| Total: | 50 min |
| Prep: | 25 min |
| Cook: | 25 min |
| Yield: | 1 (8-inch) round loaf |
Ingredients
- 2 cups stone-ground cornmeal
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/3 cup lard or vegetable shortening
- 2 eggs, lightly beaten
- 1 1/2 to 2 cups buttermilk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
- Combine the cornmeal, sugar, salt, and baking soda in a large mixing bowl. Place the lard in an 8-inch heavy iron skillet, set in oven, and let melt. Meanwhile, mix the eggs lightly into the combined dry ingredients, then stir in just enough buttermilk to make a batter about the consistency of pancake batter.
- Remove skillet from the oven, tilt so that lard greases both the sides and the bottom, and then pour the hot lard into the batter. Stir briskly just to mix.
- Pour batter into the hot skillet and bake in hot oven until firm and lightly browned, about 25 minutes. Serve oven-hot, directly from skillet. The way to eat batter bread is to cut it into wedges as you would a cake, then to split each wedge horizontally and tuck in a lump or two of sweet butter while the bread is still hot enough to melt it.
Nutrition Facts
| Serving Size | 1 of 1 servings |
| Calories | 1830 |
| Total Fat | 89 g |
| Saturated Fat | 23 g |
| Carbohydrates | 221 g |
| Dietary Fiber | 18 g |
| Sugar | 35 g |
| Protein | 45 g |
| Cholesterol | 337 mg |
| Sodium | 1955 mg |
Reviews
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It’s okay. Lets be honest, you have to be raised on this stuff to give it more than three stars. To me putting butter on it ruins the real taste. My choice is not to use the butter but to enjoy the real taste of a corn bread.
I grew up on Virginia batter breaf, made by my grandmother who was born and raised in virginia. Her version was too leave out the sugar, scald the meal with boiling water before cooling with buttermilk and adding eggs. It has a creamier texture than you get if you don’t scald the meal. I look forward to trying this version.
Heaven’s! Am From Virginia! Cut my baby teeth on this bread!Fabulous and stunned no reviews!Its Delicious and if baby/toddler over 2 can have with some Honey.Most of us Will have all the items needed. If not, go and get ’em & try tonight. Takes “two shakes of a Lamb’s tail” to mix and done in a jiffy. Just the Best recipe…