Buttermilk Cornbread

It is a very basic cornbread recipe and nothing special in it .. except one thing! It is the best buttermilk cornbread recipe ever. Well, the thing is, this recipe has a five stars reviews from 1,657 reviewer. Isn’t that good enough to encourage me to take the chance and try it. In addition to that, I never ever tasted a cornbread (both savory and sweet) before. This kind of bread is rare and not very well known here in Kuwait. I didn’t hear or see anybody prepare this kind of bread. Nor I saw a bakery selling it! You can say that it is very rare and approximately unavailable.

One month before, I saw a cornbread recipe on the Savory Sweet life cooking blog. The pictures taken by the author were amazingly awesome and mouthwatering. Since then, I couldn’t resist the idea of making my own cornbread and enjoy the taste that I had imagined! However, I was so busy at that time and couldn’t find the appropriate time to bake it.

What brought the idea of making a cornbread to life again is this. My sister is following a special diet. She can’t eat anything contains soy or vanilla and many other stuff. This means that, she can’t eat any kind of cakes or chocolates (99% of them contains one of these two, others contains both) .. How can she survive through this kind of diet I don’t know! Literally she can’t eat most of the available desserts and sweets.

A while later I felt sorry for her and wanted to make her a vanilla free dessert or cake. After a very long search I couldn’t find any. Then I remembered the sweet cornbread I found the other day.”I think it doesn’t contain vanilla” I thought. I searched for a good recipe and showed my sister the ingredients. I doubled check with her to make sure that we are in the safe way.

In the beginning I was afraid that the recipe would be difficult and hard to implement. Now, I can say that it is pretty easy and anyone can do it without facing any difficulty. In fact, 1,657 persons said that not just me!

The first time I was interduced to cornbread was in my last dine in chili’s restaurant. Since then, I wanted to make something similar to that kind of bread. The cornbread I saw was savory kind of bread. That’s why I didn’t know that basic cornbread is sweet not savory. However, today I did the sweet version and plans to discover the savory version is on the way!

Buttermilk cornbread

Adapted from allrecipes, Serves 9 persons.

Buttermilk cornbread ingredients

1/2 cup butter

2/3 cup white sugar

2 eggs

1 cup buttermilk

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1 cup cornmeal

1 cup all-purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon salt

Making the buttermilk cornbread

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2. Start to grease an 8 inch square or rounded pan with with very small amount of butter. This step will prevent your cornbread form sticking to the pan.
3. Place meduim sized skillet on meduim heat. Melt the whole amount of butter, then remove the skillet from heat. Add the sugar and stir untill all sugar get mized completely with the melted butter. In a larg bowl pour the butter-sugar mixture then, quickly add the eggs and beat until well blended. Then combine buttermilk with baking soda and stir into mixture in the big bowl. After that, Stir in cornmeal, flour, and salt until well blended and few lumps remain. Pour batter into the prepared pan.
4. Bake in the preheated oven for 30 to 40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

enjoy with love,

Maryam

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