Servings:6 to 8
This recipe take style cues from both Southern cornbread (baking in a hot, greased skillet), and Northern-style recipes (added flour and sugar). Since traditional cornbread can be dry, making a cornmeal mush and adding a little sour cream to the buttermilk go a long way toward a moist, tender crumb.
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In a small saucepan, bring 1/2 cup water to a boil over high heat. In a large bowl, combine 1/2 cup of the cornmeal and the boiling water. Stir to blend—the mixture should become a thick mush.
In a medium bowl, whisk the remaining 1-1/4 cups cornmeal with the flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, and baking soda to blend.
Add the buttermilk, sour cream, and eggs to the cornmeal mush and whisk to blend.
When the oven and pan are fully heated (after about 20 minutes), add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix with a wooden spoon until just blended. Do not overmix.
Remove the hot pan from the oven and add the butter pieces, tilting the pan to swirl the butter around until it’s melted and the pan is well coated. (The butter may brown; that’s fine.) Immediately pour the melted butter over the mixed batter and stir to combine—a half-dozen strokes with a wooden spoon should be plenty. Scrape into the hot pan.
Bake until the cornbread pulls away from the sides of the pan and is golden on top, 18 to 20 minutes. Immediately turn the bread out onto a rack. Cool for 5 minutes. Serve hot.
Cornbread Mix-ins: While this classic cornbread is delicious in its own right, these simple additions add a little pizzazz:
We loved this! I made it as specified, except substituted maple syrup for the sugar, and I was generous with the salt. It was crumbly, but in a tender, delicate way, not in a dry, stick to your throat kind of way. It was a great balance of sweet and was still moist enough to eat the following morning for breakfast:)
我除了forg指定的配方完全一样ot the sugar. It was very good and moist, not crumbly at all. I used Bob's Red Milll coarse ground cornmeal and that gave a nice chewy/crunchy texture. Would make a great side for chili.If people are having problems with dryness, you might need to weigh your cornmeal and flour (which I did and always do for baking) and/or decrease the baking time. My cornbread was done at 16 mins.
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