Wednesday, July 14, 2010

A NEW KIND OF BREAD?

While I was visiting my son in Nashville we were making dinner for the night and was in a hurry as we were running late. I was in the process of making a big kettle of chicken and dumplings and also trying to get other dishes together. To me chicken and dumplings are no good unless you have cornbread to eat with them.
 So I got my stuff together to began making the bread. I told my son to hand me the cornmeal and he reach me a bag. I was in a hurry so I just measured out almost a cup full and put in the bowl with the egg and flour. I stirred it up with the milk and poured it in the pan. As I was pouring it I thought there was something about it that just didn't look quite right but I put it in the oven anyway.
I got to noticing how it had raised up in the middle very big. So I browned the bread and turned it out on a cutting board to cut it. I began to cut it and I knew something sure was strange about it.
After baking bread for around 30 years I knew that bread should have cut like a whiz. It would not cut. I told my son this cornmeal must be old as this bread won't even cut. So I got a larger knife and tryed it. When I got it cut it looked like biscuit instead of cornbread.
 I began to laugh and ask him what kind of cornmeal had he handed me. He said Martha White which we all use. He had thrown the bag in the trash can so he got it out and looked at the bag and guess what.  He began to laugh and laugh. It was Martha White flour not cornmeal. So I had mixed up 11/2 cups of flour for meal and around another cup of flour for the flour. 1 egg and milk. Now that was some eating. It was crunchy on the outside like cornbread and soft in the middle like biscuits. We just tasted it and thru it in the trash. I sure don't like to waste but that was one time I was glad to get rid of a new un-recipe. lol.
 Maybe I invented a new kind of bread. I had heard my mom years ago talking about a bread they made in the old days called batter-bread that was made in a iron skillet like biscuits. Maybe that was what that was but take my advice it sure did not taste good. From now on look at your bags before measuring. With the Martha White cornmeal and flour bag looking so much alike you can sure get mixed up. They have all had a good laugh over it. Now that would have sure been somthing if I had used cornmeal to make up the dumplings. I just wonder what those would taste like lol. It's a good thing that I have mine in two seprate containers here at home or I would be making more goofy recipes.
I am not braging but everyone loves my cornbread. The trick to good cornbread is the oil in the bottom of the pan and stirring it. A friend told me a long time ago the more you stir it the better it is. That is sure right. Just don't be on a diet when you eat it.
 I love it in a cup with cut up onions, black pepper and milk. Have you ever had that for bread and milk. Try it sometimes.
 That's like putting sliced cucumbers and onions in milk with salt and pepper in them and  letting them sit in the ref. awhile before eating. I guess it is just one of those mountain recipes.

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