Best cornbread

Krusteaz Southern Cornbread Mix is the best I've had

My favorite is fry bread or what some people call hoe cakes. It's basically a pancake of cornmeal and water fried in vegetable oil, maybe 1/4" thick at its thickest point.

My wife makes them, as do some friends of our's Red's LIttle Schoolhouse restaurant in Grady, AL, makes them too. I've tried, with mixed results. You need good cornmeal. Pollards or Adams works, national brands, not so much.

Brenda Gantt calls it Lacy Cornbread.

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Never heard them called that before. I’ve alway known them as hot water cornbread.
Wonder what the origin of of hoe cakes is?

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I've heard it came from cooking them over a fire on a hoe, something the Confederate soldiers did.

Matherne’s Deli and, surprisingly, Albertson’s has great moist cake like cornbread

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Jiffy. I kid.

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I like Jiffy.

But I really like a recipe we make at home called Virgil’s Cornbread that has corn, jalapeño, cheddar, and cilantro in it. Think it was a recipe on the Food Network if I recall correctly.

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I like Jiffy

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99% of all the cornbread I’ve ever eaten has been jiffy. I will say though back in the 90s when emeril opened NOLA in the quarter they had the best cornbread I’ve had

I've been wanting to make that. I may make it for Christmas. Thanks for the reminder.