{"id":605,"date":"2016-03-15T19:14:35","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T19:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crosshairscommunity.com\/?p=605"},"modified":"2016-03-15T19:14:35","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T19:14:35","slug":"kiss-the-cook-keys-to-making-the-perfect-cornbread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crosshairscommunity.com\/?p=605","title":{"rendered":"Kiss the Cook: Keys to making the perfect cornbread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crosshairscommunity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/cornbread.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-606\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-606\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crosshairscommunity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/cornbread-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"cornbread\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crosshairscommunity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/cornbread-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/www.crosshairscommunity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/cornbread.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A couple of weeks ago, I ran a column with a chili recipe, which I entered in the PA Cystic Fibrosis chili cookoff in Mifflinburg and took 2<sup>nd<\/sup> place with that.<\/p>\n<p>During the cookoff, some entries had corn bread to pair up with their chili. That got me to thinking about a corn bread recipe that could be paired with the chili recipe I ran.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Below is a simple recipe that tastes great and can be made in under 40 minutes. I made several batches. Some baked in a cast iron skillet and some in a muffin pan. I wanted to make sure the bake time and ingredients worked for both methods, since not everyone has a cast iron skillet.<\/p>\n<p>Both came out moist and not dry by baking for 25 minutes. I used mostly white stone ground corn meal, but yellow corn meal will also work. Next time you have some chili and want a good corn bread to go with it, try this recipe out. I\u2019m sure you will enjoy it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mmm Corn bread<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Prep Time: 8 minutes<\/p>\n<p>Bake time: 25 min<\/p>\n<p>Yields: 12- 2 \u00bd\u201d muffin cups or one skillet<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ingredients:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bc c butter, softened<\/p>\n<p>5 tbs. white sugar<\/p>\n<p>2 eggs<\/p>\n<p>\u00bd tbs. vanilla extract<\/p>\n<p>1 \u00bc c. all-purpose flour<\/p>\n<p>1 tbs. baking powder<\/p>\n<p>\u00bd c. yellow or white cornmeal<\/p>\n<p>2\/3 c. heavy whipping cream<\/p>\n<p>1\/3 c. milk<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Directions:<\/p>\n<p>1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Grease a large cast iron skillet or a 12 muffin cup baking sheet or line the muffin sheet with paper muffin liners.<\/p>\n<p>2. In a large bowl, cream the butter and sugar with a hand mixer until fluffy. Add the eggs, one at a time and beat well after each egg. Add the vanilla and mix well.<\/p>\n<p>3. In another bowl, mix the flour, baking powder and cornmeal until it\u2019s well combined. Combine the heavy whipping cream and milk in a separate bowl or dish. Alternately mix the flour mixture and the milk mixture into the butter and egg mix. Use a hand mixer to beat and combine until all the flour mixture and milk mixture has been well blended with the butter\/egg mixture.<\/p>\n<p>4. Evenly divide this into the 12 muffin cups or evenly spread into the greased cast iron skillet. Bake in the preheated oven for 25-28 minutes, until golden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago, I ran a column with a chili recipe, which I entered in the PA Cystic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[369,593,62,186],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","tag-chili","tag-cornbread","tag-kiss-the-cook","tag-troy-bowersox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crosshairscommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crosshairscommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crosshairscommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crosshairscommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crosshairscommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crosshairscommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":607,"href":"https:\/\/www.crosshairscommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions\/607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crosshairscommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crosshairscommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crosshairscommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crosshairscommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}