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Best Cornbread

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Ingredients
  

  • 2 eggs beaten
  • 1 ¼ c milk
  • ¼ c shortening or bacon fat melted
  • 1 ½ c yellow cornmeal
  • ¾ c all-purpose flour
  • 2 T sugar
  • 2 ¼ tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp salt

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 400° F.
  • Combine eggs, milk and shortening.
  • Sift together remaining ingredients and add to egg mixture; stir only until blended.
  • Place pan in oven, greased with extra shortening or bacon fat. (For best results use iron pan)
  • When pan is hot, pour mixture into pan.
  • Bake at 400° F for 20-25 minutes or until bread shrinks slightly from sides of pan and begins to brown on the edges.