Southern-Style Cornbread
Michelle Doll · delish.com · 2022 · 8 serving(s)
Against 250 cornbread recipes
More cornmeal share than 97% of recipes and less egg than 94%.
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.
- Less egg than 94% of recipes: 18% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 34%, about half as much.
- More salt than 96% of recipes: 2.9% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.3%, about twice as much.
- Less leavening than 89% of recipes: 2.2% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 4.1%, about half as much.
Ingredients (8)
- 1 tbsp. plus 2 tsp. bacon fat (or canola oil)≈ 23 g
- 2 c. cornmeal (yellow or white)≈ 276 g
- 1 tsp. baking soda≈ 6 g
- 2 tsp. kosher salt≈ 8 g
- 1 tbsp. honey≈ 21 g
- 1 egg≈ 50 g
- 1 1/4 c. buttermilk≈ 305 g
- 6 tbsp. butter, melted≈ 85 g
flour 276 gbatter 774 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%
- Buttermilk111% · 68th percentile · median 93%
- Fat39% · 63rd percentile · median 29%
- Sugar7.6% · 19th percentile · median 21%
- Egg18% · 5th percentile · median 34%
- Leavening2.2% · 10th percentile · median 4.1%
- Salt2.9% · 97th percentile · median 1.3%
Oven
- Temperature
- not stated
- median 400°F
- Time
- 25 minutes
- median 25 minutes
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