jmcquown wrote:

> DJS0302 wrote:
>
>>Do non Southerners have a thing against sugar? I've notice in many
>>cookbooks written by non Southern authors that sugar is used very
>>sparingly, even in desserts. I remember someone on the Food
>>Network saying they had never heard of putting sugar in iced tea. I
>>thought everybody put sugar in iced tea.
>
> You probably thought all 'Southerners' drink iced tea, too.
>
> My biggest disappointment in cornbread when on a visit to Boston a number of
> years ago. I was walking around with my friend, who relocated there after
> she was married. We sat down in a bar to have a beer and this employee guy
> started handing out plates of cornbread. She whispered to me, "You won't
> like it." There was so much sugar in that darned cornbread it might as well
> have been white cake with pure sugar icing.

<LOL> I just got a recipe for "sweet" corn bread that was a box of
Jiffy brand corn muffin mix and a box of Jiffy white cake mix. Combine
and add all the stuff they each call for. Bake.

It's caky and sweet, just like you'd expect with these ingredients.
Springy and not at all crumbly. I ended up using it under strawberries
dressed with triple sec and a raspberry extract I made with way too
much whipped cream. It was good. Didn't all fall apart when it got
wet. Not cornbread.

Pastorio