Fun with Carbs - Batter Bread

Tom is back in town for a while which means he cooks.  Well he decided to play a nice game with me in the food store the other day.  He came up and asked me if I would like grits or cornbread with dinner.  Without thinking I said cornbread and without hestitation he says "great you're making it".  At that point I couldn't take it back :-(.  Cornbread is something I have not tackled yet so I had to start looking up recipes.  We found a few options and made sure we had ingredients.  

When we got home we actually looked on the back of the Beattie's corn meal and found a recipe for batter bread.  Tom thought it would work and I went to work.  

I followed the recipe as directed due to my inexperience with batter bread.  

Ingredients

2 cups boiling water

2 eggs

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 1/2 cups corn meal

1 cup buttermilk

1 tsp salt

Directions

Preheat oven to 450 degrees.

Beat eggs, add buttermilk, then sift into corn meal, baking powder, and salt.  Mix well add boiling water.  

Pour batter into well greased 7 inch Pyrex dish and bake 20 to 25 mins.

When the bread came out we were somewhat concerned it was a bit soft.  However, it sat for a bit prior to dinner and when we served a slice underneath porkchops, mushrooms, with greens it was a great addition to the meal.