Buttermilk Cornbread Loaf

By jlw_63

Ingredients

• 1-1/2 cups flour
• 1 cup yellow cornmeal
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 2 tsps baking powder
• 1 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 cup vegetable shortening
• 1-1/3 cups buttermilk
• 2 eggs

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat 375; spray loaf pan

Combine ingredients through baking soda
Cut in shortening with pastry blender until coarse crumbs

Whisk together buttermilk and eggs in bowl; make well in center of dry ingredients; add buttermilk mixture; stir until mixture forms stiff batter (batter will be lumpy); pour into pan removing air bubbles

Bake 50-55 min or until toothpick into center comes out clean