Abe Lincoln

[Ima Sure Shot]

Just wondering since it is President's Day, Abe and Mary Todd being from Kentucky, what type of cornbread do you suppose Abe ate?Celeste

[Durango Flinthart]

Stone ground yellow corn meal mixed with buttermilk, baked in a cast iron dutch oven over a stone hearth, eaten hot covered with sweet cream butter. Sounds like a culinary delight to me, time for supper

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[Delmonico]

Stone ground yellow corn meal mixed with buttermilk, baked in a cast iron dutch oven over a stone hearth, eaten hot covered with sweet cream butter. Sounds like a culinary delight to me, time for supper

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You forgot, they would have added some fine hard wood ashes for the alkali to produce the CO2 to leaven it when it made contact with the acid in the buttermilk, probally would have melted a bit of lard and added it to the batter to soften it a bit while backing.  Some hominy or hominy grits made with the same wood ashes would have been vital to release some of the niacin in the corn or have some beans in the diet to prevent pellagra.

[Shotgun Franklin]

It sounds pretty good until you have to eat it 365 days in a row.
The Jews even got tired of Manna.

[Durango Flinthart]

I completly disremembered the fine ash, while eating supper I did remember I forgot wooden spoon of salty hog renderin'

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[Delmonico]

I completly disremembered the fine ash, while eating supper I did remember I forgot wooden spoon of salty hog renderin'

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Well you wouldn't have to leaven it, but it would be better.     I need to try that sometime for fun, I often have lots of nice wood ash. 

[GunClick Rick]

  Mamas little Abey,loves shoetnin,shoetnin,mamas little Abey love shoetnin bread~~~ MMMMMMM