Southern Cornbread Recipe

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Skillet Cornbread

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This Southern Cornbread Recipe made in a cast iron skillet (or cast iron cornbread / skillet cornbread as it’s also known) is a recipe I picked up when I attended a Chili Cook-off at the overseas oilfield location I used to work.

This oilfield base was full of “Southerners”, mostly Texans and Louisianians and boy did they have their Chili down pat. This was always my favorite event as I’m a big Chili fan – (see our Deer Chili Recipe here), but one of best parts of these kind of events is that there is usually cornbread galore! All kinds of cornbread, cooked all kind of different ways! Now I’m not sure you can put Jiffy cornbread in cast iron skillet but I can honestly say, I don’t think any of these chili chefs would have dared try, for the sake of their reputation (lol) – there was a lot of ‘momma’s recipes’ flying around (both chili and cornbread)!

This particular recipe I was given by a good friend Joe, who swore by the ratios giving it just the right amount of sweetness, but not too much. The sweetness comes from the honey, in fact it could also be called a honey cornbread.

Here’s the breakdown of the cornbread ingredients:

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Cornbread Ingredients

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• 3 Tbsp. Bacon Grease
• ½ cup Honey
• 2-¼ cups buttermilk
• 3 large eggs
• 1-½ cups yellow cornmeal, fine or medium-coarse grind
• ½ cup whole wheat flour
• ½ cup all-purpose flour
• 1 Tbsp. baking powder
• 1-½ Tsp. salt
• ½ Tsp. baking soda
• 3 Tbsp. Sugar (optional)

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How To Make Cornbread

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One of the things that makes this a really easy cornbread recipe is you combine all the wet ingredients, then all the dry ingredients, then fold them all in together and pour into the hot greased skillet. That’s it. The best cornbread recipe you ever tried in four easy steps!

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After the ingredients have been mixed together, they should be added to the hot skillet greased with the bacon grease. This should have been warming up with the oven at 375°F.

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Beans and Cornbread

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I’m not entirely sure why. I did actually look it up trying to find an answer, but other than the fact that Beans and Cornbread gets served (due to a tradition) after a successful NASA flight, and there’s a song called Beans and Cornbread from the forties there’s not much else factually out there.

I believe it’s just a Southern tradition. It’s a humble meal, as beans are inexpensive and a southern cornbread recipe is too, very filling and full of nutrition – it’s a hearty meal that has become a southern classic! It’s definitely one of our favorites, try our Pinto Beans recipe here.

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Southern Cornbread Recipe Card

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Cornbread FAQ’s

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