Ye Ole Cornbread Recipe

Some basic recipes have variation upon variation, so many that it can be hard to find just the basic recipe!  Pancakes?  Biscuits?  Cornbread?  From scratch rather than using a "baking mix"?  Well, if you don't happen to have a basic cornbread recipe in your collection, let's remedy that right now.  Sometimes the best recipes come from the back of the ingredient package!  This one came from a Kroger cornmeal package years ago.

QUICK CORNBREAD

3/4 cup cornmeal
1 1/4 flour
1/4 cup sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup milk
1 egg
1/4 cup vegetable oil
Butter, honey (optional)

Preheat oven to 400*.  Grease either a round or square pan or 12 muffin cups.

In a large bowl, blend all dry ingredients together.  In another bowl, whisk together milk, egg, and vegetable oil.  Pour wet ingredients into dry and stir until moistened.  Pour batter into prepared pan.  Bake 20-25 minutes or until it passes the toothpick test.  You can also tell it's done when the edges are browned and the top has cracked a bit.  Serve with butter and honey!