CORN PONE is your basic poor man's starch - it's a comfort food - no, it is the Queen of Comfort Foods - right after King Grits!

CAJUN CORN PONE

is a hearty  addition to any meal, and of course, along side any Cajun Stew-like dish like Gumbo or Chowders. It's fun to use your iron Corn Pone Mold if you have one, or just your old iron skillet...we don't use our old iron cookware half often enough....

In a pretty big mixing bowl,  pour in eight ounces (one and 1/4 cups) yellow coarse-ground corn meal: mix in one tablespoon of fresh minced garlic and a teaspoon of salt, oregano to taste, about a teaspoon of file', celery flakes or salt or really finely minced celery leaves and tender stems, and about an ounce of very finely minced green pepper.  add 1/2 of a diced yellow onion and red pepper flakes to suit until covered with the corn meal. pour in and eighteen ounce can or so of creamed corn with two beaten eggs. mix until pretty well smoothed. spoon out the pourable batter into well-bacon greased corn pone molds over a hot flame for two minutes. flip them all over into a large bacon greased iron skillet to finish off the other side for at least two minutes, with the frying pan covered all this time. flip them over again to be sure the other side (with the corn mold pattern on it) is nice and brown, too. Be real careful not to burn them. what you want is crisp and brown on the outside, and soft, cooked-through and warmed through completely on the inside. If you're only using a frying pan skillet, then keep it covered while cooking both sides... sprinkle lightly with fresh ground pepper and serve them nice and warm.....

Here's the Poem for Corn Pone:

For every Corn Pone ever fried-up
There's a Lady standin' by a
Big Hot Flamin' Iron Skillet
Watchin' all that Batter fry

An' Children standin' by all wide-eye
Waitin' for the Pone be done
Cuz it's so good to eat it hot and
Bakin' is so wonderin' fun

The fire's dyin' down now, Lady
Put in another stick or two
Adjus' the damper Blow the coals
Dis Corn Pone here be almost through

Crisp and brown with corn-cob pattern
Soft and full of Good to Eat
Ain't nothin' quite as hearty as some
Corn Pone - it can not be beat