Not a big fan of cornbread dressing...but I'll take all the cornbread you didn't put into the dressing....and then wonder what to put on it? Butter and honey? sorghum? Molasses? maple syrup? or just butter/ Or maybe some of that strawberry jam from last summer.

It's so simple and no need to have that "preservative taste" to your corn bread. Flour, cornmeal, sugar (or not!) baking powder a little melted butter or corn oil, couple of eggs and milk.

I didn't grow up with cornbread dressing and I'm not a fan, either. But I do love cornbread. Hot with honey butter alongside some split pea or cabbage soup. Leftover for breakfast with soft butter and maple syrup. If there's any left after 2 days, I cube it and toast it in the oven and use it as croutons on top of chili. One of the few things I bake from scratch, it's so easy.

seagrass

That's pretty much my mother's stuffing, except substitute matzah and mandlin for the cornbread (and leave out the buns and toast if it's Passover). :). I don't like the cornbread dressing I've had, but it was alwaays all cornbread, and crumby, and, yes, probably too sweet.

Lucille, I agree about scratch. A friend never was much for bread. I gave her some starter for her kids’ school baking project. She now realizes they all like good bread. :)

In our family the two types of dressing were call Yankee Dressing and Rebel Dressing. My dad did NOT like cornbread dressing, and my Mom preferred it. So she always made both kinds. My husband and I both like Rebel Dressing best! It must have lots of fresh sage, celery and onions. And butter, of course. Certainly not a healthy dish, but then we only have it once a year.

tvq1 - that's really funny!

seagrass

I love cornbread dressing. I make it like my mother's. Has to be white cornbread and definitely not sweet. I make chicken and dressing fairly often.

I love dressing, best part of Thanksgiving! So easy to make that I just put it out of my mind the rest of the year!

Funny, but neither of us grew up with a cornbread stuffing and I just don't think to make it. My brothers wife does but it tends to be dry and we don't find it appealing (please, never tell her). In their family, the tradition was chili and cornbread after Christmas Eve church. The leftover cornbread went into the turkey the next day.

We do love cornbread, just plain and simple and have it a couple of times a month. I have some warming now. Last night was chicken and broth, onions, carrots, not sure if you'd call it a stew or a soup but hearty with lots of chicken. And, cornbread. Tonight the same. TG DH doesn't mind leftovers - I plan for them a couple of times a week ;0)

I also love cornbread stuffing, and I like cornbread, but not with honey, sorghum, molasses, maple syrup, or anything sweet. My father used to eat cornbread with buttermilk, but I don't do that either. I will put butter or cheese on cornbread, however, but I more often eat it with chili, and the chili is not sweet either.

Sometimes I make stuffing with grits instead of cornbread, but the result is very similar.

My father used to eat cornbread with buttermilk,

This brings back memories. My mother did the same. The kids put a piece of cornbread in a glass with milk, sugar and a little bit of vanilla flavoring. Mmmmm good.

Oh, gawd, Lars did you family in Texas do that thing with the cornbread crumbled into the canning jar and the buttermilk poured over it? My mother loved that.

Me, no. I always found it revolting. That is such a Texas thing to do.

Cornbread, not sweet in any form or fashion, is my most favorite food of all.

I'm not retired, and I don't use packaged foods. :)

I love cornbread dressing, for sure. I make mine in the crockpot, using this recipe - it is soooo yummy. https://www.food.com/recipe/crock-pot-cornbread-dressing-146944

wednesday morning - my grandfather LOVED cornbread and buttermilk. Not from Texas, but he was definitely Southern to the core. :)

PS: Cornbread should never have sugar in it.

I froze an extra pan of my cornbread dressing after Thanksgiving, just finished the last of it yesterday. I‘m already craving more.

I remember my great-grandparents having a glass of buttermilk and either cornbread or homemade bread and butter every afternoon. They had a beautiful drop leaf table they’d sit at (not the main dining table). It was one of their daily rituals ... have their snack and chat. :)

I also love cornbread casserole (it‘s a popular potluck dish), especially with soups and chili.

I love cornbread dressing ! Someone else made the dressing for Thanksgiving and it was dry, and not very flavorful except for an abundance of sage. I made some of my own afterwards, because I hadn't had any for several years, and it was so good ! I don't put sugar in my cornbread, or anything sweet on it. To me, the only thing that belongs on cornbread is butter.

My Mom and Dad ate cornbread and buttermilk . I tried it once and that was enough. No cornbread and buttermilk for me !

I, too, am one of those who wants nothing sweet in my cornbread; none of my family wants anything sweet on their cornbread. Also no sugar in the cornbread.

Apparently whether cornbread ought to have sugar or not is almost a Hot Topic. I enjoy hearing about all the different preferences, we are all different. Sugar is not corn bread abuse, it is just a different way to enjoy. Many foods are like that:

'Sometimes you feel like a nut, and sometimes you don't.'

Iced tea should never have sugar in it!

[grinning, ducking and running]

I don't really care for cornbread at all.

Plllog, who are you - my mother? Mother did not put sugar in her tea. We added sugar at the table. On the other hand, DH’s family kept a huge pitcher of tea in the fridge. It was so sweet that it was almost syrupy. In truth, I can take or leave sugar in my tea, but I prefer it sweet. Actually, I prefer an Arnold Palmer (half tea, half lemonade) and occasionally a John Daly (an Arnold Palmer with a shot of vodka).