Confederate Cornbread

[Barrycdog]

Civil War Emporium
Old Pioneer Recipes
Confederate Cornbread
1 Tblsp butter for greasing 2 cups cornmeal
2 tsp baking powder pinch of salt
3 eggs
1 cup milk
1/4 cup vegetable oil
Combine cornmeal, baking powder and salt in large bowl. In a separate bowl, stir the eggs with a fork. Combine both mixtures. Add milk and oil, stirring continually. Pour into well-greased 9x9 inch baking pan. Bake at 400 degrees for about 25 minutes.

 

[MRB1863]

Barrycdog,
Thanks for sharing your recipe. What a great companion to the chili we discussed recently! Your recipe is similar to one I've been using for years - it's delicious! Biggest difference is that I pour the batter in an oiled iron skillet and bake. This is the weather for cornbread, chili, and soup for sure!

 

[donna]

Nothing like cornbread. Thanks for posting.

 

[mikekj]

The only difference between this and what I make now is that I use lard instead of the butter and the oil.

 

[hrobalabama]

And I use buttermilk for milk.
(and NO sugar or flour)

 

[BelleBlackburn]

Ya gotta let that greased skillet get good and hot before you pour in the batter so it can sizzle.

 

[mikekj]

Ya gotta let that greased skillet get good and hot before you pour in the batter so it can sizzle.

Oh, absolutely.

 

[BelleBlackburn]

I regret I never got my mother's cornbread recipe but I imagine it was like this one, simple. I don't like the sweet cornbread and I think the real southern cornbread is usually not sweet. At least it was not in our house. I will probably try this one out this weekend and see if it can replicate my mother's. (This is a compliment to her since she hated cooking. She would be happy to know she actually cooked something good enough to want to have again.)

 

[MaryDee]

Now that's the kind of cornbread I like! Just cornmeal, no flour! I detest cornbread that is half wheat flour, which most recipes have. And no sugar! I'm going to try this one!

 

[Allie]

I'm afraid my recipe for cornbread is "stop by Cousins' gas station on the way home from Piperton." I just do not do baked goods if I can avoid it. But theirs is nice, classic cornbread, no sugar, no flour. Now you've got me hungry for cornbread!

Just out of curiosity, do places other than West Tennessee have gas stations where the food is better than in the actual restaurants?

 

[mikekj]

We have a place here in Atlanta called Harolds BBQ. They have been making the same cracklin' cornbread since the 1940's.

I like to go in and just get a bowl of stew and cornbread.

 

[Barrycdog]

Nothing like cornbread. Thanks for posting.

Got your spoons tidkay. Thank you

 

[Billy_Mojo]

2 boxes Always Save (or Jiffy) Corn Muffin Mix
2 eggs
2/3 cup milk

mix batter with above ingredients in a mixing bowl, and let it sit while the oven preheats.

grease #12 cast iron skillet with Butter Flavor Crisco.

preheat oven to 425, with greased skillet on middle rack.

when the oven reaches heat, slide the rack out and carefully pour the batter into the skillet.


bake for about 15 minutes.


HOWEVER, sometimes I like to make it from scratch... this process never fails.

 

[mikekj]

2 boxes Always Save (or Jiffy) Corn Muffin Mix
2 eggs
2/3 cup milk

mix batter with above ingredients in a mixing bowl, and let it sit while the oven preheats.

grease #12 cast iron skillet with Butter Flavor Crisco.

preheat oven to 425, with greased skillet on middle rack.

when the oven reaches heat, slide the rack out and carefully pour the batter into the skillet.


bake for about 15 minutes.


HOWEVER, sometimes I like to make it from scratch... this process never fails.

That's not real cornbread.

We call that "cake bread". To much flour, to much sugar.

 

[Billy_Mojo]

That's not real cornbread.

We call that "cake bread". To much flour, to much sugar.

yeah, I know. it's just a 'quick and easy'.

 

[Barrycdog]

Yes I use Jiffy in a Jiffy especially when I made my black eyed peas and collards

 

[donna]

Sometimes we all use box mixes. We are in a hurry and all we have time for. They are good in a pinch. There are some great recipes out there using the box mixes and adding to them.

 

[BelleBlackburn]

Like Mississippi Cornbread Salad.

 

[Allie]

What I don't understand is why the box mixes are all so sweet! It seems like someone could market a less-sweet variety as "county-style" or something, and people would buy it.