The Cornbread Gospels (65 page)

pumpkin cornmeal rolls,
179

-sweetened cornbread, Vermont,
54

togus bread,
61
–
62

Mary Baird’s johnny cake,
57
–
58

Masa (harina),
85
,
354

bread,
170
–
72

corn tortillas,
82
–
84

savory onion-scallion corn cakes,
232
–
33

soft corn crepes, Wanda’s,
234

“Masa,” use of word,
85

Masarepa,
98
,
99

Mason-Dixon Line,
55

Mealie (white cornmeal mush),
113

Mealiebrod (South African steamed fresh cornbread),
112
–
14

Measuring sticky ingredients,
170

Menus:

An Abundant Kwanzaa Karamu,
33

Bemis Hill Brunch,
58

Bluster On, February,
172

Breakfast in the Rose Room, Remembered,
263

Break-of-Day Blueberries,
137

Bright Bite Brown Bag,
165

Bright Supper for a Gray November Night,
81

Casa de Corazon Confabulation,
233

Cicada Sonata Summer Supper,
50

Cool-by-the-Pool August Evening,
242

December I’ll-Make-Breakfast-While-You-Shovel-the-Walk,
150

Deep Winter Let’s-Have-Breakfast-for-Dinner Dinner,
181

Dinner at the Inn: Dairy Hollow House Days,
13

Down-Home Dinner with the Preacher,
124

Dragon’s Delight,
301

End of Summer Spread,
239

Fall Farm-Stand Orchard Idyll,
45

First Lighting of the Fireplace, 2006,
315

Franconia Notch Pre–Cross-Country Ski Breakfast,
210

Guilford Garden Spoon Swoon,
196

In My Tennessee Mountain Home, July,
24

“I Only Have Eyes for You” Birthday Breakfast,
218

I Wish I Was in Dixie,
192

January Nor’easter Breakfast,
226

Just Starting to Warm Up Supper,
270

Mezze Marvelous: Patmos in Putney,
108

Mid-South Summer Dinner from the Garden,
275

My Funny Valentine,
139

A Prayer for New Orleans on the Anniversary of Katrina,
334

Punjabi Punctuation,
295

Screened Porch Summer Rain Supper,
267

Soothing a Stormy Monday, Portuguese–Style,
103

Southern California Sunday Supper That Could Be Breakfast,
209

Stockbridge Summer Snack,
57

A Sugaring-Off Supper,
54

Sunflower Supper,
188

Sunlight-on-Snow Southwestern–Style Winter Lunch,
284

Tex-Mex in the Green Mountains,
309

Thanksgiving on the Hill,
303

Waffle World Extravaganza,
222

When David and CD Got the Storm Windows Up,
70

Yucatán Sundown,
92

Mesquite meal/flour,
355

native harvest bread,
172
–
74

Sonoran skillet cornbread with,
76
–
77

sweet-hot Aztec two-steps,
143
–
44

Metrick, Carroll,
46

Mexican–style:

budin de elote (corn spoonbread),
93

cornbread, Jane’s Texas-via-Vermont,
71

cornbread pudding with sweet Mexican flavors, Cheri’s,
330
–
31

frittata Mexicana,
261

New Spain–style corn pudding,
96

pan de elote (pan cornbread),
91
–
92

Mexico:

corn tortillas in,
87
–
88

Cortés and his entourage in,
73

Mexi-stacks,
233

Mezze Marvelous: Patmos in Putney (menu),
108

Middle Eastern–style garlicky lentil soup with lemon,
316

Mid-South Summer Dinner from the Garden (menu),
275

Midwest harvest sweet-savory dressing,
281

Milk (sweet),
34
,
39
,
357

buttermilk cornbread, Leora’s,
20

corn muffins,
121

hush puppies,
248

land of, and honey custard-layered cornbread,
48

land of, and honey rolls,
178

Miller, Mark,
68

Mississippi-Tennessee Delta–style cornbread,
27

Miss Kay’s dark secret cornmeal cake,
341
–
42

Mrs. Owens’ Cook Book and Useful Household Hints
(Owens),
151

Mr. Panseer’s North Indian–style sarson ka saag,
294
–
95

Mixed-grain muffins, Janice Carr’s,
121
–
22

Molasses,
355

anadama bread, Diane’s Gap Mountain,
165
–
66

Boston brown bread, classic,
62
–
63

cornflake maple bread,
168
–
70

measuring,
170

Monterey Jack cheese:

budin de elote (Mexican–style corn spoonbread),
93

cheese-crusted Southwestern–style cornbread casserole
with chorizo and black beans,
284

featherbed eggs,
262
–
63

humitas (Bolivian-Colombian–style corn pudding),
94
–
95

rockin’ cornbread, Patsy Watkins’,
72

Moraitis, Athanasia,
107

Morgan, Robert,
9

Mornay sauce,
264
–
65

Moss, Barbara Robinette,
28

Muffins,
118
,
119
–
46

Atlanta–style flat-top corn,
126
–
27

banana-ginger corn, DK’s,
138
–
39

basics for,
120

blue, blue, blueberry corn,
132
–
33

blueberry-walnut streusel,
133

blue corn, with sage and toasted pine nuts, high desert,
129
–
30

“company’s coming” rich corn,
124

double-corn basic corn,
121

dried cranberry–black walnut corn,
140
–
41

ginger-pear, with lemon glaze, wholesome,
130
–
31

lemon blueberry babycakes, crumble-bumble,
136
–
37

macaw (for parrots),
115
–
16

macaw (for people),
114
–
15

mixed-grain, Janice Carr’s,
121
–
22

New World pumpkin-pepita-poblano,
127
–
28

orange-glazed fresh cranberry corn,
141

origin and meaning of,
125

reduced-fat simply corn, with carrot,
121

sesame drop biscuit-muffins, Charlisa–styled,
151

simply corn,
119
–
21

slipperdowns with toasted pecans or walnuts,
146

sweet-hot Aztec two-steps,
143
–
44

sweet milk corn,
121

sweet potato, neighborly,
142
–
43

white cornmeal gems,
149
–
50

wild rice-corn slipperdowns,
145
–
46

Multigrain:

