Year 3 - Cooking and nutrition
Making rock cakes
Cooking around the world
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Unit Summary
This unit develops pupils' food skills through the context of food from around the world. Pupils learn about the structure of a recipe, how to portion foods evenly and, with supervision, use heat in cooking.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to make rock cakes.
Key Notes
- Rock cakes are from Britain and traditionally eaten at teatime. They were promoted in World War II due to rationing.
- The food skills used to make rock cakes are measuring, rubbing-in, mixing, cracking an egg, and portioning.
- Some mixtures need to be divided into equal sized portions, so that they cook evenly.
- Ovens are very hot. Dishes must be placed in and taken out while wearing oven gloves.
Vocabulary To Learn
- rationing: a fixed amount of food per person
- dividing: to split a mixture equally
- rubbing-in: to rub butter into flour
- oven: part of a cooker, used to bake or roast foods
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- The dried fruit in rock cakes counts towards our 5 A DAY.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Rock cakes are from Britain and traditionally eaten at teatime. They were promoted in World War II due to rationing. The food skills used to make rock cakes are measuring, rubbing-in, mixing, cracking an egg, and portioning.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'rationing'
a fixed amount of food per person.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: The dried fruit in rock cakes counts towards our 5 A DAY. Correction: The dried fruit does not count towards our 5 A DAY, as it is in small amounts. Rock cakes are sweet foods, containing sugar and fat. We need to eat less of these types of foods.
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