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Cracklin corn bread is made with cracklings, which are bits of roasted pork skins. You can make your own, or you may be able to find them at small Mom & Pop groceries.
1 1/2 cup white cornmeal
1/4 cup oil or bacon drippings
1/2 cup flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 to [...]
The story goes that folks frying fish would drop bits of corn meal into the hot oil and throw them to the hound dogs to keep them quiet and away from the kettle of fish. A true Southern delicacy.
2 cups self-rising cornmeal
2 cups self-rising flour
1 1/2 teaspoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1 large onion [...]
2 eggs
1 cup milk
1 tablespoon lemon juice
2 tablespoons grated lemon peel
1/4 cup canola oil
2 cups flour
1/4 cup sugar
2 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
2 tablespoons poppy seeds
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
In a 1 1/2 quart bowl, using a large spoon, stir together eggs, milk, lemon juice, grated lemon peel and oil until well blended. [...]
These light, airy biscuits are a real treat.
1 cup cake flour
1 cup all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons cream of tartar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
8 tablespoons unsalted butter, chilled, cut in 1/4″ cubes
3/4 cup half and half
Pre-heat oven to to 400 degrees.
Sift together cake flour, all-purpose flour, cream of
tartar, baking soda, and salt.
Using a pastry blender [...]
Sweet potato biscuits are another gift to Southern cooking from African Americans. The recipes go back to before the Civil War; during the wartime food shortages, they became familiar to all southerners as the sweet potatoes were used to stretch out flour, which was scarce in the last years of the war.
The biscuits are [...]
These traditional Southern biscuits date back to the days before baking powder and baking soda were available. Pearlash, which was used as the main leavener at the time, gave biscuits a bitter taste. Cooks found that by pounding and folding unleavened biscuit dough enough times, tiny air pockets formed in the dough and leavened it.
When [...]
You heard Granny talk about it, now make your own!
3 cups cornmeal
3 tablespoons lard or vegetable shortening
2 1/2 cups boiling water
3 teaspoons salt
Melt lard in 10 inch cast iron skillet and swirl to coat. Pour remaining fat into other ingredients and mix. Bake at 350¼ F for 45- 50 min. or until golden brown. [...]
1 cup stone-ground yellow cornmeal
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup boiling water
2 tablespoons butter
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Combine cornmeal and salt in medium bowl. Pour boiling water into dry ingredients and stir well.
Add butter and beat until mixed well. Pour mixture into greased, pre-heated 10 inch cast iron skillet. Bake 20 [...]
Quick Cornbread
2 cups self-rising cornmeal
1 egg
2 cups buttermilk
1/4 cup shortening
Mix until just moist. Pour mixture into a hot 10†cast iron skillet and bake at 400º for 20-25 minutes or until browned.
© 2000 Rick McDaniel
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3 very ripe bananas, mashed
1 cube butter, softened
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 c flour
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 cup chopped walnuts
Butter and lightly flour1 loaf pan. Combine bananas, sugar, eggs, and butter: mix well. Sift together flour, soda and salt. Add to banana mixture and mix until well blended. Add walnuts. Bake at 350 for [...]
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