Ingredients:
- 2 cups of cornmeal (yellow or white)
- ½ cup sifted flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 egg lightly beaten
- 2 cups buttermilk
- 2 tablespoons bacon drippings or vegetable oil
Method:
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
- Put the drippings or oil in a cast iron skillet and place it in the oven for a few minutes until it's sizzling.
- Mix together dry ingredients. Set aside.
- Whisk egg and buttermilk. Mix with dry ingredients
- Take cast iron skillet out of oven, and pour hot oil into batter, and mix.
- Pour batter into cast iron skillet, bake in oven for 20 minutes. Cornbread should be brown on top and pulling away from the sides of the skillet.
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