Cornbread Biscuits
sugarspunrun.com · 2025 · 8 servings
Against 321 biscuit recipes
More sugar than 94% of recipes and less fat than 83%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 321 biscuit recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More sugar than 94% of recipes: 13% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 3.3%, about 4 times as much.
- Less fat than 83% of recipes: 29% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 40%.
- Less buttermilk than 83% of recipes: 63% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 84%.
Ingredients (8)
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour≈ 188 g
- ¾ cup cornmeal≈ 104 g
- 3 Tablespoons granulated sugar≈ 38 g
- 1 Tablespoon baking powder≈ 14 g
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda≈ 1.5 g
- 1 teaspoon table salt≈ 6 g
- 6 Tablespoons unsalted butter (very cold (I place mine in the freezer for 15 minutes before beginning))≈ 85 g
- ¾ cup buttermilk (cold)≈ 183 g
flour 291 gbatter 618 g
≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.
Baker's percentages
Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 321 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.
- Fat29% · 16th percentile · median 40%
- Buttermilk63% · 16th percentile · median 84%
- Leavening5.3% · 53rd percentile · median 5.1%
- Sugar13% · 95th percentile · median 3.3%
- Salt2.1% · 71st percentile · median 1.6%
Oven
- Temperature
- 425°F / 220°C
- median 425°F
- Time
- 12 minutes
- median 15 minutes
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