corn pone
Fried meal patty
Corn pone is a simple cornmeal bread, traditionally baked or fried without milk or eggs.
The term is associated with Southern American cooking and rural life.
As an adjective, corn-pone suggests unsophisticated or folksy qualities: corn-pone humor, a corn-pone politician playing up his country roots.
Griddle-cooked cornmeal flatbread
- hoecakeFried cornmeal flatbread
- ashcakeBread baked in embers
- hushpuppyFried cornmeal side dish
- gritsBoiled ground maize
polenta · tortilla · arepa · masa · bannock · maize · batter · skillet
Eastern U.S. mountain region
- ruralOf the countryside
- countrySovereign state or territory
- folkRegular common people
- homestyleSimply prepared, like family cooking
soulful · heritage · traditional · antebellum · plantation · colonial · pioneer · subsistence
Cooking with dry heat
- ovenEnclosed cooking chamber
- skilletShallow pan for frying
- cast-ironHard molded alloy
- buttermilkFermented dairy beverage
eggs · flour · lard · mixing · batter · recipe · golden · crispy
Free of complexity
- plainBasic and unremarkable
- humbleUnassuming about oneself
- unrefinedNot processed or polished
- old-fashionedBelonging to earlier times
wholesome · earthy · peasant · pastoral · agrarian · handmade · homespun · country
johnnycake
Griddle-cooked cornmeal flatbread
grits · polenta · tortilla · arepa · masa · bannock · maize · batter · skillet · golden
Appalachian
Eastern U.S. mountain region
homestyle · soulful · heritage · traditional · antebellum · plantation · colonial · pioneer · subsistence · staple
baking
Cooking with dry heat
buttermilk · eggs · flour · lard · mixing · batter · recipe · golden · crispy · warm
simple
Free of complexity
old-fashioned · wholesome · earthy · peasant · pastoral · agrarian · handmade · homespun · country · primitive
nourishing
Promoting health through food
- satisfyingProducing fulfillment or pleasure
- heartyWarm and substantial
- warmthHeat you feel
homestyle · cozy · filling · savory · nostalgic · reminiscent · soothing · familiar · welcoming · restorative
- breadssliced bread, bagel, white bread, boules, brioche
- quick breadsbanana bread, muffins, biscuits, soda bread, Irish soda bread
- Pioneer Foodshardtack, biscuits, beef jerky, salt pork, hominy
- flatbreadspita, naan, lavash, tortilla, roti
- Southern dialecty'all, fixin to, bless your heart, reckon, howdy
- Victorian foodsplum pudding, treacle, mock turtle soup, turtle soup, gruel
corn ponebrioche
Enriched French bread
croissant · French pastry · baguette · patisserie · artisan bread
corn ponesophisticated
Worldly and cultured
urbane · cosmopolitan · refined · highbrow · cultured