Southern Cornbread

Recipe Rating:	5 Ratings5
Categories:	Savory Breads, Quick & Easy
Keywords:	cornbread, Southern
Serves:	10-12
Prep Time:	15 Min
Cook Time:	40 Min

Ingredients

1 1/2 c	cornmeal
3/4 c	flour
2 tsp	baking powder
1/8 tsp	baking soda
1 tsp	salt
1	egg, slightly beaten
3 Tbsp	bacon grease + enough to grease the iron skillet
1/2 + c	buttermilk

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Melanie B

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Smyrna, GA (pop. 51,271)

MelBelle

Member Since Aug 2011

Melanie's Notes:

This is the cornbread recipe my husband and MIL use to make the cornbread for cornbread dressing.

Directions

Mix the dry ingredients together.

Add egg, bacon drippings. Slowly ad buttermilk until the mixture is soupy (sort of like cake batter, maybe a little thinner.)

Grease iron skillet with bacon drippings, enough to give it a nice even coat. Put the greased iron skillet in the oven until it is really hot - a few minutes, before pouring in the batter. Bake at 400 for 30-40 minutes.

I suppose you could make this in another oven safe dish, but I'm not sure how long you would cook it.

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Rosemarie Manasco Amanani

I tried this recipe and say it's Family Tested & Approved!

Toni T Toni6921

Sep 1, 2011

Mel, this looks a lot like my Mom's Cornbread recipe. She did not make sweet cornbread, and we loved it.

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Mary R Morris photosister

Oct 2, 2011

The rest of my post did not come up ,so I will do it again.This is the most wonderfull and easy corn bread .I have been using Melanie recipe for cornbread since last year ,and now The Rev and The Boy's refuse to eat any other...In fact The Rev will often make this wgen I am busy...Besure you use a cast iron skillet,greased and heated .Of course you can do it with out a skillet,but the crispness on this corn bread is wonderfull......This is not just a good cornbread recipe,it is A GREAT CORNBREAD

Melanie B MelBelle

Oct 2, 2011

AWWW Thanks, Mary. I sure do like it.

Carol Junkins CarolAJ

Nov 14, 2011

Going to try this one, I do cook my in a iron skillet and it comes out perfect. Don't usually have bacon fat around though. Guess I could make some bacon and save the grease, or not.

Melanie B MelBelle

Nov 14, 2011

Carol, you can use oil, but it just won't have that same great Southern flavor. I have a crock on the back of my stove for my bacon fat. I use it to cook eggs, hashbrown, fried cabbage, all sorts of stuff. It gives that extra goodness to everything!

Carol Junkins CarolAJ

Nov 14, 2011

I am with ya Melanie, I know that wonderful taste, just haven't used it for other recipes except my home fries I make for breakfast, my husband says I should go to the restaurants and show them how to make them right, haha. onions and small pieces of bacon in them, no secret.

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