them when they were growing up. I need to introduce our grandchildren to the cornbread. They like baked - but have not had fried.
My husband’s aunt makes what she calls lacy cornbread. I think the batter is just cornmeal and water, but it’s thinner than most cornbread batters. She fries it in a skillet and pours the batter in the oil in small drizzles. Similar to the way a funnel cake would be made but they are much smaller. About the size of the palm of your hand. They are really crunchy and the last piece is often fought over at Thanksgiving 😊
You're fried cornbread recipe is exactly what I learned when I was growing up from Mama and Grandmama. Equal parts of enriched cornmeal and buttermilk. Mix it and let it sit for a while. But the cast iron skillet into the oven with some oil. Pour in a good splash of oil into the cornmeal and buttermilk. Then, poor into the heated Skillet and let it cook until everything is brown and delicious. The way you refer to the authors of so many of these books is great. Thank you so much for sharing
We called it fried cornbread. My mom would typically make it in the summertime to go along with her fried okra, chicken fried steak, buttered rice and gravy with sliced tomatoes and pickled cucumbers! What a great memory!
Ok , So I'm just scrolling through my RUclips, and on the thumbnail picture I see a cast iron skillet, cornbread, Appalachian so I immediately play video. And I immediately noticed it was "THE PRESSLEY GIRL'S" mom. I love those girls. The whole family is so talented. So glad I found this channel. Love the Appalachian way of life. New subscriber
We always called it fried cornbread. Sometimes, the older folks in the family would say corn fritters. I'm gonna make this tonight. Your video made me so hungry!
We always called them fritters and I have always made them. When my twins were babies they really loved them, and still do.Appalachian cooking is the best.
My Dad always called them fritters. He liked them with green onions chopped into the batter. Then he would break them up in a bowl and cover it with butter milk. He said it was a real treat. The things we remember from our parents.
North Louisiana raised but poor country folks had to be creative and make do with whatever was close to hand. So many of your stories about food and growing up listening to older relatives talk about how things were done back then are very similar to how I was raised. We grew up on hot water (fried) cornbread. Boiling hot water was poured over Cornmeal, salt, with a pinch of leavening to make a thick dough. We always used cold water on our hands to shape the patties to combat the heat and keep the dough from sticking to our hands. Then fry them in a cast iron skillet in hot smoking oil. My mother loved eating her grandmother’s hot water cornbread and thought it was so neat how great grannie left a thumb print in each one she made. Cornbread baked in the oven was called skillet bread.
I love making fried cornbread. Me mamaw made it all the time. She’s Appalachian as well. She was born in Bell County Kentucky. I’ll have to do a video on her cornbreads. Love that you are sharing all these memories with us and keeping the old Appalachian ways alive. God Bless.
@@wvgirl7264 Lol I'm from WV, too!! Wayne County, to be exact. My email is actually very strangely similar to yours. Anyway, my people would crumble those or cornbread chunks or slices (depending on how it was sliced for that nights dinner) AND EAT WITH BUTTERMILK! Reg "sweet milk" if they didn't have buttermilk on hand. Like, they ate it like it was cereal lol cornbread cereal. Can you imagine? Lol. I've read of a lot of ppl eating it this way & I'm in no way knocking it or trying to be offensive to anyone who likes this. It's just not for me. 😊 have a great day, wvgirl1
Growing up on a farm in Western New York State, we had corn fritters once in a while. They always had some kernel corn in them and were fried in lard in our cast iron skillet.
In my family in Maryland's Piedmont region, cornbread very rarely appeared. My Mom-mom, however, made what she called corn cakes frequently and year round. She would make her usual pancake batter out of her head, no recipe or measuring of ingredients, and add either fresh sweet corn cut from the cob or a pint jar of her canned corn. Her pancakes were always wonderful, but the addition of the corn boosted them into the stratosphere. We ate them slathered with Blue Bonnet margarine, butter being too costly, and King Syrup. The syrup was thick and had a mild molasses flavor no where near as strong as black strap. It was produced in Baltimore and is still available here, but I rarely use it because I'm diabetic (type 2) and it is now made with high fructose corn syrup which I try to avoid as much as possible. I so appreciate your videos as they rekindle memories of growing up in a world, gone forever now, but so much better than where we find ourselves today. I love sharing the similarities and differences between our regions and our personal experiences. Thank you and God bless!
I haven't had corn cakes since I was very young. I'll have to do that. Many memories popped up. We had a cast iron wood cookstove. Mom poured corn cakes right on the top. Dad loved them with molasses. Thanks.
This reminds me of what my Ma makes only she uses regular flour and calls them Flitters. I remember as a kid she made them on the weekends when she had more time to make "country breakfasts". They were so good. By the way I like your channel. Thanks for all the good and informative videos.
Tipper, once again you bring back a flood of memories. Mommy used to make them the way you do and we loved them. We also had Cracklin's too but she put them in the cast iron skillet and made a pone on cornbread. I loved them with butter and homemade syrup over them. I remember her also making what she called Fritters but they were made with flour instead of mixing cornbread with it. She'd fry them up and they were as light as could be and oh so good. I've tried duplicating them through the years but have failed in getting her results. I was a young boy and we just didn't hang out in kitchen with Mommy to learn her recipes, and rue to this day that I didn't, she was such a good cook. Our home was on Irish Creek but we pronounced it Arsh Creek. It was a little ways from Blaine, Ky. We say we came from Louisa but if you lived within 20 miles from Louisa, that's where you where from. I don't know whether or not my failure at making the flour Fritters was due to my taste buds not being those of a 10 to 12 year old or my failing memory. I'll be 74 in a week or two and would Love to have another of Mommy's Corn Fritters or especially one of her Flour ones before I go. If you have a recipe for the flour fritters I would Love to see it. Good work on your Video's, wife and I both Love to watch them together.
