Corn Bread Country Style

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 2 1/4 cups yellow cornmeal
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 cups buttermilk (milk if you have)
• 1 large egg
• 3 tablespoons shortening or 3 tablespoons bacon grease

Recipe

• 1 preheating your oven to 450 degrees.
• 2 put a 9" cast iron skillet on the stove over medium heat and put the shortening in the skillet.
• 3 mix all the dry ingredients together in one bowl.
• 4 mix the egg and buttermilk (milk) together in another bowl.
• 5 mix the dry and wet ingredients together.
• 6 when you start to see little wisps of smoke coming from the hot shortening, pour most, not all of the shortening into the cornbread batter and mix well.
• 7 then pour the batter into the hot skillet. remove after a few minutes.
• 8 place in the middle of the preheated oven and bake about 30 minutes, until nice and brown on top.