Good cornbread recipe

[monkeyboy]

Holidays are HERE I need something new!

 

[ahutton]

Here is our family favorite!

Ingredients
2/3 cup white sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup butter, softened
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 eggs
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
3/4 cup cornmeal
1 1/3 cups milk
Directions
1.Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Lightly grease an 8 inch skillet.
2.In a large bowl, beat together sugar, salt, butter and vanilla until creamy. Stir in eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. In a separate bowl, mix together flour, baking powder and cornmeal. Stir flour mixture into egg mixture alternately with the milk. Beat well until blended.
3.Bake in preheated oven for 20 minutes, or until golden brown. Serve warm.

 

[JerseyJanice]

Being from the north and all, I've never made cornbread.

However, there was a thread on here the other day or so about how to make corn pudding and most of the recipes had Jiffy cornbread mix in them.

I like corn pudding quite a bit, so I think I'm going to make and bring a batch to our family's Thanksgiving this year.

 

[Wishing on a star]

It's got to be good Southern cornbread...
Baked in a cast iron skillet...

Sugar??? - blasphemy!!!
Jiffy... ummmm, yeah my MIL, from Michigan, has made that..

We've used Three Rivers cornmeal for years and years... probably going back to my Grandma. and now it's gone... bought out. So, I really don't know what might compare.

See if there is a basic recipe on the back of the self-rising cornmeal package that you can go by.

We've always thrown together the corn meal (self rising) with an egg, or two depending on how much you are making, milk, and vegetable oil (maybe 1/4 cup) to form a thick batter. (not runny, not too 'stiff')

Let the batter sit and rise while your oven preheats, and you heat your cast iron skillet on the stovetop, with some oil in it. Heat skillet to at least a med. heat, but not 'hot'.

Pour the cornmeal batter into the hot skillet... should be just hot enough for the oil to bubble just a bit... Bake in hot oven (375' ???) until cooked thru and nicely browned.