What is corn pone?

       Any USA Southerner will tell you the best cornbread is made with bacon drippings and cooked in a cast-iron skillet. (Only a d..... Yankee would put flour or sugar in cornbread).  But sometimes the cast-iron skillet is not available, and one must make do with pones, which are made with a thicker batter (sometimes even waterbread in desperate cases) cooked in little lumps on any flat object at hand, such as a hoe blade or a flat rock.

            I myself have cooked it. And I did like putting flavouring on it, like melted fake butter.

            And while this pone idea mentions cooking with ground corn, one can really use about any kind of ground grain, like wheat or barley or rice, etc. Think of Scottish scones, for example.

            Last, I remember watching the movie Jeremiah Johnson when watching his new Indian bride making "pone" on a stone, and he did not like it. He even told his kid to eat it as it "was good for him", while he sneaked back to eat jerky, or so I thought at the time. He ate something, and it was not "pone".