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Preparation info
  • One

    8 inch baking tin
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
It's a Sweet World: Recipes from Around the Globe at Bea’s Bakery

By Lenny Rosenberg and Adaeze Nwanonyiri

Published 2025

  • About

Cornbread is one of those age-old recipes that feels like it’s been around forever as a quick comfort food. Made from yellow cornmeal ground from corn maize that had been dried or roasted, like so many recipes it has its origins in the cuisine of the Native Americans, who gave it names like nokechick and apan.

When Europeans first landed on American soil, they soon fell for the tasty and nutritious food that quite literally saved them from starvation during the earlies