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I grew up on fried cornbread. When momma didn't have anything for me to eat before school she would fry some cornbread and pour corn syrup on it and that was my breakfast. Sometimes for dinner momma would fry corn bread and chop up a bunch of onions put that in the batter and then fry it. We usually had a mess of pintos or butters when she cooked it that way. God bless

The Natives, Shawnee, were known for it and the first recorded Anglo account of the Johnny Cake was in 1739.

I can truly say I love the way the video started, Boom we mixing. No song and dance right to the meat and potatoes of it. Thank you.

Here in Texas we call them corn cakes. I put diced up jalapeño in mine ❤️🙏

We just called it fried corn bread and still do, my dads mother fried corn bread in bacon grease made with yellow mill ground corn, a touch of flour, salt and baking powder and butter milk. My mothers folks never fried corn bread, baked pone in the stove with store brought white self rising meal, an egg , a touch of salt, regular cows milk straight from the barn and a squirt of yellow mustard, grandmother said she had; had enough of roughing it and it was store brought meal or nothing. A good mess of purple hull peas and some mustard greens would make a fine meal with either corn bread. The pone corn bread was also used for desert, a small sliced buttered and covered with ribbon cane syrup was not to be beat! Thanks for sharing.

What I would give for another piece of my Granny's 'cracklin' cornbread!! Yum!! I could hardly wait for it to bake!

Finally, after 40 years, I found the fried cornbread I was served as the houseguest of a Southern family who were, like you, Tipper, from North Carolina. I've never seen it mentioned in any story about Southern cooking. The family just called it cornbread, but I watched the women folk mix it up and fry it, and anyway there's no mistaking the cooking method from the way it comes out, crispy on the edges and flat as a pancake. For the family I stayed with it had the advantage of being amenable to last-minute decisions about supper.

Living here in Canada, we didn't see cornbread too often. Sometimes though, my mother would bake it for breakfast. A corner piece, still steaming hit from the oven, slathered with butter and honey, and a tall glass of cold milk was my absolute favourite breakfast. Still is

I used my regular cornbread recipe and put it in my waffle maker. It was so tasty! And I wanna thank you for your channel! I’ve been learning about Appalachian culture since we moved to West Virginia a year ago.

My grandparents called them "fritters". "Corn fritters", to be exact. They're very good & you don't have to heat up your house, as badly

Daddy always loved when Mommy would fry cornbread in the summer. He loved it with fresh green beans and potatoes that she fixed in a pressure cooker. She would fry up a pound of bacon first and use fresh bacon grease and we would have the bacon for our meat. Delicious! The only thing we needed was a slice of fresh tomato, green onions and cucumbers & onion in vinegar, a small dash of sugar and water. Precious memories for me. Mommy and Daddy have gone on to be with the Lord. 🙏

My husband’s aunt makes what she calls lacy cornbread. I think the batter is just cornmeal and water, but it’s thinner than most cornbread batters. She fries it in a skillet and pours the batter in the oil in small drizzles. Similar to the way a funnel cake would be made but they are much smaller. About the size of the palm of your hand. They are really crunchy and the last piece is often fought over at Thanksgiving 😊

Some good "fried taters", along with the other things you mentioned would be great for Supper.

This is my favorite way! Had them several times a week growing up. We just called it cornbread. The baked kind was a pone. Central Kentucky here 👋

My Mama (who, thanks to your channel, I recently found out was from part of NC Appalachia region) use to fry cornbread. Oh my goodness, I'd eat until I was sick. Butter on that fried cornbread......YUMMMMM. Explaining my earlier comment, I noticed that my mothers accent and words reminded me of many of your "Appalachia Education" videos. So I searched the area where she was raised and the region is considered part of the NC Appalachia. So thank you for all the information you include in your videos!!

We called them "corn cakes" and usually ate them in the summer so we wouldn't heat up the house by running the oven.

My grandmother made fried cornbread and I still do. I didn't know it was called anything else until I was an adult and traveled. From N GA.

My grandmother would make fried cornbread in the summer when it was “too hot to use the oven” as she said. It was so good with a mess of beans cooked long and slow. We started calling them “corn dodgers” because that is what Rooster Cogburn carried in his saddle bags on the trail, made for him by his housekeeper, Chen Lee. We still call them corn dodgers and love to watch True Grit, the movie. Used as targets, a drunk Rooster Cogburn even shoots them! My wife wants us to make some now. Thanks for the inspiration!

