Arkansas Cornbread
2 cups yellow cornmeal
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt (I'm on a salt free diet and leave it out, doesn't
affect the cornbread)
2 cups buttermilk
2 eggs well beaten.
Stir the dry ingredients together eliminating any lumps in the soda.
Beat the two eggs well and add the buttermilk and eggs to the dry
ingredients.
Heat the oven to 425F, take a 10 or 12 inch cast iron skillet add a
tablespoon of oil, put in the oven as it's heating. When oven is ready
pour the cornbread mix into the skillet and then bake for 20 minutes or
until a toothpick inserted into the middle of the pone comes out dry.
When I was a kid and Dad was on strike we ate this with milk over it and
often with beans and sausage over it. My wife likes it plain with
molasses and sometimes with jelly. No wheat in it and it makes really
good dressing.
George
I have a cast iron corn stick "pan". I'll bet this would work well with
it!
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I have one too, and it does work well with the recipe. Personally I like
corn sticks but for some reason my Yanqui wife doesn't. Even after 46
years married to a Southroner she still doesn't like them. I make them
for me and then eat them up over a few days. <VBG>
George
> Is there no flour in Arkansas cornbread?
No, nor in most good Southern style cornbread.
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> Is there no flour in Arkansas cornbread?
No. Nor any sugar. Use bacon grease for the oil, if you have it. Put the
grease in the cast-iron skillet, and put that in the oven until it's
almost smoking. Pull it out, give the batter its final stir, pour it in
the pan, and pop the pan back in the oven.
Now I'm hungry.
Isaac
> Is there no flour in Arkansas cornbread?
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In the recipe I posted for Arkansas cornbread there is NO flour. That's
the point, it's real cornbread, not that cake mix stuff a lot of people
eat. Try it, it tastes good.
George
And cook it in a cast iron skillet, too.
T.
This is pretty much my recipe. No flour and no sugar. I use more oil
in the skillet and stir the excess oil into the mix before pouring
into the skillet. In Arkansas I could get Lamb's stone ground meal
that had a medium grind, and here in Florida I can only get find grind
cornmeal, because what they make in this part of the country is more
like corn flavored cake with fine grind meal, flour, and sugar.
If you're an Arky, check out my website
George
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Our kids have decided that Christmas is the special time they want to
share with us... so their thanksgiving is a weekend affair spent with
the "other side" of their family. That's ok with us. We share our
thanksgiving with friends and other relatives.
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