southern cornbread recipe
Cornbread is good ole southern food! While some southern cooks use all cornmeal for their cornbread, I find that adding some flour to the mixture gives the bread a better texture. For a crusty exterior, bake your cornbread in a black iron skillet. You’ll get the best crust by heating the skillet with oil before baking the cornbread in the oven. The quickest way to do this is to add ¼ cup of corn oil to the pan and heat it over medium-high heat until the pan is very hot. Tilt the skillet to get oil on sides.
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stuffed zucchini
Among my southern food explorations some years ago, I began making zucchini boats. These are zucchinis that have been hollowed out and filled with a savory mixture. I’ve used a variety of stuffings, sometimes including ground sausage. The following is one of my favorites for the zucchini filling.
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Pound cake is pretty much a southern desserts staple, and most everyone makes it a little differently. Most pound cake recipes produce a dense, heavy cake, but a few create a lighter cake. Of course, pound cakes come in a variety of flavors, too. This one is a lemon pound cake recipe.
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An awesome part of Southern cooking!
A favorite Southern food, the Low Country Boil originated along the coasts of South Carolina and Georgia. It’s a great way to entertain guests, and it’s super easy! Everything is cooked outdoors in a gas cooker – all in one pot. Not only is a Low County Boil delicious, but it’s also fun and extremely casual, and cleaning up afterwards is a snap.
Southern food includes lots of biscuit recipes!
Biscuits and Southern food go hand in hand, and every Southern cook worth her salt has her own biscuit recipes. My favorite basic biscuit concoction is for Southern buttermilk biscuits. The buttermilk gives the dough a rich, wonderful flavor. You can use whole milk instead, but in my opinion, the biscuits won’t be nearly as good. Also, most Southerners prefer using White Lily flour for their biscuits, but if you can’t find this brand in your local area, substitute another brand. Another biscuit secret you might be interested in is to store the flour in the freezer.
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Welcome back to my online cooking school, y’all! I’ve had requests for online cooking classes about southern desserts, so today’s pastry is a wonderful dessert called “bourbon pecan pie.”
We have loads of pecans here in the Deep South, and they usually play a big part in Southern cooking. The orchards are everywhere, and many folks have a tree or two in their yard. My youngest daughter brought me a big bag of cracked pecans recently, and I picked out the nut meats at night in front of the TV. I gotta tell ya – I got to the point where I was sick of looking at pecans! I actually ended up treating the squirrels to a few. I put gallons of pecan meats in the freezer, and I made all kinds of goodies with the nuts. First of all, however, I had to make some traditional pecan pies to go with our Thanksgiving desserts. Here in the South, it just ain’t Thanksgiving without a pecan pie or two…or four!
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South Georgia is dotted everywhere with farm ponds and lakes. We also have lots of creeks and streams, and we’re not too far from the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. Fishing is a favorite pastime here, and folks often get together for fish fries. You know, someone catches a bunch of fish, invites friends and neighbors over, and fries the fish outdoors with a gas cooker.
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Long before the hit movie and play, Fried Green Tomatoes, came out, there were a lot of folks who had never heard of fried green tomatoes! Here in the Deep South, however, it’s been a favorite of Southern food for a long, long time, so I had to include it in my online cooking classes. We Southerners usually have a plethora of tomatoes from our gardens, and we’ve had to come up with all kinds of ways to eat them.
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Country fried steak is a real comfort food, Southern style! We love it with rice or mashed potatoes – both slathered in rich gravy. I don’t cook it often because it’s not exactly the healthiest dish in the world, but it sure has to be one of the best examples of Southern cooking!
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- 2 cups flour
- 4 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 2 tablespoons shortening
- 1 cup buttermilk, chilled
This is one of my favorite biscuit recipes. Be sure not to knead the dough too much – less is better in this case. It may be a little lumpy, but that is all to the good. Hmm hmm – serve this with sausage gravy and fried eggs for an early but happy heart attack.
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