Kate Connally wrote:
>
> I was watching a recent episode of DDD and one of the featured
> places was The Farmer's Shed Kitchen - a restaurant attached to
> a farm market. All the stuff they make is made from stuff they
> grow.
>
> Anyway, the reason I bring it up is that all my adult life I've
> heard the song and dance about how true southern cornbread (and
> hushpuppies, etc.) does not contain sugar. Southerners don't eat
> it sweet. Well, the Farmer's Shed is in Lexington, SC a little
> west of Columbia and not all too far from Georgia. You can't
> get more Southern!
>
> One of the things they are famous for is their cornbread - which
> contains sugar and even has brown sugar sprinkled on top before it
> is baked. All the locals eating there were raving about how it was
> just like home. So how do you explain that, pray tell.
>
> Sounds really yummy to me!
>
> I like my cornbread sweet, but I always thought it was because
> I was half Northern and raised in the North and didn't know no
> better. ;-)


Without having read anyone else's reponse regarding this thread, all I
can say is what a person (particularly the cook!!! <G>) likes is what
matters most, eh! Seems some folks like cornbread with a bit of sugar
and others do not. I'd guess neither is incorrect ;> Corn bread tends
to be an infrequent item at my dinner table, so I'm far from expert :P

Sky

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