Date Corn Bread: Date Corn Bread, from the 1922 One Hundred Delights of Dromedary dates, coconut, and tapioca.; cornbread; dates; recipe; buttermilk; Hills Brothers Company; Dromedary; twenties; 1920s

I enjoy cornbread of all kinds, as you might have guessed from elsewhere on this site, but this is a special incarnation. It’s basically an Irish soda bread, but made with dates instead of raisins and with cornmeal added. It’s definitely a “delight” as the Hills Brothers pamphlet title puts it.

As a soda bread, buttermilk would work just as well or possibly even better than sour milk, but I haven’t tried that yet.

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