FEBRUARY 2018 - When my mom, Mickey is what her friends and family called her, had to sell her house and move in with us, we didn’t have room for a lot of her things. Most of it went to storage, where it later burned in a fire.
Luckily, I kept the things that reminded me most of her: her collection of recipes, a tin filled with buttons and sewing notions and this, her cornbread pan. I don’t recall it ever being any color other than black. Perhaps it was silver at one time, but I honestly can't remember it looking any different than it does right now.
This pan ensures a crisp, brown, decorative starburst crust on the top and every side and produces just enough cornbread for a couple of days to eat with pintos or buttermilk.
I saw for the first time recently that it has a brand name on it: Ovenex. I learned from Google that these pans were manufactured between 1945 and 1965.
All I know is there is only one pan for perfect cornbread, and this is it. That it was my mama’s makes it even better.
“For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.’ They said to him, ‘Sir, give us this bread always.’ Jesus said to them, ‘I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.’" - John 6:33-35
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