Name: Cracklin Corn Bread
Ingredients: 1 cup pork cracklings; 1 quart cornmeal; 1 heaping teaspoon salt; warm water, as needed

Cracklin Corn Bread

Ingredients

1 cup pork cracklings
1 quart cornmeal
1 heaping teaspoon salt
warm water, as needed

Directions

Mix the pork cracklings into the cornmeal and salt.
Add enough warm water to form a dough.
Shape into pones and bake until golden.
Serve hot.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Cornmeal: Forms the bulk of the dough and gives the cornbread its structure and grainy texture.
Pork cracklings: Add fat and savory flavor, and crisp pieces through the bread.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.