It’s not easy to make corn bread here in Calgary because we don’t have self-rising corn meal or corn meal mix. Following is the closest I have come to developing a corn bread recipe that will work for me. I am always changing it though. If you live in my area, let me know of your favorite way to make corn bread.
Ingredients:
1/4 cup Crisco
3/4 cup corn meal
½ cup plus 3 T. flour
1 T. baking powder
1 t. salt
½ t. baking soda
1 T. sugar
1 egg
1 cup buttermilk
½ cup whole milk
Instructions:
*Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
*Place the shortening in a cast iron skillet (or oven safe skillet) and place skillet in hot oven.
*While shortening is melting in the oven (and the skillet is heating up), place the remaining ingredients into a mixing bowl. Mix until smooth. Add more milk if necessary.
*Remove hot skillet from oven and pour melted Crisco into your cornmeal mixture.
*Pour all batter back into the hot skillet and place in the oven.
*Bake cornbread at 400 degrees for 25 minutes or until done.
Note:
Make your cornbread to suit your individual tastes by using all buttermilk or all whole milk. You may also want to omit the sugar or the egg. Another addition that some enjoy is to add jalapeño peppers to the batter.
This makes me think of my grandmother and when she was teaching Rachel how to make cornbread. You'll have to get Rachel to act it out for you...so sweet. (Grandmother is under the care of Hospice now...and no longer making cornbread.) She liked to eat it "crumbled up in milk."
ReplyDeleteMiss you, my friend! So anxious for the videos so that I can feel like we're visiting!!
God bless your Grandmother, Kristi and thank you for your sweet comments. We're figuring out the videos and hopefully they will be ready to roll out soon. It really takes a bit of planning. Love to you!
ReplyDeleteI have found the best way is to have someone from Georgia send/bring you some self rising white cornmeal. My sister smuggles it in her bag when she comes to visit me in Idaho!
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Hi Cindy---I used to bring it in my bag but since that adds so much extra weight, it makes travelling these days very difficult. So now I just make do with this method. It is good but not as good as my Mother's (in Georgia).
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