Best Cornbread Recipe
This is a classic cornbread recipe that can be used in cornbread stuffing or just eaten plain with butter or honey.
Fluffy cornbread is a wonderful accompaniment to so many dishes, from chili to leather britches. This recipe makes a slightly sweet batch that will disappear before you’re done slicing it!
Cornbread Recipe
- 3/4 cup sifted flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3 teaspoons baking powder
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 1 1/2 cup yellow cornmeal
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 1 1/2 cups milk
- 1/4 cup shortening
Sift flour, salt, baking powder, and sugar and add cornmeal.
Combine eggs with milk and shortening and moisten dry ingredients.
Turn into a shallow, well-greased pan or cast-iron skillet and bake in hot 400 degree oven for 30 minutes.
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Well, maybe.
If you take them keyword “Southern” off.
A real southern cook like me will NEVER put sugar in cornbread.
That’s silly.