Miss Lizzie West's Cornbread/Sussex County, DE

This is a wonderful recipe that was given to me by one of my neighbors shortly after we moved into our wonderful, old house here at the beach. This is a recipe that was a favorite of Miss Lizzie West, one of the former residents of our house. She was a wonderful old woman who was all that is good about the southern part of Sussex County, Delaware.

This is an Eastern Shore wet cornbread, not at all like the dry, crumbly version that I was accustomed to prior to moving here.

Miss Lizzie's Cornbread


4 cups of boiling water
2 cups of cornmeal
1 tsp. salt
1/2 stick of butter
2 eggs
1 cup of sugar
1 cup of milk
1 cup flour

Mix together, then add 1 cup of milk, again. Then mix all together with a mixer.
Grease baking pan. Bake in preheated 350 degree oven for one hour or until brown.
Miss Lizzie's sister, Margie, was a resident of a local nursing home and had some very interesting things to say about Miss Lizzie's experiences in our house. Suffice it to say, when we wondered about finding a lock of hair in the fireplace in the dining room, Miss Margie told our neighbor that Miss Lizzie often stated she saw a woman in green shoes, rocking in that room....and she had no head.....