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usadeepsouth.com Southern Buttermilk Cornbread by Paula Tillery [Note from Ye Editor: For great collard greens to accompany this delicious cornbread, go to this USADS article: Cookin' Them Collards by Jane Riley.] Paula Tillery writes to USADEEPSOUTH: I noticed on your web site that you don't have a good cornbread recipe. Beans and collards ain't no good without a pan of cornpone to go with it. Here's my Momma's recipe that I make for our family. SOUTHERN BUTTERMILK CORNBREAD 2 cups white corn meal 3/4 cup self rising flour 1/4 cup sugar 1 cup buttermilk (more or less, batter should be thick) 1 tablespoon bacon drippings Mix dry ingredients together in a large bowl. Add buttermilk and mix by hand until all dry ingredients are wet. If batter looks too thick, add a little more buttermilk. Heat 1 tablespoon of bacon drippings in a cast iron skillet. Coat sides of skillet with grease. Pour remaining drippings into batter and mix well. Pour batter into hot cast iron skillet. Bake in a 450 degree oven for 30 minutes. Allow cornbread to cool before removing from skillet. Serve with butter, greens or dry beans and you've got yourself a meal! Need a recipe for scrumptious greens? Click here: Jane Riley's collard greens _____________________________________ Paula writes: "I am a 51 year old library assistant and returning college student from Birmingham, Alabama. I have worked at Samford University's Lucille Stewart Beeson Law Library for 17 years. If I don't finish my degree soon it looks as if I will become a professional student. Due to serious family illnesses I had to put off my college education. I started back again in May of 2002. I may be a blue-haired geriatric by the time I finish but I am persevering." Write Paula at ppt1150. _____________________________________ Want to leave a comment on Paula's recipe? Please visit our Message Board or write Ye Editor at bethjacks@hotmail.com. Got another great cornbread recipe? Send it to us at Ye Editor's address above! Back to USADEEPSOUTH - I index page Back to USADEEPSOUTH - II index page