What makes cornbread dry and crumbly




















Sliced cornbread is arguably even better. Whether you prefer it as a cakey treat slathered in syrup or the savory Southern version baked with bacon grease, when cornbread is at its best, it's also robust enough to complete the trip from your plate to your face in one piece.

Unfortunately for some of us, what should be a yellow celebration in our mouths becomes a crumby reminder that Father Time waits for no one. What did Kent do to turn her crumbly, cottonmouth-inducing cornbread sandcastle into something worth writing home and an article about? Part of the answer lies in understanding the interplay of the ingredients.

Use buttermilk instead of regular milk. Add creamed corn. Add 1 Tbs of oil. Use two boxes of the corn mix and double the ingredients. Preheat oven to degrees. Typically they would throw one piece of cornbread in the basket, too, which turned out to be a very bad thing. Someone could have lost an eye in the fight over that one piece of cornbread.

When we were drawing our forks to use as weapons, the waitress suggested that she could bring a basket filled with nothing but cornbread, thus averting the standoff and saving three lives. It tasted fine and with one egg, held together. Spelt is low-gluten, not gluten-free so it works for me, to reduce the amount of gluten I eat. I use a wide cast iron pan. In a narrower, deeper pan, it might come out too crumbly Spelt gluten is more fragile, so blend the cornbread ingredients gently.

If cornbread is to soak up pot liquor definately not sweet. If you are expieriencing bitternes then judicious sweetening is alllowable. I use Masa instead of wheat flour in my cornbread. No one here is gluten intolerant, but you can't beat the intense corn flavor. It is significantly more cumbly than I would like, thiugh. I'll try adding a second egg the next time I make it.

Well my first job was food prep and one dish was cornbread, something my mom never made! We used a mix, added eggs, milk, sugar, and orange marmalade. It was not crumbly and tasted good. I wonder if the marmalade kept it from being crumbly or it was just the head cooks preference? Anyway, I make it from scratch now and it always tastes good. I use grease iron skillet very hot. Mix 2cups self rising flour hudson cream 1 tbsp self rising flour. Never measure my milk i use regular milk and butter milk.

Pour into hot skillet bake at for about 30 minutes and brown on top. Turn out on plate the will be golden brown and crunchy and it will not crumbly or to moist just great. There are two with this title. One has rice flour. Don't like it. The other has garbanzo bean flour as the first ingredient. I've used it for cookies and cornbread for dressing since my son married a sweet gal with wheat allergy.

Follow directions for adding zanthan gum. West Texas Mom. I loved reading your memories of Aunt Martha's house. Cornbread is so comforting and nostalgic, isn't it? My mother always made it in a cast iron skillet, as well. I like some onions and jalapeno in mine! Have you ever thought of publishing your recipe book just like it in order to give those of us who were not fourtunate enough to have such a wonderful gift passed down to us? What a beautiful story about cornbread and your family.

No doubt that your family recipe is the best. Also great tips about taking care of your cast iron skillet, dind't know about the way to do it. Your family recipe book is a treasure and as you said it is the most valuable :. Countryluthier: That's actually my favorite recipe but don't tell all my southern kinfolk, okay?

Thanks for commenting, CountryLuthier! Great lensmanship here. I have to admit that writing this lens made me hungry for cornbread Dry crumbly cornbread is a disappointing result to the time spent preparing this tasty complement to many meals. This is a guide about, "Why did my cornbread turn out dry? Stir the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients only until they're combined.

Over-mixing causes more glutens to form in the flour and results in drier cornbread. More cornmeal than flour in Southern-style cornbread results in drier, more crumbly bread. To keep Southern-style cornbread moist, substitute flour for a few tablespoons of the cornmeal. Fats keep your bread moist. If your loaf was too dry, try adding a tablespoon or two more oil next time you make it. Likewise, water does more than hydrate your dough. It helps yeast do its thing, activates gluten and determines the volume of your loaf—all crucial for the right results.

My cornbread was crumbly, falling apart before you could get it to your mouth. After we ate, we kids ran down the aisles between rows of cotton bushes that seemed almost as tall as me.

The husks tore at our sweaters as we filled paper bags full of fresh-picked cotton bolls to take home with us.



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