Why is cornbread called bread when it's so clearly a cake?

Taverner

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Wed Jul-12-06 12:17 PM
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Why is cornbread called bread when it's so clearly a cake?

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newcriminal

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Wed Jul-12-06 12:19 PM
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1. Bread

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grasswire

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Wed Jul-12-06 12:23 PM
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2. it's only like a cake in certain situations

If you get it at a restaurant above the Mason Dixon line, it's likely to have a lot of sugar and oil in it. Then it's really cake-y. And Northern cooks generally add a quarter or half cup of sugar to a pan of it, too, which makes it a little sweet, but not cake. Southern cornbread has no sugar.

By your reasoning, banana bread should be called cake, and most muffins should, too.

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Bucky

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Wed Jul-12-06 12:29 PM
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3. People really put sugar in cornbread? Yyyyuck!

I don't think it's a northern thing. My grandma was born in Missouri, moved to Chicago, and then I knew her once she moved to Philadelphia where she was famous in her church and college community for here excellent cornbread. And she never put a grain of sugar in it.

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grasswire

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Wed Jul-12-06 12:53 PM
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10. She was born in Missouri.

That's why she didn't put sugar in cornbread. Missouri is generally considered to be part of the Southern U.S.

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HarukaTheTrophyWife

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Wed Jul-12-06 12:31 PM
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4. I like it with whole corn and jalapenos in it.

I don't think it qualifies as a cake.

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JVS

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Wed Jul-12-06 12:36 PM
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5. It can be made in a bread-like fashion

What exactly defines bread and cake?

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unpossibles

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Wed Jul-12-06 12:36 PM
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6. technically it's a bread

just not a yeast bread.

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XNASA

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Wed Jul-12-06 12:37 PM
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7. My family refers to it as 'johnnycake'.

I'm not sure what Johnny has to do with it.

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Bucky

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Wed Jul-12-06 01:07 PM
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11. Sounds like you'd eat it sitting on the toilet

Got my johnnycake in one hand and my corncob in the other

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wildhorses

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Wed Jul-12-06 12:41 PM
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8. around these parts we call it a "cake of cornbread"....

we are pretty country around here...

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supernova

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Wed Jul-12-06 12:43 PM
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9. Around here it's a "pone" of cornbread

i.e., a "pan of cornbread. Hence the word "cornepone."

The way I make it is savory, with just cornmeal, no wheat flour. And most definitely no sugar! :P x( it rises a little just with baking soda and baking powder.

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