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Southern-Style Skillet Cornbread

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  • Serves

    6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
America's Best Chefs Cook with Jeremiah Tower

By Jeremiah Tower

Published 2003

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To go all the way Southern style, one can make “cracklin’ bread,” a cornbread into which the “cracklins” or crunchy bits of pork left over in the rendering pots are mixed into the batter. Here I use rendered bacon fat.

You can use white or yellow cornmeal, but by all means choose the best quality stone-ground meal available.

Ingredients

  • ¼ cup rendered bacon fat
  • cups white or yellow stone-ground cornmeal

Method

Preheat the oven to 425°F. Put the bacon fat in a seasoned cast-iron skillet and place the pan in the oven to heat while you make the batter.

Put the cornmeal, flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a mixing bowl. Mix the egg, butter, and buttermilk in a separate

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