Mixing Dry Ingredients for Cornbread

Mixing Dry Ingredients for Cornbread
Hi, my name is Brandon Sarkis on behalf of Expert Village. Today I am going to show you how to make buttermilk cornbread as well as jalape?o buttermilk cornbread. So we are going to take our first bowl and what we are going to do, going to put our flour in and we are going to put our cornmeal in first, before we do anything else. Take our whip and use the whip to mix them both together. If you don't mix them together now, you are going to have a really hard time mixing them together later. Also, what will happen, the sharp edges of the cornmeal will also help mill the four a little bit. Kind of soften it up, as well as the combination of the whisk and the sharp edges of the cornmeal will also help break up any lumps of flour that were in there. As you can see now, I got a lot different looking recipe here. So lets go ahead and take our baking powder, get all of it out of there, as well as our baking soda. Both of those in there. You always want to do your salt last because, if you put your salt in first, it will just sink right to the bottom. It is really important here as you do this, you get all the sides and you get everything all the way through. Turn your bowl like I am doing as you mix it so you can kind of replicate the actions of a mixer. You could use a mixer if you wanted to. It is just as really easy to make a giant mess with a mixer while doing this and I want to try to avoid that. Now we will take our salt. Just sprinkle our salt pretty evenly across the top. Just a couple of turns here and we should be good with the salt. There we go. See how I have everything mixed together? We are just take this set it aside and move on to mixing up our wet ingredients next.