Year 4 - Cooking and nutrition
Making raisin and banana cookies
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Unit Summary
This unit focuses on weighing and measuring, making three dishes to refine food skills. Historical context and science through food is explored during cooking activity.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to use food skills to make raisin and banana cookies.
Key Notes
- Cookies date back to 7th century Persia (now Iran), and were used by bakers to test the temperature of the oven.
- Cookies contain fat (e.g. baking spread) and sugar, so should be eaten in small amounts.
- The food skills used to make raisin and banana cookies are measuring, mixing, mashing, dividing and using the oven.
- The cookies need to be the same size, for even cooking. If smaller, they will burn, if bigger, they will be undercooked.
Vocabulary To Learn
- cookies: a soft and chewy type of baked biscuit
- mashing: to crush a food to a soft paste
- creaming: to mix fat (baking spread) and sugar together to add air
- dividing: to separate a mixture, often into equal quantities
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- You can bake cookies of different sizes on the same tray, making a bigger one for yourself.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Cookies date back to 7th century Persia (now Iran), and were used by bakers to test the temperature of the oven. Cookies contain fat (e.g. baking spread) and sugar, so should be eaten in small amounts.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'cookies'
a soft and chewy type of baked biscuit.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: You can bake cookies of different sizes on the same tray, making a bigger one for yourself. Correction: The cookies need to be the same size, for even cooking. If smaller, they will burn, if bigger, they will be undercooked.
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