Ingredients
1 cup stone ground corn meal (I use white meal)
1 cup unbleached white flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon sugar
1/2 cup butter, melted
Pinch of salt
2 cups buttermilk
2 eggs
1 small onion, chopped
Crisco, 2 - 3 tablespoons
Preparation
Turn oven on to 400 degrees. Put Crisco in a 10" cast iron skillet, and place skillet in preheating oven (rack about 1/3 up from bottom).
Mix all ingredients together. When oven is preheated, remove skillet and pour batter into hot skillet. Bake for 30-40 minutes until it tests done with cake tester/broom straw.