On Jun 8, 8:54 pm, maxine in ri > wrote:
> DH went to his church supper tonight, and made and brought corn bread
> and the bottle of molasses. We seem to have come home as much
> molasses as we brought.
>
> I had never heard of molasses on corn bread and am wondering if it's a
> New Jersey thang, or just some kind of food peccadillo of my
> beloved's.
>
> When I was a kid at Girl Scout camp, we had a Native American meal
> with corn bread, maple syrup and butter. Now _that_ was good!
>
> maxine in ri

My family always served cornbread hot with either butter and maple
syrup, or molasses, diner's choice. That's the only way we ever had
cornbread when I was young (and even now). I remember seeing
cornbread as a "side" with chili and thinking that was very odd. ;-)

(My family is mostly German and English, with a little French and
Irish thrown in.)

I love molasses, and use it interchangeably with maple syrup.

N.