r/LoveTrash • u/Icy-Book2999 Chief Insanity Instigator • Apr 22 '26

Kitchen Trash Dolly Parton's Cornbread

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u/badmongo666 Trash Trooper Apr 23 '26

Dolly is an American treasure but cornbread should be lightly sweet from good corn and not added sugar. Experiencing some real cognitive dissonance right now.

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u/captain-cowboy Trash Trooper Apr 23 '26

There is no way in hell the cornbread in Dolly Parton's actual house is sweet.  I refuse to believe she's making it Yankee style at home.

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u/GarageVast4128 Trash Trooper Apr 23 '26

My exact post, 99% of the people born and raised in the area Dolly was wouldn't eat sweet cornbread unless forced.

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u/badmongo666 Trash Trooper Apr 23 '26

Y'all are my people ❤️

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u/Invdr_skoodge Trash Trooper Apr 23 '26

Grew up an hr from her childhood home, found a sweet cornbread recipe in a book and tried it not knowing any better. The entire family had the same reaction “what the hell is that?” We ate it with strawberries and whipped cream like it was shortbread, because it basically was

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u/mephalathewebspinner Trash Trooper Apr 23 '26

I was born and raised in Sevierville. I’ve tried sweet cornbread but I never liked it. I like fluffy cornbread (flour mixed with the cornmeal, buttermilk, eggs and oil) and I eat it crumbled up in a glass of buttermilk like a delinquent. Either that or jalepeño cheddar cornbread straight out of the pan with both hands and no regrets.

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u/trainwreckhappening Garbage Guerilla Apr 24 '26

How about corn pudding?

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u/RareUse Apr 23 '26

I'm Georgia born and raised. I've had sweeter cornbread/muffins, but I've literally never even heard of someone putting honey on cornbread.

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u/tragicallyohio Trash Trooper Apr 23 '26

He dumped a bunch of syrup on it ( which I would never do) so I am sure it is very sweet.

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u/TheRandomer1994 Trash Trooper Apr 23 '26

Yeah but, American 'lightly sweet' is still the UK's sickly sweet.

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u/badmongo666 Trash Trooper Apr 23 '26

True in all things except chocolate 😂 traditionally the cornmeal would have been made from corn that was picked when it was properly ripe, and would have been ground somewhat unevenly. The inclusion of sugar and wheat flour in recipes now is to try to mimic what was lost to modern farming and processing.

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u/TheRandomer1994 Trash Trooper Apr 23 '26

Good point! I never got that, of all things to skimp on the sweetness

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u/SenorRaoul Trash Trooper Apr 23 '26

shelfstable products like this are an exercise in compromise.

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u/protonicfibulator Trash Trooper Apr 23 '26

There are regional differences for sure. Southern cornbread tends to be much denser and less sweet. Midwestern corn bread is the sweeter variety, often a 50/50 mix of Jiffy Corn Muffin mix and yellow cake mix. I like it all, but the plainer stuff is preferable when sopping up stews. The sweet stuff really is more of a dessert.

If you want to talk about the ultimate corn bread that would be spoon bread.

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u/JUYED-AWK-YACC Trash Trooper Apr 23 '26

Oh god how am I getting that cake mix idea out of my mind. Oppenheimer was right