# What do YOU serve cornbread with?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-serve-cornbread-with/815165
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [May 31, 2018, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-serve-cornbread-with/815165 "2018-05-31T01:21:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Alpha\_Twit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpha_Twit)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2018, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-serve-cornbread-with/815165/21 "2018-05-31T01:50:42Z")
Cassoulet, bean casserole with a fancy name. Deal with it. If you don’t want it, I’ll eat your share.
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### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2018, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-serve-cornbread-with/815165/22 "2018-05-31T01:51:38Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#):
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> Turnip greens and cornbread. Meal for royalty, around these parts.
I believe it. The aforementioned Soup Beans and cornbread is NOT a Brooklyn staple, believe me, but my spies in the South and Appalachia tell me it’s a real thing.
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### Author:  [@Alpha\_Twit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpha_Twit)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2018, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-serve-cornbread-with/815165/23 "2018-05-31T01:52:36Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#):
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> Why add leaven at all? We don’t put it into pancake batter.
Experiment then, do what works for you. I like the lighter texture that a little leavening provides. If you don’t like it, don’t use it.
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### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2018, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-serve-cornbread-with/815165/24 "2018-05-31T01:56:41Z")
> [@Alpha\_Twit](#):
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> Cassoulet, bean casserole with a fancy name. Deal with it. If you don’t want it, I’ll eat your share.
I love cassoulet and I love soup beans. One requires a baguette, the other needs cornbread.
You’re always welcome at my table to as much as you can eat, but if you try to take my share, you’ll draw back a stump.
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### Author:  [@Alpha\_Twit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpha_Twit)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2018, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-serve-cornbread-with/815165/25 "2018-05-31T01:58:39Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#):
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> You’re always welcome at my table to as much as you can eat, but if you try to take my share, you’ll draw back a stump.
For good cassoulet, it might be worth the risk.
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### Author:  [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2018, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-serve-cornbread-with/815165/26 "2018-05-31T02:04:34Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#):
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> I believe it. The aforementioned Soup Beans and cornbread is NOT a Brooklyn staple, believe me, but my spies in the South and Appalachia tell me it’s a real thing.
I could eat it every day.
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### Author:  [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2018, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-serve-cornbread-with/815165/27 "2018-05-31T02:09:03Z")
> [@Alpha\_Twit](#):
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> That’s not bad but for breakfast, I prefer to thin the batter out a bit and use it for griddlecakes. Whatever floats your boat though.
I like this idea. I will tackle this research project and return with results.
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2018, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-serve-cornbread-with/815165/28 "2018-05-31T02:11:34Z")
Potato soup is good with corn bread.
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### Author:  [@Alpha\_Twit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpha_Twit)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2018, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-serve-cornbread-with/815165/29 "2018-05-31T02:15:08Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#):
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> I like this idea. I will tackle this research project and return with results.
One hint - With regular wheat based pancakes, you can cheat and make them a bit bigger than the spatula you’ll use to turn them. Don’t try that with corn griddlecakes. I keep mine under four inches across.
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2018, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-serve-cornbread-with/815165/30 "2018-05-31T02:26:33Z")
I make a fried corn bread called Hot water cornbread.
Yellow corn meal
Diced onion
Boiling water,
2 eggs
Stir it together quickly adding eggs last,
Into a thicker than pancake batter.
And fry in a iron skillet with a little oil.
They will puff up some, turn them and finish cooking. Good stuff.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2018, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-serve-cornbread-with/815165/31 "2018-05-31T02:26:56Z")
You were right the first time: Hobo Beans.
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### Author:  [@oliversarmy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oliversarmy)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2018, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-serve-cornbread-with/815165/32 "2018-05-31T02:46:24Z")
Black-eyed peas and cornbread with a good hot sauce or salsa is the food of the gods. Crumble the corn bread, put the peas on top, then sprinkle with your favorite hot condiment. I’m from East Texas.
Caveat: I don’t like this with sweet cornbread or cornbread made with creamed corn. In my mind, sweet cornbread is cake and I consider that dessert, which I don’t usually eat. Other members of my family disagree.
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2018, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-serve-cornbread-with/815165/33 "2018-05-31T02:59:30Z")
My favorite way to have cornbread is warm with butter and maple syrup.
I serve it as a side to another piece of cornbread with butter and maple syrup.
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### Author:  [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2018, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-serve-cornbread-with/815165/34 "2018-05-31T03:17:34Z")
With fried catfish. Ideally also with greens, some beans, and some good hot sauce.
No not too fatty.
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### Author:  [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2018, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-serve-cornbread-with/815165/35 "2018-05-31T03:42:50Z")
> [@DSeid](#):
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> With fried catfish. Ideally also with greens, some beans, and some good hot sauce.
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> No not too fatty.
Thread win.
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### Author:  [@SacFly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SacFly)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2018, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-serve-cornbread-with/815165/36 "2018-05-31T04:21:11Z")
If I wanted to put extra effort into it, I’d make gumbo.
For a more everyday cornbread topping it would probably be Cuban black beans.
Black eyed peas and collard greens with lots of porky goodness also wouldn’t suck.
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### Author:  [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2018, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-serve-cornbread-with/815165/37 "2018-05-31T04:24:58Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#):
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> What do YOU serve cornbread with?
Butter.
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2018, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-serve-cornbread-with/815165/38 "2018-05-31T04:34:13Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#):
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> Spare ribs or fried foods seem too fatty to serve with hot buttered cornbread. What do you suggest?
Wait. What? And you’re from Cleveland?
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#):
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> I know some people like that, but I always take my bowl of red with plain saltine crackers.
I mean, I thought,
> [@John\_Mace](#):
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> Is there anything that cornbread doesn’t go with? I love having it with breakfast but if nothing else, make a nice bowl of soup and put some chucks of cornbread on the side.
Yeah,
bbles
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#):
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> Oooo, THAT sounds good. Leave out the leavening though, I guess. Just cornmeal, egg, buttermilk, and seasoning?
Are you insane? Bubbles are what makes it work.
> [@Beckdawrek](#):
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> I make a fried corn bread called Hot water cornbread.
> Yellow corn meales
> Diced onion
> Boiling water,es
> 2 eggs
> Stir it together quickly adding eggs last,
> Into a thicker than pancake batter.
> And fry in a iron skillet with a little oil.
> They will puff up some, turn them and finish cooking. Good stuff.
They say that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. I always assumed it was because his ribs got in the way. You proved that wrong.
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2018, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-serve-cornbread-with/815165/39 "2018-05-31T05:08:51Z")
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> [@Beckdawrek](#):
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> I make a fried corn bread called Hot water cornbread.
> Yellow corn meal (About yea)
> Diced onion (maybe half)
> Boiling water, (What it takes)
> 2 eggs
> Stir it together quickly adding eggs last,
> Into a thicker than pancake batter.
> And fry in a iron skillet with a little oil.
> They will puff up some, turn them and finish cooking. Good stuff.
Amounts approximated because the dear girl (daughter) tries, but she was trained by the Cooking Channel while I watched others, like me mum, who knew what they were doing. I earned the right to yell at my TV.
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2018, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-serve-cornbread-with/815165/40 "2018-05-31T05:16:39Z")
Oh, I just know what it’s supposed to look like from watching Granny and the aunts. And my Daddy wasn’t too slouchy in the kitchen. Cornbread filled a bunch of tummies in our large brood.🙂
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