Do tell! What do you make?
lenor, lmao! I'd love to try that with my husband but we'd eat hot dogs and chicken nuggets every night for the rest of our lives.
@polarberry Spoonbread was not a thing with my family. Cornbread,Johnny Cake,Hoecake and Biscuits were our thing. The Southern Lady Cooks. (actually Paula Deen) has a recipe that friends swear by: https://thesouthernladycooks.com/?s=spoonbread
I also follow a lady named Brenda Gantt on Facebook. She has become a phenomenon on Facebook during the Pandemic and teaches our old Southern recipes to folks via videos. She is quite personable and the recipes are authentic.
Thanks!!
I will be making the southern lady spoonbread recipe tonight. It looks good. The last recipe I used was too salty. I love spoonbread. I don't make it often anymore because I really can eat an entire pan myself, slathered with butter. Yikes.
I'm sure you know cornbread sometimes was called journeycake! ?
@polarberry I am sure it will be delicious! And yes I know about "journey cake" ? if you are at all interested White Lily flour and White Lily Buttermilk cornbread mix are my standard go to for my biscuits and cornbread. If not sold in your area you can order online from Walmart at a reasonable price. Some order from Amazon ..and its sold by 3rd party sellers so the price there is outrageous.
Do you always make your own biscuits? That's another thing I have tried countless recipes for and have never found one I love. Frozen biscuits are awful!
Right now I have Bob's Red Mill organic corn grits, and The Saco Pantry cultured buttermilk blend. I am forever buying buttermilk for this recipe and that one, and never getting around to making it before it goes bad, so I gave up and bought the powder. I can make just the amount I need without waste.
So here's one of my dark secrets. Occasionally I will buy a small thing of buttermilk and stir chocolate syrup into it. Chocolate buttermilk is soooo good!
@polarberry I have been making biscuits since I was 8 years old. I can mix and make them about as fast as most folks can open a can of Whomp um biscuits. ( Jerry Clower skit) Now that I am not cooking for a family of 7 I mix a batch and freeze or just make a small 3-4 biscuit panful. Watch those Brenda Gantt recipes... I know you'll love them! Check out chocolate gravy recipe ;-) I guarantee you'll like that one if you like chocolate buttermilk.? I love to take a slice of cold cornbread and crumble it in a glass and pour cold buttermilk over it and eat it with a spoon. Some Vidalia onion and home grown sliced tomato in the summertime on a side plate, like my grandparents and daddy did. Good eating! I always use White Lily unbleached no aluminum self rising flour. White Lily is made from soft winter wheat and it really makes the lightest,fluffiest biscuits. I actually use LouAnna coconut oil and my homemade whole milk kefir in the place of the Crisco and buttermilk called for in many old biscuit recipes. They turn out just as great. I do still use bacon grease for my cornbread though.
Is White Lily a popular southern brand? My flour of choice is King Arthur. I get good results with it.
I'm not a huge tomato person, but I do grow them because my daughter loves them. So did my mother. She would eat them right off the vine and complain that store-bought had no flavor. I like the little yellow cherry tomatoes, and the Roma variety for salads and cooking.
It's funny how many people have forgotten, or don't know, how good things like biscuits are when they're homemade. I'll be the first to admit there's times I don't want to cook, or resort to store-bought when I'm tired or whatever, but there's just no substitute.
I can't eat store-bought frosting; it is so nasty. Homemade buttercream doesn't take long, especially with an electric mixer, and it is to die for.
Can you share your biscuit recipe or is it a journey family secret? ?
PS I don't know how I feel about the cornbread in a glass with buttermilk. ?
@polarberry & @journeywithme2 you got my attention with "bacon grease" and "slathered with butter". hmmmmmmmmm