Kentucky · Bread
Kentucky Spoonbread
- Intermediate
- 60 min
- roughly 2 of 4 for cost
- Vegetarian
Leads with richness that coats and comforts.
Ingredients
- 750ml milk
- 150g white cornmeal
- 55g butter
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 4 eggs, separated
- 1 tsp baking powder
The skills inside
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Method
- Scald the milk, rain in the cornmeal whisking hard, and cook 5 min to a thick mush. 5 min
- Beat in the butter, salt, and sugar, then cool 10 min. 10 min
- Beat in the egg yolks one at a time, then the baking powder.
- Whip the whites to soft peaks and fold through in two additions.
- Pour into a buttered dish and bake at 190C for 35-40 min until puffed and golden. Serve at once with a spoon. 40 min
How to tell it is going right
This dish has no standard of its own yet. It is judged on the technique it exercises: checked at the pan, while there is still something to be done about it.
Whipping a meringue 40 recipes
- Bowl and whisk are clean and dry with no trace of fat or yolk. Grease prevents the foam outright, and there is no recovering a bowl that had it partway through.
- The sugar went in gradually once the whites were already foaming, rather than all at once at the start.
- No grit: a little rubbed between finger and thumb feels smooth, so the sugar has dissolved into the foam rather than sitting in it.
- Stiff peaks means the tip stands with a slight bow when the whisk lifts, and the bowl can be tipped without the mass moving in it.
- Glossy and smooth rather than chalky or dull, with no liquid gathering underneath it in the bowl.
Where it goes wrong It was whipped past stiff peaks. A minute beyond glory the protein network tightens and tears, the foam turns grainy and matte, water weeps out beneath it, and folding that into anything gives a mixture that collapses on the way to the oven.
At the Table
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