Silver Travel Cook Club - November 2020
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This month’s Silver Travel Cook Club features a recipe for easy-to-make 3-ingredient scones from our friends at MindforYou.
And you could win a voucher for free 'Joy Inside' sessions and a copy of The Healthy Mind Cookbook by Rebecca Katz, with big-flavour recipes from the top 20 brain-boosting foods!
MindforYou are passionate about opening up the world of holidays to everyone on their dementia journey. They bring joy by providing unique, life-enhancing, year-round specialist holidays in Scotland, Wales and England to people living with dementia, to their family and their friends.
With a high staff to guest ratio MindForYou work to support everyone throughout the holiday to make it as stress-free and enjoyable as possible for people living with dementia, for their relatives and for carers.
Sadly, traditional holidays have been curtailed by the Covid-19 crisis, but MindforYou have been working hard to transport holiday experiences into the home environment. Their new service, The Joy Inside, provides creativity, smiles, joy and laughter at home through poetry, art, board games, birdwatching, cooking and much more.
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In the kitchen, The Joy Inside includes food riddles, tips on food deliveries and how to keep your food fresher for longer, as well as some of the much-loved recipes from their holidays. Just click on the image of the food-themed activity pack on the right-hand side to see a digital version of all this mouth-watering information, including an amazingly easy scone recipe.
This recipe originally came from a 95-year-old lady
living in Australia, and is easy so that everyone can get involved in
the baking fun.
Recipe: 3-ingredient Scones
Preparation time: 20 minutes
Total time: 35 minutes
Serves: 4
Ingredients:
- 525g / 3½ self-raising flour (plus some for dusting)
- 250ml / 1 cup heavy cream
- 250ml / 1 cup lemonade (yes you read that right)
Preparation:
Preheat oven to 200°C and line a baking tray with greaseproof paper.
Combine all ingredients in a bowl and mix until the flour is combined. Try not to over mix as it will make the scones dense!
Turn out onto a floured surface and knead gently 4/5 times, then gently pat the mixture out until it is around 2.5 cm / 1 inch thick (don’t use a rolling pin!)
Use a round cutter or tumbler to cut your scones from the mixture, press straight up and down, don’t twist.
Place on your baking tray leaving enough space, so they don’t touch each other, and lightly brush the tops with some milk (if you have some in your fridge, if not don’t worry this isn’t essential).
Bake for 15 minutes until golden brown!
Take out and leave to cool, before enjoying with copious amounts of cream and home-made jam.
How to win a voucher for free 'Joy Inside' sessions from MindForYou and a copy of The Healthy Mind Cookbook by Rebecca Katz
What is your first food memory? 
Nibbling away on a Farley's rusk? A slice of dodgy cheese pie at primary school? That exotic pasta adventure on a family holiday in Italy?
Tell us about your first food memory and the best
entry will win the 'Joy Inside' voucher and a copy of The Healthy Mind Cookbook.
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My mum churning out various cakes, flans and pancakes on one of her "baking days".
Mind you, they were quite frequent, as my and my dad demolished everything produced.
Mum did try making cheesy potatoes at home, but they just weren't the same!
Do you remember Cremola? This was a treat for Sunday tea but disappeared from the shelves years and years ago. There was also another packet mix which separated into three layers I think it was called honeycomb mould...
One of my own first food memories is probably Mum's lemon meringue pie. She wasn't a brilliant cook, to be honest, but the pie - made with a packet of Royal lemon meringue pie mix - after a Sunday roast was the highlight of my culinary childhood. Until we discovered exotic spag bol.....
The nicest [ and most welcome] item of food I have been given was an iceberg lettuce , given to me when my husband visited me in hospital ....I really do not like food cooked or mixed up, so this was the ideal 'get well gift' for me.....[I still cook 'normal' food for other people though]