Do You Like Cornbread with Buttermilk?
How many of you remember crumbling up cornbread into a glass of sweet milk and eating it with a spoon after supper?
This was a special treat we ALWAYS did when spending the night with my grandparents, only they used buttermilk.
If you ever find yourself wondering why folks call whole milk “sweet milk” just pour yourself up a big old glass of buttermilk! After a sip or two of that, it will make perfect sense!
~Grins~
Posted by Christy Jordan
on Sep 11 2008. Filed under Misc.
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Cornbread and buttermilk is just nectar of the gods! I grew up on it, and love to get the crusts and eat them with buttermilk.
I love cornbread and milk. Can’t do buttermilk though! I could actually have a huge glass or two for dinner and be perfectly happy. If the cornbread is still warm from the oven I could eat the whole skillet. I have always added a little bit of salt to the crumbled cornbread before pouring in the milk. Since my mom, grandmother, and grandfather do that too I guess it’s just part of the family tradition. Oh, and my grandfather prefers buttermilk with his.
Which type of buttermilk?
Whichever cranks your tractor. I prefer whole when I can find it.
My Mama loved buttermilk and cornbread in a tall glass. I call it “Country Girl’s Parfait”!
How sweet that I found this today..My daddy has been gone a long time to heaven but this was his very favorite treat.As a matter of fact it was the last thing I ever fixed him.Thank you for sharing and bringing a smile to my face today.
Blessings!
My favorite buttermilk in the Kroger brand, low fat. Soooooooooooo good with cornbread! Or………….. anything else!
Kroger brand is the only kind I buy, until 2days ago, my new magazine had a recipe for buttermilk. In a mason jar ,put 1/2 cup buttermilk, 2 cups whole milk and 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt. Let it sit at room temperature for 24-36 hrs and then put in fridge. It will coat the inside of jar. It’s a good thing
We were just talking about this! It was my Daddy’s favorite too. I like cornbread with milk still. It grosses my husband out ;>) Does anyone eat black eyed peas with Mayo and hot sauce? That one may be unique to my special South Alabama family – LOL
Gotta have it with buttermilk ! I love a really cold glass to drink. I thought it was great to drink it with my granddaddy when I was a kid ! My kids think I’m crazy !
This was a special treat at out house! With 9 kids it took a LOT of milk! ’cause of course who only does one glass?! When I do it at my house now, my kids think I am the strangest person on earth! right up there with those mayonnaise sandwiches! or pineapple sandwiches!
Christy, do you like cracklin cornbread ? Anybody else ? I love it !
We still have crackling cornbread all the time! WONDERFUL stuff
Love cracklin cornbread
Aint nothin no better yum yum!!
We didn’t like buttermilk and cornbread, so our papa used to bribe us to eat it by promising us a piece of Juicy Fruit gum when we finished it!
My father always called this Mississippi Pudding. He always did it with cornbread and Milk instead of buttermilk.
I noticed someone mentioned cracklins and I have a funny story. I was at my mothers and found some cooked apples in the fridge so I baked an apple cake. I noticed as the cake was cooking there was and over abundance of grease!!! Well it turns out those were not cooked apples but CRACKLINS!!! I no longer bake!!
My parents, grandparents, great-grandparents etc all ate it. So did my husbands. But none of us kids likes it. Guess the tradition will stop with us. Love cornbread just not in milk, sweet or otherwise.
Love buttermilk and cornbread but haven’t had it in a long while. Grew up in Georgia and ate this a lot when I was little. Your facebook status says you are missing your grandparents today. Me too… today is my grandfather’s birthday. Died back in ’89. I have my profile picture set to a picture of him in honor of his birthday! Love your facebook statuses!
I love corn bread and it is good with anything….buttermilk, or milk or whatever. Nothing better. I don’t make it a lot because I want to eat the whole thing!!!
Not a fan of CB with buttermilk but I like it with sweet milk. This was my grandparents’ Sunday supper when they were by themselves on Sunday night, which usually wasn’t often. When they had grandkids, they made grilled cheese sandwiches for us to eat while we watched Bonanza.
Bringing back memories today!! My dad LOVED it, but he would also sometimes stir in chopped onion and tomato. Looked disgusting to me, but he thought it was one of the best meals in the world. I prefer mine hot out of the skillet smeared with some butter
I also grew up on cornbread and sweet milk. A little salt and pepper and onion and I’m a happy camper. I recall eating it from a ” snuff glass ” as a child.
I LOVE cornbread and buttermilk!
Cornbread and a good old glass of American buttermilk. Yummy! Yep, grew up saying sweet milk and buttermilk. Wasn’t as fond of sweet milk and cornbread. Cornbread with butter and honey too.
Oh this makes me think of my Grandmother and my Daddy. They ate cornbread and buttermilk when I was little when we would visit my grandparents in Alabama. One day I ran inside from playing hard outside in the heat and I was thirsty. Daddy handed me a tall glass of what I thought was cold (sweet) milk. Imagine my surprise when I gulped down buttermilk! I guess I’ve held a grudge all these years, because I’ve never tasted buttermilk since then. I cook with it, but I don’t drink it!
My papaw and I would have cornbread and buttermilk for our desert! He had a special glass that had roosters on it that he had his in and I had a Mason jar for mine…thank you for bringing back those wonderful memories. Now I’m missin’ my nanny and papaw somethin’ awful!!!
LOVE me some milk & cb, whether its sweet or buttermilk! Often on Saturday nights we would have that for supper b/c Mama was already cooking/preparing for Sunday dinner after church. Sometimes in the summer we would mince up a little bit of green onion with the buttermilk. To this day I still love that tart, tangy taste of buttermilk and I even pour a glass to drink along with my snack of Doritos….yummy…. come on & just try it.
I love cornbread and milk! always with an iced tea spoon after school for a snack!