"Why this recipe works:Northerners like their cornbread cakelike and sweet, while Southern cornbread is almost always thin, crusty, and savory. Our Double-Corn Cornbread recipe walks the line and produces something in the middle: tender, crunchy, slightly sweet cornbread that is full of bold corn flavor. We achieved this by making our own creamed corn by pureeing defrosted frozen corn kernels and sour cream. A cast-iron skillet gave us the crunchy crust we wanted from our recipe, but any ovensafe pan worked as long as it was blazing hot before the batter hit the pan...."