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Cornbread

Verify your oven before you trust it — calibration matters even for cornbread.

Beginner#40 most lovedUses: Instrument Calibration
classic Southern cornbreadbuttermilk cornbread

The Chemistry in This Bake

Preheating and verifying oven temperature (often with an oven thermometer) before baking — the same check you'd run on any instrument before a quantitative measurement.

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Ingredients

  • Yellow cornmeal
  • All-purpose flour
  • Sugar
  • Baking powder
  • Salt
  • Buttermilk
  • Eggs
  • Butter

Method

  1. Verify the oven temperature with an oven thermometer and preheat to 200 °C.

  2. Whisk cornmeal, flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt.

  3. Whisk buttermilk, eggs, and melted butter in a separate bowl.

  4. Combine wet and dry ingredients until just mixed.

  5. Pour into a hot, buttered skillet or pan.

  6. Bake 20-25 minutes until a skewer comes out clean.