re: #151 JordanRules

Definitely used to pone not being sweetened either, much like hot water cornbread.

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Cornpone Versus Cornbread

Thinking about it, my yankee (New York State) ancestors were on the last leg of the triangle trade so sugar would have been relatively cheap and plentiful. So out of the same evil trade, the south got labor and the north got sweets… ? o_O