Think of corn pone as a Southern version of cornbread, but simpler. Corn pone consists of cornmeal, water, salt and oil or bacon drippings, while cornbread adds eggs, sugar, butter, milk ...

The baking powder gives the batter its lift. Like cornbread, the basic recipe for corn pone calls for cornmeal, but that's where the similarities end. Corn pone contains no milk, eggs, or baking ...