Corn Pone

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INGREDIENTS

1 cup corn meal
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 tablespoons bacon drippings
1/2 cup milk

Mix corn meal, salt and baking powder. Stir in bacon drippings and milk.

Grease a large, heavy skillet with bacon drippings. Drop batter from a tablespoon, shaping into 4 pones. Brown on both sides. Serve hot with lots of butter.

NOTE - Pones, or flattened cakes of cornmeal and water, were the basic, everyday breads of southern tribes.