Recipes

Virtue Cornbread

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Description

Slightly sweet and buttery, this classic Southern cornbread is a must-order at Virtue, Erick Williams' flagship restaurant in Chicago, Illinois, where he celebrates the food of the Great Migration. Eat this cornbread warm the same day you bake it; any leftovers can be used to make Blueberry Cornbread French Toast or Lobster Tournedos with Cornbread.

Ingredients

  • cooking spray
  • ¾ cup (about 3 1/4 ounces) all-purpose flour
  • ¾ cup fine yellow cornmeal
  • ¼ cup granulated sugar
  • 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon kosher salt
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 cup whole buttermilk
  • 5 tablespoons (2 1/2 ounces) unsalted butter, melted

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 325°F. Coat an 8 1/2- x 4 1/2-inch loaf pan with cooking spray. Whisk together flour, cornmeal, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a large bowl. Whisk together eggs, buttermilk, and melted butter in a medium bowl. Stir egg mixture into flour mixture just until combined. Pour batter into prepared loaf pan; smooth top.
  2. Bake in preheated oven until cornbread is light brown around edges and a wooden pick inserted in center of loaf comes out clean, about 35 minutes. Remove from oven; let cool in loaf pan 5 minutes. Invert cornbread onto a wire rack, and let cool completely, about 30 minutes. Cornbread may be stored in a ziplock plastic bag at room temperature up to 2 days.