[Magdalen] Cornbread: How sweet?

[ME Michaud]

Southern cornbread in buttermilk. Have had this and it's delicious,
especially for supper on a hot night.

We would say "Southern corn bread" to distinguish it from the three New
England corn breads:
Indian pudding
Boston brown bread
and
Johnnycakes

Thank you, thank you, wonderful native people, for teaching us to make
these delicious yummy things.

Indian pudding and Boston brown bread are made with molasses, so are dark
in both color & flavor and very sweet. Brown bread has raisins also.

Johnny (journey) cakes are griddle cakes (originally made on flat heated
stones) and light in color.
-M, who loves all three and can make them without consulting a recipe

PS: the gf, who's a Virginian, drools at the mention of spoonbread

On Monday, May 29, 2017, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:

> One of my former parishioners, who went into a nursing home at 99, wanted
> nothing more than cornbread and milk, which folks brought him from time to
> time. He'd crumble it up in the milk and eat it with a spoon. I'd never
> heard of that.
>