Corn pone is an old-fashioned Southern recipe that seemingly never goes out of style. We suspect it has something to do with the fact that it’s fried in bacon fat until it’s crispy and ...

While cornbread and corn pone are both made with cornmeal, that's pretty much where the similarities between these Southern staple dishes end.

Ash-pone: A coarse corn bread baked in ashes, made chiefly in the South. Corn pone: A Southern corn bread often made without milk or eggs and shaped in an oval.