Originally Posted by
MS/L.A. G.R.I.T.S.
Ladies! I beg to disagree with you! Real Southern Cornbread does NOT have any sugar in it. Jiffy does!
Try This, I think it comes on the back of Martha White Cornmeal. Not the Cornmeal Mix!
Cornbread
Preheat a seasoned 8" iron skillet as your oven preheats to 450 degrees.
Mix together 2 cups Martha White Cornmeal, 1 tsp. salt, 2 tsp. baking soda, 1 egg, and 3/4-7/8 c. of buttermilk.
Remove skillet from hot oven carefully, put 1/4 c. bacon grease or cooking oil into skillet, then pour all but a tablespoon of hot grease into cornbread mixture, stir. Sprinkle a tablespoon or so of fresh cornmeal into skillet to cover bottom of skillet and up sides. Pour cornbread mixture into skillet. Cook for 18-20 minutes. ENJOY!
You are right, southern cornbread is not sweet. I call sweet cornbread "Yankee" cornbread. My mother always baked hers in an iron skillet and bacon grease was a must have ingredient. Oh for the good old days (of not thinking about choesterol, etc.)