Recipe: Appetizing Southern Skillet Cornbread

Southern Skillet Cornbread.

You can cook Southern Skillet Cornbread using 10 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Southern Skillet Cornbread

1. It's of butter.
2. Prepare of eggs.
3. You need of buttermilk.
4. Prepare of yellow cornmeal.
5. Prepare of flour.
6. It's of baking powder.
7. Prepare of baking soda.
8. It's of kosher salt.
9. Prepare of granulated sugar (or 1-2 tbsp molasses).
10. It's of high-smokepoint fat, like bacon grease or canola oil.

Southern Skillet Cornbread instructions

1. Preheat oven to 425°F. Add fat to a 10-in cast iron skillet and put into the oven while preheating..
2. Melt butter and set aside to cool..
3. Beat eggs. Whisk in buttermilk. Slowly stream in butter while whisking. Add molasses, if desired..
4. In a medium bowl, combine all dry ingredients (cornmeal, flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and sugar). Add wet ingredients and whisk thoroughly..
5. Remove cast iron from oven when it reaches temp. Rotate/twist to ensure even coating of grease..
6. Quickly add batter to center of pan (it will bubble and sizzle a LOT!). Gently spread out if needed (don't scrape the pan)..
7. Bake for 25-35 minutes until deeply browned and pulling away from the sides. Cool 15 minutes in the pan. Serve while still warm, with butter and honey..
8. The original recipe, from my spouse's great grandma..