My Favorite Cornbread Recipe
Sally · sallysbakingaddiction.com · 2023 · 9 servings
Against 250 cornbread recipes
More fat than 84% of recipes and less salt than 88%.
How it compares
Against the typical pan: the median of 250 cornbread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More fat than 84% of recipes: 46% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 29%.
- Less salt than 88% of recipes: 0.3% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.3%, under a third as much.
- Less egg than 85% of recipes: 20% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 34%.
- More sugar than 77% of recipes: 45% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 21%, about twice as much.
Ingredients (10)
- 1 cup (120g) fine cornmeal120 g
- 1 cup (125g) all-purpose flour (spooned & leveled)125 g
- 1 teaspoon baking powder≈ 4.6 g
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda≈ 3 g
- 1/8 teaspoon salt≈ 0.8 g
- 1/2 cup (8 Tbsp; 113g) unsalted butter, melted and slightly cooled113 g
- 1/3 cup (67g) packed light or dark brown sugar67 g
- 2 Tablespoons (43g/30ml) honey43 g
- 1 large egg, at room temperature≈ 50 g
- 1 cup (240ml) buttermilk, at room temperature*≈ 244 g
flour 245 gbatter 770 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 share49% · 26th percentile · median 53%
- Buttermilk100% · 61st percentile · median 93%
- Fat46% · 85th percentile · median 29%
- Sugar45% · 78th percentile · median 21%
- Egg20% · 14th percentile · median 34%
- Leavening3.1% · 29th percentile · median 4.1%
- Salt0.3% · 10th percentile · median 1.3%
Oven
- Temperature
- 400°F / 205°C
- median 400°F
- Time
- 20 minutes
- median 25 minutes
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