I love fried cornbread! Growing up here in southeast Virginia as a boy and northeast North Carolina we always called them Johnny cakes or just fried cornbread. I always made them when I was having fried fish! I always picked on them and ate as I was making them. Cornbread and biscuits here in the sunny south was always a staple. I enjoy your videos and they take me back cause a lot of what you show is very similar to what we done growing up. Right down to the terminology! Keep it all alive!
When I was a little girl.. I remember eating cornbread most anytime and hot water cornbread is my favorite.. but I've had corn cakes and fried cornbread like yours, too . Hot water cornbread is a little lighter in texture than what you made in your skillet It seems. it is all so good though.. delightful memories in the kitchen. Thank you for you bringing memories of home and family to mind.
That’s a great idea with frying the cornbread (like a pancake). I’ve never tried that before. I’m going to have to give it a try. Thank you! Have a great night 🤗
Good morning Tipper, I'm so happy that you made "fried cornbread 😋 " I've tried many times and could not get the mix just right. I use only White Lily self rising meal and buttermilk but I think my mistake was not letting the mix set for ten minutes or so. My fried cornbread always fell apart. I'm going to try again and use your recipe. Your supper sounds really good. Thanks for more wonderful APPALACHIA LIVING. Jeri Whittaker
I am a fan❣️ That looks great, I wish I had some right now!! I am learning which foods are most integral to Southern Appalachia and it’s history, cornbread surely is one!
Wells, bells, girl! I think you got this one covered. Don't know if you mentioned adding chopped onion in the batter, and oh so heavenly is crackling cornbread (or as a sub, chopped pork meat of any kind). Yes baking is the usual, but fried is great too, if not better! I love all this with green onions and buttermilk on the side. Oh yes, beans, and salad. Coleslaw too. I'm headed to the kitchen now! Thank God for Appalachia and Mrs Pressely!
I love fried cornbread, always have. It's so wonderful hearing you talk about the days gone by, really brings back good memories. Thank you for sharing the time with us and the stories.
I love cornbread, and i have heard of a lot of those but never had anything other than a whole cake of cornbread or a corn muffin. That fried cornbread sure looks good thou and i am going to try it. Thanks for sharing!
Growing up in North Carolina as a boy ,mama only made fried cornbread. The first time I saw baked cornbread, I thought it was cake. A cake of fried cornbread and a pot of pinto beans was all we needed. Us poor people sure had it good back then. Great video.
Martha White HAWT Rise white cornmeal mix. As it sits in the bowl, as you progress, it will thicken as the leavening works, add a dribble of water and keep remixing as you go along, so it does not get too thick. Look for the bubbles to come through to the top, and when the bubbles "stick"; it is probably ready to flip over. Temperature of your skillet has to be OK.
I ate fried cornbread many a day for supper with beans and lettuce & onions and for breakfast with syrup! My Mommy made the best! Oh how I miss those days! Thank you, Tipper, for bringing back those memories! God bless & love to all the Pressley fam! 💕🤗🙏🏻
Growing up in a small valley, between, Pine and Black mountain, mountain cooking was all I knew.. My Aunt, who lived in a one room cabin, and cooked on a open fire place would make these for me. Along with fried cabbage, and fried chicken... My family has a long history in south east Kentucky...they were the first to settle on what is now line fork, and leather wood, Kentucky... Corn bread was certainly a very important staple of their diet.
Growing up on a workin’ ranch in the south fried cornbread was served almost daily. Cornbread and cat head biscuits takes me back to my younger years. Thank you for sharing your receipt and keep the Appalachian way of life strong.
Grew up eatin’ ‘em, still make ‘em. When we have company visit, flitters (that’s what we call them), with fried taters, fried salmon patties , fresh green beans, fresh from the garden cut up onion, tomatoes and cucumbers is the most requested meal. For breakfast the most requested is chocolate gravy with biscuit pone.
Looks great! I will be trying!! The rest of the meal (some of my favorites) sounds delicious, too!! My dad used to make fried bread for us when mom was away. Size and thickness were similar. I would have liked better if he had used cornmeal! Loved the video.
I absolutely love fried cornbread. We call it fried cornbread. My husband calls it hoecakes. Ive heard it called johnny cakes...One of my favorite meals is brown beans, cornbread, fried potatoes, and fried saurkraut. Yum!!! Like you, its delicious even plain. I havent tried pepper jelly yet...🤔 I might have to try. Thank you. Your videos are always a learning experience and quite enjoyable. ☺
When you turned that over in the pan, my mouth immediately watered. I miss my Grandma's fried cornbread so much. Thank you so much for posting this. Wish I could be there for supper with ya'll.
We always called them Johny cakes, if they were made like pancakes. My favorite way is made like bread in a 9x9 pan. Take a square while it's hot and pour milk on it and sprinkle it with sugar and cinnamon. Had that a lot for breakfast in the winter. Soo good!
