Golden Southern cornbread baked in a hot cast-iron skillet for a crisp crust and tender crumb.
About this American recipe
Cornbread is a staple of Southern American cooking, with roots in Native American corn cookery. Pouring the batter into a smoking-hot buttered skillet gives it a crisp crust.
Ingredients you will need
The main ingredients are butter, fine cornmeal, plain flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda. Exact quantities are in the recipe card below.
How long it takes
Allow 35 min in total: 10 min of preparation, 25 min of cooking. The recipe serves 8.
Southern Skillet Cornbread
Golden Southern cornbread baked in a hot cast-iron skillet for a crisp crust and tender crumb.
Ingredients
Method
- Put the butter in a 25 cm cast-iron skillet and place in the oven while it heats to 220°C.
- Whisk the cornmeal, flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
- Whisk the buttermilk and eggs in another bowl.
- Pour most of the melted butter from the skillet into the buttermilk mixture, leaving a coating in the pan.
- Stir the wet into the dry until just combined and pour into the hot skillet. It should sizzle.
- Bake for 20–25 minutes until golden. Rest for 5 minutes before cutting.
Notes
The skillet must be very hot when the batter goes in. That sizzle is what makes the crust.