Spider Bread - cooking recipe

Ingredients

3/4 c. cornmeal
1/4 c. flour
1 Tbsp. sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1 egg
1 c. buttermilk

Preparation

Mix egg and buttermilk.
Add dry ingredients and 1 Tbsp. melted shortening.
Get skillet hot on top of stove, melt about a Tbsp. of shortening in the skillet and then add the corn bread mixture.
Let cook on burner for about one minute and then place in a 375\u00b0 oven for 20-25 minutes.
Spider Bread gets it's name from the iron skillets with legs that were used to bake this tasty corn bread in the \"old days\".
I use a 12 inch iron skillet and double the recipe. It makes a very moist corn bread.