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Preparation info
  • Serves

    8

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Zingerman’s Bakehouse Celebrate Every Day: A Year's Worth of Favorite Recipes for Festive Occasions, Big and Small

By Amy Emberling, Lindsay-Jean Hard, Lee Vedder and Corynn Coscia

Published 2024

  • About

Zingerman’s Roadhouse’s Spider Bread is a unique melding of New England– and Southern-style cornbread, so it might not be a cornbread you’re used to. As Zingerman’s cofounder Ari Weinzweig explains, it’s first cooked in a skillet, preferably cast iron (the name comes from three-legged cast-iron pans called spiders, in which breads like this one were originally made), and it has a swirl of heavy cream baked into the batter that gives it a custardy texture. The Roadhouse’s version is especial