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Skillet Baked Lemon Cream Cheese Cornbread

Creamy and quick cooking skillet cornbread.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and cream cheese work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and 882 recipes mention both. Both carry myrcene, which smells balsamic, herbaceous. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 6
Prep5 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C) with a 10-inch cast-iron skillet inside while you mix the batter.

  2. In a large bowl, whisk the cornmeal and self-rising flour together, then stir in the lemon zest.

  3. In a separate bowl, beat the eggs with the buttermilk and the juice of the lemon.

  4. Pour the egg mixture into the dry ingredients and stir until just combined. If the batter is too stiff to spread, loosen it with a splash of water.

  5. In another bowl, beat the softened cream cheese until smooth.

  6. Carefully remove the hot skillet and pour in the batter. Dollop the cream cheese over the top and swirl gently with a knife.

  7. Bake for 18 to 20 minutes, until golden on top and set in the center.

  8. Let the cornbread cool in the skillet for 5 minutes. If using, brush the top with the melted butter.

  9. Slice into 6 wedges and serve warm.

By tastykitchen. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Lemon + cream cheesetop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together882 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  2. Cream cheese + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,746 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Flour + buttermilktop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together3,667 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Flour + buttertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together122,858 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Egg + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together118,511 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

Flour and butter share little aroma chemistry, yet 122,858 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs