Cornpone again #?

The pones in the skillet.

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Cornpone - The Recipe

Cryptic recipe

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As you can see, the recipe is quite basic.

Here it is from how I made it tonight:

 Put 2TBS oil in a skillet (cover the bottom) and put it in the oven while it preheats to 400. I use olive oil.

1.5 cups fine white corn meal

1 tsp salt

1 TBS baking powder

1.5 cups hot tap water.

 

Mix all the dry stuff. Mix in the hot water gradually. You want the batter to be not soupy, but not too thick.   See pics above for how the batter should look. You want it to spread out a bit when it is spooned in the hot skillet. Bake for 30 minutes.

Yummy!

It's funny how simple and cheap it is. No wonder my country kinfolk lived on the stuff!

Cornpone - The Batter

Mixin' up the batter!

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Cornpone - The Cornmeal

Hoover's

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Someone from my job asked me for the recipe for cornpone. I had to make it tonight so I could write it down. We grew up on it in my family. 

The first thing about it is the meal. It has to be fine white corn meal. Hoover's that you see in the picture can only be found in my region, as it's ground in my home town of Chipley, FL. I looked all over Birmingham, AL one time and couldn't find it.  Dixie Lily, I think, makes a fine white corn meal too that would probably work fine.

I downloaded all these pics from my phone. You can only do one at a time. Apologies.

TOSHIBA 1625CDT LAPTOP

I really dig this old tank of a laptop. A year or so ago I tried different linux distros on it and again recently ran some live cds. Slitaz and lucid puppy ran pretty well, but since the usb port is shot on it I needed to add some peripherals via pcmcia cards (i.e.usb port, wireless card). So basically, good ol' windows xp made the cut. There is a way to add peripherals with linux, but I'm just not interested in messing with it. Surprisingly, Internet Explorer 8 works better than anything I've tried for internet stuff.

It's perfect for the writing I want to do and have picked up again. Truly love using old equipment that still has life in it, and since it's not really for many online chores, it's just as fast as anything else.

Still loving the smartphone. Listening right now, by way of Pandora, to Bessie Smith radio.
Peace!

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Cracker Cattle?

Neat looking steer with moss draped live oak backdrop. On my way home from the farm... Feeling sad about Uncle Macky and Aunt 'Liz'beth...

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