Corn bread, corn pone, corn dodgers

[BillinOregon]

Other than the shape of the dodgers, not a lot of difference? Pone recipes are all over the place: fried, baked in a skillet, with eggs, without, if baked on a hoe, hoe cake?
Slippery items to define.

 

[George]

The name itself is an early one, and seems to have just meant bread made from corn meal, however cooked. In writings of the foods of settlers in early 17th century in Virginia, it was said: "And therefore their constant Bread is Pone, not so called from the Latine, Panis, but from the Indian Name Oppone.”

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[sidelock]

My MIL made the best corn bread I have ever eaten. She used a course meal and ??????. My wife does OK but can't beat her Mom.

 

[Gene L]

Corn dodgers are made from "hot water cornbread" according to Charles Portis (who wrote True Grit, where corn dodgers play a role." Corn meal mixed in boiling water into dough and fried in lard.

Cornbread in my world is Self Rising cornmeal mix with an egg and buttermilk and grease. Baked in an iron skillet into what is called a round "pone." Not a "loaf," or a "pan," but a pone.

Sure is good.