IOWA CORNBREAD...

HI, YA'LL

Remember the IOWA  CORNBREAD recipe on my SUSAN BRANCH calendar?
IOWA CORNBREAD with BEE BUTTER...?

Well, I made it tonight for dinner and it was VERY good.

I followed the recipe, word for word

BUT...

when it came time to "pour it in the pan", I just couldn't bring my silly self

to use just ANY pan...it says use an 8x8 square pan.

I have always cooked my cornbread AND biscuits in CAST IRON....

soooo...

I used my little CAST IRON CORNBREAD SKILLET

and I am GLAD I did.

This recipe calls for ingredients I had never heard of putting into cornbread batter...

wings of a bat... zest of an orange

ginger

cinnamon....yep....CINNAMON.
If you decide to make this delectable bread, BE SURE and don't skimp on these spices...
they are what makes the bread sooo good and so different.

It called for 1 1/2 cups of flour
and only 3/4 cup of CORNMEAL.....
whaaaat??

This is where I got one of the clues this cornbread wasn't our WEST TEXAS CORNBREAD....

As you will see in the photos, more of a biscuit texture....

OOO, the aroma of those spices, baking.....

almost overwhelming. 

I kept opening the oven door to take little peeks and have that

wonderful fragrance hit me right smack in the face. ♥ummmmm

I thought, "these are going to be more like a BISCUIT"
and yet, not  QUITE a biscuit as we know it.

And, I was right....a biscuit....a VERY GOOD BISCUIT.

Oh, the cornmeal made a more dense bread...
it was just a bit different from anything we had ever had...
and we loved it....

all the spices in the batter made our home smell like a 

WONDERFUL BAKERY.

....just heavenly

 I served this delightfully different cornbread with my homemade
BEEF HASH...
my mother's best dish.
I grew up with it and it is one of my very favorite COMFORT foods.

Rump roast, cooked until tender..
potatoes in the skin (I micro mine until almost done...then cut in cubes.)
onions
celery
green pepper
salt and pepper
(saute these until tender)
juice from the roast
a little water
a little flour for gravy....
let all simmer until flavors marry.
O  HONEY

And, then of course, came the BEE BUTTER...

honey and butter mixed....how could it NOT be heavenly.

I spread the Bee Butter on my Iowa cornbread, while it was warm

and it was DELICIOUS.

(isn't the little VINTAGE, SPREAD JOY spreader just perfect ! )

Kathy made it for me.

THIS cornbread is entirely different from OUR cornbread....

but it is a delightful change of pace bread that I will make again.

...wish you could come by and have a piece with me....

well, maybe another time. ;-)

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