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Southern Style Cornbread

Ingredients

OPTIONAL – Add 1/4 cup of sugar for a little sweetness!

Directions

In a medium mixing bowl, add in your cornmeal, buttermilk, egg, and sugar (if adding). Mix completely until all combined.

Add all your ingredients
Mix together

Begin to preheat your oven to 400 degrees.

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Allow it to preheat, and in a small casserole dish, melt 2 tbsp of butter. Place in the oven while it is heating up and allow the butter to melt. Leave in the oven until it is completely melted.

melt your butter in the pan; you want it popping as it comes out the oven

Once your oven is finished preheating, remove your pan from the oven. Please be cautious and wear heat-resistant gloves while doing this step. It will be extremely hot.

Add in your wet mixture and place in the oven, and bake for 30 minutes.

when you place it in the hot pan, it will look a little like this

You can remove out of the oven once it does not jiggle in the middle, is completely golden brown, or put a fork in the middle of the pan of bread. If the fork comes out clean, it is done. If it doesn’t, then continue to bake.

cooked to a T!
You can even use that tip for any sort of desserts, cakes, brownies, or other breads. Such a handy tip that everyone can use!

Once your bread is completed, allow it to cool, or you can cut and enjoy it with some butter. It is very yummy warm!

ENJOY!

Yummy cornbread topped with a slice of butter.
Tori Hammontree

Southern Style Cornbread

A traditional Southern style cornbread made with cornmeal, buttermilk, egg, butter, and optional sugar.
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes

Ingredients
  

  • 1 egg
  • 2 cups White Lily self-rising cornmeal mix
  • 1 1/2 cups butter milk you can subsitute for regular whole milk
  • 1/4 cup sugar OPTIONAL
  • 2 tbsp butter

Method
 

  1. Thoroughly mix cornmeal, buttermilk, egg, and optional sugar in a medium bowl.
  2. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
  3. Put 2 tbsp butter in a small casserole dish. Leave in the preheating oven until fully melted.
  4. Once the oven is preheated, remove the dish.
  5. Add batter; bake for 30 minutes.
  6. Remove when the center no longer jiggles, the bread is completely golden brown, or a fork inserted in the center comes out clean. If the fork is not clean, keep baking.
  7. Cool, or slice and serve with butter.

Notes

Please be cautious and wearing heat protectant gloves while removing the pan from the oven. It will be extremely hot.
Total time: 30 minutes.