Crackling Bread Recipe
Ingredients
1 cup cracklings, diced (Cracklings are the pieces of meat remaining after the lard have been rendered from the pork. Crisply fried bacon or salt pork bits may be substituted).
1 cup buttermilk
2 cups corn meal
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
Directions
Mix and sift together the dry ingredients. Add the buttermilk, stir in the cracklings or bacon bits. Form into oblong cakes and place in a greased baking pan.
Bake in a preheated 400°F oven for 30 minutes.
1 cup cracklings, diced (Cracklings are the pieces of meat remaining after the lard have been rendered from the pork. Crisply fried bacon or salt pork bits may be substituted).
1 cup buttermilk
2 cups corn meal
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
Directions
Mix and sift together the dry ingredients. Add the buttermilk, stir in the cracklings or bacon bits. Form into oblong cakes and place in a greased baking pan.
Bake in a preheated 400°F oven for 30 minutes.
This relates to TKAM because Calpurnia makes crackling bread in the book. She made it because she was very bored without the kids at home since they were at school. This was Scout's favorite snack. Scout then considers this as an act of kindness to apologize for Calpurnia's cruelty towards her because of the Walter incident. I incorporated this artifact to show that Jem is more independent than Scout. Scout and Calpurnia have a love and hate relationship, but their relationship is deeper than Jem and Calpurnia's.