1926 Molasses Cornbread - Old Fashioned Cornbread Recipe - Old Cookbook Show

1926 Molasses Cornbread - Old Fashioned Cornbread Recipe - Old Cookbook Show

MOLASSES CORN BREAD
1/4 cupful melted lard
1/2 cupful molasses
1 egg
3/4 cupful sour milk
1 level teaspoonful soda
1 cupful four
1/2 cupful corn meal

Mix the melted lard and molasses, then add the well beaten egg and the milk in which the soda has been dissolved.
Beat well together, then add flour, corn meal and salt, and beat until thoroughly blended.
Bake in a shallow tin in a hot oven, and serve hot.
Or, the mixture may be baked in muffin tins, and half a cupful of raisins or chopped raw prunes added just before baking.