"Omelet" > wrote in message
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> In article >,
> "MaryL" -OUT-THE-LITTER> wrote:
>
>>
>> Interesting...I grew up in northeastern Ohio. My grandmother baked a lot
>> of
>> cornbread. My father grew up in true father--large family, and his
>> father
>> died when Dad was only 5 years old. My grandmother reared them all, and
>> every one of them not only managed to graduate from high school but also
>> went on to professional careers. That was before any type of government
>> aid
>> was available, and very little private or church "charity." So,
>> concerning
>> the cornbread: It was very cheap to make, and my grandmother made her
>> own
>> syrup with water and a little sugar. They used that on pancakes and also
>> on
>> cornbread. By contrast, my mother came from a fairly affluent farm
>> family.
>> But they also ate lots of cornbread! So, cornbrad was fairly common in
>> that
>> region of Ohio (and still is--even served by one of my favorite
>> restaurants).
>>
>> MaryL
>
> You don't have to be destitute to enjoy cornbread. ;-d
> --
> Peace! Om
>
> "Any ship can be a minesweeper. Once." -- Anonymous

No, the part about being destitute was relevant only because cornbread was
very cheap to make, and so was the syrup. I was really thinking back to
some of my father's childhood stories. He used to joke that his family was
hardly aware of it when the Great Depression hit because they were already
so far down that there wasn't any farther to fall! My dad actually
preferred "sugar water" for syrup to the end of his life. We had real maple
syrup, but that isn't what he remembered from his mother (who, incidentally,
was an *excellent* cook and baker--she earned their income by selling baked
goods and taking in laundry for "wet wash").

MaryL