There are some rules to this regional food that you should be following.
There have been many lively debates on the best way to makeSouthern cornbread.
But one way is a story in itself.
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In some corners, people call this Crumble In, or simply Bread and Milk.
We know that food traditions have their ways.
Cornbread and Milk is always made in individual portions in a drinking glass, never a bowl.
People put it together right before they eat it, before everything turns to mush.
Other than the no-bowl rule, all of this is similar to how we eat breakfast cereal.
But people rarely eat Cornbread and Milk for breakfast.
It’s quick, easy, filling (but not too filling), and hits the spot.
(Whether the cornbread is already sweet is a topic for another day.)
We don’t know who firstpoured buttermilk over their cornbread.