I love it! We also called it fried cornbread in southern Arkansas. I like it plain, with honey, with pinto beans, or even dipped in a little ketchup. We used self-rising corn meal mix too. Thank you for sharing.
Grandma used to make me cornmeal pancakes for breakfast, I grew up knowing them as Flapjacks. Usually had them with Kayro Syrup and some fried streak a lean. I am very glad I found your site! I watch your videos after supper and its really relaxing! Thank you.
I love fried cornbread. I learned to make it when I lived in Appalachia, along with beans and fried taters and greens. Its still one of my go to receipes. I also like just a regular cornbread done in the oven. Have a blessed day.
i make it all the time, grew up in Wake County so being an old southern girl my momma always made it. it is really the best and sometimes i chop up some green onion and throw that in the batter. love your recipes !!!
I love this channel! My grandmother use to make fried cornbread often. And I've heard my grandfather refer to it as johnny cakes! Thank you for sharing!!
My Mother made fried cornbread, but called it hoecakes. Daddy liked it with sausage & gravy. It sure is good. I make it occasionally & it brings back childhood memories. I love your videos!
My paternal grandmother’s parents were from Arkansas and moved to Cloudcroft, New Mexico so my great grandfather could work as a superintendent on the rail line to the town. My grandmother met my grandfather, a wrangler on a large cattle ranch, on a trip to Corona, NM. They were later married and she became a cook on the same ranch. The story in my family is the cow hands loved her cooking and fried cornbread was a favorite at breakfast. So, Southern cooking extended all the way to the ranches on the high deserts of New Mexico!
Cornbread ❤️ , yes grew up on fried cornbread and skillet baked. Momma loved it with sweet milk. I like it with jam or syrup, even honey. All the names you've read about cornbread and the two cookbook authors just add so much to this humble serving. It's all good!
We always called it corn bread and my mother would cook it often. She also cooked fried potatoes quite a bit and beans and taters as she would call it. My grandad used to break the cornbread up and soak it in buttermilk and eat it that way. I never liked it like that, but I used to dip it in honey or butter and that was pretty good.
I love anything corn ... especially Corn Bread. I love baking it in the skillet and I like to make myself a Johnny Cake for breakfast every now and again. I love it with Maple syrup and butter. I'm a Northerner (Upstate NY) I've always known Pancakes as flour made and Johnny Cakes or Corn Cakes as Cornmeal made. The only major difference is we don't use much Buttermilk around here. At least my family never did. It's not easy to find in stores either. We just use regular milk, eggs and a little baking powder.
Hello!! Greetings from Wales.uk. I find the appalachian culture just enchanting! 💚 Ive just found your channel and immediately subscribed!! Looking forward to watching some more vlogs! Thank you!
My mama always cooked cornbread in the oven and taught me that way. My mother-in-law fried it and it was so crispy and good. I’ve tried but never been able to get it to come out like hers.
Love corn bread! I also make corn meal mush with cheese in it,let it set up and cut it into pieces which I cook again on the grill with a brushing of olive oil.I call this Polenta,one of the things brought from Italy by grandparents.I fry it too.
My mom would make cornmeal mush with cooked sausage or bacon and put it into a loaf pan. At breakfast time, she would turn it out, slice it about a half inch thick, then dip it in some flour before frying it until crispy on the outside. The flour kept the larger pieces of corn from popping all over the place. Some syrup or jam or jelly, even molasses went with it a treat! Maple syrup too!
That brings back memories of mama making salmon patties, fried cornbread patties, buttered potatoes, and collard greens. It sure was delicious! Thank you for sharing!
I was born and raised in southern WV and we called them corn fritters. My mom would also make potato cakes with leftover mashed potatoes. I love your channel bc it reminds me of home and simpler times. ❤️ Thank you
fun to hear from different areas, where I’m from corn fritters would be what called the batter whole corn was added to the batter. Otherwise it was corncakes. When I started hearing fried cornbread my mind envisioned something else until I saw them. No matter what, all good
Absolutely love cornbread. Always used the self rising corn meal mix for years. I now live in Arizona and it is not available here. Learned how to make my own and am so happy. It is also good cooked in an electric waffle maker. Love your videos, D
Thats my favorite cornbread.. just like my mamaw used to make. Im from franklin NC. I thought everybody cooked like this until i left home. You cant get mountain food anywhere but the mountains.
I always miss my grandmother when I watch your cooking videos. Ever had white MaCaslan green beans? Best green beans around and custom grown for cornbread. They're pole beans so you earn everyone.
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I grew up on fried cornbread. When momma didn't have anything for me to eat before school she would fry some cornbread and pour corn syrup on it and that was my breakfast. Sometimes for dinner momma would fry corn bread and chop up a bunch of onions put that in the batter and then fry it. We usually had a mess of pintos or butters when she cooked it that way. God bless
Your comment was like a page of my life. :)
I think I can "one up" you though... We were so poor that once, all we had was cornmeal, so Mama once made fried cornbread from meal and water and then made "gravy" with the meal... That was horrible! :) (had it been made with flour, it would have been OK.)
