Southern Cornbread
Ingredients
- 1 cup yellow cornmeal
- ½ cup all purpose flour
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 egg
- 1½ cup buttermilk
- 1 tbsp bacon grease or vegetable oil
Instructions
- Preheat your oven 425°F
- Put 1 T. bacon grease in your iron skillet and place in oven while it preheats.
- Comine all ingredients in a large bowl and mix well.
- Once oven is preheated and your iron skillet is smoking hot, remove skillet from oven.
- Pour some of hot grease in your cornbread mixture and stir.
- Sprinkle some cornmeal (about 1 tsp.)on your hot iron skillet. This will help prevent the cornbread from sticking.
- Pour cornbread mixture in hot skillet. It will sizzle!
- Place in oven and bake about 12-15 minutes until golden brown.
- Remove from oven and remove cornbread from skillet by turning it out on a plate. Slice and serve.
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