I have a recipe similar to this, given to us by my cousins best friend. It includes the cornmeal, hot water, sugar, and salt. Let it sit overnight, stir as often as possible before going to bed.

Next morning: Add the flour, 2 or more eggs, 1 tbsp. melted butter, 2 tsp. baking powder, 1 tsp. baking soda, 1 cup buttermilk.

Pour into a greased tube/Bundt cake pan. Bake 15 mins @ 460°F. then reduce heat to 250°F. then bake for an hour.

Honestly, I'd rather try just straight up 400°F., its a lot easier.

I'm gonna try this! But I will make it tomorrow morning and head off to work and bake it that evening... cause I have ramps :)

Good ol' stinky, delicious, & fun time!!!

The recipe shown has all the right ingredients but the recipe handed down to me from my great grandmother from West Virginia does not follow the amounts shown.

If you have a different recipe it would be nice if you could share it with us like this person shared theirs? there are many ways to make the same recipe.

The recipe here might be one version of WV corn pone, but it's not the very best. It has too much water and too much flour and not enough baking powder. Plus, you have to use unsifted stoneground cornmeal and there is no need to let the water and cornmeal sit overnight - 3 to 4 hours is plenty of time. My recipe is over 100 years old and is truly authentic and absolute perfection.

Hello Ria: Can you send me your 100 year old WV Recipe for Cornpone? Thanks, Fran :)

This is our mother's recipe from Pocahontas County, WV.

West Virginia Corn Pone

Please send me the recipe.