Heston Blumenthal’s Cornbread Muffins
11 January 2013
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I love to plan ahead, always have, probably always will. Last year I made a couple of lists (here and here) of the things I hoped to achieve over the coming months, so following in that fashion here are 13 fun dates for 2013:
1. Go on the London Eye – 13 years later I’ve not gone on it yet!
2. Bike along the coast from Margate to Reculver.
3. Visit the Biddendens Vineyard.
4. Visit the Chelsea Physics Gardens.
5. Take my boyfriend to Meatliquor’s (photos here and here) sister restaurant Meatmarket (photos here)
6. Go to the Hobbs House Bakery and Bistro
7. Day trip to Bath
8. Historical tour of Canterbury (see the cathedral, museums and tower)
9. Visit Ambrette
10. Explore the attractions that make Margate one of the Rough Guides top 10 places to visit in 2013
11. Trip to Whitstable to go on our long overdue date to eat fish and chips and spend the day at the bar on the beach.
12. Harry Potter Tour – we’re nerds, I am aware!
13. See 6 films at the cinema.
I was considering adding more ‘adventurous’ ideas to the list (skydiving anyone? how about running a marathon?) but I am getting the overwhelming feeling that 2013 is going to be the year that I tackle all those ‘one day’ intentions that I promise myself.
Which is a good segway into this recipe, as I have been curious about it for over a decade. I remember the first time I heard about cornbread, it was given as a gift between characters in the Green Mile. I was intrigued (much as I am with American biscuits) but I was soon distracted, probably by boys and other teenage things.
Of all the things in Heston Blumenthal’s cookbook this is probably the most tame, after flicking through pages of delicious looking creations involved dry ice and and pressurised gas cannisters it seemed impossible not to make this recipe as I already had all the ingredients (and tools) in the house.
I can honestly say this recipe will be whipped out at every opportunity, it is so simple, quick and the results are incredible. They are the perfect mix of sweet and savoury as well and being light and fluffy. I can’t wait to experiment with different additions to them – chunks of pancetta perhaps?
Heston Blumenthal’s Cornbread Muffins
from Heston Blumenthal at Home
makes 12 muffins
120g plain flour, plus extra for dusting
120g cornmeal
20g baking powder
1 tsp salt
40g unrefined caster sugar
100g whole milk
280g buttermilk
2 large eggs, lightly beaten
50g unsalted butter, melted and cooled, please extra for greasing
3 preserved jalapeno chillies diced
Preheat the oven to 180C then grease and flour a 12 hole muffin tin.
In one bowl sift the flour, cornmeal, baking powder, salt and sugar and make a well in the centre.
In a separate bowl mix the buttermilk, milk, eggs and melted butter.
Pour into the well of the dried ingredients and stir the mixture with a wooden spoon until it comes together. Stir in the chillies.
Fill each hole in the tin until it’s about ¾ full and bake for 20 minutes.
Remove from the oven, and allow the muffins to cool on a wire rack.
What a great list! And such a fabulous muffin recipe. I love it!
Thanks Katrina! I can’t wait to start crossing bits off!
I like a recipe, but I love your list. I have mine as well
Hope you manage to get everything done on it this year!
I would love to spend a day touring Bath. I love your list. I didn’t know Heston cooked such simple recipes and so I’ve never bought any of this cookbooks. xx
most of them are quite complicated which is why when I stumble across an easy one I have to do it!
These look great! I loved meeting Heston. He is pretty down to earth for such an amazing guy. I wanna do the Harry Potter Land tour too!! It’s on my list of to dos for this year too. It’s going to be a great year
I am so jealous that you got to meet him! 2013 is going to be awesome!
What an excellent list for the year, I think I’ve been inspired to write my own!
Thanks Kathryn! I was trying to make it achievable!
Heston anything must taste brilliant so I really want to try this recipe
Your photos are awesome!
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Thanks CCU! I really enjoyed them!
wait, you didn’t mention buttermilk in ingredients, but use it in the recipe! help! I wanna do these right now, but I don’t know how much buttermilk did you use! arghh (and I need to know it to skip/replace buttermilk which is unavailable here where I live)
oops sorry my mistake! it’s updated now!
Thanks a lot! Actually, I’ve searched the web and found the buttermilk amount later on, I live in Asia, so buttermilk, cream etc. are unavailable/pricey, so after consulting the web again, I went for sugar-free yoghurt – these turned out great and disappeared quickly! I am freezing one muffin to see if it’ll be as good defrosted – if yes, then tomorrow I can triple the amount and freeze a biiiiiiig batch – thank you a lot, this is really supereasy, superquick and supertasty recipe to keep, I am already wondering if I can add some veggies – the muffins are probably too light to bear any veggies, but still I am tempted to try.
Oh sorry for the panicking first post and a messy flow of thought right now, I am just overexcited
Thank you!
I’m going to have to try them with yoghurt! let me know how freezing them goes
Ah! Love this post. With a baby on the way, we need to get some dates planned. I can’t wait to make my own list. And I love cornbread. Seriously could eat it everyday. Thank you for sharing with me! I hope you have a good start to your week. Stay happy and warm!
Thanks Monet! A prebaby list sounds like a great idea as I bet you’ll be too preoccupied with all the cuteness when the little one arrives!
These look so moist and tasty! I love Heston and any recipe he makes. Yum!
Thank you! I loved them! I can’t wait to make them again!
This is an ace list – I totally want to go on the Harry Potter tour too! Love these little muffins too – cornbread is something I don’t make enough!
I love cornbread I can’t believe I’ve waited this long to try them!
Hi Jenny, good job on the muffins they look divine. Have you made his chilli with spiced butter. It’s incredible. If you look on my blog you’ll find I’ve tried a few recipes from his book also.
Thanks David, I’m going to go check out it now!
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