Corn Bread

This morning I made sweet corn bread with the corn meal I made yesterday. It's delicious. Here's the recipe:

1 cup wheat flour

1 cup corn meal

2/3 cup sugar

1 tsp salt

3 1/2 tsp baking powder

1 egg

1 cup milk

1/3 cup oil

Mix all dry ingredients first and then add wet. Mix well. Pour into greased 9x9" pan. Bake @ 400 for 20- 25 min or until toothpick comes out clean.

As with all things required for preparation, you need to practice now. Practice in the dark; practice with your dutch oven over coals; practice with just your food storage stuff- do you have dried milk? Dried eggs? What about oil?

Corn

Today, I went down to the feed store and bought 50lbs of cracked corn for $7. FYI, 50 lbs of this will fit exactly in two 5 gallon buckets.

I put it through my wheat grinder twice- starting with the coarsest setting and then taking it to medium. The grinder handled it no problem. BTW I have a Family Grain Mill with the hand crank. I bought a piece of metal from Speedymetals so I can use my powerdrill. Works great and I recommend it.

I believe I will make some corn bread or some breakfast grits with this- as I'm happy with the grinding. I did make some into a flour for some other experimenting.

A note here: this product (the corn) was designed for animials- chickens primarily. Whilst inspecting the grain I did discover some foreign seeds. There was some oats, rye and others I couldn't identify. I'm not overly concerned about this- considering the price and availability of the corn.

Next week I will buy the whole corn though- I didn't do that this time because I thought the pre-cracked corn would be easier on my grinder (which it was). The whole yellow corn is only a dollar less than the cracked variety.