Corn Pone Cornbread Recipe

Ingredients

* 1 cup - all-purpose flour
* 1 tablespoon - sugar
* 1/2 teaspoon - soda
* 1 teaspoon - salt
* 1 1/2 teaspoon - double acting baking powder
* 1 cup - buttermilk
* 2 - eggs
* 3 to 4 tablespoon - butter (melted) or bacon fat

Directions

Corn Pone Cornbread is cornbread just cooked in a special "Cast Iron Skillet" that features corncob shaped molds.

Variations on the recipe can feature fresh or canned corn, "Cracklins" or nothing ... but cornbread.

Preheat oven to 425 degrees

Stir the liquid into the dry ingredients with a few swift strokes. You then add: 1/4 cup salt port cracklins (skins). Pour the batter into a preheated greased pan and bake the bread for about 1/2 hour.

Sift, then measure:
1 cup All-purpose flour

Resift with:
1/2 teaspoon Soda
1 1/2 teaspoon Double acting baking powder
1 tablespoon Sugar
1 teaspoon Salt

Add:
3/4 cup Yellow water ground corn meal

Combine and beat:
1 cup Buttermilk
2 Eggs
3 to 4 tablespoon Melted butter or bacon fat