Southern Style Corn bread
africanbites.com · 2020 · 8
Against 250 cornbread recipes
More salt than 83% of recipes.
How it compares
Against the typical pan: the median of 250 cornbread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More salt than 83% of recipes: 2.3% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.3%.
- Egg in the middle half of recipes: 38% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 34%.
Ingredients (11)
- 1 cup all-purpose flour ((see notes))≈ 125 g
- 1 cup white or yellow cornmeal≈ 138 g
- ½ teaspoon baking soda≈ 3 g
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder≈ 7 g
- 3-4 tablespoons sugar ((optional, see notes ))≈ 44 g
- 1 teaspoon salt≈ 6 g
- 1 cup buttermilk≈ 244 g
- ⅓ cup unsalted butter (, melted)≈ 76 g
- 2 eggs ( , lightly beaten (see notes))≈ 100 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 2 tablespoons bacon drippings (, for greasing pan (replace with butter))≈ 28 g
- melted butter to brush the top of the cornbread after it comes out of the pann/a
flour 263 gbatter 742 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 250 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.
- Cornmeal share53% · 49th percentile · median 53%
- Buttermilk93% · 47th percentile · median 93%
- Fat29% · 48th percentile · median 29%
- Sugar17% · 38th percentile · median 21%
- Egg38% · 68th percentile · median 34%
- Leavening3.8% · 43rd percentile · median 4.1%
- Salt2.3% · 88th percentile · median 1.3%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 400°F
- Time
- 15 to 18 minutes
- median 25 minutes
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