Bring water to a boil in a medium sauce pan. Add cornmeal and salt and immediately remove from stove. Mix well.

Melt half of lard in a baking pan to coat. Stir remaining lard into corn meal mixture. Pour mixture into baking pan.

Bake at 350 degrees for about 50 minutes or until golden brown.


An old Amish recipe with just four ingredients. The lard can be replaced with butter or vegetable oil.

Mr Breakfast would like to thank skibunny for this recipe.

Overall Average Rating = 4 (out of 5)

Based on 2 votes.

From hagrid1957 (Team Breakfast Member)

Rating (out of 5):

Fun to make as an experiment, but I probably won't make it again. BTW... I used bacon fat instead of lard. I also let the mixture set for 30 minutes before baking so the cornmeal wouldn't be gritty.

Comment submitted: 7/7/2013 (#16127)



From T. Hoshner

You can use shortening, butter or even bacon fat. I think my grandmother also added a bit of sugar.

Comment submitted: 3/7/2013 (#15327)



From Pam

Rating (out of 5):

Lard is fat. You can replace it with butter or oil, or another kind of heavy fat.

Comment submitted: 1/25/2007 (#1312)



From music (Team Breakfast Member)

I had Corn Pone for the first time yesterday; it was an Amish recipe and it was delicious. It was sweeter then I thought it would be. I have not tried making yours but I do have a question. Why do you use lard and is there something I can use instead of lard?

Carole Anne Lohmann

Comment submitted: 10/7/2006 (#459)

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