cornbread

[esther_reeves]

I know some people on here know more about cornbread than I do..  as in you have eaten it before !

I made some last night cos. well it seemed like a good idea and I wanted to try other options that might work better gluten free. I used this recipe and you can see a pic of it on my cooking blog.

It rose well, seemed very cakey, but most gluten free

Comments

[cov_cloud]

when I had cornbread in the states it was very sweet. (if that helps at all), i felt it was something like a pancake/ muffin thing to have over there.
Does cornflour have a higher sugar to starch count ? (i have no idea how to find out !!) that could be why if more sugars are released through merely cooking the stuff.

[esther_reeves]

It might have a higher sugar content but the recipe has a fair amount of sugar in it but I was still surprised at how sweet it came out.

[cov_cloud]

just had a quick nose at your blog. You're very good making things from recepies, I find recepies something hard to read as well as comics, I really NEED text to look a certain way ... I'm very much the make it up from something I've heard of style of cookery (a lot of crossed fingers and no small amount of burnt fingers are involved !).

[cov_cloud]

I must re-learn to read as with websites and the like its actually becoming a problem for me, not being able to read text presented in certain formats.

[esther_reeves]

One option I sometimes use is to copy and paste to a word processor and re-arrange so I can read it better.

I don't always follow recipes but at times it is necessary to learn how to do something. I suppose it works for me fairly well as I had to learn how to do things presisly as I studied science based subjects.

[cov_cloud]

that's a good idea for some websites i need to look at. i might give it a try. I actually wonder if its the same part of my brain that makes me find computer games particularly irritating - too much going on in the visual field or something.

[alex_chappell]

On the Nigella Lawson site there is a tip on turning normal milk into buttermilk. Also my american friend Rose makes cornbread and it is sweet, she often makes it with chocolate in to make a pudding and uses cornbread to make a "dressing" (stuffing to you and me) for turkey as well as a white gravy for turkey. It's all really sweet though. But I'm sure there are Italian receipies that make polenta which is the same as the corn, which are savoury