BVC Eats: Better corn bread

a smoking-hot cast iron pan greased with deeply browned butter makes a perfect crust

My husband recently entered a bake-off with the cast and crew of Motown: The Musical at the Oriental Theater in Chicago. Bless him, he wanted to enter my corn bread. I said, Hey, it’s just the Better Homes & Gardens cookbook recipe. You know. The book with the red and white checks on the cover? Then he made a trial batch.

Turns out, it’s kind-of not their recipe after all. The differences are mostly fiddly bits...