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Country Cornbread

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List of Ingredients

COUNTRY CORNBREAD
1 Cup Cornmeal, preferably yellow
1/2 Cup Flour
1 Tablespoon Sugar
1 Tablespoon Baking Powder
1/2 Teaspoon Salt
3 Tablespoons Bacon Grease
1 Egg
1 Cup Milk

Preheat oven to 450°F. While country cornbread is always baked in a square pan, cowboys cooked theirs in an iron skillet. You can use whichever turns you on. Melt bacon grease in the pan and tilt to coat interior. Mix all dry ingredients and beat egg in the milk. Stir the milk and egg into the dry ingredients. When well blended, pour all of the grease that you can from the pan into the batter and mix. Pour batter into pan and bake for about 15 minutes, or until top surface is browned and toothpick comes out clean.

For Mexican cornbread, add 1/2 cup minced onion and two finely chopped jalapenos, which have had the seeds removed, to the batter before baking.



BREAKFAST CORNBREAD

My grandmother used to make what she called "Breakfast Cornbread" by adding a cup of raisins or chopped dried fruit which had been plumped up in hot water, three additional tablespoons of sugar and a dash of cinnamon. Served hot with butter and syrup or honey, it was fantastic.








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