I made Carla Hall’s cornbread as seen on TV. Maybe the best cornbread I’ve had, certainly the best made with 100% cornmeal. Probably helped that I used Geechie Boy. I used the recipe from Food & Wine, since that’s directly connected with Top Chef, except I used a full teaspoon of salt since 3/4 seemed a bit skimpy. I used corn oil.
The gross canned creamed corn seemed out of place with the otherwise great ingredients, so I did a little more searching, and found that Hall has a recipe that uses homemade creamed corn made from corn and cream:
Also:
I think that’s what made Granny’s cornbread really special, that coffee can that would be on her stove that would hold all the fat, the bacon fat, the ham fat.