Yeah, I like it with the course ground meal also. House Autrey has a courser grind but my store has been out so I just got the store brand.
This is the beauty of this dish/dishes; corn pone, corn bread, hoe cakes, johnny cakes, journey cakes, shawnee cakes/bread. It's really all basically the same thing.... kind of. All staple ingredients, with or without leavening depending on how portable it needs to be. This is hard work, simple living, nitty gritty food that will keep you going. Hard times food made delicious. I always admired how people were not only able to make something out of nothing but something really good out of very basic ingredients.