In most cases, glass baking dishes make attractive dishes for serving.
Nothing will make a glass dish shrink. ( Are you experiencing any other strange things.)
Shortening is used to make the dish fluffy.
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No you can't. It'll mess up the chemistry. You can use 1/2 baking soda 1/2 cream of tar tar I use this in all my baking as my mother never bought baking powder when I was a kid. should be two parts cream of tartar per one part baking soda. ex: 1/2 tsp. baking soda, 1 tsp. cream of tartar. Baking soda by itself is not acidic enough to react with all the basic ingredients in the recipe. Unless you add acidity by adding cream of tartar, the cornbread won't rise as much because not enough carbon dioxide will be produced.
Generally square, but if you make cornbread muffins then of course muffin shaped.
You can make your cornbread dressing more moist by adding more broth to the recipe. When you pour the dressing into the baking pan, if you have a little broth standing on top, it should turn out moist. Another way is, when you add the broth to the dressing mixture, stir it well, and let it sit for a little while to allow the cornbread to absorb the moisture. Then add more broth. I have also checked the dressing during baking, and if it seems to be getting dry, I drizzle broth over the top and put it back in the oven. The broth you add will absorb into the dressing.
Some dishes are better suited for a certain type of bakeware, so it is good to know the different properties of tempered glass bakeware and metal bakeware.Tempered glass bakeware -- Glass absorbs heat well. This means that, when you put a glass bake dish in the oven, it will take more time for the glass to reach oven temperature. Likewise, when you take the glass bake dish out of the oven, it will retain its temperature and cool down very slowly. Even after you take it out, the glass will continue to "bake" the dish for a while as it cools. This makes glass bakeware ideal for casseroles. Make sure your glass bakeware says "tempered" which means it's oven safe, tested to withstand high temperatures over 500 degrees.Metal bakeware -- Metal is a heat conductor. This means heat passes almost directly through it as if it was not there at all. When you remove the dish, the rim of the metal bakeware will be cool enough to touch after only a few minutes. The benefits are that they are light weight, easy to clean and they wont break if dropped. They're best used for simple bread dishes, cookies, brownies and most cakes. Note that metal bakeware dishes need to be watched more closely since burning the dish is more prevalent.You would use a different temperature for glass and metal baking when it comes to cakes muffins etc.
No, it has to be baked.
cornbread
To make them like baked potatoes, do approx. 1 hour. If you are doing them in a baking dish, slice them first. Then put in shallow baking dish for 30-45 minutes.