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My SoCal Aunty's Buddhist Cornbread
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A great shortcut recipe for cornbread that is buttery, crumbly, and still holds its texture.
Great to eat plain, good friends with chili, and it is what we use for cornbread stuffing.
Great to eat plain, good friends with chili, and it is what we use for cornbread stuffing.
Ingredients
2 cups Bisquick
½ cup yellow cornmeal ½ cup sugar ½t baking powder |
1 stick (½ cup) melted butter
2 eggs, beaten 1 cup milk |
What To Do
To prep, set out two mixing bowls and one small microwave-safe bowl. Pre-heat oven to 350°F.
In one of the mixing bowls, whisk together Bisquick, cornmeal, sugar and baking powder, getting most of the Bisquick lumps out. Melt butter in the small microwave-safe bowl and set aside. Mix eggs and milk together in the last mixing bowl. Add melted butter to eggs and milk. It will clump up a little, don't worry.
Whisk dry stuff into the milk/egg/butter and mix well. Because of the cornmeal, it will be a little gritty-looking. Pour into an 8 x 8 inch pan.
Bake at 350°F for about 30 minutes, or golden and a toothpick jabbed into the middle comes out cleanly.
In one of the mixing bowls, whisk together Bisquick, cornmeal, sugar and baking powder, getting most of the Bisquick lumps out. Melt butter in the small microwave-safe bowl and set aside. Mix eggs and milk together in the last mixing bowl. Add melted butter to eggs and milk. It will clump up a little, don't worry.
Whisk dry stuff into the milk/egg/butter and mix well. Because of the cornmeal, it will be a little gritty-looking. Pour into an 8 x 8 inch pan.
Bake at 350°F for about 30 minutes, or golden and a toothpick jabbed into the middle comes out cleanly.
Notes and Talking Story
- A word on the recipe's provenance. The recipe comes via my Aunty who lives in SoCal (Southern California). Hence, my SoCal Aunty.
- She sent me her Buddhist church's annual cookbook, where I found this recipe. So really the only thing Buddhist about it is that is from a cookbook produced by a Buddhist church. But it does clarify how this recipe came to be.
- It is also important that you use baking POWDER and not baking SODA. Trust us on this one. We accidentally used baking soda once, and it produced a flat, salty block of inedible.