Thread: Cast iron?

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.

Originally Posted by STF

If it wasn't 16 hours and over a 1000 miles I would be looking for an invite for some of that Paul.

But if you can't figure out that simple recipe for yourself you don't have my sympathy...

I know this is even further adrift of the thread topic but since we.are.on a maize/corn tangent has anyone here ever made hominy? My grandmother taught me how to can and pickle and make jam and jelly and preserves. She talked about having made hominy but we never did. My understanding of it is that it is a long drawn out process. I'm just curious if anyone here does that.

Never made it, but boy....I ate a lot of it as a kid.

Num Num.!

Always looked at it as wet popcorn, but kinda chewy

Originally Posted by 32t

But if you can't figure out that simple recipe for yourself you don't have my sympathy...

It's not the recipe. Sitttin with your buddy some good eats and a coffee (or beer) is what it's about for me.

Actually, I doubt i would make them myself. I'm more of a chip butty sort of guy, or even deep fried mars bar!

Rule Brittania

Originally Posted by STF

It's not the recipe. Sitttin with your buddy some good eats and a coffee (or beer) is what it's about for me.

Actually, I doubt i would make them myself. I'm more of a chip butty sort of guy, or even deep fried mars bar!

Rule Brittania

Had a deep fried Mars bar in England. I think the Brits could find a way to fry soup.

You have obviously never been to a fair in the south. At county fairs they have fried oreos, fried candy bars...I even saw a booth for fried butter once.

Steve, it would be my pleasure to sample a chip butty with you as well as share some southern delights over a coffee or a pint.

Edit: although I'll have to draw the line at kidney pie. Somehow after having a radical nephrectomy it just doesn't seem right.

Originally Posted by PaulFLUS

Steve, it would be my pleasure to sample a chip butty with you as well as share some southern delights over a coffee or a pint.

Edit: although I'll have to draw the line at kidney pie. Somehow after having a radical nephrectomy it just doesn't seem right.

I get that Paul.

Actually it's not steak and kidney it's amazon pie, snake & pygmy.

If you fancy trying a chip butty heres the recipe, it's a bit complicated but just do your best:

Butter two slices of bread.

Put a handful of french fries on the one slice.

Add a dollop of brown sauce (HP or A1).

Cover with top slice.

There you go, chip butty( you would probably call it a french fry sandwich). I told you it was complicated

Originally Posted by DZEC

Had a deep fried Mars bar in England. I think the Brits could find a way to fry soup.

You didn't say you disliked deep fried mars bars.

Mmm, fried soup. I like the sound of that, I wonder