Recipe: Tasty Dawn's southern cornbread

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Dawn's southern cornbread. NOTE: IMNSHO- cornbread isn't worth making if you don't make it in a cast-iron skillet. It may just be my upbringing, but it tastes better somehow. And please do not add the baking soda to the dry.

Dawn's southern cornbread Hoe cakes, corn pone, spoon bread, hush puppies, corn sticks, muffins and corn dodgers are some of the many ways Southerners have Southern-style cornbread rarely contains sugar, though some. Pure, unsweetened corn bread is first cooked over high heat in a cast-iron skillet before I live in Mississippi and know how true southern cooks make cornbread. Nobody I know uses plain cornmeal. You can have Dawn's southern cornbread using 5 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Dawn's southern cornbread

  1. Prepare 2 cup of Self rising buttermilk corn meal.
  2. Prepare 1 large of Egg.
  3. Prepare 1 1/3 cup of Milk.
  4. You need 1/4 cup of Vegetable oil or bacon grease.
  5. Prepare 2 tbsp of Bacon grease.

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Dawn's southern cornbread step by step

  1. preheat oven to 450°, put 2 tbsp bacon grease in a 8 to 9 inch cast iron skillet, while preheating oven melt bacon grease..
  2. Beat egg in a medium bowl. Stir in milk, oil and cornmeal mix until smooth. Batter should be creamy and pourable, if too thick, add 1 to 2 tbsp of milk and pour into the prepared skillet or pan..
  3. bake 20 to 25 minutes or until golden brown or a toothpick comes out clean from the center.
  4. Let cool for about 5 minutes and place on your dish. Cut into and enjoy.

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