NEVER Bake Cornbread in a PAN Again - Try This Old Appalachian Trick

🔗 Grandma never wrote hers down, so I finally did. All 118 plus much more. Get em before they're gone: https://www.opalrowe.com Opal Rowe learned cornbread in a mountain kitchen where one black cast-iron skillet, a sack of meal, and a can of bacon grease fed a whole family on next to nothing. In this one she counts down 45 old Appalachian tricks for a pan of cornbread — the skillet, the grease, the buttermilk and soda, the cracklin bread, the spoonbread, the hoecakes and dodgers and cush — and holds back till the very end the one thing she does to that hot skillet that makes the crust crack like glass, the secret she never told a living soul. In this one, Opal covers: • Why the preheated cast-iron skillet — not the recipe — is what makes the crust • Buttermilk and a pinch of soda, the old chemistry these hills ran on • Cracklin bread, spoonbread, hoecakes, corn pone, and dodgers dropped in the beans • Scalding the meal and the little steps that pull the corn's own sweetness out • Cornbread and soup beans, sopping the pot likker, and cush for breakfast • How to know it's done by the smell and the sound, no timer • And the crust secret she held back for two years — saved for the very end Where are you watching from, and who taught you to make a pan of cornbread — a mama, a mawmaw, some neighbor woman? Tell Opal down in the comments. CHAPTERS 0:00 The Pan Is the Whole Secret 2:04 Bacon Grease in the Black Skillet 2:58 Never Pour Into a Cold Pan 3:51 Real Cornbread Has No Flour 4:45 Buttermilk, Never Sweet Milk 5:41 Soda, Not Baking Powder 6:36 Cracklin Bread 7:33 Cornbread and a Pot of Soup Beans 8:22 Crumbled in a Glass of Buttermilk 9:12 Sorghum and Butter on a Hot Wedge 10:08 Stone-Ground Whole Meal 11:11 The Old Heirloom Corn 12:13 Hot-Water Cornbread 13:09 Corn Pone, the Plainest Bread 14:07 The Hoecake 15:10 Ashcake in the Coals 16:06 Fried Cornmeal Mush 17:07 Spoonbread 18:07 Grease in the Batter Too 18:50 Beat Your Egg Like You Mean It 19:43 The Cornstick Pans 20:33 Don't Overmix the Batter 21:20 Scald the Meal First 22:15 Get It in the Pan Quick 23:12 Spread It Thin for the Edge 24:15 The Black Skillet Itself 25:29 Turn It Out Right Away 26:24 Butter the Top While It's Hot 27:13 The Miller's Toll 28:27 Cornbread Dressing, Not Stuffing 29:24 Sop the Pot Likker 30:29 The Fight Over the Crust 31:35 Nothing Wasted 32:42 Dodgers Dropped in the Beans 33:33 Plain Meal, Your Own Soda 34:40 White Meal or Yellow 35:38 Sugar, or None at All 36:41 Go Light on the Leavening 37:38 Take the Chill Off the Buttermilk 38:50 Cornbread in the Lunch Pail 40:01 Cush for Breakfast 40:58 Done by Smell and Sound 42:00 Feed the Crust After, Not Before 43:00 No Measuring, Just Her Hands 44:12 The Crust Secret at Last 45:28 Her Skillet 46:52 Come Set With Me a Spell