Oklahoma Ag in the Classroom

Cornbread

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  • 1 c cornmeal
  • 2 T brown sugar
  • 1/2 c whole-wheat flour
  • 2 eggs, beaten
  • 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1 c milk
  • 4 t baking powder
  • 1/4 c oil
  • 1/2 t salt
  • gallon size plastic bag
  • 9- X 9-inch pan

Cornbread in a Bag

  1. Combine the first six ingredients in the plastic bag.
  2. Close the bag
  3. Mix well by working bag with fingers until the ingredients are completely blended.
  4. Add the final three ingredients.
  5. Mix well by working the bag with fingers.
  6. Open the bag and pour the mixture into a 9- X 9-inch pan.
  7. Bake at 400 degrees for 25 minutes.
  • frozen strawberries or strawberry preserves
  • cornbread mix or cornbread batter (above)
  • cream cheese

Strawberry Bread

The American Indians were already eating strawberries when the colonists arrived. The crushed berries were mixed with cornmeal and baked into strawberry bread. After trying this bread, colonists developed their own version of the recipe, and the strawberry shortcake was created.

  1. Crush frozen strawberries or strawberry preserves into cornbread mix or the batter above.
  2. ?Follow directions on the cornbread mix package or in the recipe above to cook the cornbread.
  3. Serve with strawberry cream cheese with a few fresh strawberries on the side.

GEOGRAPHY ACTIVITY

  1. While cornbread is baking, discuss the fact that cornmeal was something early settlers may have carried with them on their journey to the west.
  2. Discuss what kinds of landforms and climates settlers may have come across on their journey (mountain, plateau, desert, etc.)
  3. Use cornmeal to create a desert scene on construction paper.
  4.  Students will smear a thin coat of glue, then sprinkle cornmeal on the glue.
  5. Allow to dry.. 
  6. Students will make rocks and cactus from construction paper or other medium (grass, leaves, pebbles, etc.)
P.A.S.S. Social Studies—Grade 2: 2.4;  Grade 3: 4.2; Grade 4: 3.1,2

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Oklahoma Ag in the Classroom is a program of the Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service, Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry and the Oklahoma State Department of Education.