My grandma's cornbread recipe was lying to me for 20 years

I always made her cornbread with the sugar she wrote down, a full half cup. Then my cousin came over for Thanksgiving dinner last month and took one bite and laughed. Turns out my grandma wrote that recipe for her sweet cornbread, but I'd been using it for the savory one my dad always talked about. She had two versions and nobody told me until my cousin pulled out the real savory recipe from her purse. Anybody else discover a hidden family recipe twist like this?

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henrys7419d ago

So you'd been eating the wrong cornbread for two decades and nobody bothered to tell you earlier? What made your cousin finally bring the real recipe that day?

elizabethf8519d ago

I get what you're saying, but I see it a little differently... "nobody bothered to tell you" sounds like people were keeping secrets, but I think it's more that some families just don't talk about food like that. My grandma made the same dry cornbread for years before my aunt finally whispered the secret to me at a reunion. Sometimes people don't realize there's a "right" recipe because they grew up thinking their version is just how it's made. That cousin probably got tired of watching everyone eat the other stuff and decided to be the one to break the silence.