Firecracker Cornbread Recipe

Name: Firecracker Cornbread Recipe
Yield: Makes 10 slices.
Ingredients: 3 tablespoons butter; 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes; 1 cup whole wheat pastry flour; 3/4 cup instant cornmeal (or instant polenta) or fine-grain cornmeal; 1/4 cup natural cane sugar (or brown sugar); 1 tablespoon aluminum-free baking powder; 1 1/2 teaspoons fine grain sea salt; 1 cup buttermilk; 1 large egg; 2 1/2 cups corn, fresh (or at room temperature if previously frozen); more butter for drizzling (optional)

A moist, tender buttermilk cornbread packed with corn kernels and flecked with red pepper flakes. Simple and delicious.

By 101cookbooks · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients

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Why it works: Wheat and corn match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 465 recipes. Both carry hexanal, which smells green, grassy. The science ↓

Firecracker Cornbread Recipe

Makes 10 slices.

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

918Calories

31 gProtein

28 gFat

138 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 10 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Corn	1/2 cup kernels (82g)	77
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Chili	1 tsp (2.7g)	8
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Wheat	not in our table	0
Pastry	not in our table	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By 101cookbooks. 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

Wheat + corntop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together465 recipes

Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).
Flour + buttermilktop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together3,721 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Sugar + buttermilktop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,973 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Pepper + corntop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together5,324 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Wheat + flourtop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,373 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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