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Pineapple Juice Is A Splendidly Sweet Ingredient To Add To Cornbread
By Ashlyn Frassinelli
For those who prefer cornbread on the sweeter side, skip the honey and sugar and instead try adding pineapple juice to create tender and delicious cornbread.
Pineapple has the right combination of acidity and sweetness to take cornbread's taste and texture up a notch by enhancing the other flavors while taking a backseat itself.
Pineapple juice melds particularly well with the mildly sweet flavor of corn and the tartness of buttermilk in the batter, allowing the corn to be the star of the show.
If selecting crushed pineapple, be sure to use varieties made with 100% juice and no added sugar or syrup because it will make your cornbread taste more like cake.
Crushed pineapple has a thicker, chunkier texture than pineapple juice, and the bits of pineapple are crushed finely enough to blend easily into cornbread batter.
Pineapple juice works just as well if you use pure pineapple juice. Just ¼ cup or so is all you need to add to your next batch of cornbread.