cshenk wrote:
> jmcquown wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>
>> I had a hankering for cornbread or corn muffins but I really didn't
>> feel like making it from scratch. (I know, it's not difficult. I
>> make cornbread a lot.)
>>
>> I had this box of Jiffy corn muffin mix in the pantry. I figured I
>> may as well use it. Now I remember why it's awful! Way too much
>> sugar.
>>
>> From now on I'll stick to the from scratch recipe I've been using for
>> years. I don't even recall buying that box of muffin mix.
>
> Grin, it's more a new englanders version of what cornbread is supposed
> to be like and i actually like it since i grew up with it. Mom would
> add raisens and bake it up as a sort of dessert almost item.
>

I'm a native New Englander, and I detest sweet cornbread. But I
will add that I buy cornbread at my peril. It is very rare to
encounter one that is not much too sweet, and they almost always
have a disgusting cake-like texture, which is lacking in grit to
say nothing of a good corn flavor.

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