Cheddar Spoonbread

Is Southern spoonbread a pudding, a custard, a casserole, or a veritable bread? Should it contain baking powder, salt, and sugar? Can it actually be prepared as a bread, or is it always served as a vegetable side dish and eaten with a spoon? No Southern dish is shrouded in such mystery. Although the name supposedly derives from an Indian word for porridge (suppone), there’s really no mention of spoonbread in cookbooks till the turn of the twentieth century. Did the cornmeal dish evol