Year 5 - Cooking and nutrition
Making fruit scone wedges
Creative cooking
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Unit Summary
This unit focuses on being creative with food, looking at how recipes can be adapted. Changing ingredients, forming different shapes and great presentation are covered. Food skills are further secured, with attention to health and safety.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to use food skills to make fruit scone wedges.
Key Notes
- Scones are thought to have originated from Scotland in the early 1500s. There are many variations around the world.
- The food skills used to make fruit scone wedges are measuring, rubbing-in, mixing, shaping, scoring and using the oven.
- Baked recipes can be adapted to use different types of flour, include other ingredients and be shaped differently.
- Heat from the oven will take longer to penetrate and cook the scone/wedge the larger it is.
Vocabulary To Learn
- scone: a type of baked cake, made with flour, fat (e.g. butter) and milk
- rubbing-in: to rub a fat into flour
- shaping: to form, or shape, a dough, e.g. round, oval, wedge
- baking: to cook food by dry heat, such as in an oven
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- No matter the size of the scones, they are baked for the same length of time.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Scones are thought to have originated from Scotland in the early 1500s. There are many variations around the world. The food skills used to make fruit scone wedges are measuring, rubbing-in, mixing, shaping, scoring and using the oven.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'scone'
a type of baked cake, made with flour, fat (e.g. butter) and milk.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: No matter the size of the scones, they are baked for the same length of time. Correction: The heat from the oven will take longer to penetrate and cook the scones the bigger they are. Therefore smaller scones will cook more quickly than bigger scones.
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