Mom was from the mountains of East Tennessee called Del Rio but further into the mountains . She called it hoe cakes . I still make them especially with fried potatoes and pinto beans....these I cook all night... slowly...mashing at least at least a cup full...putting it back into the pot of beans to thicken the bean soup! Soooo good!!!

I grew up on fried cornbread patties. My mother was a good cook and when we had fresh vegetables, or beans and especially cabbage - she would fry these delicious patties. I haven't made fried cornbread in a while. Our boys really liked them when they were growing up. I need to introduce our grandchildren to the cornbread. They like baked - but have not had fried.

Seeing this makes me think of my grandma, a girl from West Point Arkansas. She made us the best fried cornbread for just about every meal. grandpa would break up some day old cornbread into a glass and pour some buttermilk over it and let it soak up. Man, that was good. We topped it off with a handful of fresh green onions and have lunch. Oh, the memories. Thank you for your video.

We love fried cornbread and with our steamed oysters here on the coast. My favorite

Love cornbread. I fondly remember my Mother would make hoecakes with navy beans. I never knew why they were called hoecakes until you mentioned it. Thank you. I love your videos.

This reminds me of what my Ma makes only she uses regular flour and calls them Flitters. I remember as a kid she made them on the weekends when she had more time to make "country breakfasts". They were so good. By the way I like your channel. Thanks for all the good and informative videos.

I love them. We always called them fritters and use hot water corn bread recipes

I love it, Makes me think of my Nana and her beans and greens and her Corn Bread.

MY MAMA ALWAYS COOKED CORNBREAD THIS WAY....IT'S MY FAVORITE !!

We always called them fritters and I have always made them. When my twins were babies they really loved them, and still do.Appalachian cooking is the best.

My Dad always called them fritters. He liked them with green onions chopped into the batter. Then he would break them up in a bowl and cover it with butter milk. He said it was a real treat. The things we remember from our parents.

Growing up in North Carolina as a boy ,mama only made fried cornbread. The first time I saw baked cornbread, I thought it was cake. A cake of fried cornbread and a pot of pinto beans was all we needed. Us poor people sure had it good back then. Great video.

corn fritters. I so enjoy eating them with Appalachian apple butter.

Oh that looks so good.gotta make some.love the stories.Blessing's on you!!!!

You're fried cornbread recipe is exactly what I learned when I was growing up from Mama and Grandmama. Equal parts of enriched cornmeal and buttermilk. Mix it and let it sit for a while. But the cast iron skillet into the oven with some oil. Pour in a good splash of oil into the cornmeal and buttermilk. Then, poor into the heated Skillet and let it cook until everything is brown and delicious. The way you refer to the authors of so many of these books is great. Thank you so much for sharing

We always called it fried cornbread. Sometimes, the older folks in the family would say corn fritters. I'm gonna make this tonight. Your video made me so hungry!

Tipper, once again you bring back a flood of memories. Mommy used to make them the way you do and we loved them. We also had Cracklin's too but she put them in the cast iron skillet and made a pone on cornbread. I loved them with butter and homemade syrup over them. I remember her also making what she called Fritters but they were made with flour instead of mixing cornbread with it. She'd fry them up and they were as light as could be and oh so good. I've tried duplicating them through the years but have failed in getting her results. I was a young boy and we just didn't hang out in kitchen with Mommy to learn her recipes, and rue to this day that I didn't, she was such a good cook. Our home was on Irish Creek but we pronounced it Arsh Creek. It was a little ways from Blaine, Ky. We say we came from Louisa but if you lived within 20 miles from Louisa, that's where you where from. I don't know whether or not my failure at making the flour Fritters was due to my taste buds not being those of a 10 to 12 year old or my failing memory. I'll be 74 in a week or two and would Love to have another of Mommy's Corn Fritters or especially one of her Flour ones before I go. If you have a recipe for the flour fritters I would Love to see it. Good work on your Video's, wife and I both Love to watch them together.

We called it fried cornbread. My mom would typically make it in the summertime to go along with her fried okra, chicken fried steak, buttered rice and gravy with sliced tomatoes and pickled cucumbers! What a great memory!

