cornbread - Old-fashioned

By grammadot

Ingredients

• 1 1/4 cups medium-grind cornmeal
• 3/4 cup flour
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
• 3 ounces lard, melted
• 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons milk
• 1 egg
• 3/4 cup corn kernels (fresh or frozen)
• 1 teaspoon salted butter

Details

Preparation time 15mins
Cooking time 23mins

Preparation

Step 1

1 Heat: Set a 10-inch cast-iron skillet in a cold oven. Heat to 400 degrees.

2 Whisk: In a large bowl whisk together cornmeal, flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and pepper.

3 Mix: In a large glass measuring cup whisk together lard, milk and egg. Pour liquid over dry ingredients and stir with a fork. Don’t fret over lumps. Stir in corn.

4 Bake: Pull on reliable oven mitts and pull hot skillet from oven. Drop in butter and swirl to coat bottom of skillet. Scrape in batter and smooth. Return skillet to oven and bake until a toothpick poked in the middle comes out clean, about 18-20 minutes.

5 Serve: Turn out cornbread onto a cutting board, browned bottom up. Slice into wedges and munch.