Simple Skillet Cornbread
baking-sense.com · 2025 · 12 slices
Against 250 cornbread recipes
Less leavening than 98% of recipes and less sugar than 78%.
How it compares
Against the typical pan: the median of 250 cornbread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less leavening than 98% of recipes: 1% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 4.1%, under a third as much.
- Less sugar than 78% of recipes: 8.4% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 21%, about half as much.
Ingredients (8)
- 4 oz unsalted butter113 g
- 5 oz all-purpose flour (1 cup, see note)142 g
- 5 ½ oz corn meal (1 cup)156 g
- 2 tablespoon granulated sugar≈ 25 g
- 1 teaspoon salt≈ 6 g
- ½ teaspoon baking soda≈ 3 g
- 12 oz buttermilk (1 ½ cups, room temperature)340 g
- 2 large eggs (room temperature)≈ 100 g
flour 298 gbatter 885 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 share52% · 35th percentile · median 53%
- Buttermilk114% · 69th percentile · median 93%
- Fat38% · 62nd percentile · median 29%
- Sugar8.4% · 22nd percentile · median 21%
- Egg34% · 49th percentile · median 34%
- Leavening1% · 1st percentile · median 4.1%
- Salt2% · 78th percentile · median 1.3%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 400°F
- Time
- 30 minutes
- median 25 minutes
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