How to Split the Batter for Cornbread

How to Split the Batter for Cornbread
Hi, my name is Brandon Sarkis on behalf of Expert Village. Today, I'm going to be showing you how to make buttermilk cornbread, as well as jalapeno buttermilk cornbread. Alright, so the first thing I want to do, I want to add my liquid ingredients first, because, if you add liquid to dry, what happens, you want to use your spatula to scrape all of it, because what will happen is some of the butter fats will actually congeal. But, back to what I was saying now, if you add the dry, or wet on top of the dry, the dry sticks to the bottom of the bowl, and you'll always have some down there that doesn't want to play with the rest of the mixture and will make things difficult for you. So, let's take, that's just butter solids, butter fat. I'm just going to scrape that out here, let's try to get all the mixture together. And, now what I do, is I add the flour in parts, or the dry mixture in parts, so I'm just going to add in just a little bit to start, because if you add it all at once, it's just way too hard to keep track of it as you mix it up. Always going to start in the middle, get it going, and then, you're going to start working on your edges, like this. Get that whisk all up on the edges to help scrape it down. Now, what you're looking for here, is you're looking for grainy, you know, you're not going to get a perfectly smooth mixture with this, because if you do, you're not making cornbread, you're making a really funky tasting cake, and no one likes that. Alright, so, like I said, start stirring from the center here, get everything kind of nicely mixed together, then we're going to go to our edges, start working on those. Just like that. You want to make sure you get all the way to the bottom, all the way through. Now, you'll see our mixture has taken on a nice, cornbread batter looking appearance. So, what I'm going to do now is, I'm actually going to split this half and half between the 2 bowls that I already have. Or, I guess I could take half out of here and put it in a bowl. Either way, because I'm going to break off and do one regular cornbread and I'm also going to do a jalapeno cornbread. So, let's split those. Ok, so, I'm just going to take about half my mixture here, so I'll just draw a line in it and just start scrapping. That looks about even, maybe a little more on this side. Here we go. Whoops, making a mess. Alright, so now, I've got 2 different batches of cornbread. One is my buttermilk cornbread and one is going to be my jalapeno corn bread. So, let's start the jalapeno cornbread now.