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Southern Cornbread Recipe

Prep Time5 minutes
Cook Time20 minutes
Servings: 8

Ingredients

  • 1 Cup of Cornmeal
  • 1 Cup of all-purpose flour
  • 1 Teaspoon of baking powder
  • ½ Teaspoon of baking soda
  • 1 Teaspoon of salt
  • 1 ¼ Cup of buttermilk room temperature*
  • 1 Large egg room temperature*
  • 4 Tablespoons of unsalted butter melted and then cooled to room temperature*

If you are using a castiron skillet:

  • Another 4 tablespoons of unsalted butter

Instructions

  • Preheat to 400 and place your cast iron skillet in it so it gets hot.
  • Make the batter: Get out ar large bowl and add the cornmeal, flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt to it. Then use a whisk of a fork to mix all of those ingredients together. Set this bowl aside and get out another bowl. Crack the egg into this second bowl and beat it. Then add the buttermilk, along with the melted butter to the egg and mix it all together. Finally, pour the bowl of wet ingredients into the bowl of dry ingredients and mix them together until they form the batter.
  • For those using a cast iron skillet: Now that the batter is made, take out the hot skillet from your oven. Place the other 4 tablespoons of butter into this hot skillet and let it melt completely. Finally, pour the cornmeal batter into this buttered skillet and spread it out so that it’s even
  • For those using a baking pan: Get out the baking pan and grease it with either a spray or a stick of butter. Then pour the cornbread batter into the pan and spread it out so that it’s even.
  • Place the cornbread in your oven and let it bake for 20 to 25 minutes, or until the sides have become browned up.
  • Let it rest for 10 minutes before slicing up

Notes

***All three of these ingredients need to be room temperature when you add them together. If the butter isn’t allowed to come to room temperature after you melt it, then adding it to the eggs could cause them to cook and harden. Conversely, if either the buttermilk or the egg is cold and not room temperature, then they could cause the melted butter to solidify.