Lyn stars in our charity cookbook

Another of our residents is beaming with pride after her cherished recipe for cheese scones featured in our national charity cookbook.

Lyn Woodwork, 80, who lives at Nunthorpe Oaks Residential Care Home in Middlesbrough, is one of the stars of A Lifetime of Flavours: A Celebration of Food, Family and the Lives Behind Beloved Recipes.

The cookbook features 42 treasured recipes from residents aged 70 to 105 and celebrates the joy of cooking, memory, and continuity in later life.

Lyn has been a lifelong baker and fondly recalls the happiness she got from cooking with her mother throughout her childhood. Her cheese scones were her mother’s recipe and are her personal favourite that she still makes to this day.

“I have been told from many people how much they love them. I would constantly bake them for my neighbours and for street parties.” Said Lyn.

Now a resident at the Sanctuary Care home, Lyn still shares her passion for cooking by making her famous cheese scones for fellow residents.  

At the heart of A Lifetime of Flavours is Sanctuary Care’s Enriching Lives Framework – an evidence-based approach to care that focuses on maintaining identity, purpose, and joy in later life. The cookbook specifically celebrates ‘continuity’, one of the six senses within the framework, by showing how residents can carry on lifelong passions and traditions, such as cooking, even after moving into a care home.  

A Lifetime of Flavours is available to order with a donation to Mental Health UK. To order click here.