Ok , So I'm just scrolling through my KZfaq, and on the thumbnail picture I see a cast iron skillet, cornbread, Appalachian so I immediately play video. And I immediately noticed it was "THE PRESSLEY GIRL'S" mom. I love those girls. The whole family is so talented. So glad I found this channel. Love the Appalachian way of life. New subscriber

Tipper, love your recipes and stories. Real America. Thank you and God bless.

All your videos are like going home. Thank you for sharing!

We have always called it fried corn bread. We added grated onion to ours and served it with soup, dried beans or fresh vegetables. Delicious.

When I was a kid we called them hoe cakes. I loved it when we had hoe cakes with some peas or turnips that had been cooked with ham hock. I always put a lot of pepper sauce in my peas and greens and would dip my hoe cake in the potlikker. My mouth is watering right now thinking about it.

North Louisiana raised but poor country folks had to be creative and make do with whatever was close to hand. So many of your stories about food and growing up listening to older relatives talk about how things were done back then are very similar to how I was raised. We grew up on hot water (fried) cornbread. Boiling hot water was poured over Cornmeal, salt, with a pinch of leavening to make a thick dough. We always used cold water on our hands to shape the patties to combat the heat and keep the dough from sticking to our hands. Then fry them in a cast iron skillet in hot smoking oil. My mother loved eating her grandmother’s hot water cornbread and thought it was so neat how great grannie left a thumb print in each one she made. Cornbread baked in the oven was called skillet bread.

Corn pancakes. I love them. I got so hungry watching this.

In my family in Maryland's Piedmont region, cornbread very rarely appeared. My Mom-mom, however, made what she called corn cakes frequently and year round. She would make her usual pancake batter out of her head, no recipe or measuring of ingredients, and add either fresh sweet corn cut from the cob or a pint jar of her canned corn. Her pancakes were always wonderful, but the addition of the corn boosted them into the stratosphere. We ate them slathered with Blue Bonnet margarine, butter being too costly, and King Syrup. The syrup was thick and had a mild molasses flavor no where near as strong as black strap. It was produced in Baltimore and is still available here, but I rarely use it because I'm diabetic (type 2) and it is now made with high fructose corn syrup which I try to avoid as much as possible. I so appreciate your videos as they rekindle memories of growing up in a world, gone forever now, but so much better than where we find ourselves today. I love sharing the similarities and differences between our regions and our personal experiences. Thank you and God bless!

I love fried cornbread, always have. It's so wonderful hearing you talk about the days gone by, really brings back good memories. Thank you for sharing the time with us and the stories.

Sadly, have never had corn bread like this - looks delicious! One more recipe for the MUST do list. Thanks!!

Just watching you cook and speak of Appalachia heart warming.

I love fried cornbread! Growing up here in southeast Virginia as a boy and northeast North Carolina we always called them Johnny cakes or just fried cornbread. I always made them when I was having fried fish! I always picked on them and ate as I was making them. Cornbread and biscuits here in the sunny south was always a staple. I enjoy your videos and they take me back cause a lot of what you show is very similar to what we done growing up. Right down to the terminology! Keep it all alive!

Looks delicious girl love fried cornbread 💞

My favorite kind of cornbread is fried. My whole family loves it. My grandma called it corn pone.

omg that looks good. I’m going to try to cook some

Grew up eatin’ ‘em, still make ‘em. When we have company visit, flitters (that’s what we call them), with fried taters, fried salmon patties , fresh green beans, fresh from the garden cut up onion, tomatoes and cucumbers is the most requested meal. For breakfast the most requested is chocolate gravy with biscuit pone.

I haven't had corn cakes since I was very young. I'll have to do that. Many memories popped up. We had a cast iron wood cookstove. Mom poured corn cakes right on the top. Dad loved them with molasses. Thanks.

Growing up on a workin’ ranch in the south fried cornbread was served almost daily. Cornbread and cat head biscuits takes me back to my younger years. Thank you for sharing your receipt and keep the Appalachian way of life strong.

I wasn't a big fan of cornbread, but when Mom made fried corn bread I absolutely proved it. God Bless

That was so interesting. I’ve never had it fixed this way. I’m definitely going to make some fried corn bread. Thank you!

