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The Cornbread Book: A Love Story with Recipes
by Jeremy Jackson

The Cornbread Book: A Love Story with Recipes
Reviewed by Cindy Sanchez

When a certain food becomes a passion, why not write about it? That is exactly what Jeremy Jackson has done. The results are an entertaining and recipe filled book for those with a liking for "America's Unofficial Bread" - Cornbread.

Beginning with a bit of cornbread history, Jackson brings all that is "perfect" about cronbread to the reader. He has gathered together a bountiful collection of cornbread recipes that are sure to please from the traditional Sweet Cornbread to the "original" Gospel Buns, Sweet Potato Cupcakes, and Honey Snail.

Jeremy Jackson has four goals:

Make cornbread one word. Once and for all.

Have cornbread named the official bread of the United States.

Find a wife.

Think outside the box of cornmeal about the Possibilities, potentialities, and promises of cornbread.

Sample Recipe:
The following recipe and text are copyrighted by Jeremy Jackson 2003.

Drop Biscuits
The cornmeal flavor is featured front and center in these crusty biscuits. Drop biscuits are so easy: no fussing with cutting in the shortening, no worries about overhandling the batter. You can have these in the oven in three minutes. Honestly. In fact, the batter will be ready beforeyour oven is heated to the right temperature.

1/2 cup unbleached all-purposeflour
1/2 cup cornmeal
1/4 plus 1/8 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup buttermilk
3 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened

Preheat your oven to 400*F. Sift the dry ingredients together into a bowl, then stir in the buttermilk and butter. Use a large spoon to plot the batter onto an ungreased baking sheet. Make 8 to 12 biscuit-size plops.

Bake for 14 to 20 minutes, until lightly browned on the bottom. Serve hot.

Makes 8 to 12 biscuits.

Found on page 44.

Hardcover: 144 pages (2003)
Publisher: HarperCollins; ISBN: 0060096799
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