Residents of Kilcoole Lodge nursing home are flavour of the month after contributing to a new recipe book backed by celebrity chef Darina Allen.
Cecily, 88, and Hazel, 87, both residents of Kilcoole Lodge Nursing Home, are among the star chefs of the Nursing Home Bake Off publication created by Mowlam Healthcare.
The idea to gather a collection of residents favourite recipes was inspired by the trailblazing baking skills of a 91-year-old woman who lives in Ennis Nursing Home, Co Clare.
Ardent hurling fan and Liverpool FC supporter, Cissie Collins, bakes scones and apple cakes for fellow residents during baking demonstrations she hosts every Wednesday.
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Cissie Collins, 91, the inspiration behind Mowlam Healthcare s Nursing Home Bake Off Recipes book, prepares one of her special dishes in the kitchen of Ennis Nursing Home, Co Clare.
Clare woman inspires Nursing Home Bake Off recipe book
December 30, 2020
A CLARE woman is flavour of the month after becoming the inspiration behind a new recipe book backed by celebrity chef Darina Allen. The time-perfected desserts created by the residents of Mowlam Healthcare will be remembered forever in the ‘Nursing Home Bake Off’ publication.
But the idea to gather a collection of residents’ favourite recipes from across Ireland was inspired by the trailblazing baking skills of a 91-year-old woman in Ennis Nursing Home.
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Brid Dowling is one of the 51 kitchen-savvy pensioners who contributed recipes to the Nursing Home Bake Off publication );
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Kilkenny nursing home residents are flavour of the month after contributing to a new recipe book backed by celebrity chef Darina Allen.
Brid Dowling and Nancy Murphy are among the star chefs of the ‘Nursing Home Bake Off’ publication by Mowlam Healthcare, along with two other residents, Tom, 78, and Vera, all based in Archersrath Nursing Home.
The idea to gather a collection of residents’ favourite recipes was inspired by the trailblazing baking skills of a 91-year-old woman in Ennis Nursing Home, County Clare.
Nursing home residents who spent lockdown baking their favourite desserts have published a new cookbook.
Recipes from the residents of a Co Clare nursing home will be remembered in Nursing Home Bake Off, which has been backed by celebrity chef Darina Allen.
It was inspired by the trailblazing skills of 91-year-old Cissie Collins in Ennis Nursing Home where she makes scones and apple cakes for fellow residents.
Ms Collins is one of the 51 kitchen-savvy pensioners in Mowlam Healthcare nursing homes across Ireland who contributed recipes, some dating back three generations, and features on its front cover.
The grandmother said: “I haven’t got a minute. Every Wednesday, I give a demonstration and we usually have people after lunch with some time to spare, and they come and watch it.”