No proper Southern-style meal is complete without a slice of soft and fragrant cornbread. This bread is quite simple to make at home, as it only requires a few ingredients -- namely cornmeal ...
That moisture comes from plenty of broth and butter (and sometimes eggs, though this recipe uses them only in the cornbread itself). The crustiness comes from a drier, ideally stale, loaf.
By starting with the freshest ingredients you can find and preserving and harnessing leftover components to use in future dishes, all you have to do is choose a main ingredient and you can rustle ...