Aunt Claires Cornbread Recipes

Steps:

• 1. Preheat the oven to 425F. Generously oil a cast iron skillet.
• 2. Mix first 5 ingredients together in a bowl.
• 3. Add the remaining 3 ingredients and mix well. (If you want to add jalapenos, green chile or bacon bits, do so now).
• 4. Pour into the cast iron skillet.
• 5. Bake 20-25 minutes. Remove from oven. Serve each slice with lots of butter!

Steps:

• In an 8 inch skillet add 2 tbsp. bacon grease. Use a paper towel or brush to coat the sides of skillet. Put it into oven and turn on to 350 degrees. Pre-heat for 10 minutes. ( You can cheat and put skillet on top of stove and heat till hot, but not smoking.) Heating the skillet forms a nice crust.
• In a medium bowl combine cornmeal mix, flour and sugar. Mix it up. Now add buttermilk, beaten eggs and oil and stir to mix well.
• Pour into hot skillet. Put into oven and bake 18-20 minutes @ 350 degrees. Do not over-bake as that will make it dry ! Remove from oven and slice into 6 even pieces.
• Serve with a pat of fresh salted butter, if desired. Enjoy !

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
• In a large skillet over medium heat, melt 2 tablespoons of the butter; add the onions and season with salt and pepper, to taste. Cook, stirring often, until light golden, about 6 to 8 minutes and remove from the pan to a small plate. Raise the heat to medium-high and add the water, scraping up the brown bits from the bottom of the skillet and allowing the water to simmer just a couple of minutes to infuse in the onion flavor. Remove from the heat.
• Put the cornbread in a large mixing bowl. Melt the remaining 6 tablespoons butter in a small pan over medium heat and let it bubble until the milk solids to start to turn golden. Add the sage leaves and briefly fry until beginning to crisp, about 30 seconds. With a slotted spoon, remove sage and put on top of cornbread to drain and crisp. Remove the butter from the heat. Add the eggs and cooked onions to the cornbread and pour the browned butter over the mixture. Season with salt and pepper, to taste. Add the onion infused water, a tablespoon at a time, gently folding, until cornbread is evenly moistened but not soggy. Pour the dressing into a 9 by 11-inch baking dish and bake in the preheated oven until the top is golden brown in color and the dressing is set in the middle, about 30 minutes.

Steps:

• Pre-heat oven to 400°F.
• Combine dry ingredients.
• Stir in wet ingredients until combined.
• Pour into 8x8 prepared pan and bake until golden brown, 20-25 minutes or until toothpick pulls clean.

Steps:

• Blanch spinach in boiling water for 3 minutes. Drain. When cool squeeze out excess water,set aside.
• In large dutch oven fill 3/4 full with water. Bring to boil, remove from heat. Add Korean vermicelle to water and set aside for 10 minutes. Drain and rince with cold water. Cut into about 4 inch long pieces.
• Cut onions into 1/8 wedges, separate pieces.
• Slice sirloin tip into strips 2 inches long 1/4 inch thick (partially freeze to make slicing easier).
• Mix soy sauce, pepper,sesame seeds, sesame oil, brown sugar and garlic powder. set aside.
• In large wok or skillet, heat 2 tablespoons of peanut oil (adding more as needed when stir frying) over high heat.
• Stir fry each ingredient seperately- carrots,mushrooms,onions and beef .Add all into very large bowl after stir frying.
• Add vermicielle and spinach to bowl with stir fry ingredients.
• Pour soy sauce mixture over and mix well.
• Serve at room temperature.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F Grease 8-inch square baking pan.
• Combine flour, sugar, corn meal, baking powder and salt in medium bowl. Combine milk, eggs, oil and butter in small bowl and mix well. Add to flour mixture and stir just until blended.
• Pour into baking pan. Bake for 35 minutes or until wooden pick comes out clean.
• For corn muffins, spoon batter into muffin cups 2/3 full. Bake for 18-20 minutes or until wooden pick comes out clean. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pans.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F. Grease an 8 inch square cake pan. Mix the cornmeal,flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl. Add the milk, egg, and shortening or bacon fat, and blend well. Spoon into the pan and bake for about 20 minutes. Cool and cut in squares.