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Cornbread and Milk

By Carlis B. Wilson

It Was So Good.
Have you ever wondered why the corn bread and milk of yesterday was so good? I remember there were times when a big piece of dark brown baked corn bread and a cold glass of un-pasteurized 100% milk would hit the spot.


Hand Picked and Shelled.
Could it be that the corn was grown from heirloom hard corn and ground at the local grist mill? The corn crib had three divisions left, center and right. When feeding the stock the best corn was pitched to the left corner for seed corn, the nubbins pitched to the right for the cows and the center section was for the family, horses and other animals. The corn was shucked and hand fed into the hand cranked sheller, then taken to the mill. I was so small, delivering it to the mill, if it ever fell off the horse I would need to find a stump or large rock to get back on the horse's back. When I would get to the mill the owner would take out a couple of scoops for the toll and then grind it into corn meal. He would then help load it on the horse so I could return home.

Oven Hot Corn Bread.
I always liked hot corn bread. Sister liked the white and I liked the crust, top and bottom, crumbled into a large glass of farm fresh organic produced milk. The only times the milk had a bad taste was when the cows would eat wild onions or rag weeds. The best corn bread I ever ate was when it was made with pure cream skimmed from the top of settled milk. It was a normal thing to have 100% milk (cream and all) with our meals, but when the bread made with pure cream was served one did not need any butter. It was almost as good as a piece of cake. Most cooks used the old cast iron skillets to bake the corn bread and the shorting was pure lard, I know we are aware of the health problems of this kind of eating, but is was good tasting food.
_Carlis


This story was posted on 2003-02-19 20:57:15

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