Can you share an authentic southern/soul food cornbread recipe?

I really have an itching to learn how to cook southern food. I'm from the North and don't have a clue. Please give me an authentic recipe for cornbread like the type served at soul food restaurants. Thanks.Can you share an authentic southern/soul food cornbread recipe?
There are lots of different recipes, depending on what part of the South your recipe hails from. In Louisiana, for instance, I think the cornbread is sweeter and in Virginia you might be run out of town if you put sugar in your cornbread.





So, here is a recipe from one of the finest Southern cooks to have ever lived, Edna Lewis. Edna Lewis' history is as interesting as her food. If you are truly interested in real Southern cooking, Edna's books are a good place to start but it certainly isn't the end.





2 C. sifted white cornmeal


1/2 tsp salt


1/2 tsp baking soda


2 tsps Royal Baking Powder


3 eggs, beaten


1 Tbs lard


1 Tbs butter


2 Cups sour milk or buttermilk.





Sift the cornmeal, salt, soda and baking powder into a mixing bowl. Stir in the beaten eggs. At this point se the baking pan in the oven with the alrd and butter added. Pour the sour milk into the cornmeal batter and stir well. Now remove the pan from the oven and tilt it all around to oil the who surface of the pan. Pour off into the batter what fat remains. Mix well and pour the batter into the hot pan. Cornmeal batter must be poured into a sizzling hot pan, other wise it will stick. Bake at 400 degrees F. for 25 to 30 minutes Remove and cut into squares.





This is as close to the real thing as you will get. My grandmother used to chop up bacon and cook it a cast iron skillet (instead of using lard and butter), then pour the excess fat into the batter and then the batter into the pan and proceed.





There is no pan better suited or more authentic to use for this than a cast iron skillet.Can you share an authentic southern/soul food cornbread recipe?
I answered your other one. Check it out. My husband was a fireman and he taught me how to make ti like they do in the firehouse.
I'll start by saying I'm from Minnesota so this might not be exactly what you're thinking, but here http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Krissys-Bes鈥?/a> is a fantastic recipe for corn muffins I thought I'd share... I'm not southern by any stretch of the imagination but this is definitely a good recipe!
jiffy
Use a standard cornbread recipe and add a big spoonful of sugar, or use a box of Jiffy. That's what we do in the South!

laons