Buttermilk Cornbread

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Buttermilk Cornbread- this is cornbread similar your grandma made. That is, NOT sweet. Cooked successful bacon grease, it’s besides not arsenic moist arsenic immoderate cornbreads.

Slices of Buttermilk Cornbread topped with butter.

It’s wonderfully crumbly and cripsy astir the edges. Scroll down for much cornbread recipes incuding immoderate saccharine ones.

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Southern Cornbread Recipe

Real Southern Cornbread has a fantastic maize flavor, a truly substantial, astir gritty texture and a crispy crust. And it’s not sweet. That is what southerner’s notation to arsenic Yankee Cornbread.

This cornbread tin beryllium utilized to marque my Southern Cornbread Dressing for the holidays.

Ingredients

Yellow Cornmeal
All-Purpose Flour
Salt
Baking pulverization and baking soda
Sugar- I conscionable usage 1 teaspoon
1 ample Egg
Buttermilk
Bacon Drippings

How To Serve Buttermilk Cornbread

I emotion to crumble this cornbread into a large vessel of beans, either Creamy Butter Beans oregon Spicy Pinto Beans oregon into a vessel of Spicy Collard Greens. It besides goes truly good with chili. The astir confederate mode to devour conrbread is to crumble it into a vessel of acold buttermilk. I personally besides similar to devour it plain with a large pat of butter.

Buttermilk Cornbread topped with butter.

Cast Iron Skillet

This benignant of cornbread is champion cooked successful a formed robust skillet. Cast robust retains vigor truly good and volition springiness it a fantastic aureate and crispy crust.

Substitute For Buttermilk

If you don’t person buttermilk, nary request to tally to the store. Just determination a scant cupful and a fractional of beverage into a solid measuring cupful and past adhd a tablespoonful and a fractional of either citrus foodstuff oregon achromatic vinegar.

Recipe Tip

Don’t skip the measurement placing the skillet successful the oven earlier you adhd the batter. It’s this measurement that helps make a crispy exterior.

Storage

Cornbread is champion eaten soon aft it is made. It dries retired aft a time oregon two. It tin beryllium stored successful an airtight instrumentality astatine country somesthesia for a fewer days. You tin besides crook leftover cornbread into delicious croutons. Cut into tiny squares, flip with a small melted food and cook until crispy.

Slice of Buttermilk Cornbread connected a plate.

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Buttermilk Cornbread

Buttermilk Cornbread- this is cornbread similar your grandma made. That is, NOT sweet. Cooked successful bacon grease, it's besides not arsenic moist arsenic immoderate cornbreads.

Course Breads

Cuisine Southern

Prep Time 15

Cook Time 25

Servings

Calories 242kcal

Equipment

9-inch Cast Iron Skillet

Ingredients

1½ cups yellow cornmeal
½ cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
1½ teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon sugar
1 large egg
1½ cups buttermilk
¼ cup bacon drippings, rootlike lipid oregon a combination

Instructions

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
In a ample bowl, disturbance unneurotic cornmeal, flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda, and sugar.
Whisk unneurotic ovum and buttermilk.
Pour bacon drippings oregon rootlike lipid into a 9 to 10-inch formed robust skillet. Place successful the oven for 2 to 3 minutes.
Meanwhile, adhd egg/buttermilk to cornmeal substance and disturbance conscionable until combined
Remove formed robust skillet from oven and swirl to overgarment the skillet with the bacon grease oregon oil. Pour immoderate excess into batter and premix it in.
Pour batter into skillet. Bake for 25 minutes.