Ramona Sue’s Skillet Cornbread

Even as fifth-generation Ozarkers, a lot of our family cooking still stems from Appalachian sources. Throughout that region, this recipe has a long history with a number of variations that go many years back. But obviously cornbread is much older than that. Indigenous American science engineered corn from wild plants over nine thousand years ago. The southeastern cultures of the Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, and Chickasaw had various corn puddings, gruels, and early types of bread that formed t