Right now, I'm ovenless (damn self-cleaning lock won't release) and really really want some cornbread. I googled up one recipe for "corn bread" for the bread machine, but it came out seriously sour. Used plain yogurt; maybe that was the sourness, but I suspect it was more than that. And it wasn't light at all.
Anyone got any "tried and true" breadmachine recipes to make good light cornbread? Or am I going without until I get the landlord to deal with the oven?
-- -denny- "Do your thoughts call ahead or do they just arrive at your mouth unannounced?"
Right now, I'm ovenless (damn self-cleaning lock won't release) and really really want some cornbread. I googled up one recipe for "corn bread" for the bread machine, but it came out seriously sour. Used plain yogurt; maybe that was the sourness, but I suspect it was more than that. And it wasn't light at all.
Anyone got any "tried and true" breadmachine recipes to make good light cornbread? Or am I going without until I get the landlord to deal with the oven?
If you have a microwave you can make cornbread in the mw, it turns out okay. It takes about seven - eight minutes for two boxes of Jiffy Mix or the equivalent to "bake"...
Right now, I'm ovenless (damn self-cleaning lock won't release) and
really really want some cornbread.
Cornbread predates home ovens. It can be made in an iron dutch oven or frying pan with a heavy (preferably iron) lid. Would I want to? Maybe as a curiosity. Hoecakes are sort of griddled and taste pretty much like cornbread generico.
On Wed 05 Apr 2006 03:36:34a, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Umbrian?
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Right now, I'm ovenless (damn self-cleaning lock won't release) and really really want some cornbread.
Cornbread predates home ovens. It can be made in an iron dutch oven or frying pan with a heavy (preferably iron) lid. Would I want to? Maybe as a curiosity. Hoecakes are sort of griddled and taste pretty much like cornbread generico.
Absolutely true. I always bake my Southern style cornbread in a cast iron skillet. When we had a power outage I baked it on our gas bbq grill, which does have a cover, but I had no lid for the skillet. However, when the bread was done and firm to the touch, I turned it out of the pan onto a plate, then slipped it back into the pan top side down and baked it another 10 minutes or so to thoroughly brown the top.
Right now, I'm ovenless (damn self-cleaning lock won't release) and
really really want some cornbread.
Cornbread predates home ovens. It can be made in an iron dutch oven or frying pan with a heavy (preferably iron) lid. Would I want to? Maybe as a curiosity. Hoecakes are sort of griddled and taste pretty much like cornbread generico.
OH! This reminds me - we went to the Jamestown settlement this weekend. My favorite parts was, of course, the little cabin in which they were cooking. The stew wasn't all that exciting but I learned a really cool new thing.
They baked rolls in a "dutch" oven (he pointed out that they weren't called that back then lol) It was a cast iron pot with little legs and a flat top that was sort of sunken in - the edge was higher then the center. Anyway, they put hot embers from the fire under it and on the lid. Apparently it takes about 20 minutes and you have lovely rolls. I was teasing my husband that we needed to get a dutch oven like that - AND we needed to go camping just so I could try it...he did find it a bit funny that I would go to that much trouble just to bake bread.
On Wed 05 Apr 2006 03:36:34a, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Umbrian?
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> Right now, I'm ovenless (damn self-cleaning lock won't release) and > really really want some cornbread.
Cornbread predates home ovens. It can be made in an iron dutch oven or frying pan with a heavy (preferably iron) lid. Would I want to? Maybe as a curiosity. Hoecakes are sort of griddled and taste pretty much like cornbread generico.
Absolutely true. I always bake my Southern style cornbread in a cast iron skillet. When we had a power outage I baked it on our gas bbq grill, which does have a cover, but I had no lid for the skillet. However, when the bread was done and firm to the touch, I turned it out of the pan onto a plate, then slipped it back into the pan top side down and baked it another 10 minutes or so to thoroughly brown the top.
I've "baked" cornbread on a charcoal grill. It came out just fine. It's a batter bread so I wouldn't attempt it in a bread machine.
> Right now, I'm ovenless (damn self-cleaning lock won't release) and
really really want some cornbread.
Cornbread predates home ovens. It can be made in an iron dutch oven or frying pan with a heavy (preferably iron) lid. Would I want to? Maybe as a curiosity. Hoecakes are sort of griddled and taste pretty much like cornbread generico.
OH! This reminds me - we went to the Jamestown settlement this weekend. My favorite parts was, of course, the little cabin in which they were cooking. The stew wasn't all that exciting but I learned a really cool new thing.
They baked rolls in a "dutch" oven (he pointed out that they weren't called that back then lol) It was a cast iron pot with little legs and a flat top that was sort of sunken in - the edge was higher then the center. Anyway, they put hot embers from the fire under it and on the lid. Apparently it takes about 20 minutes and you have lovely rolls. I was teasing my husband that we needed to get a dutch oven like that - AND we needed to go camping just so I could try it...he did find it a bit funny that I would go to that much trouble just to bake bread.
Roberta (in VA)
That's a typical use for a dutch oven. While camping we also used it for a beef stew with biscuits on top; the embers on the lid browned the top of the biscuits.
beef stew with biscuits on top; the embers on the lid browned the top of the biscuits.
Yeah, but you were still camping after you ate it. While I can be very amused by learning how to cook on a fire, afterwards I want my own bed, or one with "Magic Fingers." Do they still have those?
On 5 Apr 2006 09:00:01 -0700, "Umbrian" <[email hidden]>
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While camping we also used it for a
beef stew with biscuits on top; the embers on the lid browned the top of the biscuits.
Yeah, but you were still camping after you ate it. While I can be very amused by learning how to cook on a fire, afterwards I want my own bed, or one with "Magic Fingers." Do they still have those?
You sound like me. "Roughing it" means that the restaurant is across the street. -- Susan N.
"Moral indignation is in most cases two percent moral, 48 percent indignation, and 50 percent envy." Vittorio De Sica, Italian movie director (1901-1974
If you have a microwave you can make cornbread in the mw, it turns out okay. It takes about seven - eight minutes for two boxes of Jiffy Mix or the equivalent to "bake"...
Hm. That's a thought. Jiffy I always have on-hand.
-- -denny- "Do your thoughts call ahead or do they just arrive at your mouth unannounced?"