I had forgotten about the corn syrup. Plenty of homemade butter and corn syrup. I didn't care for them, but, of course, either ate them or went hungry :)
@@RonRay I have been there my friend...we were dirt poor. Momma raised me on her own. We moved a lot! We never had the money to stay in one house for long. I am 55 yrs old and I have moved 53 times in my life. A majority of those moves were when I was at home with momma. Times were hard but we made it through it didn't we my friend. Our mommas did the best they could do. God bless
💯 I just commented before I saw yours. A page of my life as well 😌
@@catherineengle4196 my Grandma was poor when they were growing up too and one of the things they would do with the leftover cornbread would make scrambled eggs and cornbread. You crumble up the cornbread and then add it to a hot skillet with a bit of grease (bacon grease is the best) and then fry that up a bit and add your eggs and just cook until the eggs are done. Omg that's probably one of my favorite dishes!!
In Robeson County, NC people eat collard sandwiches which are two pieces of cornbread with collards in the middle. Sometimes people add chow chow or bacon and likely vinegar.
I can truly say I love the way the video started, Boom we mixing. No song and dance right to the meat and potatoes of it.
Thank you.
The Natives, Shawnee, were known for it and the first recorded Anglo account of the Johnny Cake was in 1739.
Just thought of something. Shawnee Cake, Johnny Cake...
That took me a minute! You're a clever'un!
Huh huh shore am
It was the Native Americans who taught them how to make them. 🍀
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Finally, after 40 years, I found the fried cornbread I was served as the houseguest of a Southern family who were, like you, Tipper, from North Carolina. I've never seen it mentioned in any story about Southern cooking. The family just called it cornbread, but I watched the women folk mix it up and fry it, and anyway there's no mistaking the cooking method from the way it comes out, crispy on the edges and flat as a pancake. For the family I stayed with it had the advantage of being amenable to last-minute decisions about supper.
We just called it fried corn bread and still do, my dads mother fried corn bread in bacon grease made with yellow mill ground corn, a touch of flour, salt and baking powder and butter milk. My mothers folks never fried corn bread, baked pone in the stove with store brought white self rising meal, an egg , a touch of salt, regular cows milk straight from the barn and a squirt of yellow mustard, grandmother said she had; had enough of roughing it and it was store brought meal or nothing. A good mess of purple hull peas and some mustard greens would make a fine meal with either corn bread. The pone corn bread was also used for desert, a small sliced buttered and covered with ribbon cane syrup was not to be beat! Thanks for sharing.
Oh, Lord, that dinner sounds so damn good. I used to buy and cook purple hull peas but haven’t even seen them in years. I live in Seattle now and have to buy frozen baby Lima beans to go with my black eyed peas and okra, to to have with greens. At least I can get mustards, collards, and turnips here.
Wow. That sounds delicious with butter and the ribbon cane syrup. Yum.
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I used my regular cornbread recipe and put it in my waffle maker. It was so tasty! And I wanna thank you for your channel! I’ve been learning about Appalachian culture since we moved to West Virginia a year ago.
That sounds great! Thank you Sage 😀
Living here in Canada, we didn't see cornbread too often. Sometimes though, my mother would bake it for breakfast. A corner piece, still steaming hit from the oven, slathered with butter and honey, and a tall glass of cold milk was my absolute favourite breakfast. Still is
Here in BC my mum made them in an 8x8 cake pan.
Carol, was there sugar in your Canadian corn bread? I'm in Michigan.
@@lisaanderson2900 for my family on the west coast it depended on what we were having. Breakfast was usually with sugar or if corn on the cob for dinner my dad buttered one then rolled his corn in it to butter that.
when started reading about it for breakfast could just about taste it with that butter & honey.. good eats hon!!!
How do you get corner piece from a round skillet? Just kidding…
What I would give for another piece of my Granny's 'cracklin' cornbread!! Yum!! I could hardly wait for it to bake!
Does anyone know where to buy 'cracklin's? Would love to find some!
@@CathyHendrix1 Cathy, I live in Georgia, and have purchased cracklins in Ingles grocery store. My Uncle Jim would make a pan of cracklin cornbread every New Year's Day.
@@georgiapines7906 There are a couple of Ingles within an hour of me. I live in Virginia. I will surely check to see if they have cracklin's. Thanks so much for the reply! Have an awesome evening!!
@@CathyHendrix1 Thanks, Carhy. Hope you find them and enjoy your delicious cornbread!😊
@@CathyHendrix1 Lord's brand cracklings are the best we have ever found. Usually find them at Ingles, IGA, and some Walmarts in north Georgia
My grandmother made fried cornbread and I still do. I didn't know it was called anything else until I was an adult and traveled. From N GA.
This is my favorite way! Had them several times a week growing up. We just called it cornbread. The baked kind was a pone. Central Kentucky here 👋
My grandmother would make fried cornbread in the summer when it was “too hot to use the oven” as she said. It was so good with a mess of beans cooked long and slow. We started calling them “corn dodgers” because that is what Rooster Cogburn carried in his saddle bags on the trail, made for him by his housekeeper, Chen Lee. We still call them corn dodgers and love to watch True Grit, the movie. Used as targets, a drunk Rooster Cogburn even shoots them! My wife wants us to make some now. Thanks for the inspiration!
We love fried cornbread and with our steamed oysters here on the coast. My favorite
Daddy always loved when Mommy would fry cornbread in the summer. He loved it with fresh green beans and potatoes that she fixed in a pressure cooker. She would fry up a pound of bacon first and use fresh bacon grease and we would have the bacon for our meat. Delicious! The only thing we needed was a slice of fresh tomato, green onions and cucumbers & onion in vinegar, a small dash of sugar and water. Precious memories for me. Mommy and Daddy have gone on to be with the Lord. 🙏
Love cornbread. I fondly remember my Mother would make hoecakes with navy beans. I never knew why they were called hoecakes until you mentioned it. Thank you. I love your videos.
