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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.
Generally square, but if you make cornbread muffins then of course muffin shaped.
No, it has to be baked.
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Yes, cornbread is eaten throughout the United States. Alabama is a Southern state, and cornbread is particularly popular in the South.
Not usually. Cornbread is bread. Cornbread can be mixed with just about anything you want, even sweets; so you could make a sort of "poor man's dessert" with it, but I grew up eating it every week and it was just bread, really good bread. In other words, it depends.
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good ol' cornbread
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.
Cornbread and stew
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.