Bread Recipe ★ Irish Spicy Cornbread

A nice mildly spicy cornbread recipe. Great with chili. You may want to adjust the amount of cayenne and hot sauce to taste. For this recipe I use cast iron pans that have 5 small corn cob shapes in them, but any cast iron frying pan will do.

Ingredients

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup yellow cornmeal
• ⅓ cup white sugar
• 4 ½ teaspoons baking powder
• 1 ½ teaspoons salt
• 1 ½ teaspoons cayenne pepper
• ½ cup shortening
• 1 ½ cups milk
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 4 ½ teaspoons hot pepper sauce

Cooking Directions

1. Preheat oven and skillet to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
2. In a large bowl, mix together flour, cornmeal, sugar, baking powder, salt, and cayenne pepper. Cut in shortening until the mixture resembles coarse bread crumbs. In a small bowl, beat together milk, eggs and hot pepper sauce. Stir milk mixture into the flour/cornmeal mixture until just blended. Remove hot skillet from oven, spray with non-stick cooking spray and pour batter into skillet.
3. Bake in preheated oven for 20 to 25 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into center of loaf comes out clean.

Nutrition Facts

• calories286.4
• carbohydrateContent37.7 g
• cholesterolContent40.1 mg
• fatContent12.7 g
• fiberContent1.7 g
• proteinContent6.1 g
• saturatedFatContent3.4 g
• sodiumContent615.5 mg
• sugarContent8.6 g