I love them. We always called them fritters and use hot water corn bread recipes
Here in Texas we call them corn cakes. I put diced up jalapeño in mine ❤️🙏
I’ve had it like that here in eastern Kentucky, and I love it!
Yup......Jalapeno and onions..... sometimes we add creamed corn ..... yup ..... loving life
Fried corn bread is clearly a pallet for the artistic cook. My Wife and family are from Kentucky and we have it so may ways. We have lived in Texas for 42 years so now Jalapenos and onions are common fare.
Do at times add either diced onion, bacon, shredded cheddar cheese, whole kernel corn or jalapeno in ours. 🍀
@@OldWaysGardeningandPrepping my husband made bacon wrapped corn on the grill tonight… now I know what I’m making with the leftovers for dinner tomorrow night. Thank you ❤️🙏
Mom was from the mountains of East Tennessee called Del Rio but further into the mountains . She called it hoe cakes . I still make them especially with fried potatoes and pinto beans....these I cook all night... slowly...mashing at least at least a cup full...putting it back into the pot of beans to thicken the bean soup! Soooo good!!!
My Mama (who, thanks to your channel, I recently found out was from part of NC Appalachia region) use to fry cornbread. Oh my goodness, I'd eat until I was sick. Butter on that fried cornbread......YUMMMMM. Explaining my earlier comment, I noticed that my mothers accent and words reminded me of many of your "Appalachia Education" videos. So I searched the area where she was raised and the region is considered part of the NC Appalachia. So thank you for all the information you include in your videos!!
That's great Becky 😀
Seeing this makes me think of my grandma, a girl from West Point Arkansas. She made us the best fried cornbread for just about every meal. grandpa would break up some day old cornbread into a glass and pour some buttermilk over it and let it soak up. Man, that was good. We topped it off with a handful of fresh green onions and have lunch. Oh, the memories. Thank you for your video.
I grew up on fried cornbread patties. My mother was a good cook and when we had fresh vegetables, or beans and especially cabbage - she would fry these delicious patties. I haven't made fried cornbread in a while. Our boys really liked them when they were growing up. I need to introduce our grandchildren to the cornbread. They like baked - but have not had fried.
I love it, Makes me think of my Nana and her beans and greens and her Corn Bread.
My husband’s aunt makes what she calls lacy cornbread. I think the batter is just cornmeal and water, but it’s thinner than most cornbread batters. She fries it in a skillet and pours the batter in the oil in small drizzles. Similar to the way a funnel cake would be made but they are much smaller. About the size of the palm of your hand. They are really crunchy and the last piece is often fought over at Thanksgiving 😊
Oh my goodness, this will be so delicious...thanks for giving me another way to try cornmeal. 💕
That's how my Mama made them.
You're fried cornbread recipe is exactly what I learned when I was growing up from Mama and Grandmama. Equal parts of enriched cornmeal and buttermilk. Mix it and let it sit for a while. But the cast iron skillet into the oven with some oil. Pour in a good splash of oil into the cornmeal and buttermilk. Then, poor into the heated Skillet and let it cook until everything is brown and delicious.
The way you refer to the authors of so many of these books is great. Thank you so much for sharing
Yup. Soup beans pair best. I do not use any suger in the batter. Fried cornbread is best savory in my mind. Thank you for the post.
We called it fried cornbread. My mom would typically make it in the summertime to go along with her fried okra, chicken fried steak, buttered rice and gravy with sliced tomatoes and pickled cucumbers! What a great memory!
Ok , So I'm just scrolling through my RUclips, and on the thumbnail picture I see a cast iron skillet, cornbread, Appalachian so I immediately play video.
And I immediately noticed it was "THE PRESSLEY GIRL'S" mom. I love those girls. The whole family is so talented.
So glad I found this channel. Love the Appalachian way of life.
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Yay! Glad you found us and so glad you enjoy The Pressley Girls 😀 As you might guess I think they're pretty special 😀
We always called it fried cornbread. Sometimes, the older folks in the family would say corn fritters. I'm gonna make this tonight. Your video made me so hungry!
Some good "fried taters", along with the other things you mentioned would be great for Supper.
Amen
I’m hungry now 😃
We always called them fritters and I have always made them. When my twins were babies they really loved them, and still do.Appalachian cooking is the best.
We called them "corn cakes" and usually ate them in the summer so we wouldn't heat up the house by running the oven.
Same here! No AC when I was a kid. Only the rich folks had 'lectric fans!
My Dad always called them fritters. He liked them with green onions chopped into the batter. Then he would break them up in a bowl and cover it with butter milk. He said it was a real treat. The things we remember from our parents.
North Louisiana raised but poor country folks had to be creative and make do with whatever was close to hand. So many of your stories about food and growing up listening to older relatives talk about how things were done back then are very similar to how I was raised. We grew up on hot water (fried) cornbread. Boiling hot water was poured over Cornmeal, salt, with a pinch of leavening to make a thick dough. We always used cold water on our hands to shape the patties to combat the heat and keep the dough from sticking to our hands. Then fry them in a cast iron skillet in hot smoking oil. My mother loved eating her grandmother’s hot water cornbread and thought it was so neat how great grannie left a thumb print in each one she made. Cornbread baked in the oven was called skillet bread.
