Corn Bread

• 2 cups home- or stone-ground cornmeal
• 1 tsp. salt

Mix dry ingredients together well. Heat shortening in skillet. (Use a large skillet or two small ones.) Beat eggs really well. Pour buttermilk into beaten eggs. Pour this mixture into dry ingredients and mix well. If necessary, add more buttermilk. Be careful not to make mixture runny. Pour shortening in this batter. Beat hell out of it.

Pour back into hot skillet. Bake in 400-degree ov