Get: - 4 tsp bacon drippings, or 1 tbsp melted butter & 1 tsp vegetable oil
- 1 cup stone ground yellow cornmeal
- 2 tsp sugar
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/3 cup rapidly-boiling water
- 3/4 cup buttermilk
- 1 large egg, beaten lightly
Do: - Adjust oven rack to lower middle position and heat oven to 450 degrees. Set 8-inch cast-iron skillet with bacon fat (or vegetable oil) in heating oven.
- Measure 1/3 cup cornmeal into medium bowl. Mix remaining cornmeal, sugar, salt, baking powder, and baking soda in small bowl; set aside.Â
- Pour boiling water all at once into the 1/3 cup cornmeal; stir to make a stiff mush.
- Whisk in buttermilk gradually, breaking up lumps until smooth, then whisk in egg.
- When oven is preheated and skillet very hot, stir dry ingredients into mush mixture until just moistened.
- Carefully remove skillet from oven. Pour hot bacon fat (or melted butter) from the skillet into the batter and stir to incorporate, then quickly pour batter into heated skillet. Bake until golden brown, about 20 minutes.
- Remove from oven and instantly turn cornbread onto wire rack; cool for 5 minutes, then serve immediately.
Notes:- "Though I prefer to make cornbread in a preheated cast-iron skillet, a 9-inch round cake pan or 9-inch square baking pan, greased lightly with butter and not preheated, will also produce acceptable results if you double the recipe and bake the bread for 25 minutes."Â
- If the water is not hot enough, the starch will not gelatinize, the batter will be too thin, and the mush will not form.Â
- The mush should be like soft polenta: thick enough to give the batter body, but pliable enough to stir wet ingredients in easily.
- 26 jun 2020: double the recipe for the 9" pan, then double the salt. don't try to dump it out of the glass tray after cooking, it's fine in there. cook and chop 3-5 slices of bacon to stir into the batter right before pouring it in. 1 tbsp butter was not enough, try like 3.
Emiril bacon mode
DO NOT USE THIS RECIPE. IT DOESN'T COOK THROUGH. SOMETHING IS MESSED UP.
Get: - 0.5lbs bacon, chopped
- 2tbsp minced garlic
- 4 jalopenos, seeded and diced
- 3cups corn meal
- 1tsp baking powder
- 1tsp baking soda
- 2tsp salt
- 0.5tsp black pepper
- 3cups buttermilk
- 2 large eggs, lightly beaten
- 10tbsp melted butter
Do: - Preheat oven to 450F
- Brown the bacon
- Add garlic and jalapeno and sautee until softened
- Pour mixture including bacon grease into a 10" baking dish
- In a bowl, combine corn meal, baking powder, baking soda, salt, pepper.
- Separately, combine buttermilk, eggs, and melted butter.
- Add dry ingredients to combine, and then quickly pour into the baking dish
- Bake for 25-30 minutes or until firm and golden brown on top
- Check the middle with a thermometer
- Let stand 5 minutes and serve
Results: - Not cooked through once! Could have been that the pan was too deep? Anyway needed to be measured.
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