All your videos are like going home. Thank you for sharing!
I'm so glad!
I love making fried cornbread. Me mamaw made it all the time. She’s Appalachian as well. She was born in Bell County Kentucky. I’ll have to do a video on her cornbreads. Love that you are sharing all these memories with us and keeping the old Appalachian ways alive. God Bless.
My grandparents called them "fritters". "Corn fritters", to be exact. They're very good & you don't have to heat up your house, as badly
That's what we call them too. My Grandad used to take a piece and put in a cup and then pour buttermilk over it and eat it with a spoon. Yuck! Lol!
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Lol I'm from WV, too!! Wayne County, to be exact. My email is actually very strangely similar to yours. Anyway, my people would crumble those or cornbread chunks or slices (depending on how it was sliced for that nights dinner) AND EAT WITH BUTTERMILK! Reg "sweet milk" if they didn't have buttermilk on hand. Like, they ate it like it was cereal lol cornbread cereal. Can you imagine? Lol. I've read of a lot of ppl eating it this way & I'm in no way knocking it or trying to be offensive to anyone who likes this. It's just not for me. 😊 have a great day, wvgirl1
@@truthserum76 yeah it never looked very appetizing to me. Lol!! But yes, a lot of people love it. I think I'll take their word for it! 😂
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Me too, lol
Growing up on a farm in Western New York State, we had corn fritters once in a while. They always had some kernel corn in them and were fried in lard in our cast iron skillet.
In my family in Maryland's Piedmont region, cornbread very rarely appeared. My Mom-mom, however, made what she called corn cakes frequently and year round. She would make her usual pancake batter out of her head, no recipe or measuring of ingredients, and add either fresh sweet corn cut from the cob or a pint jar of her canned corn. Her pancakes were always wonderful, but the addition of the corn boosted them into the stratosphere. We ate them slathered with Blue Bonnet margarine, butter being too costly, and King Syrup. The syrup was thick and had a mild molasses flavor no where near as strong as black strap. It was produced in Baltimore and is still available here, but I rarely use it because I'm diabetic (type 2) and it is now made with high fructose corn syrup which I try to avoid as much as possible. I so appreciate your videos as they rekindle memories of growing up in a world, gone forever now, but so much better than where we find ourselves today. I love sharing the similarities and differences between our regions and our personal experiences. Thank you and God bless!
I haven't had corn cakes since I was very young. I'll have to do that. Many memories popped up. We had a cast iron wood cookstove. Mom poured corn cakes right on the top. Dad loved them with molasses. Thanks.
Sadly, have never had corn bread like this - looks delicious! One more recipe for the MUST do list. Thanks!!
We have always called it fried corn bread. We added grated onion to ours and served it with soup, dried beans or fresh vegetables. Delicious.
Oh that looks so good.gotta make some.love the stories.Blessing's on you!!!!
This reminds me of what my Ma makes only she uses regular flour and calls them Flitters. I remember as a kid she made them on the weekends when she had more time to make "country breakfasts". They were so good. By the way I like your channel. Thanks for all the good and informative videos.
Thank you 😀
Tipper, once again you bring back a flood of memories. Mommy used to make them the way you do and we loved them. We also had Cracklin's too but she put them in the cast iron skillet and made a pone on cornbread. I loved them with butter and homemade syrup over them. I remember her also making what she called Fritters but they were made with flour instead of mixing cornbread with it. She'd fry them up and they were as light as could be and oh so good. I've tried duplicating them through the years but have failed in getting her results. I was a young boy and we just didn't hang out in kitchen with Mommy to learn her recipes, and rue to this day that I didn't, she was such a good cook. Our home was on Irish Creek but we pronounced it Arsh Creek. It was a little ways from Blaine, Ky. We say we came from Louisa but if you lived within 20 miles from Louisa, that's where you where from. I don't know whether or not my failure at making the flour Fritters was due to my taste buds not being those of a 10 to 12 year old or my failing memory. I'll be 74 in a week or two and would Love to have another of Mommy's Corn Fritters or especially one of her Flour ones before I go. If you have a recipe for the flour fritters I would Love to see it. Good work on your Video's, wife and I both Love to watch them together.
Thank you Marv!!
Always wondered about how cake. Thanks for the explanation. And can I just say YUM!!!
I love fried cornbread! Growing up here in southeast Virginia as a boy and northeast North Carolina we always called them Johnny cakes or just fried cornbread. I always made them when I was having fried fish! I always picked on them and ate as I was making them. Cornbread and biscuits here in the sunny south was always a staple. I enjoy your videos and they take me back cause a lot of what you show is very similar to what we done growing up. Right down to the terminology! Keep it all alive!
Thanks Leland 😀
I’ve always called it corn pone...or hot water cornbread. Loved the history!
When I was a little girl.. I remember eating cornbread most anytime and hot water cornbread is my favorite.. but I've had corn cakes and fried cornbread like yours, too . Hot water cornbread is a little lighter in texture than what you made in your skillet It seems. it is all so good though.. delightful memories in the kitchen. Thank you for you bringing memories of home and family to mind.
