Year 8 - Cooking and nutrition
Making mini Victoria sponges
Local food to worldwide cuisine
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Unit Summary
This unit focuses on the wide range of cuisines, ingredients, cooking techniques and equipment that are used around the world. Pupils explore food imports, food produced in the UK, and food waste. They cook two dishes to highlight cuisine differences, undertaking different types of evaluation.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to use food skills to make mini Victoria sponges.
Key Notes
- The Victoria sponge, also known as cake, was named after Queen Victoria, and was popular with afternoon tea.
- Cakes rise due to the action of creaming butter and sugar together, and the use of self-raising flour and beaten eggs.
- The food skills used to make a cake are measuring, creaming, folding, portioning, using an oven and spreading.
- Cakes baked in smaller tins and cases cook more quickly as the heat can transfer more easily.
- Discrimination tests rate the intensity of sensory attributes and can be used to compare similar dishes.
Vocabulary To Learn
- Queen Victoria: queen of the UK from 1837 to 1901
- discrimination tests: tests to rate the intensity of sensory attributes or compare similar foods
- sponge: a sweet, soft baked food, usually made with sugar, butter, flour and eggs
- folding: mixing in flour through the action of cutting and turning the mixture using a spoon
- creaming: to work two ingredients into a smooth paste
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- A sponge and cake are the same.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
The Victoria sponge, also known as cake, was named after Queen Victoria, and was popular with afternoon tea. Cakes rise due to the action of creaming butter and sugar together, and the use of self-raising flour and beaten eggs.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'Queen Victoria'
queen of the UK from 1837 to 1901.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: A sponge and cake are the same. Correction: Often the term 'sponge' and 'cake' are used interchangeably. However, sponges are traditionally made from eggs, flour and sugar (no butter), e.g. Swiss roll, and cakes are made from eggs, flour, sugar and butter, e.g. lemon drizzle cake.
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