Thursday, December 17, 2015

Onion Brunch Bread



You will never guess, I have made this recipe since 1980.  Anybody remember when they used to put recipes in with your gas bills?  This is where it came from!  I remember I made it that year to take to an office lunch and when my co workers asked for the recipe, I wrote down that the cheese/sour cream mixture should be SLATHERED over the top. 
How they laughed at me, saying that there was no such word! I was embarrassed and I am sure I turned a bright red.  Of course, that WAS the correct word to use! I just didn't know how to stick up for myself in those days. Don't worry, I have since changed my timid ways! HA!  Okay, enough about my awkward self, here's the recipe.

Onion Brunch Bread:

1 onion chopped                                       1 pkg Jiffy cornbread mix
1 tablespoon butter, melted                       1/2 cup cornmeal
8 oz. sour cream                                        1 egg, beaten
1/4 tsp. salt                                                 1 cup cream style corn
1/2 tsp dillweed                                          1/4 cup milk
1 tablespoon yellow mustard                      1/4 tsp Tabasco sauce 
1 1/4 cups cheddar cheese, grated               (I don't use this myself)
 (grate this much, but note that 1/4 cup
  will go in mixture and 1 cup on top 
 of bread.)

Heat oven to 425 degrees.
Saute onion in butter until tender. Combine sour cream, seasonings and only 1/4 cup cheese.  Add to onion in pan, stirring well. 
In separate bowl, combine cornbread mix, cornmeal, the egg, and the cream style corn.  Add the milk.  Mix well.  The recipe said to use an 8 inch square pan, but I used my brownie pan.
Grease your pan and pour the batter into it and smooth it out.
I gently splop my sour cream/onion/cheese mixture on top and then, I slather it over smoothly!  Put the rest of the grated cheese on the top. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes.  (Mine was cooked in 25 minutes.)  Let cool and then cut into small squares.

PLEASE NOTE: This is NOT a gluten free recipe! That Jiffy Cornbread Mix has wheat flour in it, so this  is NOT something that I can make for my husband who must be on a gluten free diet. (I have made this for him, I just used a cornbread recipe that used gluten free cornmeal and made sure the the cream style corn and dillweed were also gluten free.) 

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And I am thinking that you could also make this sour cream topping and it might work on any bread recipe!  Just make sure you use American style mustard, you use some of that English yellow Coleman's mustard and you will knock someone's eyeballs out!  Let me know if you try it, will you?  And don't be afraid to just SLATHER it on, baby!  

Hope you are enjoying this time of year with family and friends!


You know those people who can take great photos of their baked goods? Wish I was one of those! Oh well, you are seeing two of my favorite things in my kitchen- my Baker's Secret brownie pan and my red oven mitt trimmed in aqua! The mitt has tiny white polka dots on it, we used to call that dotted Swiss, do people use that expression anymore?

26 comments:

  1. Slather on the dotted Swiss polka dots! Fun post!

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  2. Oh my goodness! This looks so good. I will have to try to adapt it to Carbquik.

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    1. Let me know if you try it! This was a hit at our dinner today!

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  3. Now I'm starving...I want some...and I want it now...slathered with sour cream/cheese topping!!!!!!!

    Never fear I won't be afraid of slathering....I've never been fearful of slathering!! :)

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    1. I don't trust myself enough, just assumed that I was wrong in my choice of words but I was right! Sour cream and cheese, can't go wrong with that!

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  4. Mmm, I can almost smell it, Kay!
    Gas bills in this country have never come with recipes, as far as I know, but I think it's a nice idea.
    How daft of your colleagues back then to assume there was no such word simply because they didn't know it!

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    1. It has been many years since they gave us recipes in our gas bills, we are lucky to get anything extra these days!
      And here's the thing, I could have easily looked in the dictionary but no, I just believed them when they told me the word was wrong!

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  5. Hey that looks delicious. You did a good job with the picture taking. People didn't use to believe in the word slathered? Huh, Chrome just also tried to tell me it didn't exist. It's a word people!

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    1. Stupid old Chrome, they must be on the same side as my former co workers!

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  6. The bread looks and sounds wonderful and I do love that word slather.

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    1. Thanks! And whenever I hear the word "slather", and they do use it a lot on the cooking shows, it makes me want to go back in time and say, "see, I told you that was the correct word!"

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  7. I love dotted Swiss. The mitt looks very cheerful, but that onion bake looks fabulous. I saved this post and am going to make some of that. Yummy good.

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    1. OH good, let me know if you make it and what you think.
      It was popular today at our dinner, all of it was eaten to the last cheesy crumb!

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    1. Thank you, Amy! And a very Happy Christmas to you too!
      Think of me when you pop your Christmas cracker, wear your hat and tell the funny jokes for me, I love them!

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  9. They didn't know what slather was? Shameful. You were way ahead of them all :) Great recipe!

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    1. Ha! Yes, I must be ahead of my time! Yes, that is it, I am sure! Let me know if you make the recipe, would be tickled to know if you do! (By the way, I am still reeling over your photos of the beaches in Cuba, you will NEVER hear the end of that subject from me!!)

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  10. It sounds addictingly good! Yes, slather is a perfectly grand word, especially when you are covering something good to eat with something that will make it even more wonderful.

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    1. And I know that people are told now to slather themselves in sunscreen in the summer, but I guess no one used that phrase in 1980!

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  11. This looks delicious and I hope to try it sometime over the holidays. I had forgotten how many things used to come with recipes when I was young! I just read of a book published after Katrina when so many people lost old family recipes and a New Orleans Newspaper gathered together the ones that people remembered. One of the authors was Bienvenue, I think. (This is not quite directly related to recipes with gas bills. It's just the way my mind works, alas!)

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    1. I love the way your mind works, mine is similar but in a much less logical manner!
      I once worked with a woman from Lafayette, LA and I often think of the great food that she made for our office! :-)

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  12. The book is Cooking Up A Storm: Recipes Lost and found from the Times-Picayune of New Orleans by Marcelle Bienvenu.

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    1. Hey! Thanks for researching this and having it here as a comment! SO... how about cooking up a storm and telling us about it in a post? I double dog dare you! (Did you say that as a kid?) :-)

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  13. You used to get recipes with the bills? That's great!
    Your recipe sounds delicious and I will have to try it and adapt it a bit because we don't have some things you have in the recipe. And thank you for the slather word - I understood what you wanted to say, but I also looked it up to confirm the meaning :)

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    1. Oh yes, we did get recipes with our gas bills, back in the day!
      I think you could make any cornbread recipe and put this sour cream/onion mixture on top and it would work. Let me know! And thanks very much for your comment! Merry Christmas to you! :-)

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