Southern Country Cornbread

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Watching my grandpa make cornbread over the years I am now soo sad I never asked him for the recipe, that and his biscuits are now lost forever, I am trying to recreate them and this is the closest I've come to the cornbread. Though it is nowhere near what he made. It is a tweaking of several recipes and of what I remember, and do not add sugar!! I will cry if anyone does!!

by Jessica K·published 2005-05-16

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Servings

(5–8)

Total time

35 min

prep 10 min

Calories / serving

262 kcal

Ingredients (8)

serves

3 tablespoons shortening (I use crisco butter flavor, or bacon drippings are awesome, too!)shortening
1 cup cornmealcornmeal
1/2 cup flourflour
1 tablespoon baking powderbaking-powder
1 teaspoon baking sodabaking-soda
1 teaspoon saltsalt
2 eggsegg
1 1/2 cups buttermilkbuttermilk

Instructions (5 steps)

01Preheat the oven to 425°.
02Put the shortening in a cast-iron skillet and place in the oven till melted.
03Combine the cornmeal and flour. In seperate bowl whisk eggs until foamy then whisk in buttermilk. Add the rest of the dry ingredients to the cornmeal mixture.
04Combine wet and dry ingredients. Mix should be pourable. Take the hot skillet from the oven, pour the batter into the hot pan directly onto the melted hot shortening, this is what makes it sooo yummy!.
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