Sweet Southern Cornbread

Preheat oven to 400º, place 3 T shortening or lard into a 12" cast iron skillet and place into the oven to melt.


1 1/3 cups Flour
1 1/2 cups Cornmeal
9 T sugar
3 T baking powder
1 tsp salt
3 eggs
1 can evaporated milk (or home canned goat milk)

Mix the dry ingredients thoroughly by hand. Add the eggs and milk and mix until well blended. Remove the skillet from the oven and rotate to coat the skillet thoroughly with the oil. Add the hot oil to the batter and mix well. Pour batter into hot skillet and bake in the oven for 45 minutes or until done.

Beautyberry Jelly

We've got these berries growing like mad in our woods, and picked 2 quarts of

berries. To prepare them, rinse and clean the berries, then put them in a heavy
pan and add just enough water to cover them. Bring to a boil then remove from
heat. Cool berries, then strain through a cotton cloth.

To make jelly you need:
4 cups of the juice
4 T bottled lemon juice
1 packet pectin
7 cups sugar

Place the berry juice, lemon juice, and pectin into a heavy saucepan. Bring to
a rapid boil and boil for 2 minutes. Add sugar a bit at a time, then bring to a
boil again. Boil for another 2 minutes and test....when it sheets off a spoon
it's ready. Ladle into jars and process in a BWB for 5 mins.