Recipes

In a large bowl, thoroughly mix all dry ingredients.

To package in jars: Wash, rinse and dry canning jars, lids and bands.

Packaging note: pre-mix ingredients thoroughly before filling

wide-mouth pint canning jars with 2 cups each of the finished mix. Mixing ingredients permits the finer flour granules to fill spaces between the cornmeal, and allows a single recipe to fit inside a pint jar. Layering ingredients for this recipe will require larger jars.

Place two cups Texas cornbread mix in each wide-mouth pint canning jar.

Cut twelve 7-inch circles from cotton fabric. Top each jar with fabric circle, and tie with ribbon.

Makes 12 gift jars.

Recipe Instructions (included on gift tag):

1 container (2 cups) Texas Cornbread Mix

1 egg

1 cup milk

1/4 cup soft shortening (Crisco)

Preheat oven to 425F. Grease one 8-inch square pan, or 8-inch cast iron skillet, or cast iron cornbread mold.

Place cornbread mix into bowl, mix thoroughly. Add egg, milk and shortening. Hand-beat until smooth, about one minute. DO NOT OVERBEAT!

Bake for 20 to 25 minutes for pan or skillet, 15 to 20 minutes for cornbread mold.