How to Make Hot Water Cornbread - Corn Pone Recipe

My mother lived through the Great Depression. She used to make corn pone for us (her seven children) when the groceries were running low. During the coronavirus lockdown, I started looking for a recipe that looked like her corn pone. Yours is the closest I have found (minus the cheese). A lot of recipes add an egg and the result looks more like a pancake. I'm eager to try your recipe. Thank you for sharing.

Thank you so much! Watched the help and some old westerns today so i had to see what cornpone was!

You've convinced me, Gary! I'll be making some tomorrow night! May I recommend Anson Mills to you, (although you probably already know all about them), located in Columbia, SC. I first heard about them from reading Mark Twain's "Corn Pone Ideas".

I'm definitely going to try this recipe. As you said, I was tough how to make it the traditional aka boring way which I thought was pretty good until I watched your video. Thank you

Loving the kitchen project Gary, and I those Corn Pone's look great! Yeah, I bet green onion would be great in those. Very similar to what we call hush puppies here in the south, and we add onion, whole kernel corn and really anything you want to add. I like a bit of Jalapeño as well. Great video Gary and looking forward to many more!

Baby this is the real deal! (well minus the cheese but I confess I do kind of like it with the cheese). Reminds me of what my Macon, GA grandma cooked way back in the day. Thanks!

Love this Gary! So simple, and yes - the cheddar definitely makes the basic cornpone recipe all the tastier. <3

I make pone using ground up parched corn. The fried patties are great with maple syrup or as a base for refried beans and cheese.

Do you have a video on doing ribs

Cold corn-pone, cold corn-beef, butter and buttermilk—that is what they had for me down there, and there ain’t nothing better that ever I’ve come across yet. Buck and his ma and all of them smoked cob pipes, except the hag woman, which was gone, and the two young women. They all smoked and talked, and I eat and talked. The young women had quilts around them, and their hair down their backs. They all asked me questions, and I told them how pap and me and all the family was living on a little farm down at the bottom of Arkansaw, and my sister Mary Ann run off and got married and never was heard of no more, and Bill went to hunt them and he warn’t heard of no more, and Tom and Mort died. This was in Arkansaw.

Mom used to make similar with chopped onion, dropped in hot oil with a spoon ("spoon bread")

Ironically my wife was telling me about these fried corn mush which sounds like these.

giving the cornmeal time to hydrate will improve the texture. I like the corn to be non crunchy . but that is personal preference. another way to cook corn or grits or cream of wheat you can just say polenta or gelatanized grain .... cook until well softened put into a bread pan and refrigerate over night. The next day remove from bread pan mold . At that point it can be sliced and fried with the grease from breakfast sausage or bacon. A dish that is sustaining and filling but low in flavor unless you add something. ie onion, cheese, pepper, or sausage or bacon grease ect. an old depression era way of feeding the hungry. My grandmother lived next to the railroad 150 feet away and had a grove that hobos and traveling homeless stayed. A little goodwill goes a long way they always self policed and kept trouble away from her place.