The Cornbread

I mentioned in my post below that I was not sure of the origin of our family cornbread recipe. Well my Mama saw that and promptly emailed me to let me know where it's from. Apparently she found the bones of the recipe in a Craig Claiborne cookbook. The recipe was for a "diet" cornbread (Claiborne had survived a heart attack and after that most of his recipes appeared without salt and generally low in fat). Mama thought the proportions in the recipe were perfect so she took that and added back in butter, salt, sour cream, and half and half! Hahaha...so much for Mr. Claiborne's dietary suggestions. In her email she states that she thinks had he seen her recipe tweak he would have been, "horrified and honored".