Breads, Rolls & Crusts

Easy Southern Cornbread

A tried-and-true family favorite from Becky's own recipe collection. Here's everything you need to make Easy Southern Cornbread at home.

Easy Southern Cornbread

Easy Southern Cornbread

Makes 9 servings · ~255 calories per serving (estimated) · 11 min prep · 38 min cook

Ingredients

  • 1 cup yellow cornmeal (non self-rising)
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tbsp baking powder
  • 1 cup buttermilk
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2 tbsp oil (or a non-stick spray)
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 cup oil

Instructions

  1. Dump all ingredients together.
  2. Heat oven to 375°.
  3. Bake 35–40 mins.

From Becky’s handwritten notebook

Every recipe on this site started the same way — written by hand in Becky’s spiral kitchen notebook, usually with a dinner bubbling on the stove nearby. Here’s the original page this recipe was typed up from, smudges and all:

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Becky's handwritten Easy Southern Cornbread recipe — notebook page 1

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