Senior Care Recipes: Traditional Cornbread

Senior Care in Malibu CA

Baking together is a wonderful way for you to spend quality time with your aging loved ones and add a fun, beneficial activity to your senior care plan. By following a recipe and participating in the actual steps of the process, your seniors can stimulate their minds, exercise their critical thinking skills, strengthen their memory skills, and support ongoing mental and emotional health in a way that gives them a delicious reward at the end of the project.

This recipe is for traditional cornbread, a delectable addition to a wide variety of meals. Bake up a fresh batch to enjoy with dinner, then wrap the leftovers and enjoy them cold in the morning with a drizzle of honey for a satisfying breakfast. This recipe is also perfect for incorporating into other meals you or your elderly loved ones’ senior health care services provider make for your parents, such as cornbread-topped chili.

 

What You’ll Need

• 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, plus more for preparing the baking dish

• 1 cup cornmeal

• 3/4 cup all-purpose flour

• 1 tablespoon sugar

• 1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder

• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda

• 1/4 teaspoon salt

• 2 large whole eggs

• 1 1/2 cups buttermilk

• Glass measuring cup

• Whisk

• Rubber spatula

• 8-inch baking dish

• 2 mixing bowl

 

What to Do

• Preheat the oven to 425 degrees

• Coat the entire inside of the baking dish with softened butter and set aside

• Put the corn meal and flour into one mixing bowl and use the whisk to incorporate the ingredients and break up any lumps

• Add in the sugar, salt, baking soda, and baking powder and incorporate thoroughly with the whisk

• Set this mixture aside

• Put the whole eggs in a separate bowl and use the whisk to beat them lightly

• Add in the buttermilk and combine

• Put the 6 tablespoons of unsalted butter in the glass measuring cup and microwave until melted

• Mix the melted butter into the wet ingredients mixture

• Pour the wet ingredients mixture into the cornmeal and flour mixture and use the rubber spatula to combine thoroughly

• Mix until there are no dry spots, but the mixture is still lumpy

• Pour the batter into the prepared baking dish

• Bake for 20 to 25 minutes until baked through

• Remove from the oven and allow to cool for 5 minutes in the dish before carefully inverting onto the wire baking dish to cool further before serving

 

For even more flavor, try customizing your cornbread with add-ins such as:

• Chopped chili peppers such as jalapenos or poblanos

• Whole kernel sweet corn

• Crumbled crisp-cooked bacon

 

Serve your cornbread warm with melted butter, crumble over a bowl of chili or chicken soup, serve with black eyed peas and stewed tomatoes, or enjoy cool with honey.

 

Get in touch with the elder care agency in your area to find out more about hiring a senior health care services provider who can enhance your care plan for your aging parents by planning fun and beneficial activities that support their mental, emotional, and physical health.

If you or an aging loved one needs senior care services in Malibu, CA, call Livewell Private Care at (310) 933-4986.  Servicing Los Angeles, CA and the surrounding areas.