Cherokee Corn Pones Recipes

CHEROKEE CORN PONES

Steps:

• Combine cornmeal, baking soda, and salt; cut in shortening until mixture resembles coarse meal.
• Add buttermilk and milk, stirring just until dry ingreients are moistened.
• Form batter into eight 1/2 inch thick cakes.
• Place on a hot greased griddle.
• Bake at 400 degrees for 15 minutes.
• Turn and bake an additional 15 minutes.
• Serve hot with butter.

GRANDDAD'S CORN PONE

Steps:

• Mix together butter or margarine with eggs, salt, sugar, and baking powder with a spoon till well blended. Add in corn meal, flour, and milk with a spoon till mixture is completely mixed up. This will be a thick batter.
• Grease and flour a 9" x 13" cake pan.
• Pour batter into greased pan and bake for 20 to 25 minutes at 400°F till a knife inserted in center comes out clean.
• Tastes great with butter or we always liked it with our favorite jelly or jam.

DELICIOUS CORN PONE

Steps:

• In a large mixing bowl, combine the yellow cornmeal, sugar, and salt.
• Slice the butter over top the dry ingredients.
• Add the boiling water and stir to mix ingredients together.
• Add the flour and baking powder; stir to mix in well.
• Beat eggs, mix with the milk and add to the rest of the ingredients.
• Stir to mix well. Be sure to get all the lumps out. Hint: When you are pouring into pan, stop if you see lumps and beat with mixer on medium.
• Spray a 13 x 9-inch pan with Pam.
• Pour in your baking pan.
• Bake 1 hour in a preheated 325 degree oven.
• Then lower the temperature to 300 degrees and bake 1 hour.
• Do NOT cut until at least 1/2 hour after taking out of the oven.
• Note: The number of servings will depend on how you cut the squares.
• If you cut the square into 1-inch pieces you will get a large number, but people will go back for more and more. We like the larger squares.

CORN PONE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°. Add oil to a 12-in cast iron or oven-proof skillet; place in oven. In a large bowl, whisk together all cornmeal, salt and water. Mixture will be thick. Carefully spread mixture evenly in skillet, spooning some of the oil on top of batter. Bake until edges start to brown, about 35 minutes. To serve, break into pieces and serve with butter and honey if desired.

CORN PONE

Steps:

• Stir together the cornmeal, baking powder and salt. Add the bacon drippings and milk. Stir well. Making about 4 pones (flattened circles) for each bowl of batter, plop the batter onto a greased cast iron skillet. Cook until golden brown on each side, flipping once.
• To present them in a unique, but truly Indian style, make corn pone this way as the Sioux sometimes did.
• Form into small rolls and wrap in green corn husks. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 to 45 minutes. Check one to make sure they're done and then bring the rest in the corn husks and serve with jam, butter or honey.

EASY CORNPONE

Steps:

• Put a large cast-iron skillet in the oven and preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
• Whisk the cornmeal, oil, warm water and salt together in a large bowl until combined. The batter will be a little thicker than pancake batter, so it is easy to scoop with a spoon.
• Remove the hot skillet from the oven and add the remaining tablespoon of oil, swirling to coat. Spoon the batter into the skillet, making 7 to 8 ovals (each about 1/3 cup). Flatten the tops a bit with the back of the spoon. It is fine if the ovals touch slightly.
• Bake until the ovals are golden on the bottom and firm on top, about 40 minutes. Serve with butter and molasses or honey if using.