Harolyn’s Bacon Grease Cornbread
“My husband loved cornbread, and I knew how to make it… But not with all the goody ingredients like his mother made for him. So I learned to make good cornbread, and he said one day, ‘Would you show me how to make cornbread, ‘cause I am always coming in, and I’d like to have a pan of cornbread for dessert.’”
“I said, ‘Use a half a cup of flour and a cup of cornmeal. Get your mixing bowl and add 3/4 teaspoon of salt and sugar, and a teaspoon of baking powder, and mix that all in together. Pour your meal can to make it thick enough, and then put an egg in it, and stir it all up. And add a little more milk — maybe another fourth of a cup — but not too runny! You don’t want your cornbread runny ‘cause then it won’t thicken up. We always used a cast iron skillet for the two of us. I would put bacon grease, two or three slices worth, in my cornbread mix…and bake it. Can you remember that recipe? ”
Ingredients:
- ½ cup flour
- 1 cup cornmeal
- ¾ teaspoon salt
- ¾ teaspoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 egg
- 1 cup milk
- Some bacon grease (2–3 slices of bacon fried)
Directions:
- Preheat your oven to 425 degrees.
- Get out your mixing bowl and mix in the dry ingredients (flour, cornmeal, salt, sugar, and baking powder).
- Add in the egg and milk, and stir it up until there are no more lumps. Add more milk if it is too thick, but not much. You want it to run out of the pan but you don’t want it too thin, otherwise it will never thicken in the cast iron.
- Mix in your bacon grease and pour the batter into a 6 inch cast iron skillet.
- Bake for about 20 minutes or until the top is golden brown.
- Enjoy!
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Thanks to Pacifica Senior Living of Santa Fe for letting us meet Harolyn & learn about her delicious cornbread. www.pacificasantafe.com
