How to Cook Delicious Grandma's Cornbread

Grandma's Cornbread.

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

Ingredients of Grandma's Cornbread

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

Grandma's Cornbread step by step

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..