A few weeks ago, Roccoco attended the ‘A Taste of Leyland’ food festival. They joined My Leyland who were launching their new Dementia Hub, to run a stall with retro food tasting.
Reminiscing can be a positive experience for people living with dementia – especially when they can share their memories with other people. And food can be a great trigger for memories of a time gone by. The team at Roccoco created dishes that people ate in the 1940s and 50s for tasting at the festival, including bread and butter pudding, made by David, John, Adam and Rebecca.
Other tasting samples included faggots, very rustic brown bread with mar-mite, sago pudding, milk jelly, and jelly’s, plus a corned beef hash. The team had some very good feed back from all at the food festival which is brilliant.
The dishes were made from ingredients that could be found in the cupboard at home or that people could get in the shops during the 1940s and 1950s as Britain was still rationing food at the time. The use of faggots show how people in the 1940s and 50s made tasty dishes out of parts of the animal that people now a days tend not to use.