Easy Moist Cornbread Recipe
Baker Bettie · bakerbettie.com · 2018 · 8
Against 250 cornbread recipes
More cornmeal share than 94% of recipes and more fat than 85%.
How it compares
Against the typical pan: the median of 250 cornbread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More cornmeal share than 94% of recipes: 80% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 53%.
- More fat than 85% of recipes: 47% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 29%.
- More salt than 83% of recipes: 2.3% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.3%.
- Less sugar than 78% of recipes: 8.3% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 21%, about half as much.
Ingredients (9)
- 140 grams (10 tablespoons) unsalted butter, divided140 g
- 240 grams (2 cups) cornmeal (good quality stone ground cornmeal preferred)240 g
- 60 grams (½ cup) all-purpose flour60 g
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder≈ 7 g
- ½ teaspoon baking soda≈ 3 g
- 1 ¾ teaspoons kosher salt≈ 7 g
- 25 grams (2 tablespoons) granulated sugar25 g
- 360 grams (1 ½ cups, 360 milliliters) buttermilk, room temperature*360 g
- 2 large eggs, room temperature≈ 100 g
flour 300 gbatter 942 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 share80% · 95th percentile · median 53%
- Buttermilk120% · 75th percentile · median 93%
- Fat47% · 86th percentile · median 29%
- Sugar8.3% · 21st percentile · median 21%
- Egg33% · 46th percentile · median 34%
- Leavening3.3% · 34th percentile · median 4.1%
- Salt2.3% · 88th percentile · median 1.3%
Oven
- Temperature
- 450°F / 230°C
- median 400°F
- Time
- 20 minutes
- median 25 minutes
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