Perfect Cornbread Sticks - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 cup sifted unbleached all-purpose flour
1/4 cup sugar
4 teaspoons baking powder
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup stone-ground yellow cornmeal
2 eggs
1 cup milk
1/4 cup butter (soft)

Preparation

Preheat oven to 425F and place corn stick pans in oven.
Sift flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt into bowl.
Stir in corn meal.
Add eggs, milk, and butter.
Beat with electric hand mixer until just smooth, about one minute, do not over beat.
Grease pans with solid shortening.
Fill pans about 2/3 full.
Bake in hot oven (425 degrees) 12 to 15 minutes.