That’s a great idea with frying the cornbread (like a pancake). I’ve never tried that before. I’m going to have to give it a try. Thank you! Have a great night 🤗
Thanks Kat 😀
Good morning Tipper,
I'm so happy that you made "fried cornbread 😋 " I've tried many times and could not get the mix just right. I use only White Lily self rising meal and buttermilk but I think my mistake was not letting the mix set for ten minutes or so. My fried cornbread always fell apart. I'm going to try again and use your recipe. Your supper sounds really good. Thanks for more wonderful APPALACHIA LIVING.
Jeri Whittaker
I love cornbread also .....fried cornbread is great ! Love it the way you prepare it ....thanks tipper .....as always , God bless.....🙏
Thank you Ben 😀
My favorite kind of cornbread is fried. My whole family loves it. My grandma called it corn pone.
I am a fan❣️
That looks great, I wish I had some right now!! I am learning which foods are most integral to Southern Appalachia and it’s history, cornbread surely is one!
Wells, bells, girl! I think you got this one covered.
Don't know if you mentioned adding chopped onion in the batter, and oh so heavenly is crackling cornbread (or as a sub, chopped pork meat of any kind). Yes baking is the usual, but fried is great too, if not better! I love all this with green onions and buttermilk on the side. Oh yes, beans, and salad. Coleslaw too. I'm headed to the kitchen now!
Thank God for Appalachia and Mrs Pressely!
I love fried cornbread, always have. It's so wonderful hearing you talk about the days gone by, really brings back good memories. Thank you for sharing the time with us and the stories.
I love cornbread, and i have heard of a lot of those but never had anything other than a whole cake of cornbread or a corn muffin. That fried cornbread sure looks good thou and i am going to try it. Thanks for sharing!
Hello from southeastern NC 👋🏼 Fried cornbread w/ pepper jelly, collards, & baked chicken is my husband & kids favorite meal.
That was so interesting. I’ve never had it fixed this way. I’m definitely going to make some fried corn bread. Thank you!
Oh,it is so good.
You'll love it! A fee years ago I was introduced to a south African classic "cornmeal" dish, called Mielie pap(corn porridge). Very good.
Growing up in North Carolina as a boy ,mama only made fried cornbread. The first time I saw baked cornbread, I thought it was cake. A cake of fried cornbread and a pot of pinto beans was all we needed. Us poor people sure had it good back then. Great video.
very similar to what I grew up with, thinner batter, less grease. 'these freeze very well. Pop into the toaster to thaw, yummy with runny eggs.
Martha White HAWT Rise white cornmeal mix. As it sits in the bowl, as you progress, it will thicken as the leavening works, add a dribble of water and keep remixing as you go along, so it does not get too thick. Look for the bubbles to come through to the top, and when the bubbles "stick"; it is probably ready to flip over. Temperature of your skillet has to be OK.
Tipper, love your recipes and stories. Real America. Thank you and God bless.
Looks delicious girl love fried cornbread 💞
I ate fried cornbread many a day for supper with beans and lettuce & onions and for breakfast with syrup! My Mommy made the best! Oh how I miss those days! Thank you, Tipper, for bringing back those memories! God bless & love to all the Pressley fam! 💕🤗🙏🏻
This looks so good, Ms Tipper, sometimes I add diced tomatoes to mine and onions
Growing up in a small valley, between, Pine and Black mountain, mountain cooking was all I knew.. My Aunt, who lived in a one room cabin, and cooked on a open fire place would make these for me. Along with fried cabbage, and fried chicken... My family has a long history in south east Kentucky...they were the first to settle on what is now line fork, and leather wood, Kentucky...
Corn bread was certainly a very important staple of their diet.
Heard Emmylou Harris singing Precious Memories today. Your special videos have certainly made my precious memories relived. Thank you!
These look yummy! I haven't had them in years. We called them corn fritters or sometimes johnny cakes. Now I need to make me some! Tfs 💜
Me too!
Growing up on a workin’ ranch in the south fried cornbread was served almost daily. Cornbread and cat head biscuits takes me back to my younger years.
Thank you for sharing your receipt and keep the Appalachian way of life strong.
Grew up eatin’ ‘em, still make ‘em. When we have company visit, flitters (that’s what we call them), with fried taters, fried salmon patties , fresh green beans, fresh from the garden cut up onion, tomatoes and cucumbers is the most requested meal. For breakfast the most requested is chocolate gravy with biscuit pone.
I just love those that are sharing their experiences. Their stories are such a treasure of US culture and history. It’s so heartwarming. ❤️
Have a roast and steaming some broccoli right now. I think some fried cornbread will go perfectly. Thank you for the video!
Looks great! I will be trying!! The rest of the meal (some of my favorites) sounds delicious, too!! My dad used to make fried bread for us when mom was away. Size and thickness were similar. I would have liked better if he had used cornmeal! Loved the video.
I absolutely love fried cornbread. We call it fried cornbread. My husband calls it hoecakes. Ive heard it called johnny cakes...One of my favorite meals is brown beans, cornbread, fried potatoes, and fried saurkraut. Yum!!! Like you, its delicious even plain. I havent tried pepper jelly yet...🤔 I might have to try. Thank you. Your videos are always a learning experience and quite enjoyable. ☺
When you turned that over in the pan, my mouth immediately watered. I miss my Grandma's fried cornbread so much.
Thank you so much for posting this. Wish I could be there for supper with ya'll.
Glad you enjoyed it!
We always called them Johny cakes, if they were made like pancakes. My favorite way is made like bread in a 9x9 pan. Take a square while it's hot and pour milk on it and sprinkle it with sugar and cinnamon. Had that a lot for breakfast in the winter. Soo good!
