Momma’s Cornbread Recipe

[wacojoe]

Cornbread

We never put sugar in corn bread and you always bake it in a well-seasoned iron skillet. White corn meal is much better too. Great covered in beans. I suppose one could put jalapeños or corn in it too, but why?


1 1/2 cup white corn meal (must be fine grind WHITE corn meal - Aunt Jemima brand is perfect)
1/3 cup all-purpose flour
2 extra-large eggs
1 3/4 cup buttermilk
1/2 t. baking soda
1T. baking powder
1t. salt
2 T. bacon fat

Mix the dry ingredients throughly, then mix the wet ingredients in stirring as little as possible to get a thorough mix, but lightly adding the warm bacon fat from a heated 10” cast iron skillet at the end. Pour the mix in the skillet which has been rewarmed to hot and bake ~25 minutes in a 450 degree oven checking for light brown color. Remove upside down onto a plate with paper towels and slice in two to let steam escape.

[Truckman]

My Mom always used Aunt Jemima white herself...Her Mama ground her own corn out of the field behind the farmhouse...Her beans came right out of her garden......Ben

[wacojoe]

I had no trouble finding Aunt Jemima White in the Houston area, but cannot find it here in San Antonio. I find it in some of the markets in small surrounding towns now. Pioneer brand flour has some available here, but it just does not come out the same.

[Truckman]

Try Amazon, Joe......Ben

[wacojoe]

Try Amazon, Joe......Ben

I did, but the quantities on their buys are too great. I don’t have enough freezer space available, plus none are shipping-free prime.

[Truckman]

...none are shipping-free prime.

I notice a few marked "shipping free" (actually shipping included since nothing in life is free)...I don't pay for Prime, but I always wait until I hit the $25 threshold before I order...I never pay for shipping, and rarely pay sales tax...I'm cheap and I know it......Ben

[Phillbo]

Anyone have a good recipe for Hush puppies? My grandma took hers to the grave with her.

[Honda]

Aunt Jemima is absolutely the best. The stores around here quit carrying it. They said some customers were offended by it.

[Phillbo]

People are too easily offended these days.......

[wacojoe]

I’m offended by the offended. Is that offensive?

[Truckman]

I’m offended by the offended. Is that offensive?

I thought the best defense was supposed to be a good offense......Ben

[Honda]

Stuff like this is probably why I can't buy it anymore. Hell rebrand it and call it "the best damn corn meal in the world" I don't care I just wish I could get it.

https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebat...of-aunt-jemima

[wacojoe]

I don’t think umbrage over an image on a package has anything to do with its rarity around here. Aunt Jemima yellow cornmeal is still on the shelves but no AJ white cornmeal and my requests to stock it have been turned down. I never got a reason why the difference, and I would guess customers just do not know white is better in some uses than yellow and there is not a customer base for it except my local stores often carry Pioneer white cornmeal next to Aunt Jemima yellow cornmeal.

[Blue74]

Going to have to look for AJ white, love cornbread under a bowl of Anasazi beans. Some butter on it and fresh diced sweet onions.

[wacojoe]

Yellow works O.K. in the recipe, but the texture is grittier. I’ve seen recipes pretty much the same except yellow cornmeal to flour is cup each and the buttermilk increased to 2 cups. Should be O.K., but I have never experimented because I love our family one above. Browned butter instead of bacon fat is said to work well too.