Southern Pride Sweet Cornbread

"Long before Boston Market cornered the market on cornbread, the women in my family were making up a darn good corn bread themselves. Every BBQ or potluck this cornbread was in demand. I finally handed one of my aunties a measuring cup (you know they never measure anything) and learned how to make it. It really does resemble the taste of Boston Market, almost could be a dessert with that sweet taste of honey and some butter on top..."
 
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Ready In:
50mins
Ingredients:
10
Serves:
12
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ingredients

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directions

  • Grease a 9x13 inch baking pan with shortening.
  • Preheat oven to 375°F.
  • Mix sugar, butter, eggs, milk, honey and water together in a large bowl.
  • Mix dry ingredients together in a separate bowl: cornmeal, flour,baking powder, and salt.
  • While stirring, add dry ingredients to sugar, egg, and milk mixture and mix thoroughly.
  • Mixture will be slightly lumpy.
  • Pour into greased rectangular pan.
  • Bake for 25-30 minutes or until golden brown on top.
  • Serve with butter.

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Reviews

  1. We have tried many cornbread recipes and always seem disappointed. This recipe is a KEEPER! YUM YUM! I was leary about the large amount of salt and baking powder and about the lumps in the batter after mixing. BUT, everything worked out beautifully! I made 22 muffins, cooked for 13 minutes at 375. We used a course ground yellow cornmeal. This is fantastic! Thank you!
     
  2. Wow! These are so delicious -- and they came out nice and moist, not dry like a lot of other cornbread recipes I've tried. They cut into squares nicely too, not a lot of crumbs all over. The whole family loved this cornbread. I'll definitely be making it again!
     
  3. Great! Used 3/4 cup of sugar and they were perfect! Also, used half white corn meal and half yellow. Thanks!
     
  4. Dinner for 9... Everyone loved them!!!! End of story! (The only changes I made was: I used 1cup sugar instead of 1 1/4cups and put them in muffin tins and baked for 15 minutes.)
     
  5. I am giving 5 stars because it is the perfect texture and moistness for me, I prefer my cornbread a little sweet but I thought this my be too sweet for me so I cut the sugar to 1 cup and no honey and I used buttermilk in place of the milk and water and I love it, everything else I followed exactly. I will continue to make this from now on, thanks!
     
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  1. I am giving 5 stars because it is the perfect texture and moistness for me, I prefer my cornbread a little sweet but I thought this my be too sweet for me so I cut the sugar to 1 cup and no honey and I used buttermilk in place of the milk and water and I love it, everything else I followed exactly. I will continue to make this from now on, thanks!
     
  2. We like chunks of corn in our bread so I subbed a can of cream corn for the water and it came out perfect. Very moist and sweet, just the way we like it. Thanks!
     
  3. I enjoyed my version of this modified as follows: 1/2 c honey 1/4 c sugar 3 T butter 1 small can corn 2 green onions, chopped. Otherwise I left everything the same and it turned out great. It was nice and moist and didn't over-brown on the bottom or top like so many other recipes.In the future I might dice green pimento-stuffed olives and/or caramelized onion and/or bacon (and replace the butter with bacon fat I wanted it sweet-but-not-too-sweet since the people I'm serving it to are eager to minimize the sugar in their lives.
     

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I?m ?originally from Texas, but now live in Florida. Still gotta have that spice though....love chipotle peppers, habaneros, and jalapenos. This is a picture of myself & my 2 daughters taken in Dec'06. I am working on my graduate degree, & still work as a nurse prn. When I'm not cooking and eating what I cook... I head for the gym to work out. As far as cookbooks, I love the church/ community cookbooks, where someone has dug out old handwritten recipes by granny and shared them with others-those are the best kind. If I had a month off, I'd for sure go hiking, would love to visit Australia and New Zealand.?
 
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