Magic Dust: Baking Cornbread

Estimated Time: 30 minutes

Billy's mama makes cornbread for the family. Old-fashioned cornbread is tasty and filling. Let's learn how to make it. For this project you will need:

  • 3 cups cornmeal
  • 1 1/2 cups buttermilk
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2-3 Tbsp oil or butter

Follow the instructions in this article:

Kids' Kitchen: Old-Fashioned Cornbread

We just finished reading Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls. It was such a great book about a boy growing up in the Ozark Mountains in the 1930s. His mother cooked some of the meals I grew up on in rural Tennessee.

How did your cornbread taste? Did you like the taste? Was it different from cornbread you have had before?

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