Year 5 - Cooking and nutrition
Making paska
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Unit Summary
In this unit pupils discover unfamiliar flavours of the world through tasting, and explore how food is woven into tradition, custom, religion and special occasions. To illustrate, pupils make Paska, a traditional bread for Easter.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to use food skills to make paska.
Key Notes
- Paska is a Ukrainian bread eaten at Easter and taken to church.
- There are many foods that are eaten to mark religious events and special occasions.
- The food skills used to make paska include measuring, zesting, juicing, mixing, kneading, shaping and using the oven.
Vocabulary To Learn
- religion: a system of faith, belief and worship
- Ukraine: a country in Eastern Europe
- paska: a traditional Easter bread from the Ukraine
- kneading: the process of pulling, folding and stretching a dough
- zesting: to scrape away the outer layer of peel from a citrus fruit
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Bread dough does not need to be kneaded.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Paska is a Ukrainian bread eaten at Easter and taken to church. There are many foods that are eaten to mark religious events and special occasions.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'religion'
a system of faith, belief and worship.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Bread dough does not need to be kneaded. Correction: Bread dough should be kneaded for 10 minutes, as it helps it to become smooth and elastic. Kneading helps the dough to rise.
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