Mammy’s Corn Bread

Ingredients

• 1 cup sifted white corn meal
• % teaspoon salt
• % teaspoon soda
• % teaspoon baking powder
• 1 egg
• 2 tablespoons oil or melted shortening
• buttermilk

Method

1. 1

   Heat oven to 475 degrees.

2. 2

   Pour oil in pan bread is to be baked in and heat in oven.

3. 3

   To sifted meal add salt, soda, and baking powder.

4. 4

   Pour in enough buttermilk to moisten, stir in whole egg and add hot oil.

5. 5

   Add enough buttermilk to make the mixture the consistency of cake batter.

6. 6

   Pour in pan and bake until brown (about 10 to 15 minutes).

As published

This recipe was extracted from Seafood cookery from Carteret County kitchens (1900) by N.C.) Home Demonstration Clubs (Carteret County, page 32. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

MAMMY’S CORN BREAD | couldn’t make cornbread fit to eat until my mother measured out her ingredients for me. My bread still isn’t as good as hers, but it is very tasty. All cooks in Hyde County heat their pans before adding the corn- bread mixture. This recipe does not call for any flour or (heaven forbid!) sugar. 1 cup sifted white corn meal Y% teaspoon salt (old fashioned water ground) % teaspoon soda Y% teaspoon baking powder 1 egg 2 tablespoons oil or melted buttermilk

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