Cheesy sweetcorn cornbread
Cassie Best · bbcgoodfood.com · 2022 · 8
Against 250 cornbread recipes
Less fat than 91% of recipes and less sugar than 91%.
How it compares
Against the typical pan: the median of 250 cornbread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less fat than 91% of recipes: 14% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 29%, about half as much.
- Less sugar than 91% of recipes: 1.2% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 21%, under a third as much.
- No salt at all, where 92% of recipes use some (most of those 1.1 to 2% of the flour weight).
- Less leavening than 86% of recipes: 2.5% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 4.1%.
Ingredients (19)
- 50g melted butter plus extra for the tin50 g
- 225g fine cornmeal225 g
- 140g plain flour140 g
- 1 tsp caster sugar≈ 4.2 g
- 2 tsp baking powder≈ 9 g
- 2 x 284ml cartons buttermilk or use natural yogurt≈ 294 g
- 2 eggs≈ 100 g
- 100g can sweetcorn (drained weight), or use frozen100 g
- 50g cheddar cheese grated50 g
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flour 365 gbatter 973 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 share62% · 75th percentile · median 53%
- Buttermilk81% · 23rd percentile · median 93%
- Fat14% · 8th percentile · median 29%
- Sugar1.2% · 8th percentile · median 21%
- Egg27% · 31st percentile · median 34%
- Leavening2.5% · 13th percentile · median 4.1%
- Salt0% · 4th percentile · median 1.3%
Oven
- Temperature
- 450°F / 230°C
- median 400°F
- Time
- 30 minutes
- median 25 minutes
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