Cornbread—a scrumptious, baked mixture of cornmeal and water developed by Native People lengthy earlier than any belt-buckle-shoe-wearing expat stumbled upon this continent—rocks. Nice alongside salt-crusted meat (like this dry brined turkey), higher because the vessel with which you shovel inexperienced beans face-wards, and finest slathered in butter, toasted in a cast-iron, then, once more, slathered in butter, cornbread belongs inside any vacation unfold. Particularly if it’s moist, crisp, and full of taste—qualities current in all of those 5 cornbread recipes.

1. Solid-Iron Skillet Cornbread

After sampling this recipe from Group member Cratecooking, our former editors left the next evaluate: “This cornbread has all of it—it is barely tangy from buttermilk, gluten-free because of 100% cornmeal, candy from maple syrup, and, after all, just-crispy-enough from its sizzling skillet (which additionally earns it main fashion factors).”

2. Cracklin’ Cornbread

This recipe comes from Sean Brock, a James Beard Award-winning chef whose Charleston, South Carolina restaurant, Husk, is revered for its cornbread. Level being: You may belief this man.

3. Jalapeño Cornbread With Corn

Recipe developer Renae Wilson places it finest: “On this tacky, spicy spin on my basic base recipe, chopped recent jalapeños, cubes of full-fat cream cheese, and freshly shorn corn kernels stud a grainy, hardy crumb that’s rounded out by barely salty, tangy buttermilk.”

4. Scorching Honey Cornbread

Someway, this cornbread—which you’ll be able to see beneath—tastes higher than it appears to be like. Honey, jalapeños, corn kernels taste an impossibly luxurious inside—offering your friends excellent cornbread chew, after excellent cornbread chew.

5. Andouille Sausage & Cornbread Stuffing

A chilly, however right take: Cornbread stuffing is one of the best stuffing. Particularly when Andouille sausage and loads of sage and rosemary be a part of the occasion.