Introduction
- By: Confuzius
- Cuisine: American
This recipe is from the Old Grist Mill Restaurant in Kennebunkport, Maine. As the story goes it was my aunt's 16th birthday and they went to the restaurant for lunch.
My aunt mentioned that it was her birthday and all she wanted was the recipe for the Johnny Cakes. After some pleading and some 16 year old doe eyes the waiter went to get the chef, who eventually came back with this hand written on an index card. (This would have been the late 60's or early 70's, I'm not sure exactly how old my aunt is...)
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup cornmeal
- 1 cup flour
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 3 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 cup milk
- 1 egg, beaten
- 2 tbsp oil
- 1/2 cup frozen corn niblets (thawed)
Method
- Preheat Oven to 350°f
- Combine cornmeal, flour, sugar,baking powder and salt.
- Mix milk, *** and oil together.
- Add to dry ingredients and beat together until smooth.
- Add corn.
- Pour into a well greased 8"x8" cake pan or 9x5 loaf pan.
- Bake at 350°f for 20 minutes or until knife inserted comes out clean.
In my opinion this is some damn tasty cornbread, but I expect that cornbread is one of those things that can be pretty divisive in nature and preferences, I'd like to see some other recipes if anyone has one that they think takes the cake.
