Gina's Crusty Cornbread

Name: Gina's Crusty Cornbread
Prep time: 1 h 15 min
Cook time: 1 h 15 min
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Southern
Ingredients: 2 teaspoons baking powder; 6 Tbsps butter, melted and slightly cooled; 2 larges eggs; 473 milliliters all-purpose flour; 473 milliliters finely ground yellow cornmeal; 532 milliliters milk; 2 teaspoons salt; 2 Tbsps sugar; 2 Tbsps rendered bacon fat, butter, shortening or vegetable oil

The recipe Gina's Crusty Cornbread could satisfy your Southern craving in roughly 1 hour and 15 minutes. One serving contains 442 calories, 11g of protein, and 18g of fat. This recipe covers 13% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 8. It is Head to the store and pick up ground cornmeal, milk, sugar, and a few other things to make it today. It works well as a bread.

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Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.

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Put a 10-inch cast iron skillet in the oven and heat it for at least 30 minutes. Meanwhile, prepare the batter.

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Whisk together the flour, cornmeal, sugar, baking powder and salt in a large bowl. In a medium bowl, whisk together the milk, eggs and melted butter.

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Cornmeal

Butter

All Purpose Flour

Sugar

Egg

Milk

Salt

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Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients and pour the wet mixture into the well. Use a fork or spatula to stir the batter until evenly combined.

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Remove the hot skillet from the oven, add the fat and swirl to coat the bottom.

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Pour the batter into the skillet and, using a spatula, spread the batter evenly across the pan.

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Spread

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Bake until lightly golden brown, firm and springy to the touch, about 25 to 30 minutes (see Cook's Note).

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Remove from the oven and serve directly from the skillet, if desired.

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Servings:

2teaspoons

baking powder 6Tbsps

butter, melted and slightly cooled 2larges

eggs 473milliliters

all-purpose flour 473milliliters

finely ground yellow cornmeal 532milliliters

milk 2teaspoons

salt 2Tbsps

sugar 2Tbsps

rendered bacon fat, butter, shortening or vegetable oil

Recommended wine: Riesling, Sparkling Wine, Zinfandel

Riesling, Sparkling Wine, and Zinfandel are my top picks for Southern. In general, there are a few rules that will help you pair wine with southern food. Food-friendly riesling or sparkling white wine will work with many fried foods, while zinfandel is great with barbecued fare. One wine you could try is J.J. Prum Graacher Himmelreich Kabinett Riesling. It has 4.4 out of 5 stars and a bottle costs about 22 dollars.

J.J. Prum Graacher Himmelreich Kabinett Riesling

Despite its still youthful freshness it shows the fine fruity Riesling characteristic and an underlying hint of mineral from the blue/grey Devonian slate soil.Serve this refreshing wine slightly chilled! As aperitif and, especially when more matured, in combination with seafood or poultry.