Cheri wrote:
> "Julie Bove" > wrote in message
> ...
>>
>> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> 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.
>>
>> That's the stuff my parents like. I don't like sweet cornbread
>> myself. I got it a couple of times at Marie Callendars and it was
>> so sweet I couldn't eat it.
>
> I don't care for sweet cornbread at all. When I worked at a school,
> we made sweet cornbread with melted butter and brown sugar poured
> over it. Yuck.

Oh ack! It does seem that people are more picky about their cornbread than
anything else. The best I ever had came from QFC. I would treat myself to
a piece of that and their awesome salad bar every Friday when I wasn't
working late. Sadly they no longer have that cornbread and their salad bar
is anything but awesome!

This stuff was very dense and moist and not at all sweet. They seemed to
use a very coarse grind of corn. They wrapped each piece in plastic and
topped it with a packet of honey (which I did not eat) and a pat of real
butter. It was sooo good I ate it at room temperature.

I wish I could find a recipe for the kind I made for Angela. I used to buy
a mix and I think all I added was water and oil. It had no dairy or eggs
and was not sweet at all. There was no kind of additional flour either.
Just all cornmeal and leavening.