Curley's Old Fashioned Cornbread

Total Time: 35 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 cup cornmeal, my mother used stoneground but any is fine (not mix)
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 -3 tablespoon sugar, depending on how sweet you like it
• 1 1/4 cups buttermilk
• 1 large egg
• 1/4 cup corn oil
• 3 tablespoons butter

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 375 in a large bowl, combine flour, cornmeal, baking powder, salt, baking soda, and sugar.
• 2 (if baking powder or soda appear at all lumpy, sift them in).
• 3 stir well to combine.
• 4 in a small bowl, whisk together buttermilk, egg, and oil.
• 5 place the butter in a 9 or 10 inch skillet and place in the oven and heat until the butter melts and is sizzling seriously.
• 6 tilt the pan to coat the sides of the skillet.
• 7 as the butter's melting, quickly pour the wet ingredients into the dry, and, using a wooden spoon, stir the wet and dry together with as few strokes as possible--- only as many as are needed to combine the two.
• 8 don't beat it!
• 9 scrape the batter into the hot, buttery skillet.
• 10 it should sizzle.
• 11 place it in the oven immediately.
• 12 bake until golden brown on top, about 25 to 30 minutes.