Recipe: Perfect Grandma's Cornbread

Grandma's Cornbread.

You can cook Grandma's Cornbread using 13 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Grandma's Cornbread

1. You need of ap flour.
2. It's of yellow cornmeal.
3. You need of granulated sugar.
4. You need of baking powder.
5. You need of salt.
6. Prepare of lg eggs.
7. Prepare of milk.
8. Prepare of melted unsalted butter.
9. You need of vegatable shortening.
10. You need of diced green chilies (optional).
11. It's of a medium onion, diced (optional).
12. Prepare of corn without the liquid (optional).
13. It's of All of the optional ingredients can be added for fully loaded cornbread. :).

Grandma's Cornbread instructions

1. Heat up your oven to 400F..
2. Add the shortening to a 8" cast iron skillet and place in the oven to preheat..
3. In a bowl, mix together all the dry ingredients..
4. In a separate small bowl whisk together the milk and butter..
5. Add the eggs to the milk mixture and whisk until blended..
6. Add the wet to the dry and mix..
7. Remove the skillet from the oven and using a paper towel spread the now hot liquid shortening up the sides and all over the bottom of the skillet..
8. Pour the batter in to the hot skillet..
9. Place the skillet in the oven (center rack) and bake for 25 - 30 minutes until the top is lightly golden and a toothpick comes out clean when inserted into the center of the corn bread..
10. Cool on a wire rack.
11. Serve.
12. Enjoy!.
13. It goes well with soups and stews..
14. I also enjoy it for breakfast with my eggs..