Product: Pamela’s Products Gluten-Free Cornbread and Muffin Mix – $4.67+
Ah…cornbread.
I’ve gone through the motions with gluten-free cornbread. Honestly. I’ve had it seem rubbery and dense. I’ve made my own with a gluten-free baking mix (ironically, Pamela’s) and cornmeal. So it went from…blech to ehhh…
Before heading to a race one night, however, I was browsing the aisles of a grocery store in that city and spotted a manager’s special on a package of Pamela’s Products Gluten-Free Cornbread and Muffin Mix. I figured, as so far every product I’ve tried by Pamela’s has impressed me, that I’d go ahead and pick this up and find a good occasion to bake it up.
Well, that occasion arrived this past week when my roommate had to have a wisdom tooth pulled. I had made up a gluten-free Pappa al Pomodoro soup for the occasion, and to accompany it, I thought cornbread might be awesome. So, I pulled this package out of my pantry, got all the ingredients together to mix it up (eggs, sugar, melted butter, water) and got to work in my little kitchen. It was so easy to make. I waffled a bit on putting the sugar into the cornbread. Being a girl from New York, the idea of sugar in cornbread turns it into cake. But as this was for my roommate’s sake, I asked what she wanted and she opted to keep the sugar in. So, in it went. Mixing it was easy and the consistency of the batter was awesome. I was pretty excited when I went to pour it into my baking pan and put it into the preheated oven to cook up.
It doesn’t take long. About 25 minutes and…done. What emerges from the oven is a fluffy, delicious looking pan of gluten-free cornbread. Naturally, my roommate and wanted to try a piece right away. So, we let it cool some before I sliced into it (16 pieces) and we each picked one to immediately nosh on.
My roommate immediately said the best thing I did was add the sugar to it. She was in cornbread heaven. To me, I still think the sugar is too much, but the instructions on the package do indicate that if you want less sweet, it is okay to eliminate the sugar. Which, I might do next time. But, that’s not saying this was no good. In fact, I had never been so happy with a gluten-free cornbread mix in my life. Honestly, the texture is amazing, the taste is superb, and it really made a delicious addition to the week of soup and soft breads while her mouth healed. I was beyond impressed.
When it comes to gluten-free products, you just learn to rely on some brands for quality. I have become quite fond of Pamela’s Products line of gluten-free goods. And every time I walk by the gluten-free section at the grocery store, I begin plotting the next mix or cookie or treat that I’ll purchase and then try. When a company gets it…they get it. Pamela’s Products continues to wow me with super-great products that are safe for me to eat…and delicious to boot.
I’m a fan for life.
The Celiathlete 