Oh, Dee.  Now you've gone and done it.  You know my weakness for maple syrup.  And I LOVE cornbread (I inherited that from my father, that man could have lived on cornbread alone).  Now, I HAVE to try this.  I usually cook cornbread in a cast iron skillet, do you think that would work, or do you think that might burn, with the syrup in it and all?