Maple Corn Bread With Bacon & Scallions

As featured in a recent issue of Domino Magazine.
Recipe can be found at: http://www.dominomag.com/howtos/recipes ... lionsbacon
I pretty much followed the recipe although, I didn't use as much butter or bacon. Rather than sprinkle the bacon and scallions on top, I chose to mix them within.
Here is the finished result:

The taste was great - very moist and still warm from the oven. In a well-seasoned cast iron skillet, you'll have no trouble with the bread sticking - and it looks cool!
If you believe, as I do, that everything is better with bacon - than you'll love this recipe.
Enjoy!

I can't even read the subject line without welling up with emotion.

Thanks for the recipe! I may be trying it this weekend.

Buddy

Cornbread should be baked in a square cast iron pan, not round. Pie are round, cornbread are square! Old Southern joke.

Made a double batch this afternoon. I had only one skillet (one of the daughters absconded with the other one when she moved out), so I put half the batter into the skillet and the other half into a couple of muffin trays.

I doubled the recipe because I had twice the amount of bacon needed and I had nothing better to do with all that bacon, so...

Also, I sauteed the scallions with the bacon as instructed in the recipe but, upon tasting them decided they had mellowed in flavor a little too much for my tastes. I cut up another small bunch of scallions and added them raw to the finished batter thinking they would cook sufficiently in the oven.

The end result was a bit chewier than most corn breads I've made in the past, but not unpleasant. The flavor was excellent and I was glad I put the extra, uncooked scallions into the batter.

johnny, thanks for the recipe. Now it's time to start playing with it. Maybe some whole kernel corn or chopped jalapeños. Perhaps a smattering of shredded cheddar cheese. Any of those would nicely compliment the sweet maple flavor.

Buddy

BuddyRoadhouse wrote:dukesdad, thanks for the recipe.

(Ahem)
C'mon Buddy, show me some love. I posted the recipe.

Correction made with my profound apologies. Don't know how I got confused on that, sorry.

BTW, Mrs. Roadhouse just had a big ol' hunk of that cornbread with a side of real Barbecued Pulled Pork and a slathering of Roadhouse Southern Sunset Bar-B-Que Sauce. If you'll excuse me, I need to go revive her after her collapse into a state of extreme ecstasy. Heavens, she done got the vapors!

Buddy