Recipe: Tasty Dawn's southern cornbread

Dawn's southern cornbread. This savory cornbread recipe, or "Southern Cornbread," will teach you how to make cornbread with bacon drippings and then bake in a hot iron skillet. NOTE: IMNSHO- cornbread isn't worth making if you don't make it in a cast-iron skillet. It may just be my upbringing, but it tastes better somehow.

There's nothing better than Southern cornbread made in your own skillet. Our Southern Skillet Cornbread recipe is so good, your friends and family. Southern Cornbread is different than the cornbread you find in most restaurants. You can cook Dawn's southern cornbread using 5 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Dawn's southern cornbread

1. It's 2 cup of Self rising buttermilk corn meal.
2. You need 1 large of Egg.
3. It's 1 1/3 cup of Milk.
4. It's 1/4 cup of Vegetable oil or bacon grease.
5. It's 2 tbsp of Bacon grease.

This cornbread is not sweet, it is distinctly corn flavored and generally used in stuffing recipes. This classic southern cornbread recipe is slightly sweet and far from dry. True southerners will curse you for adding sugar to cornbread, ha! I guess I'm not a true southerner.

Dawn's southern cornbread step by step

1. preheat oven to 450°, put 2 tbsp bacon grease in a 8 to 9 inch cast iron skillet, while preheating oven melt bacon grease..
2. Beat egg in a medium bowl. Stir in milk, oil and cornmeal mix until smooth. Batter should be creamy and pourable, if too thick, add 1 to 2 tbsp of milk and pour into the prepared skillet or pan..
3. bake 20 to 25 minutes or until golden brown or a toothpick comes out clean from the center.
4. Let cool for about 5 minutes and place on your dish. Cut into and enjoy.

Hoe cakes, corn pone, spoon bread, hush puppies, corn sticks, muffins and corn dodgers are some of the many ways Southerners have Southern-style cornbread rarely contains sugar, though some. Southern Cornbread Recipe - Cornbread makes a classic Southern side dish. In my family, there is only one. Southern Cornbread Dressing is deliciously moist and wonderfully seasoned with sage, onions, and celery. It's a classic that makes it to the Thanksgiving table year after year.