Grandma's Cornbread.
You can cook Grandma's Cornbread using 13 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Grandma's Cornbread
- You need 1 cup of ap flour.
- You need 1 cup of yellow cornmeal.
- You need 1/3 cup of granulated sugar.
- It's 1 tbsp of baking powder.
- It's 1/4 tsp of salt.
- It's 2 of lg eggs.
- It's 1 cup of milk.
- Prepare 1/2 cup of melted unsalted butter.
- It's 1 1/2 tbsp of vegatable shortening.
- You need 1/2 (1 can) of diced green chilies (optional).
- It's 1/2 of a medium onion, diced (optional).
- Prepare 1/2 (1 can) of corn without the liquid (optional).
- You need of All of the optional ingredients can be added for fully loaded cornbread. :).
Grandma's Cornbread instructions
- Heat up your oven to 400F..
- Add the shortening to a 8" cast iron skillet and place in the oven to preheat..
- In a bowl, mix together all the dry ingredients..
- In a separate small bowl whisk together the milk and butter..
- Add the eggs to the milk mixture and whisk until blended..
- Add the wet to the dry and mix..
- Remove the skillet from the oven and using a paper towel spread the now hot liquid shortening up the sides and all over the bottom of the skillet..
- Pour the batter in to the hot skillet..
- Place the skillet in the oven (center rack) and bake for 25 - 30 minutes until the top is lightly golden and a toothpick comes out clean when inserted into the center of the corn bread..
- Cool on a wire rack.
- Serve.
- Enjoy!.
- It goes well with soups and stews..
- I also enjoy it for breakfast with my eggs..