I love it! We also called it fried cornbread in southern Arkansas. I like it plain, with honey, with pinto beans, or even dipped in a little ketchup. We used self-rising corn meal mix too. Thank you for sharing.
Grandma used to make me cornmeal pancakes for breakfast, I grew up knowing them as Flapjacks. Usually had them with Kayro Syrup and some fried streak a lean. I am very glad I found your site! I watch your videos after supper and its really relaxing! Thank you.
Thank you Tim 😀
Yummy…I love it mama & my Granny made them often…I’ve made them but it’s been a long time….
Brenda
I love fried cornbread. I learned to make it when I lived in Appalachia, along with beans and fried taters and greens. Its still one of my go to receipes. I also like just a regular cornbread done in the oven. Have a blessed day.
i make it all the time, grew up in Wake County so being an old southern girl my momma always made it. it is really the best and sometimes i chop up some green onion and throw that in the batter. love your recipes !!!
I love this channel! My grandmother use to make fried cornbread often. And I've heard my grandfather refer to it as johnny cakes! Thank you for sharing!!
Crackling corn-bread is my favorite corn meals like grits you can do anything with it
My Mother made fried cornbread, but called it hoecakes. Daddy liked it with sausage & gravy. It sure is good. I make it occasionally & it brings back childhood memories. I love your videos!
My paternal grandmother’s parents were from Arkansas and moved to Cloudcroft, New Mexico so my great grandfather could work as a superintendent on the rail line to the town. My grandmother met my grandfather, a wrangler on a large cattle ranch, on a trip to Corona, NM. They were later married and she became a cook on the same ranch. The story in my family is the cow hands loved her cooking and fried cornbread was a favorite at breakfast. So, Southern cooking extended all the way to the ranches on the high deserts of New Mexico!
Cornbread ❤️ , yes grew up on fried cornbread and skillet baked. Momma loved it with sweet milk. I like it with jam or syrup, even honey. All the names you've read about cornbread and the two cookbook authors just add so much to this humble serving. It's all good!
We always called it corn bread and my mother would cook it often. She also cooked fried potatoes quite a bit and beans and taters as she would call it. My grandad used to break the cornbread up and soak it in buttermilk and eat it that way. I never liked it like that, but I used to dip it in honey or butter and that was pretty good.
omg that looks good. I’m going to try to cook some
I love anything corn ... especially Corn Bread. I love baking it in the skillet and I like to make myself a Johnny Cake for breakfast every now and again. I love it with Maple syrup and butter. I'm a Northerner (Upstate NY) I've always known Pancakes as flour made and Johnny Cakes or Corn Cakes as Cornmeal made. The only major difference is we don't use much Buttermilk around here. At least my family never did. It's not easy to find in stores either. We just use regular milk, eggs and a little baking powder.
Hello!! Greetings from Wales.uk.
I find the appalachian culture just enchanting! 💚
Ive just found your channel and immediately subscribed!! Looking forward to watching some more vlogs! Thank you!
My mama always cooked cornbread in the oven and taught me that way. My mother-in-law fried it and it was so crispy and good. I’ve tried but never been able to get it to come out like hers.
We call them fritters and I love mine with molasses! Y'all enjoy your day and thanks for sharing!
Love corn bread! I also make corn meal mush with cheese in it,let it set up and cut it into pieces which I cook again on the grill with a brushing of olive oil.I call this Polenta,one of the things brought from Italy by grandparents.I fry it too.
My mom would make cornmeal mush with cooked sausage or bacon and put it into a loaf pan. At breakfast time, she would turn it out, slice it about a half inch thick, then dip it in some flour before frying it until crispy on the outside. The flour kept the larger pieces of corn from popping all over the place. Some syrup or jam or jelly, even molasses went with it a treat! Maple syrup too!
That brings back memories of mama making salmon patties, fried cornbread patties, buttered potatoes, and collard greens. It sure was delicious! Thank you for sharing!
I was born and raised in southern WV and we called them corn fritters. My mom would also make potato cakes with leftover mashed potatoes. I love your channel bc it reminds me of home and simpler times. ❤️ Thank you
fun to hear from different areas, where I’m from corn fritters would be what called the batter whole corn was added to the batter. Otherwise it was corncakes. When I started hearing fried cornbread my mind envisioned something else until I saw them.
No matter what, all good
Absolutely love cornbread. Always used the self rising corn meal mix for years. I now live in Arizona and it is not available here. Learned how to make my own and am so happy. It is also good cooked in an electric waffle maker. Love your videos, D
I’ve got to try this! I just love cornbread and this looks quicker and don’t have to turn the oven on during summer!
Thats my favorite cornbread.. just like my mamaw used to make. Im from franklin NC. I thought everybody cooked like this until i left home. You cant get mountain food anywhere but the mountains.
Not true, we eat fried cornbread in the Mississippi River delta. :)
MY MAMA ALWAYS COOKED CORNBREAD THIS WAY....IT'S MY FAVORITE !!
I always miss my grandmother when I watch your cooking videos. Ever had white MaCaslan green beans? Best green beans around and custom grown for cornbread. They're pole beans so you earn everyone.
I've never had them. I'm glad I remind you of your sweet grandmother 😀
My comfort bread...cornbread. I love it baked. But when really in a hurry to eat. Fried is the best. Love all your videos. God bless you & family.🌾🙏❤