cornbread

Added in December by elisha

Summary

Yield
Servings
Source

my mom

Prep time45 minutes
Kind of Dishbread
Dietary Infovegetarian
Tagscorn cornmeal southern

Description

This is southern style, meaning not sweet.

Ingredients

2Cupcoarse yellow cornmeal
1Teaspoonbaking soda
1Teaspoonbaking powder
1Teaspoonsalt
2 eggs
2Cupbuttermilk (or yogurt and clabbered milk)
2Tablespoongrease or butter

Instructions

Preheat oven to 425F (215C) and put iron skillet in there.

In a large bowl, mix the dry ingredients and set aside. In a smaller bowl, beat the eggs a little and then add the buttermilk. (If you don't have buttermilk, use 1 cup yogurt and 1 cup clabbered milk, mixed together. to clabber milk add a few drops of lemon juice or vinegar to it.)

Take the skillet out after 10 minutes or so. Put it on a burner to keep it hot. Put the grease in the skillet and let it melt, and swirl it all around the sides and bottom. I like to use shortening or lard or bacon grease, which will give you a nice light crispy crust. You can use butter but the crust won't be quite as light.

Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir until it's mixed but no more than that. It might be a little lumpy, that's fine. Now pour your batter into the skillet - it should make a nice frazzling sound - and put that in your hot oven. Bake 20 minutes until golden brown and a knife inserted in the center comes out clean.

Notes

  • The above measurements are US cups (8 oz). Britishers you will need to use a bit less than one imperial pint glass full of cornmeal.
  • The coarser the cornmeal the better. Coarse "polenta" is fine.
  • The reason an iron skillet is called for is that it gets very hot in the oven. That heat is what creates a nice, thick brown crust on your cornbread. You can use something else, but the crust won't be good. This recipe will work in a larger iron skillet, but because the bread will be shallower it will cook faster so check on it.
  • You can eat this with butter, and/or molasses (or honey), depending on how you like it.