Cook the Book: Craig Claiborne's Sunflower, Mississippi, Spoonbread

Name: Cook the Book: Craig Claiborne's Sunflower, Mississippi, Spoonbread
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Southern
Ingredients: 2 teaspoons baking powder; 3 Tbsps butter; 4 eggs, separated; 355 milliliters sifted stone-ground yellow cornmeal; 710 milliliters milk; 1 teaspoon salt

The recipe Cook the Book: Craig Claiborne's Sunflower, Mississippi, Spoonbread could satisfy your Southern craving in about 45 minutes. This recipe covers 19% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe makes 4 servings with 481 calories, 17g of protein, and 22g of fat each. It works well as a cheap main course. It is a good option if you're following a gluten free and vegetarian diet. If you have baking powder, butter, milk, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the ground cornmeal you could follow this main course with the Cornmeal Pie as a dessert.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350°F, and spray a deep 1 1/2- to 2-quart baking dish with oil.

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Bring the milk to a boil in a medium saucepan, preferably nonstick. Gradually pour in the cornmeal with one hand, whisking with the other, creating a very thick mixture. Reduce heat; add the butter and salt. Continue cooking over low heat, stirring almost constantly, for 10 minutes.

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Cornmeal

Butter

Milk

Salt

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Whisk

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Remove the cooked mush from the stove; transfer it to a medium-size heat-proof bowl.

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Let the mush cool to lukewarm, about 20 minutes.

Meanwhile, place the egg yolks in a small bowl and the whites in a large, high-sided, nonplastic bowl. When the mush is lukewarm, beat yolks vigorously with a fork, then whip baking powder into them and quickly mix yolks into the mush, making sure yolk mixture is thoroughly incorporated.

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Beat egg whites until stiff and glossy. Gently fold them into mush; transfer batter to prepared baking dish.

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Bake until a knife inserted into center comes out barely clean, about 40 minutes. The spoonbread will have risen slightly, and its top will be irregular, with small deeply golden-brown patches.

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Serve immediately.

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Servings:

2teaspoons

baking powder 3Tbsps

butter 4

eggs, separated 355milliliters

sifted stone-ground yellow cornmeal 710milliliters

milk 1teaspoon

salt

Recommended wine: Riesling, Sparkling Wine, Zinfandel

Southern works really well with Riesling, Sparkling Wine, and Zinfandel. In general, there are a few rules that will help you pair wine with southern food. Food-friendly riesling or sparkling white wine will work with many fried foods, while zinfandel is great with barbecued fare. You could try Forge Cellars Classique Riesling. Reviewers quite like it with a 4 out of 5 star rating and a price of about 21 dollars per bottle.