Southern Corn Bread Recipe

Easy Recipe For Good Eating

Eating corn bread with dinner has long been a southern favorite. Don't believe me? Just visit any southern dinner table during a family gathering. There's sure to be some good ole fashioned homemade bread sitting right their for everyone to enjoy.

Cornbread is one of many comfort foods. Add it to your meal and expect your dinner guess to leave on a full stomach. But don't expect any leftovers.

Most southerners have their own favorite recipe for making cornbread. Here is an easy recipe that I cook up, it's my favorite recipe.

Corn Bread Recipe

Recipe Ingredients

1-1/2 – cups yellow corn meal
1-1/2 – cups general all purpose flour
4 – tablespoons baking powder
2 – tablespoons sugar
1 – tablespoon salt
1-1/2 – cups milk
2 – eggs
2 – tablespoons vegetable oil
2 – tablespoons melted butter

Cookware and Utensils:

1 – cast iron skillet
2 – mixing bowls
1 – measuring cup
1 – mixing spoon
1 – kitchen basting brush

Recipe Instructions:

As always the key to great cooking is to be prepared and to use quality ingredients.

You can start off by greasing your cast iron skillet with a little vegetable oil. Set the oven to 425 degrees and heat your skillet. If you don't have the cast iron skillet go head and use a iron baking pan.

Blend corn meal, flour, baking powered and sugar in a mixing bowl. In another bowl Wisk together your milk, eggs and melted butter. Make the corn bread batter by mixing your dry and wet ingredients together thoroughly.

Next using oven mittens, carefully remove the cast iron skillet from the oven. Using a kitchen basting brush or whatever you have available coat the inside of your skillet with vegetable oil.

Pour batter into the skillet and return to oven. Bake for about half an hour or until a wooden tooth pick inserted in the center comes out clean. The finished product will be golden brown.

Enjoy your Southern Corn Bread.