"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> "Chemiker" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Well, back to the drawing board. Found 2 cast iron
>> corn bread stick molds in the garage, refugees
>> from my wife's Daddy's storage shed when he
>> died some years ago.
>>
>> Cleaned them up, and reseasoned. They looked
>> pretty good, but the proof was in the making of
>> cornbread.
>>
>> Went to local market and bought a couple of packets
>> of yellow CB mix, and made one with whole milk.
>>
> Your problem was buying cornbread "mix".
>
> Use butter to grease the molds and then make cornbread from scratch, not a
> boxed mix.
>
> Jill
>
>

Yes, what Jill said. My grandmother used the type of molds you describe,
and she used lots of butter on the pans--and she was baking in days before
mixes were available, which was probably "a good thing" in that case. Hers
came out perfectly every time.

MaryL