Traditional Southern Cornbread. More cornbread recipes: If you like southern cornbread as I do, you also might be interested in my gluten-free Old-Fashioned Southern Cornbread, which is a tasty, dense cornbread that doesn't contain any flour. I also have recipes for spicy and flavorful Mexican Jalapeno Cornbread and Broccoli Cheddar Cheese Cornbread Muffins. They are perfect to pair with soup or chili.
But for those of you who love a no-sugar, crispy skillet version this southern cornbread recipe is spot-on. I have a theory about cornbread. If you grew up north of the Ohio River or had a family member who taught you to cook who did, you will put sugar in your cornbread. You can have Traditional Southern Cornbread using 8 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Traditional Southern Cornbread
- Prepare 1.5 cups of all-purpose flour.
- Prepare 1 cup of medium grind cornmeal.
- It's 2 tsp of baking powder.
- It's 3/4 tsp of salt.
- Prepare 1/4 tsp of baking soda.
- You need 1/4 cup of buttermilk.
- It's 2 of eggs.
- Prepare 8 Tbl of melted, unsalted butter.
A traditional southern cornbread dressing, made with crumbled cornbread and toasted crumbled bread. Traditional Southern Cornbread Dressing Southerners sure do love their traditional cornbread dressing and some of them will get all "stuffy" over what constitutes dressing and what constitutes stuffing. In a large skillet, melt butter over medium heat. You'll notice there are both bacon drippings and butter in this cornbread recipe.
Traditional Southern Cornbread step by step
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees..
- Whisk flour, cornmeal, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a medium sized bowl. Mix sugar, buttermilk, and eggs in a separate bowl. Pour wet ingredients in with the dry ingredients..
- Add butter to the mixture..
- Mix well until uniform and consistency is a smooth batter..
- Pour into a well-seasoned or oiled iron skillet..
- Bake in oven for 25-35 minutes (depending on your oven)..
- Use a toothpick to check if the cornbread is done. If the toothpick comes out clean, it is done..
The butter adds needed richness to the bread itself, and the bacon drippings help brown the crust, keep it from sticking. Corn light bread is an old Southern specialty made more like traditional sandwich bread — with yeast, flour, and, often, commercial leaveners — than what you'd expect from cornbread. It requires only a few simple ingredients and is relatively easy to prepare. It's also a "must have" in any Southern kitchen. A few tips for making perfect cornbread: Overmixing the batter can result in dry cornbread.