Have a roast and steaming some broccoli right now. I think some fried cornbread will go perfectly. Thank you for the video!

When you turned that over in the pan, my mouth immediately watered. I miss my Grandma's fried cornbread so much. Thank you so much for posting this. Wish I could be there for supper with ya'll.

I am a fan❣️ That looks great, I wish I had some right now!! I am learning which foods are most integral to Southern Appalachia and it’s history, cornbread surely is one!

I ate fried cornbread many a day for supper with beans and lettuce & onions and for breakfast with syrup! My Mommy made the best! Oh how I miss those days! Thank you, Tipper, for bringing back those memories! God bless & love to all the Pressley fam! 💕🤗🙏🏻

That’s a great idea with frying the cornbread (like a pancake). I’ve never tried that before. I’m going to have to give it a try. Thank you! Have a great night 🤗

Thats my favorite cornbread.. just like my mamaw used to make. Im from franklin NC. I thought everybody cooked like this until i left home. You cant get mountain food anywhere but the mountains.

I love making fried cornbread. Me mamaw made it all the time. She’s Appalachian as well. She was born in Bell County Kentucky. I’ll have to do a video on her cornbreads. Love that you are sharing all these memories with us and keeping the old Appalachian ways alive. God Bless.

I'm pretty sure that corn meal "mix" implies that it has flour in it, not that it's necessarily self-rising. You can buy self-rising corn meal that is not "mix", it's just self-rising corn meal. But I am thinking that you do want corn meal "mix" for this recipe so that you do get some flour in it. That way the batter is smoother and works better for frying. By the way, I only use white corn meal and corn meal mix, and like you, buttermilk only. I don't care for yellow corn meal at all. And no "sweet" milk. Like you said, my grandmother just used water with it and they were perfect. I love pepper jellies too, but I think it's hard to beat molasses on a piece of buttered cornbread, baked or fried. Thank you for all you do in saving this valuable piece of Americana.

I absolutely love fried cornbread. We call it fried cornbread. My husband calls it hoecakes. Ive heard it called johnny cakes...One of my favorite meals is brown beans, cornbread, fried potatoes, and fried saurkraut. Yum!!! Like you, its delicious even plain. I havent tried pepper jelly yet...🤔 I might have to try. Thank you. Your videos are always a learning experience and quite enjoyable. ☺

My maternal grandmother & my aunts all made this. I absolutely loved it, but my mother could never make it. Now I know thanks to your video! ❤️

I take silver queen, cut it off the cob, dry it in a food dehydator, then grind it and you have the best cornmeal on earth! It's a lot of work but well worth the effort ! Try it sometime and you wont believe how good it is ! It'll make your tongue slap your brains out !

Growing up in a small valley, between, Pine and Black mountain, mountain cooking was all I knew.. My Aunt, who lived in a one room cabin, and cooked on a open fire place would make these for me. Along with fried cabbage, and fried chicken... My family has a long history in south east Kentucky...they were the first to settle on what is now line fork, and leather wood, Kentucky... Corn bread was certainly a very important staple of their diet.

I love cornbread also .....fried cornbread is great ! Love it the way you prepare it ....thanks tipper .....as always , God bless.....🙏

My Momma told me that Johnny Cake was a Confederate food. Always made with....ahem, white cornmeal. The northerners used yellow cornmeal and wouldn't be caught dead using white. She said we don't make wimpy cornbread. That's Johnny Cake !! Funny how stories change and shift. I could smell the deliciousness of your fried cornbread. I'm good with a slather of real butter, thank you.❤

When I was a little girl.. I remember eating cornbread most anytime and hot water cornbread is my favorite.. but I've had corn cakes and fried cornbread like yours, too . Hot water cornbread is a little lighter in texture than what you made in your skillet It seems. it is all so good though.. delightful memories in the kitchen. Thank you for you bringing memories of home and family to mind.

In Robeson County, NC people eat collard sandwiches which are two pieces of cornbread with collards in the middle. Sometimes people add chow chow or bacon and likely vinegar.

We always called them Johny cakes, if they were made like pancakes. My favorite way is made like bread in a 9x9 pan. Take a square while it's hot and pour milk on it and sprinkle it with sugar and cinnamon. Had that a lot for breakfast in the winter. Soo good!

