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Dorie Greenspan
Dorie Greenspan
Dorie Greenspan is a celebrated food writer, expert baker, and 5-time winner of the James Beard Foundation Award.She has written 14 cookbooks, including Baking with Julia (1996), Desserts by Pierre Hermes (1998) Baking From My Home to Yours (2005), Dorie’s Cookies (2015), Baking Chez Moi (2014), and Baking with Dorie (2021).
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Updated August 09, 2018
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I’m still in Paris (yay!) and while I saw brilliant yellow forsythia when I was at the Sunday market, and while there are a few cherry blossoms out in the gardens that get full sun, it’s been cold and rainy all week—we even had snow for two seconds and a couple of hail showers—which means I’m still making hearty soups and substantial stews, one of which, a daube of red wine and beef cheeks, is simmering in the oven now. Between the chill outside and the breeze that comes through my ancient window frames, I don’t think my friends will find it unwelcome.
The daube will be familiar to my Parisian pals, but its accompaniment won’t—I’m going to serve the stew with a basketful of corn muffins. Of course, I’ll have to use frozen corn, but I can find really good cornmeal here, so it will be fine. And I might add a few herbs and a little bacon to the mix (the bacon here is fabulous), just to make it more savory and because there’s bacon in the daube. The way I see it, adding bacon to the muffins is like pulling an outfit together by wearing a scarf that picks up the color of your shoes. And besides, what isn’t better with bacon?
Recipe Details
Baking With Dorie: Corniest Corn Muffins Recipe
Prep15 mins
Cook20 mins
Total35 mins
Serves12 muffins
Ingredients
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup cornmeal
6 tablespoons sugar
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
Pinch freshly grated nutmeg (optional)
1 cup buttermilk
3 tablespoons (1 1/2 ounces) unsalted butter, melted and cooled
3 tablespoons corn oil
1 large egg
1 large egg yolk
1/3 cup corn kernels(add up to 1/3 cup more if you’d like), fresh, frozen or canned (in which case they should be drained and patted dry)
Directions
Getting ready: Center a rack in the oven and preheat the oven to 400°F. Butter or spray the 12 muffin molds in a regular-size muffin tin, or fit the molds with paper muffin cups.
Working in a large bowl, whisk together the flour, cornmeal, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt and nutmeg. In a large glass measuring cup with a spout or in another bowl, whisk together the buttermilk, melted butter, oil, egg and yolk. Pour the liquid ingredients over the dry ingredients and, with the whisk or a rubber spatula, gently but quickly stir to blend. Don’t worry about being thorough – the batter will be lumpy and that’s just the way it should be. Stir in the corn kernels. Divide the batter evenly among the muffin molds.
Slide the pan into the oven and bake 15 to 18 minutes, or until the tops are golden and a knife inserted into the center of the muffins comes out clean. Pull the pan from the oven and carefully lift each muffin out of its mold and onto a rack to cool.
Serving: The muffins are great warm or at room temperature and particularly great split, toasted and slathered with butter or jam or both (if they’re not in breadbasket at dinner, that is).
Storing: Like all muffins, these are best eaten the day they are made. If you want to keep them, it’s best to wrap them airtight and pop them into the freezer, where they’ll keep for about a month; re-warm in a 300°F oven, if you’d like, or split them and toast them—do that and they’ll be that much more delicious with butter.
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| Nutrition Facts (per serving) | |
|---|---|
| 184 | Calories |
| 8g | Fat |
| 24g | Carbs |
| 4g | Protein |
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| Nutrition Facts | |
|---|---|
| Servings: 12 | |
| Amount per serving | |
| Calories | 184 |
| % Daily Value* | |
| Total Fat 8g | 10% |
| Saturated Fat 3g | 14% |
| Cholesterol 55mg | 18% |
| Sodium 271mg | 12% |
| Total Carbohydrate 24g | 9% |
| Dietary Fiber 1g | 4% |
| Total Sugars 8g | |
| Protein 4g | |
| Vitamin C 0mg | 2% |
| Calcium 90mg | 7% |
| Iron 1mg | 6% |
| Potassium 94mg | 2% |
| *The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a food serving contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice. | |
(Nutrition information is calculated using an ingredient database and should be considered an estimate.)
