3 harvest cornbread Recipes

cubed french bread and prepared cornbread, olive oil, dried thyme, well-spiced turkey or sweet italian pork sausage, bulk or links (casings removed), broken into clumps, chopped red onions, chopped celery, minced garlic, dried sage leaves, crumbled, dried cranberries, chopped pecans, pitted prunes, quartered, defatted chicken broth

originally , native americans cooked these on hot rocks in an open fire. they were commonly referred to as ash cakes. later on, settlers from europe adopted the recipe, cooking the cakes on the blades of their hoes in the fireplace. this is where they get the name, hoe cakes ., this is a old (from early 1800s) pass-along recipe from va, which makes a thin hoe cake., great served with honey or butter, but i remember it most during, summer and harvest time, with fresh greens and all types of, garden veggies. sort of like a sop bread, water, white cornmeal, bacon drippings or butter, sugar, egg, well beaten, plain flour, salt, baking powder, milk or butter