by Kirstie Newell | Mar 19, 2025 | Baking, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
Cooking Club Another weekend means another Cooking Club here at The Old Downs Residential Care Home. Our latest challenge? American triple chocolate cookies! We say ‘triple’ chocolate but what we really mean is ‘quadruple’, as we decided to add...
by Kirstie Newell | Jan 15, 2025 | Baking, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
As always, another weekend at The Old Downs Residential Care Home brings another edition of our popular Cooking Club, and with it being January it means Burns Night is approaching. It is ‘all things blue’ this month so last week our residents got busy...
by Jodie Currey | Jan 2, 2025 | Baking, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
Over the course of the run up to Christmas, we did a lot of baking here The Old Downs Residential Care Home. From cookies to cakes to bread, we did it all last month! We started the month of December off strong with making our own bread rolls – fresh cheddar and...
by Kirstie Newell | Nov 28, 2024 | Baking, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
For this week’s session of our Cooking Club, it was homemade bread on the menu here at The Old Downs Residential Care Home. We decided on bread as it was National Homemade Bread Day and our residents made two different types of loaves – one sun-dried tomato and one...
by Kirstie Newell | Nov 13, 2024 | Baking, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
Last week at The Old Downs Residential Care Home, with it being Remembrance Week, we thought we would make some delicate poppy cupcakes during our Cooking Club. Our clever residents baked vanilla cupcakes, frosted with homemade butter cream and then hand crafted...
by Kirstie Newell | Oct 2, 2024 | Baking, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
Saturday means another recipe here at The Old Downs Residential Care Home and last week we made apple and cinnamon buns. Our residents peeled fresh apples and rolled out pastry ready to fill with autumn-flavoured goodness. After rolling each bun up, we sprinkled them...
