A survey on corn bread

[Delmonico]

I've posted this on other forums and thought I'd see what I get here. I'm looking for the basics of the different types, exact recipes are not needed but very welcome.

Some here know, I am working on a book to cover cooking in the latter half of the 19th Century. It will have much more than recipes, more on terms, groceries and all that. Anyway Mogorilla did this wonderful piece back in 2005 on fruit desserts and their names:

fruit dessert differences as I have found them

Right now I'm working on a similar list for the types of corn bread, the problem is terms such as Johnny Cake, hoe cake, corn pone and all the others have different meanings to different folks in different parts of the country.

I would like some input on what your family, your region calls these different types of corn bread and we'll see if this can be somewhat sorted out.

Thanks in advance.

[MidwestGirl]

I call it corn bread and I LOVE it!

[Delmonico]

I call it corn bread and I LOVE it!

Let me guess, with your background down in Tennessee, adding sugar is a sin.

I'm guessing Nick thinks so.

[MidwestGirl]

I have added sugar and I live in Missouri

[jzgrlduff]

I looooooooooove cornbread! Something about the texture....

[benelli_my_lab]

In Minnesota we call it corn bread. Sometimes with and sometimes without sugar. I prefer it with sugar.
*Now I'm hungry!*

[Delmonico]

I have added sugar and I live in Missouri

OK, I thought you were in Nashville for some reason. Missouri seems to be divided on sugar or not. But they were divided in the Civil War, from some of my feedback elsewhere I'm beginning to think that war was about sugar or not in corn bread.

[zoesmom]

cornbread in Hawaii

we add sugar as well as lots of butter. It's more like a cornbread cake. yummy

[MidwestGirl]

But they were divided in the Civil War, from some of my feedback elsewhere I'm beginning to think that war was about sugar or not in corn bread.

LOL

[Delmonico]

cornbread in Hawaii

we add sugar as well as lots of butter. It's more like a cornbread cake. yummy

Don't know if it means anything, but most of the early visitors there were sailors from New England, the land of sweet as cake corn bread. When making corn bread for a mixed group from all over the country I make two ovens of it, on sweet one not, I then stay clear as the Yankees and Rebels snarl at each other over it.