Does anyone have a good cornbread receipy?

[tigercat]

I wanted to try my hand at cornbread and made the Trails receipy. It was so sweet none of us really liked it. And I added a lot less sugar than was called for. The cornbread we get at a restaurant near us isn't a sweet cornbread. I also use spelt flour instead of regular flower but that isn't a problem. Anyone have a good from scratch receipy?
tigercat

 

[asta]

I love cornbread. I make it from the recipe on the bag of Martha White cornmeal with hot rise.

Put 1/4 cup shortening in a cast iron skillet and place in oven while it preheats to 450 degrees.
Beat 1 egg and add to that either 1 1/3 cups milk or 1 3/4 cups buttermilk and
2 cups of corn meal mix. Mixture should be course, add more meal if it is too runny.

Carefully bring the hot skillet out of the oven and pour the melted shortening into the corn meal mixture, stir together and return to the hot skillet.

Bake at 450 for 20 to 25 minutes.

 

[Squirlz]

I find it really hard to beat Jiffy mix.

 

[Soldier's*Sweeties]

I find it really hard to beat Jiffy mix.

I was going to say
"Jiffy"...

 

[Feralpeg]

Combine Jiffy with a yellow cake mix. Incredible!

 

[jdb in AZ]

We use Marie Callender's mix. It's similar to Jiffy combined with cake mix. I add a 7-oz can of diced green chilis, and a can of creamed corn.

 

[asta]

The problem with Jiffy is that it has sugar in it. Sugar is actually the third ingredient listed. It is also not cornbread enough. There is actually more flour in Jiffy than corn meal. It might as well be a flour mix with a little corn meal mixed in.

 

[tigercat]

Is corn meal mix different than just corn meal? Also, I need to make it from scratch because I can't eat wheat. Cake mixes all contain wheat.
tigercat

 

[asta]

Is corn meal mix different than just corn meal? Also, I need to make it from scratch because I can't eat wheat. Cake mixes all contain wheat.
tigercat

I think when it says corn meal mix it almost always has wheat flour mixed in. Sometimes it even has sugar. Jiffy has both and is more flour than meal. Martha White sells just plain corn meal. They fairly recently started adding a little flour to their mix that has hot rise in it and they call that a mix.

 

[Pamlur]

Corn bread isn't supposed to be sweet; no sugar whatsoever. I haven't looked at the cornbread mixes in the grocery store lately; if you have Cracker Barrel restaurants around, they sell their own mix. But homemade cornbread is going to almost always have wheat flour in it, too.

 

[luvsJack]

I have to disagree about cornbread not supposed to have any sugar. Most cornbread recipes have at least a small amount of sugar or at least they do here in the south. If not sugar, some honey--my favorite.

Mom has made it very similar to the pp- shortening, egg, buttermilk, small amount of sugar or honey, but she used plain cornmeal and added baking powder and salt, no flour. It was the way her mother made cornbread fritters. I like it with at least some flour but it can be done without out it.

 

[NHdisneylover]

I have to disagree about cornbread not supposed to have any sugar. Most cornbread recipes have at least a small amount of sugar or at least they do here in the south. If not sugar, some honey--my favorite.

Mom has made it very similar to the pp- shortening, egg, buttermilk, small amount of sugar or honey, but she used plain cornmeal and added baking powder and salt, no flour. It was the way her mother made cornbread fritters. I like it with at least some flour but it can be done without out it.

In my family (from east Texas and Louisiana) we always called the non sweet item"corn bread" and the sweetened variety "johnny cake" Hush puppies can be made from either base and are the best lol


OP--sorry I can't help you out--I grew up eyeballing it and I think amounts vary a fair amount depending on the coarseness of the cornmeal used. Id say just google for a recipe without sweetner and go from there.

 

[pryncess527]

This is my grandmothers cornbread recipe, I think it's the best ever. My husbands family is from Missouri and likes it sweet, I add a little sugar to the last few muffins for him, but no one I know in Georgia puts sugar in their cornbread

Cornbread -- 6 muffins

2/3 cup cornmeal
1 tablespoon of all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon of salt
1/4 teaspoon of baking soda
1/4 teaspoon of baking powder
2rounded tablespoons of shortening/Crisco
1 cup of buttermilk

Sift together dry ingredients. Add buttermilk and mix. Melt Crisco and stir in. Pour into greased muffin tins and bake at 425 for 20-25 minutes

 

[firecracker725]

I love cornbread. I make it from the recipe on the bag of Martha White cornmeal with hot rise.

Put 1/4 cup shortening in a cast iron skillet and place in oven while it preheats to 450 degrees.
Beat 1 egg and add to that either 1 1/3 cups milk or 1 3/4 cups buttermilk and
2 cups of corn meal mix. Mixture should be course, add more meal if it is too runny.

Carefully bring the hot skillet out of the oven and pour the melted shortening into the corn meal mixture, stir together and return to the hot skillet.

Bake at 450 for 20 to 25 minutes.

I'm a good southern girl, and I use nothing but the Martha White mix and the recipe on the back of the bag.

 

[tigercat]

Thanks for the receipy. I am going to give it a try soon. As I don't live in the States I can't get mixes and I couldn't use them anyway. As for the flour, I substitute a flour I can use like spelt. It is easy to use instead of wheat flour. Spelt is an ancient grain that I seem to be okay with.
tigercat

 

[littleblackegg]

I find it really hard to beat Jiffy mix.

Me too. Jiffy is quick, easy and delicious!

 

[McKelly]

Just bought some Famous Dave's cornbread mix at Costco!

 

[Pamlur]

I also live in the south, and nobody in my extended family has ever sweetened cornbread. We eat it with soup, chili, various types of beans, etc, and none of that would go well with a sweet bread.

If I remember right, my aunt's cornbread was 1 1/2 c meal, either 1/2 or 1 c flour, milk, egg, bacon grease, baking powder (I don't remember the measurements, she passed away a long time ago). Hers was the best I ever ate.

 

[asta]

Thanks for the receipy. I am going to give it a try soon. As I don't live in the States I can't get mixes and I couldn't use them anyway. As for the flour, I substitute a flour I can use like spelt. It is easy to use instead of wheat flour. Spelt is an ancient grain that I seem to be okay with.
tigercat

If you are going to use the recipe from Martha White but are mixing your own meal and flour make sure you use a leavening agent. I think you need to add these ingredients if not using a self rising mix:
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt

 

[luvsJack]

Maybe its just here in the deep south, lol. Everyone I know puts sugar or honey in their cornbread. Any recipe will work without it. And some recipes I wouldn't call "sweet" at all, not enough for that. Honey cornbread is very good with chili, beans, soup, cabbage, etc.

But for the Op, any recipe should work without sugar or honey and without flour, just like the pp said make sure you add salt and baking powder.