My new favorite Cornbread recipe

I tend to bake late at night, I'm not sure why, I just do. So last night, around 11:30pm, I decided to whip up a new recipe I had found on allrecipes.com for Cornbread.

Who doesn't like cornbread? I've always made the super easy, somewhat healthy recipe on the package of cornmeal. It uses just a little oil, you can make it with one egg and one egg white, not too much sugar, it's great! But cornbread was on my mind recently, yes with Thanksgiving coming up, but I was also delightfully surprised when I went to dinner at a little cafe recently to be given a deliciously yummy and BUTTERY piece of cornbread while waiting for our meal. What a great idea! And way better than the typical bread basket. So I was craving a more buttery unhealthy cornbread recipe and came across this one below. It's not overly buttery either, but in my opinion, it's kind of perfect, and a recipe I'll be holding onto for a while. The best part? You can make it at 11:30pm and it will be done by 11:30pm. . . of course daylight savings time helps.

Grandmother's Buttermilk Cornbread

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter
• 2/3 cup white sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup buttermilk (duh, I didn't have buttermilk. . . let 1 cup of milk with 1 tablespoon vinegar or lemon juice sit for ten minutes and there you go -- a tip I learned from Jenni!)
  
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  
• 1 cup cornmeal
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease an 8 inch square pan.
2. Melt butter in large skillet.* Remove from heat and stir in sugar. Quickly add eggs and beat until well blended. Combine buttermilk with baking soda and stir into mixture in pan. Stir in cornmeal, flour, and salt until well blended and few lumps remain. Pour batter into the prepared pan.
3. Bake in the preheated oven for 30 to 40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.**

* I used my 3 quart saucepan, which was big enough to later mix everything else into, and didn't have to dirty a bowl.
** It will only take 30 minutes unless you use part or all whole wheat flour instead of the all-purpose, but why would you do that? Need I remind you that there's already a stick of butter in there?