muffins, Janice Carr’s,
121
–
22

pancakes, evening,
206

pancakes, Ned and Crescent’s favorite,
205
–
8

toasted sesame pancake mix,
212
–
13

toasted sesame pancakes,
214
–
15

toasted sesame waffles,
220
–
21

Mustard greens, in Mr. Panseer’s North Indian–style sarson ka saag,
294
–
95

My Bondage and My Freedom
(Douglass),
21

My Funny Valentine (menu),
139

My Life with a Brahmin Family
(Reymond),
111

N

Narragansett Bay–style thick and hearty jonnycakes, Leslie’s,
226
–
27

Narragansett Indians,
230

National Cornbread Festival,
53
,
251
,
268
–
69
,
272
,
273

Native Americans,
5
,
30
,
68
,
78
–
79
,
87
,
128
,
201
,
216
,
230
,
253
,
276
,
292
,
349
,
355

togus bread,
61
–
62

Native harvest bread,
172
–
74

hazelnut,
174

Nature
(Emerson),
59

Navajos,
355

Neal, Bill,
192
,
195

Ned and Crescent’s favorite multigrain pancakes,
205
–
8

Neighborly sweet potato muffins,
142
–
43

Neruda, Pablo,
153
,
341

New day Connecticut–style cornbread pudding,
285
–
86

New England–style:

baked beans,
310
–
11

new day Connecticut–style cornbread pudding,
285
–
86

rye’n’injun,
162
–
63

see also
Jonnycakes; Northern cornbreads

New Orleans–style bourbon-banana cornbread pudding with bourbon sauce,
334
–
36

Newport County–style thin and lacy jonnycakes,
224
–
25

New Spain–style corn pudding,
96

New World pumpkin-pepita-poblano muffins,
127
–
28

New York Times
,
46

Nixtamalization,
355
–
56

Nora’s Memaw’s Alabama cornbread,
22

Northern cornbreads,
37
–
66

Boston brown bread, classic,
62
–
63

cornmeal-oatmeal cranberry-orange loaf,
60
–
61

Durgin-Park–style,
41

extra-moist, Carroll’s,
46

gold-and-white tasty,
58
–
59

history of,
38
–
40

johnny cake, Mary Baird’s,
57
–
58

land of milk and honey custard-layered,
48

quasi-colonial,
44
–
45

Southern cornbreads vs.,
34
–
36

sweet cream and honey,
47

“thirded” colonial,
42
–
43

togus,
61
–
62

Vermont maple-sweetened,
54

Yankee “spider,” with custard layer,
50
–
51

see also
Jonnycakes

North Indian–style sarson ka saag, Mr. Panseer’s,
294
–
95

Nutritional yeast,
358

Nutumya, Melcina (Cina),
79

O

Oatmeal:

cornmeal cranberry-orange loaf,
60
–
61

toasted sesame multigrain pancake mix,
212
–
13

October orchard idyll,
298
–
99

“Oda al Maíz” (Neruda),
341

Oils,
35
,
236
,
356

“Old Dan Tucker” (American folksong),
129

Old-time Southern spoonbread,
190
–
91

Oliver, Sandy,
167

Olives, corn thinbread with walnuts, feta, sun-dried tomatoes and,
106
–
9

O
magazine,
279

Onion(s):

Patsy’s cornbread salad,
272
–
73

scallion corn cakes, savory,
232
–
33

-topped cornbread, savory, “shortcake” of,
81
–
82

Orange:

blueberry cornmeal pancakes,
217
–
18

bobota (Greek cornbread),
105
–
6
,
107

cranberry cornmeal-oatmeal loaf,
60
–
61

-glazed fresh cranberry corn muffins,
141

honey syrup,
106

Owen, Sri,
241

Owens, Mrs. Frances E.,
151

Ozark cornbread, Sylvia’s,
18

P

Pancake(s),
199
–
220

apple-ginger corn cottage cakes,
220

blueberry blintz–style corn cottage cakes,
219

buttermilk in,
213

corn cakes, George Washington’s favorite,
202
–
4

cornmeal, Tolers’ Southern,
211

crisp corn flapjacks, Lynn Larson’s,
208
–
9

double-corn cottage,
218
–
20

frittata-, cornbread,
260
–
62

golden apples of the sun,
215
–
16

griddling guidelines for,
203

multigrain, evening,
206

multigrain, Ned and Crescent’s favorite,
205
–
8

orange-blueberry cornmeal,
217
–
18

toasted sesame multigrain,
214
–
15

toasted sesame multigrain, mix,
212
–
13

white cornmeal griddle cakes, old Alabam’,
209
–
10

see also
Griddled cornbreads; Jonnycakes