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Nora's Memaw's Alabama Cornbread

Source of Recipe


From "The Cornbread Gospels" by Crescent Dragonwagon



List of Ingredients



• Vegetable oil cooking spray
  
• 1 cup stone-ground white cornmeal
  
• ½ cup unbleached white flour
  
• 1½ tsp baking powder
  
• ½ tsp baking soda
  
• ½ tsp salt
  
• 1½ tsp sugar
  
• 1 cup milk
  
• ½ cup buttermilk
  
• 1 egg
  
• ¼ cup mild vegetable oil
  
• Butter, for serving
  






Instructions



1. Preheat the oven to 450° F. Spray a 10- x 16-inch baking dish ("Memaw always used glass") with oil.
   
   
2. Combine the dry ingredients in a large bowl, whisking or stirring well to mix. In a small bowl, beat together the milk, buttermilk, egg and oil. Add the wet mixture to the dry using the absolute minimum number of strokes needed to moisten dry with wet.
   
   
3. Transfer the batter to the prepared baking dish and bake it until the top of the cornbread is golden brown and springs back when touched, about 20 minutes. If it's not nicely brown after 20 minutes, transfer it to the top rack of the oven and give it 5 more minutes. Serve, hot from the pan if possible, with butter.
   
   Makes 6 thin squares.