by Kirstie Newell | May 27, 2021 | Cooking, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
On Wednesday 26 May our residents at The Old Downs Residential Care Home enjoyed a ‘bake and taste’ session together. Our ladies thoroughly enjoyed making a Victoria sponge, mixing the ingredients and filling the baking tins. It was super to watch the...
by Kirstie Newell | May 20, 2021 | Cooking, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
World Baking Day Our residents at The Old Downs Residential Care Home joined in to celebrate World Baking Day on 17 May by making some Viennese Whirls from scratch. Some of our ladies helped to mix ingredients and used a piping bag to make the biscuits. Later in the...
by Jodie Currey | Apr 1, 2021 | Cooking, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
Our residents at The Old Downs Residential Care Home are eating their way to Easter this week, with a Cadbury’s chocolate mini egg ‘Bake and Taste’ on Wednesday 31 March! A small group of our ladies poured out the cornflakes and stirred in the melted...
by Jodie Currey | Dec 28, 2020 | Cooking, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
Bake and Taste On Wednesday 23 December our residents here at The Old Downs Residential Care Home took part in a festive bake and taste session. Together, they baked some yummy shortbread star biscuits and dusted them with sugar; later on they enjoyed the best bit –...
by Kirstie Newell | Dec 16, 2020 | Cooking, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
The Christmas atmosphere continues to build here at The Old Downs Residential Care Home. Over the weekend our residents made and decorated their own delicious gingerbread men, which went down very nicely with a cup of tea! Great work! …we’ll have to make...
by Kirstie Newell | Nov 30, 2020 | Cooking, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
You can’t beat one of Vira’s baking classes at The Old Downs Residential Care Home and last week cheese scones were on the menu. Our residents mixed, rolled and cut out the pastry, before they were taken off to be baked. Something warm and savoury for a...