Homemade Southern Buttermilk Cornbread

This buttermilk cornbread recipe has been passed down from my grandmama, my grandmama's mama, and many generations before her. Warm, fluffy, and full of flavor, this is how true southern cornbread is made!

There is nothing like a piping hot piece of buttermilk cornbread straight from the oven and slathered with sweet cream butter.

I grew up eating cornbread year round, my mother and grandmothers serving it up with recipes like hamburger vegetable soup, Instant Pot White Chicken Chili, fried fish, hoppin' John, pork chops, collard greens, beef stew, and barbecue

You name it, buttermilk cornbread was served along with it.

Buttermilk Cornbread

Some people believe sugar belongs in cornbread.

I'm here to give those people a side-eye and tell them, "Oh, honey, now bless your heart."

Homemade southern cornbread is not sweet, y'all. Homemade buttermilk cornbread DOES NOT have sugar in it. I don't care what the recipe on the package of cornbread mix says. It ain't right.

Any cornbread that has sugar in it just needs to be called corn cake.

Ya heard?

How to Make Buttermilk

Now that we're telling the truth and all.

I NEV-ER have real buttermilk in my house. Like...ever. I just don't see the point in buying a whole carton of buttermilk when it is just so simple to make your own.

All you need to make homemade buttermilk is milk and either fresh lemon juice or white vinegar.

1 cup milk
1 tablespoon lemon juice or vinegar

Mix 'em together, let 'em sit for 5 minutes and VIOLA! 1 cup homemade buttermilk.

Now, who's ready to stuff their face?