The pioneers wouldn't have had access to cornmeal from a grocery store, so they would have first had to plant and grow the corn. The corn would have been harvested and allowed to dry before grinding it into cornmeal. All that took place before making the cornbread could begin. Their cornbread would most likely be a mixture of ground corn (cornmeal), water or milk, a little salt and a bit of fat. It would have been cooked in a Dutch oven or a spider, a three-footed pot, in the fireplace.
How they made it was that they toke their food supplies such as flour, sugar, salt, ect. They would use a dutch oven to make their meals. Also they mixed their inngretatis and cooked their corn bread.
Generally square, but if you make cornbread muffins then of course muffin shaped.
No, it has to be baked.
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There are different ways to make cornbread dressing. The best way is get a box of cornbread stuffing and adding a can of cream of mushroom to it.
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We don't know exactly how much cornbread the colonists eat, but we do know they ate quite a bit. They usually had a surplus of the ingredients needed for cornbread, so they made lots of it. Colonists usually had a lot of cornmeal, flour, and salt to make the cornbread.
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People in the south grew corn as a major crop so they used the corn to make cornbread and other dishes with corn.
Use butter. But isn't butter the same as oil?
The Aztecs made a type of cornbread before Columbus even discovered America. Later, when corn was taken bake to Europe by the exporers, Europeans added flour to lighten the cornbread and make it more like we know it today.