Simple Sweet Moist Cornbread -Traditional Recipe or Quick Mix
If crisp fall air and beautifully changing colored leaves remind you of savory bubbling chili on the stove, fall chili reminds me of my Grandmother Mable Landfear’s cornbread. Her traditional recipe from the early 1900s is easy, most, and simple to mix together. When you have a house full of little ones, our favorite box mix will work just as well.
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When my children were little, I would make cornbread from them Krusteaz box mix, as it is sweet flavorful, and very quick to make. The whole family loves cornbread and sometimes I will make this as a side dish for a lot of winter dinners.
I have a vintage recipe from my children’s Great Grandmother Mabel Rennick Landfear. I found the family traditional recipe in my Aunt Lois’s recipe box.
This from-scratch method is from the late 1800s and early 1900s when my grandmother was newly married. Grandmother Mable cooked on an old fashion antique cast iron wood cookstove. She and her new husband Guy Landfear lived in a log cabin in northern Ohio.
As a very small child, I remember seeing the stove in her kitchen and marveling at it. It was the kind that was wood-burning and had black round metal plates that you removed to cook on the stovetop.
My Grandmother Mable also had in the kitchen sink, a hand well pump to pump water into the kitchen. In her day as a new bride having the pump inside in the kitchen would have been a new technology that not every new bride would have had. As I review her recipe I can see her in her mid-calf dress with a hand-sewn apron and putting a pan of freshly mixed cornbread in this old-time stove’s oven.
If you love my Fabulous Fall Chili || Turkey Pumpkin Chili, you have to make this traditional cornbread or the quick box mix from Krusteaz.
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Grandmother Mable Landfear Cornbread (the 1900’s)
Side Dish
Prep 10 mins ∙ Cook 20 mins
Grandmother Mable Landfear’s Cornbread || Vintage or Quick Mix
Light, fluffy, sweet, perfect alone or with a hot bowl of chili.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Category: Side Dish
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
- 1 cup Flour
- 1 cup Corn Meal
- 4 tbsp Baking Powder
- ¼ Shortening Melted
- 1 Egg
- 1 cup Milk
- ½ cup Sugar (I added this as my family likes it a little sweeter)
Instructions
Mix all the ingredients together. Put in an 8×8 pan and cook at 350° for 20 minutes.
Keywords: Corn Bread
My daughter loves some good cornbread! Thanks for sharing #homemattersparty
Thank you so much I hope you have time to make some this weekend.
I love old-fashioned recipes, my grandma left so many amazing ones as well.
I am always on the look out for the old tried and true recipes. Thank you for your kind words.
Cornbread is one of my favorites. And there’s nothing better than a vintage recipe for classics like these. Thanks so much for sharing at the #happynowlinkup!
Thank you for your kind words. I love to try any vintage recipes.