Cheesy Cornbread
biggerbolderbaking.com · 2025
Against 250 cornbread recipes
More cornmeal share than 97% of recipes and more buttermilk than 95%.
How it compares
Against the typical pan: the median of 250 cornbread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More cornmeal share than 97% of recipes: 100% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 53%, about twice as much.
- More buttermilk than 95% of recipes: 176% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 93%.
- No sugar at all, where 92% of recipes use some (most of those 14 to 44% of the flour weight).
- More egg than 90% of recipes: 43% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 34%.
Ingredients (9)
- 3 cups (16 ½ oz/465 g) fine yellow cornmeal465 g
- 4 teaspoons baking powder≈ 18 g
- 2 teaspoons salt≈ 12 g
- 1 teaspoon black pepper≈ 4.9 g
- 4 large eggs (, at room temperature)≈ 200 g
- 2 cups (16 oz/450 g) sour cream450 g
- 1 ½ cups (12 fl oz/360 ml) buttermilk≈ 366 g
- ½ cup (4 oz/115 g) butter (, melted)115 g
- 2 cups (6 oz/170 g) plus ½ cup (1 ½ oz/43 g) shredded sharp cheddar cheese213 g
flour 465 gbatter 1844 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 share100% · 99th percentile · median 53%
- Buttermilk176% · 95th percentile · median 93%
- Fat25% · 37th percentile · median 29%
- Sugar0% · 4th percentile · median 21%
- Egg43% · 91st percentile · median 34%
- Leavening4% · 47th percentile · median 4.1%
- Salt2.6% · 94th percentile · median 1.3%
Oven
- Temperature
- 400°F / 205°C
- median 400°F
- Time
- 30 to 35 minutes
- median 25 minutes
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