okay now i'm gonna show how to do old-fashioned cornbread and i'm gonna take um two cups of the uh it's called buttermilk cornmeal mix and i'll put it in my bowl now you need two cups of cornmeal mix and this will make enough to go in a nine inch round skillet and this is just the way that i make cornbread i do it another way too i call it the cheaty cheaty wave i don't have time to do it this way and it's a little like cheating but i'll show you that too when i have more time when i'm going to make it again i'll show you the chitty chitty way okay so you got your two cups of self-rising cornmeal and it's a cornmeal mix it's got the baking powder already in it so you don't have to mess with that um but you have this and then you need uh three tablespoons um either vegetable oil or shortening okay i don't like to use shortening so i am going to use the vegetable oil let me get that here so i don't like i said that shortening is just um a little harder to work with a little harder to stir up so i'd rather use the vegetable and it's just regular old vegetable and you're just going to take three tablespoons of that just like that and then um you're gonna take one egg one egg and put it in there one large egg okay and then one and a half cup of milk you're gonna stir it in there now i'm gonna use just stir it in real good break that egg up i'm just gonna use a spoon to stir it up get all the lumps out now for those of you who like sweet cornbread you can take um just one or two tablespoons of sugar and put in there if you want to um i myself i like it sometimes but not all the time but i'm gonna i set my oven to 350 and i'm gonna bake this in the skillet for about 20 minutes on 350 now let's add the rest of that milk all right and this is just a just an old-fashioned way to make cornbread okay now you've got your consistency that you kind of want and you want to work all those lumps out and see how it's not lumpy because if it is lumpy then you got a problem it's not going to bake up like it should if you have regular cornmeal then you're going to need to add some baking powder to it for this mixture i would say i would say two teaspoons of baking powder if you're going to do it that way or you can just use the self-rising cornmeal mix we're just going to pour it right in there and bake it in the oven on 350 like i said it was about 30 35 minutes um maybe a little bit longer but that's what your cornbread is going to look like when it comes out of the oven and then it's ready to serve it and eat it and we just put butter on it and eat it alright thanks