Southern Cornbread 2
From mountainmama 15 years ago
- 20 minutes to make
- Serves 8
This is simple, delicious food that depends on good quality, stone ground cornmeal and buttermilk for its moist, yet crumbly texture. The technique of adding melted butter from your oven-heated cast iron skillet to the batter is genius. Read more You then pour the surprisingly light batter into the hot, butter-coated skillet and watch it sizzle as a crisp, brown crust immediately begins to form. I do have to recommend that you use a heavy, NOT nonstick skillet such as an old-fashioned cast iron pan, in order to form that lovely crust. If your pan is smaller or larger than my 9-inch skillet, just add or subtract a bit of baking time and tent the cornbread with foil if the top browns too quickly. See less
Ingredients
- 1 c. stone ground cornmeal shopping list
- 1 c. all-purpose flour shopping list
- 2 tsp. baking powder shopping list
- 1 tsp. baking soda shopping list
- 1 tsp. salt shopping list
- 2 tblsp. honey shopping list
- 1 egg shopping list
- 1 ½ c. buttermilk shopping list
- 1 1/2 tblsp. butter shopping list
How to make it
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees. In a large mixing bowl, combine the cornmeal, baking powder, soda and salt. Add the honey. In a separate bowl, whisk the egg with the buttermilk.
- Add the egg mixture to the cornmeal mixture and stir to combine with your whisk or a wooden spoon. Meanwhile, put the butter in a 9-inch cast iron skillet and place it in the oven until the butter melts completely.
- Pour the hot butter into the batter and combine. Immediately pour the batter into the hot skillet and bake in the center of the oven for 20 minutes or until a toothpick or cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Serve immediately or keep in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to one week. This bread reheats very well in the microwave on low power.
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You are the number 1 cornbread queen I Love It! Cool I saved them all! Cornbreads where it's at Thanks:)
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Great "5" fork cornbread recipe MountainMama! I have a few tried and true cornbread recipes that I always rely on and now I can add yours to my list ;) Thanks so much for sharing with all of us.
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As I said before, I'm learning lol
Probably going to gain 10 pounds in the process... such a sacrifice
I'm beginning to salivate to try the first batch... I'm making corn muffins and looking for the perfect combination for the r...more
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