Cornbread & Buttermilk

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

All of my long gone relatives absolutely loved this concoction.
(it dates back to the Virginia Colony during the 1600's)

Anyway.

They loved this "treat".
Personally as a kid I thought it was gross ... I still do.


But to each his own.

But here's a memory that I saw all during my childhood.

On summer afternoons when the air was smoky with dust and the sun bore down like a burden, my Grandaddy Jess would walk from his store up to his house, sit on his front porch, take off his hat, and holler at Granny Ethel in the house to bring him milk and bread.


https://jesseyancy.com/cornbread-and-buttermilk/

 

[Ole Miss]

My father loved buttermilk and cornbread also. I always thought of buttermik as sour milk!
Regards
David

 

[donna]

My Granddad loved them too.

 

[JOHN42768]

What's not to like?

 

[Eleanor Rose]

You've brought back a fond childhood memory for me @7th Mississippi Infantry . I had cornbread crumbled in a glass of cold milk (not buttermilk) many a time at my grandmother's house. It was a treat. She made great cornbread.

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

What's not to like?

For me it was the sour buttermilk.



While buttermilk is the "secret ingredient " in all Southern biscuit recipes, it's really not
something people request ... (to quench their thirst )

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

I had cornbread crumbled in a glass of cold milk (not buttermilk) many a time

Same here.
And I loved it !

But it was sweet milk, not buttermilk.



And then old timers would finish their afternoon snack with a tube of peanuts poured into a bottle of
Coca-Cola .

But that was a few hours before they got into the "moonshine".

 

[Eleanor Rose]

And then old timers would finish their afternoon snack with a tube of peanuts poured into a bottle of
Coca-Cola .

I watched my daddy pour a small pack of salted peanuts into an RC Cola many a time. I always had to have some. Something about the salt and the cola blended really well. Great childhood memories. As for the moonshine, I never got to sample that. At least not until I was an adult. During the pandemic, Douglas and I started watching reruns of the Moonshiners, a series on the Discovery Channel. We fell in love with the characters on the show and had to have some Apple Pie Shine. The Cherry isn't bad either.

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

The peanuts & cola is still a "thang" ... especially in North Mississippi.

Moonshine has never gone out of style throughout the state.

Personally, I'm very reluctant to partake in the "home made" shine.
(even in 2021)

Although these guys have a much better understanding of safe distilling than their Grandfathers,
there remains an element of danger.

 

[The Walking Dead]

While grandmother didn't particularly like buttermilk, but my grandfather did. I preferred cornbread smothered in butter.

Growing up it was always peanuts in cola or root bear.

 

[lupaglupa]

I had an uncle who loved this as a treat.

@7th Mississippi Infantry commercial buttermilk tastes more sour than homemade, which is what folks had on hand back in the day

 

[Desert Kid]

The peanuts & cola is still a "thang" ... especially in North Mississippi.

Moonshine has never gone out of style throughout the state.

Personally, I'm very reluctant to partake in the "home made" shine.
(even in 2021)

Although these guys have a much better understanding of safe distilling than their Grandfathers,
there remains an element of danger.

Saw it in Senatobia, saw it in Pontotoc, saw it in Corinth.

Yes sir you are right.

 

[Fairfield]

it's really not
something people request ... (to quench their thirst )

My Norwegian grandmother drank buttermilk. She'd never been to the south but once--and she boarded the wrong train from Georgia and went to Alabama rather than New York City. Because my grandfather didn't care for buttermilk, she never had it in her house but she always ordered it at restaurants.

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

She'd never been to the south but once--and she boarded the wrong train from Georgia and went to Alabama rather than New York City.

LOL !

Poor Lady .

Alabama is in a different galaxy than NYC.


However, after being in Georgia ... Alabama was at least basically the exact same environment for her.

 

[KianGaf]

My father loved buttermilk and cornbread also. I always thought of buttermik as sour milk!
Regards
David

I must give buttermilk a try as I like sour flavours. I have recently started drinking a Polish milk drink called Kefir id say its very similar to buttermilk. It has yogurt sour type flavour and is supposed to be very good for you. I tried baking corn bread one time but it was a bust. I had to use polenta as its all I could get hold of. I'm not sure its a suitable substitute. I find corn bread delicious as I find southern food in general.

 

[SandiD]

Crumble-In is great - and this from a born and raised in New York gal.

 

[Ole Miss]

When I make Cat Head biscuts I usually clabber my sweet milk with a capful of vinegar and it really makes for delicious biscuts!
Regards
David

 

[Fairfield]

When I make Cat Head biscuts I usually clabber my sweet milk with a capful of vinegar and it really makes for delicious biscuts!
Regards
David

OK, I'll bite: what is a Cat Head biscuit? Apparently someone once posted a recipe for them--but I can't find it.

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

When I make Cat Head biscuts I usually clabber my sweet milk with a capful of vinegar and it really makes for delicious biscuts!
Regards
David

The more I think about it, that may have been my Great Aunt's secret recipe.

I may be wrong, but it would explain the great/unique taste of her biscuits.


But she always used buttermilk , so I doubt vinegar would have been an ingredient.

 

[Fairfield]

The more I think about it, that may have been my Great Aunt's secret recipe.

I may be wrong, but it would explain the great/unique taste of her biscuits.

I think that what you and your Great Aunt were doing was making buttermilk. Buttermilk biscuits are terrific!