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A Variety of Corn Bread Recipes


 

Corn Bread Facts:

“Corn bread was not invented. It was a product of cultural exchange and practical necessity. Corn [aka maize] is a new world food. Native Americans were cooking with ground corn long before the European explorers set foot on New World soil. The food we know today as "corn bread" has a northern European (English, Dutch, etc.) culinary heritage. Why? Because the new settlers often had to "make do" with local ingredients [corn meal] when their traditional ingredients [finely ground wheat] were in short supply. When colonial American recipes carried the name "Indian" in their title (Indian bread, Indian pudding) it was because one of the ingredients was cornmeal.” 

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Anadama Bread

Anadama Bread


Try some of these Corn Bread Recipes

The most popular corn bread recipes involve baking or frying the bread. These include: skillet-baked, hoecakes, johnnycakes, and hushpuppies.


Anadama Corn Bread - For this version, I used the Healthy Bread in Five Minutes list of ingredients (sort of) and the soaker, sponge and dough methods from the Bread Baker’s Apprentice method.

Anadama Corn Bread


Baked Corn Bread - Here is a moist and sweet recipe for baked corn bread. Sour cream is what gives it the moist texture.


Buttermilk Cornbread from the Old Mill - This is Aunt Martha’s Buttermilk Cornbread and it’s made with freshly milled corn meal.

Buttermilk Cornbread


Corn Cake Recipe - Here is a Southern recipe for corn cake. Try these for breakfast or brunch with butter and syrup.


Corn Muffins - This is an easy recipe to make when you're too busy to bake from scratch. Spice up packaged corn muffin mix with chili powder and green chiles--a perfect complement to your chili dinner.


Crusty Cornstalk Rolls - This bread resembles a cornstalk, where each roll, or “ear of corn” is torn off the stalk and eaten as you would a roll.

Crusty Cornstalk Rolls


Diane's Veggie Cornbread - This recipe for veggie cornbread is from Rod in Dallas.

Veggie Cornbread


Dutch Oven Corn Bread Recipe
- This is not your typical cornbread, it's made with an overnight poolish and yeast. It's really good!

Dutch Oven Cornbread


Easy Broccoli Cornbread - An easy cornbread recipe that can be enjoyed at any meal of the day.

Easy Broccoli Cornbread


Hoe Cake Recipe - A hoe cake is a type of thin cornbread made of cornmeal, salt, and water and is baked on a griddle.


Hushpuppies - Hushpuppies are a distinctly Southern food. They are small cornmeal breads that are deep fried in a round or oblong shape.


No Knead Batter Corn Bread - This type of corn bread is brown and golden and similar in texture to a quick corn bread. However, the batter is beaten, not kneaded and it rises once in the pan before baking.

Batter Corn Bread


Southern Corn Bread - This is a traditional Southern corn bread recipe that uses corn meal mix for easy preparation. Try this bread with chili or a hearty stew.


Spicy Corn Muffin Recipe - This corn muffin recipe is from Bonnie in the U.S.


Steamed Boston Brown Bread - This particular brown bread is made with rye, corn, and whole wheat. It tastes great warm, sliced into rounds. Serve it for your next cookout with baked beans.

Boston Brown Bread -


Steamed Corn Bread - Steamed Corn Bread has the color and texture of Boston Brown Bread, but it's made with cornmeal and all-purpose flour rather than a blend of several flours. It's also made with molasses rather than maple syrup so of course, the flavor is different!

Steamed Corn Bread


Togus Steamed Bread - Togus Bread is a sweet, rich bread that the colonists adapted from the steamed cornmeal bread of the Algonquian-speaking peoples, who dominated most of northeastern America.

Togus Steamed Bread


Yeasted Cornbread - This yeasted corn bread is made using the Kneadlessly Simple method.

Crusty Yeasted Cornbread


Tip: To retain more of the nutrients and flavor in your corn bread, use good-quality, stone-ground cornmeal.


What is corn bread?

Corn bread is the generic name for quick breads made with cornmeal. We take corn for granted these days, but bread made from cornmeal was a mainstay of colonial diets, in both the North and the South, for almost two centuries.



Southern cooks prefer to use white cornmeal, while Northern cooks tend to use yellow cornmeal and add sweetening to their breads. You can decide which type of cornmeal and method you prefer.


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Diane's Veggie Cornbread  starstarstarstarstar
Ingredients:

1 cup cornmeal
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tbsp sugar
1/2 tsp salt

1 1/3 cups buttermilk ...

Chipotle Chile Cornbread  Not rated yet
Ground chipotle chile creates a unique flavor for this cornbread and complements the generous quantity of sweet onion and spicy green peppers. Add fresh ...

Easy Broccoli Cornbread  Not rated yet
An easy cornbread recipe that can be enjoyed at any meal of the day. For greater richness, add 2/3 cup of cheddar cheese to the batter as well as sprinkling ...

Spicy Corn Muffin Recipe  Not rated yet
Ingredients:

1 package (8 1/2 ounces) corn muffin mix
1 can (4 ounces) green chiles, drained
1 teaspoon chili powder

Directions:

Lightly ...



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Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornbread
Miller, Mark and Maclauchlan, Andrew with John Harrisson. Flavored Breads: Recipes from Mark Miller's Coyote Cafe. 1996 Ten Speed Press.






Learn more about the history of corn bread through The Cornbread GospelsCorn Bread history.


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