Yummy…I love it mama & my Granny made them often…I’ve made them but it’s been a long time…. Brenda

Grandma used to make me cornmeal pancakes for breakfast, I grew up knowing them as Flapjacks. Usually had them with Kayro Syrup and some fried streak a lean. I am very glad I found your site! I watch your videos after supper and its really relaxing! Thank you.

Those pans are absolutely priceless....love to have a couple of those already seasoned like hers....😊😊😊

I’ve always called it corn pone...or hot water cornbread. Loved the history!

I love fried cornbread ! I put chopped onion in mine because that is how my Grandma made it - my Grandma made a pan of bread and some type of fresh greens everyday - if she made spaghetti, she also had a pan of bread and fresh greens - my Grandma made her own cornmeal mix - she had a glass five gallon jug under her sink ready to go ! Her house smelled like greens and cornbread everyday!

This lady is deep south. She is kitchen skilled on terms/techniques/names/ methods you can cook this cornbread. I learned a lot here

Good morning Tipper, I'm so happy that you made "fried cornbread 😋 " I've tried many times and could not get the mix just right. I use only White Lily self rising meal and buttermilk but I think my mistake was not letting the mix set for ten minutes or so. My fried cornbread always fell apart. I'm going to try again and use your recipe. Your supper sounds really good. Thanks for more wonderful APPALACHIA LIVING. Jeri Whittaker

I'm not from Appalachia but I love the accent, history, and recipes. Thank you for this very interesting video that's not just a recipe.

My Grandpa made them all the time for the two of us before we’d go squirrel hunting or fishing... always fried in bacon grease.

We called them "Corn Dodgers". Mom would make a HUGE batch of them. We'd put them in our back packs and take them hunting, camping or to work.

These look yummy! I haven't had them in years. We called them corn fritters or sometimes johnny cakes. Now I need to make me some! Tfs 💜

My mama always cooked cornbread in the oven and taught me that way. My mother-in-law fried it and it was so crispy and good. I’ve tried but never been able to get it to come out like hers.

We call them fritters and I love mine with molasses! Y'all enjoy your day and thanks for sharing!

I grew up out west, now I live in the northeast. All your recipes are new to me and delicious.

Cornbread ❤️ , yes grew up on fried cornbread and skillet baked. Momma loved it with sweet milk. I like it with jam or syrup, even honey. All the names you've read about cornbread and the two cookbook authors just add so much to this humble serving. It's all good!

Crackling corn-bread is my favorite corn meals like grits you can do anything with it

I just love those that are sharing their experiences. Their stories are such a treasure of US culture and history. It’s so heartwarming. ❤️

We always called it corn bread and my mother would cook it often. She also cooked fried potatoes quite a bit and beans and taters as she would call it. My grandad used to break the cornbread up and soak it in buttermilk and eat it that way. I never liked it like that, but I used to dip it in honey or butter and that was pretty good.

I like finely chopped onions in mine.

Cornbread and culture. ❤️ Loved it! Thank you.

I love it! We also called it fried cornbread in southern Arkansas. I like it plain, with honey, with pinto beans, or even dipped in a little ketchup. We used self-rising corn meal mix too. Thank you for sharing.

What a genuine person you are... Grandma made corn pone and supposedly that was different than cornbread.

I grew up in Arkansas and my mother used to make fried cornbread when it was too hot to heat the oven. I loved it and we had it very often. We never called it anything but 'fried cornbread'. My mother fried it in Crisco in a black iron skillet. It was served with everything. My mother made cornbread (baked in a skillet) or fried cornbread nearly every night. On the table, there would be a type of cornbread and a plate with a stack of white 'loaf bread' from a packet (usually Bunny Bread). She would serve everything in big bowls and we'd pass them around. Iced tea. I never knew anyone ate any other way than this until I grew up and found out that this was kind of old fashioned even in the 70s. I was lucky!

I was raised in middle Tennessee and my Mother cooked fried cornbread a lot. Our family really liked it and we call it Hoe Cakes. I really like watching your videos and keep up the great work.

I love cornbread, and i have heard of a lot of those but never had anything other than a whole cake of cornbread or a corn muffin. That fried cornbread sure looks good thou and i am going to try it. Thanks for sharing!

My Nan made this and I had forgotten about it 'til I came across this video. It's now on my to-do list!