Ingredients
1/2 cup cheapo enriched corn meal
1/4 cup real cornmeal**
1 1/4 c AP flour
3 T sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup milk
1 egg
1/4 cup vegetable oil
Directions
Preheat oven to 400 F. Grease a skillet with shortening.
Put greased skillet into oven and get it super hot while you mix the ingredients.
Blend all dry ingredients in medium bowl. Mix in wet ingredients and stir until incorporated. It will be a bit lumpy but it should all be wet.
Pour batter into hot pan and cook for 18 minutes. (Anything over 18 in my cast iron skillet will burn.)
You can tell it’s done when a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
** (For a sweeter, cake like cornbread use all enriched. For “southern” cornbread use 1/2 cup stone milled cornmeal and 1/2 cup enriched.)