Cornbread Dressing

 

Lets start with the cornbread.  Ma's cornbread recipe. 

We usually make 3 pans of cornbread to go in the dressing.   You can make it several days ahead of time and just put it in a big baggie or you can wrap it in foil.  It wont hurt anything if it is even a little dried out, because then it will reabsorb more of the broth.  We also cook our cornbread in cast iron skillets.   At Ma's house, we use her square pan because "Pie are round... and cornbread are square"  Ask about the joke if you dont understand the punchline.

 

Corn bread recipe

1 1/2 cup of corn meal (ma uses white corn meal if you can find it. Yellow works fine though,)

3 Tbs of flour

1 1/2 teaspoons of Baking POWDER

1teaspoon of salt

1 1/2 cup milk

1 egg

2 Tbs of oil.  (shhhhh dont tell anyone, we usually melt crisco and put it in there.)

 

When I make the cornbread, I melt the crisco in the skillet to grease it then pour it into the mix. 

Bake it in the oven at 425 degrees for 20 to 25 minutes.