A corn pone is usually a small round loaf of cornbread, about the size of a biscuit, traditionally baked in a round cast iron skillet.

Corn pone, a type of cornbread; Cornbread came about as more ingredients were added to the basic corn pone recipe: (card games, chiefly us) the last player to bet or play in turn.

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Buttermilk, eggs, and a leavener such as baking soda or baking powder (or both). Adjective the comedian's cornpone wisecracks were old even in the days of vaudeville. His family doesn’t remember how to make it either.

Using a spatula push pone into sizzling hot pan 2/3 full.

Corn pone consists of cornmeal, water, salt and oil or bacon drippings, while cornbread adds eggs, sugar, butter, milk, flour and baking powder into the mix. American heritage® dictionary of the english language, fifth edition. Pone (n.) 1630s, american indian bread, earlier appone, ponap (1610s), from powhatan (algonquian) apan something baked, from apen she bakes. later used in southern u.s.

My husband remembers his grandmother making something called ‘pone bread’ when he was young.

*:her southern accent was rich as molasses, and she really did, without affectation, call everyone ‘y'all’, but the cornpone was camouflage. Corn pone consists of cornmeal, water, salt and oil or bacon drippings, while cornbread adds eggs, sugar, butter, milk, flour and baking powder into the mix. Here’s an article that explains the connection between the word pone and american indian languages.

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All he remembers of making it though is that she baked it in an iron skillet. Pone (honorific), a lithuanian honorific for men; (us, appalachian) a form of cornbread made without milk or eggs.