Recipe - Cornbread (Four Great Southern Cooks)

Bacon drippings
2 cup White cornmeal
One half cup Flour
1 teaspoon Salt
1 teaspoon Sugar
2 One half teaspoon Baking powder
1 Egg, , beaten
4 tablespoon Shortening, , melted
2 cup Milk

Preheat oven to 400 Deg. F. Grease a cast iron skillet with bacon drippings
and place in the oven.

Sift the cornmeal, flour, salt, sugar and baking powder together in a
mixing bowl. Add the beaten egg, melted butter and melted shortening. Stir
in the milk and mix well. Pour the mixture into the piping hot skillet and
bake at 400 Deg. F for 45 minutes, or until lightly browned on top. Serve
immediately with butter.

Typed by Carolyn Cloe

Recipe by: Ruth Jenkins Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #530 by robin carr
robin@hemi.com on Mar 21, 1997