cornbread and milk

mmm. this sounds good. I have never had this! definitely going to try it now! anyone have a great cornbread recipe?

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Warm cornbread with reg. or maple syrup on it and milk is one of my fav. snacks.

Cornbread and an ice cold glass of buttermilk....heaven in a bowl.

I grew up watching my grandad eat cornbread crumbled in his milk with almost every supper - sweet milk or buttermilk, he liked 'em both. He'd also dunk his biscuit in his black unsweetened coffee. None of us grandkids really liked the cornbread and milk when we were kids, but we would try it because we wanted to be like him. Now I do like it, but it was an acquired taste for me. Brings back some great memories!

My father's favorite dessert was cornbread with lots of butter topped with sorghum or cane syrup. I'm kinda partial to it myself.

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Cornbread, cold milk, honey, a bowl, and a spoon Don't get much better n that!
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Love them! bread and milk....cornbread and buttermilk....buttermilk with french bread

Saw this title and it called me to respond.

I grew up in a family that loved cornbread in either milk or buttermilk. Cornbread crumbled into a tall glass of cold milk. It was a cheap and satisfying end to a long day on the farm. I didn't realize so many other people enjoyed it, too.

From all the responses here it sounds like this is a southern staple. I've never heard of it. I love hot cornbread with butter and jam on it but would never have thought to put milk on it. It does sound good, I think I'll try it.

A southern staple? Its as common in your lands as well. Just instead of milk they use gravy.

The younger folks would say they were not getting their 2500 calories a day and all the food groups. YET for many years that WAS eatting good. With some beef once a week.

My grandmother died at 95 years of age. SHE was so used to being cheap and still giving to ANYONE that needed anything. She would go buy bags of food for new to wed couples in the community. Yet her staple was flour water, water and salt. COLD. With a Pepsi. She was PERFECT weight took no pills and lived to be 95 with the only prescription of eye glasses in her life!

The family still jokes to this day it was the Jack in the Box taco's that killed her. She got addicted to them. She would buy 20 at a time and freeze them to eat latter. 95 isn't bad off a staple.

Yep, people use to do the cornbread&milk dessert around here too. However, I think it's a dying out since there are so many store boughten snacks and desserts now days. But growing up ma use to always make lots of extra cornbread cause we all had to have it in our milk after the bean dinner.

A couple of weeks ago I ate the combo and my kids thought I had gone off my bonkers! They all tried a bit and only my middle child thougt it was good enough to eat.

Also, some people around here like to crumble up saltine crackers in their milk too.

YES,in upstate South Carolina it is very common. We have it about once a week for supper and then I have another bowl for a bedtime snack. I like it better after the cornbread cools off then crumble it in a bowl and pour on the "sweet" milk.

Yes both sweet milk and butter milk. Has to be UN sweetened cornbread. Do not like it with sugar, and homemade none of those mixes. I want it thin with lots of brown crust, crumbled in milk or buttermilk. Milk has to be cold and cornbread has to be hot.

DH likes saltine crackers crumbled in milk. Yuck.

it looks like it is southern thing, i like mine with cold milk and cold bread colder the better with lots of black pepper in it with a slice of country ham to go along with it. when i was growing up we had it for supper many a time because it was quick and easy for mom, as we would be working in the tobacco fields all day. after working in tobacco all day one was worn down really good white eyed as we called it, she would fry some kind meat most of the time it was either side meat or ham and man was it good. and no one would ever complain we all liked it, i guess its just where and how you are raised to what you eat.

Sounds like how we'd eat strawberry shortcake. Strawberries, one egg cake, and milk. Never even knew people ate it with whipped cream and no milk until I met my husband and he requested it.

He's been converted, btw, and likes it better with milk.

Corn bread and milk? I've probably only ate it about a thousand or maybe two thousand times in my life, so it's not an everyday thing. :baby04: I suppose it is more common in the South, just as cornbread dressing/stuffing is also. Further North, it seems that stuffing is a (non-corn) bread crumb based dish.

Not just for southerners!

My dad frequently ate this as his main meal for dinner with either sweet or buttermilk. He just left a square in the bottom of the bowl and ate it that way. It soaks up the milk just fine!

Dad lived in Northern Idaho and that was as far south as he ever lived. Staples like this is how he and mom made it thorugh the depression and wars (II and Korea). I have Mom's exquisite recipe for cornbread and it has 1/3 cup of sugar in it. It's a simple food but very satisfying.

crumble it up if the bread is not sweet sprinkle a little sugar add milk. I call it countryboy ceral

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My daughter loves cornbread and milk, MIL got her started on it. I have tried it not terrible but i would rather have it hot from the oven with a big glass of fresh milk oh yeah and a big bowl of beans.

DK

mmmm, yumm!!! My mom was from Arkansas and we def. had that many times as 'dessert'.

My kids always think it's a little wacky, but they don't mind a taste or 2!

Bonnie