cornbread

or corn bread

[ kawrn-bred ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Also called Indian bread. a quick bread made from cornmeal and often including buttermilk or bacon drippings, originating from the cooking of Native Americans and common in the American South.
Also called korn·broyt [kawrn, -broit];. a heavy sourdough rye bread, usually dusted with cornmeal.

An Americanism dating back to 1740–50

We love the chicken on a pallet of herby, slightly sweet cornbread dressing, which imbibes all the seeping juices.

In the opening moments we saw Clinton hugging Dove; doing a walk-and-talk shot; helping Dove make cornbread in front of a class.

To this day, I pick up a box of Jiffy cornbread mix when shopping.

Making this recipe extra appealing to me, though, is how much I love cornbread stuffing.

Oh, you should taste dandelions boiled with bacon and served with mother's cornbread.

How good, in the mist-drenched wood, tasted the scalding coffee, how good the cornbread and the bacon!

The general helped his guest to cornbread and himself began upon frumenty.

Made serious attempts to buy cornbread of citizens or hard-tack from trains going to the front, but failed.

Women and boys in camp trading cornbread off for coffee and salt, etc. with the soldiers.

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