Whats a good cornbread recipe?

Thanksgivin is comin up and we decided to add something new to the table, cornbread. But we need a good recipe.


Whats a good cornbread recipe?
Grandma's Buttermilk cornbread


* 1/4 pound butter


* 2/3 cup white sugar


* 2 eggs


* 1 cup buttermilk


* 1/2 teaspoon baking soda


* 1 cup cornmeal


* 1 cup all-purpose flour


* 1/2 teaspoon salt





1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease an 8 inch square pan.


2. Melt butter in large skillet. Remove from heat and stir in sugar. Quickly add eggs and beat until well blended. Combine buttermilk with baking soda and stir into mixture in pan. Stir in cornmeal, flour, and salt until well blended and few lumps remain. Pour batter into the prepared pan.


3. Bake in the preheated oven for 30 to 40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.


Whats a good cornbread recipe?
';Good'; often depends on where you're from. In the northern states, cornbread is often made with sugar. In the south we have a name for cornbread like that. We call it ';cake.';





Cornbread works best when baked in a cast-iron skillet.





Here's a recipe from a back-hollow in the hills of Eastern Kentucky:





Leonda's Cornbread





1 1/4 cup each self-rising cornmeal and flour


1 1/4 cup buttermilk


1 1/4 cup water


Pinch salt


Oil





Preheat oven to 400F. Put the empty skillet in the oven to preheat at the same time.





Mix dry ingredients. Mix buttermilk and water and gradually add liquid to flour mix to form a thick batter.





Add enough oil to the skillet to form a thin layer. Pour in batter and immediately return to oven.





Bake for an hour.





You can run all sorts of changes on this. For instance, add from 1/2-1 cup of pork cracklins (pork rinds). Or a cup of whole corn kernels. Or some chopped jalapenos.
Homesteader Cornbread * I make this all the time! It's really good.





1 1/2 cups cornmeal


2 1/2 cups milk


2 cups all-purpose flour


1 tablespoon baking powder


1 teaspoon salt


2/3 cup white sugar


2 eggs


1/2 cup vegetable oil





DIRECTIONS


Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). In a small bowl, combine cornmeal and milk; let stand for 5 minutes. Grease a 9x13 inch baking pan.


In a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, salt and sugar. Mix in the cornmeal mixture, eggs and oil until smooth. Pour batter into prepared pan.


Bake in preheated oven for 30 to 35 minutes, or until a knife inserted into the center of the cornbread comes out clean.



CORNBREAD





1 cup flour


1/4 cup sugar


4 teaspoons baking powder


3/4 teaspoon salt


1 cup cornmeal


2 eggs


1 cup milk


1/4 cup shortening


1/4 cup bacon bits





Sift flour with sugar, baking powder, %26amp; salt. Stir in cornmeal. Add eggs, milk, and shortening. Beat until smooth. Bake at 425 F for 20-25 minutes. (in greased pan).



The best, easiest cornbread is to use Jiffy corn bread mix with a couple teaspoons of sugar and a couple teaspoons of milk added. This is a good one if you want to make it from scratch though:





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I would add to the Top Contributor's recipe, one small can of corn well drained. other than that, her recipe is best.