>>At 08:57 PM 1/17/98 +0000, you wrote: >>>George wrote: >>> >>>> Come on now! You don't really eat those nasty leaves do you? >>> >>>Yeup. I eat 'em any chance I get. (big cut) Life >>>without collards and cornbread would just not be fittin... >>> >>>Catharine >Only one true way to make cornbread. Heat oven to 450F with a well-greased >black iron skillet in the oven. Mix together: 2 cups cornmeal, 1 tspn...(big cut) >syrup on it for breakfast. Damn, now I gotta make cornbread this evening. > >George > George, George!! No No!! Don't tell me!! This is proof positive that you must be an imposter, and not a true Southrener at all!!! You've got the recipe right for cornbread, esp with beans,etc, but no collards!? Blaspheme!! I look forward to the first frosts of the year so as to get great collards again (because as everyone knows, collards are sweeter after they get frosted on). George, please tell me it isn't so!! Bambi--who is enjoying the list again after sitting the death watch with my beloved Grandmother until she died Saturday and was buried yesterday. She was very instrumental in nurturing my love of gardening.