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Puritan Cornbread

Name: Puritan Cornbread
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 25 min
Yield: 8 servings
Ingredients: 1 cup cornmeal; 1 cup flour; 1/4 cup sugar; 2 tsp baking powder; 1/2 tsp salt; 1 cup milk; 1/4 cup vegetable oil; 2 eggs

This cornbread recipe connects to the early chapters of 'North Woods' where the first settlers, fleeing their Puritan colony, would have relied on simple, hearty meals to sustain them in the New England wilderness.

Prep: 15 minutesCook: 25 minutesServes 8 servingsEasy

Ingredients

1 cup cornmeal
1 cup flour
1/4 cup sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup milk
1/4 cup vegetable oil
2 eggs

Instructions

1
Preheat oven to 400°F.
2
Mix dry ingredients in a bowl.
3
In a separate bowl, whisk milk, oil, and eggs.
4
Combine wet and dry ingredients and stir until smooth.
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