"Moonshiners" star Tickle -- no last name -- has a secret weapon to blow the pants off all your Thanksgiving guests ... a cornbread recipe to end all cornbread recipes ... and for the first time ever, he's releasing it to the public.

Tickle describes the recipe in detail on the video -- but here's a taste ... the secret ingredient is BACON ... so you can't go wrong.

And you can't have a Moonshiner Thanksgiving without some hard likker. Tickle's suggestion? Peach brandy, baby.