... There had been very little in the house again that day to eat; som — Cornbread

"The thinks it knows how to make corn bread, but this is a gross superstition. Perhaps no bread in the world is quite as good as corn bread, and perhaps no bread in the world is quite so bad as the Northern imitation of it."

"and the other early settlers had learned the cornbread techniques of the natives, but its difficult to say when the Europeans first created their own style of cornbread by mixing corn with wheat. In the 1630s, clearly stated that the Virginian settlers had "plentie" of bread, made from wheat, corn, and rye. But were they mixing these grains together? ... What all the early settlers in North America likely learned from the native populations was how to make corn "pone," which in the various native languages is oppone, apan, suppawn, etc. Captain Smith mentions pones as early as 1612. The indigenous ones were probably thin cakes baked in front of the fire or actually in the ashes of the fire, and, of course, they didnt originally have any wheat in them. But to Europeans these pones probably seemed a bit dense. They didnt have any leavening, after all, and they probably didnt have any shortening. All they contained, most likely, was cornmeal, water, and maybe salt. One Dutch visitor to called the pones "good but heavy." Thats putting it nicely."