A High Wycombe care home has joined a country-wide campaign with a local nursery to preserve historic family recipes from being lost.
A survey by Care UK, operators of Ridley Manor in Lane End, revealed that 65 per cent of UK citizens don't use handed-down family recipes, but 43 per cent hope to keep them alive.
To prevent their disappearance, Care UK compiled a free downloadable cookbook, featuring favourite dishes of care home residents nationwide.
Desperate to maintain the local recipe legacy, Ridley Manor's residents recently teamed up with children from Sunshine Montessori Nursery for a joint cooking class.
Together, they prepared a 100-year-old bread-and-butter-pudding recipe.
The following day, children returned for blind tasting of the pudding and other traditional family dishes.
Resident Joan said: "It was a wonderful afternoon spent laughing and reminiscing about the times spent cooking with my mother when I was younger."
Echoing her sentiments, Ridley Manor General Manager, Estelle Adriaans, said: "Just like a photograph, a family recipe can be a way to revisit the past and reminisce on a cherished memory or loved ones."
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