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Heating Eggs

5 June 2019 · by Miss Skipper

What happens when you add heat to eggs ?

Room 2 decided to find out.

First, we went and collected some fresh veggies from our school garden to add to some eggs. Luckily, Room 2 planted some veggies last term. We collected kale, spring onion, spinach and parsley.

Next, we prepared our vegetables washing them and chopping them. We cracked eggs and mixed them before adding them to the hot pan.

What happened next? The heat changed the liquid egg in to a solid. Things sizzled and bubbled and smelt delicious.

Lastly, we ate the eggs. YUM!

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Vietnamese Summer Rolls

15 June 2017 · by Mrs de Koning

This Tuesday 13th June we went to the Tech Room to do some cooking. As part of our Book Week activities we decided to make some summer rolls.

Fist we prepared the ingredients. We could choose form these fillings – vermicelli, cucumber, lettuce, capsicum, carrots and beans. There were the rice paper sheets to wrap the ingredients in.We had chopsticks to eat them with. Also we had soy sauce and sweet chilli sauce for dipping our rolls in.

Everyone watched Mrs de Koning make the first roll. She soaked the rice paper in warm water for 30 seconds as we counted. Then she put the paper onto the table. It had to lay flat and round. Next in went the yummy vegetables!

Afterwards we just had to wrap the roll up like wrapping a parcel. Over went the two sides and then round and round we rolled it.

1/3 of the class stayed with Mrs B and Mrs Brindle and the rest of the class went back with Mrs de Koning to wait their turn. As each person made their summer roll and ate it, they went to the class to choose someone to take their place.

Those in class watched another video from YouTube about how to make vegetarian summer rolls. We loved making the rolls

Making Hot Cross Buns

23 March 2016 · by Mrs de Koning

On Tuesday 22nd March Mrs de Koning worked with half our class in the classroom, reading our poem of the week She also let us work on the ActivBoard, Listening Post, Library and I Pads. We practised our Reading and built up our stamina and mileage.

The rest of the class went with Mrs O’Grady, Mrs B and Mrs Green into the Tech Room. We read through the recipe and looked at the ingredients for Hot Cross Buns. We liked smelling the spices and seeing the flour, sugar, milk, baking powder, raisins and butter.

Flour

Sifting through the seive

Sifting carefully

A different sifter

Getting out the lumps

Putting in the Baking Powder

The dry ingredients

First we sifted the dry ingredients into he bowl. Each of the three groups made their own. There were about five students in each group, so we could see very clearly and help with the baking. Because the real Hot Cross Buns take a long time – they have yeast in which has to rise twice we decided to make Hot Cross Scones!

In goes the butter

The butter is soft

It goes intot he dry ingredients

Rubbing through the butter

Squishing butter intot he flour

Adding the milk

Making the dough wetter

and wetter

to make a dough

We followed the recipe to make sure we were doing the right thing. We wanted the scones to look right and taste right.

Stirring the flour

Putting in the raisins

In they go

Mixing the butter in

Round and round

Mixing it in

Stirring in the milk

Pushing the dough together

Pulling it out of the bowl

We made sure that we had clean dry hands before we started to cook. We used lots of different utensils.

Shaping the dough

Patting the dough

Making a rectangle

I am helping

Making the bun shapes for the scones

The empty bowl!

Into the oven they go!!

The groups swapped around and the baking started all over again. As we left the Tech Room we could smell the spicy scones cooking in the hot oven…mmmm!

This looks delicious

The icing crosses

Golden Brown

yummy

Tasty

Mrs de Koning hands out our Hot Cross Scones

A wrapped one to take home for Mum and dad

Perfect!!!

The next day we did our Oral Language Story writing. We recalled all we had done the day before. We talked about the colour, shape, size, tecture and position of the scones. Mrs de Koning wrote the story down. Then we listened to a YouTube clip about making simple Hot Cross Buns adn talked about the ways they were the same, and ways they were different to our Hot Cross Scones.

You might like to listen to it at home and make some Hot Cross Buns on Good Friday. Also our Hot Cross Scones recipe is on our Scrap Book. Please read it through with us…..

ANZAC BISCUITS – A Technology Unit

19 May 2015 · by Mrs de Koning

Further updates on our ANZAC Biscuit Technology Unit.

We looked at all the ingredients. We felt their texture, smelled them and also if we wanted to had a taste.

We read through our recipes again out loud. Next we all had turns at measuring out the basic ingredients for the biscuits.

Flour, Sugar, Baking Soda, Rolled Oats, Golden Syrup, Butter, Coconut, Boiling Water (we had to be very careful with this!)

We used different measuring tools: scales, cups, tablespoons and teaspoons. We tried to make our measurements exact……

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We made one biscuit plain and then we each chose one of our special ingredients to make an ANZAC biscuit which lots of people would like to buy.

Some people added raisins.. Some people added marshmellows..Some people added chocolate pieces.

We can’t wait to try them and see which is yummier!

Mrs de Koning cut us each a piece of Baking Paper to write our name on.

Then we got two different spoonfuls of dough. We rolled them in our clean hands and pressed them into slightly flattened circles.

We put them into the oven at 180 degrees Celsius. They stayed there until they were golden brown.

Mrs de Koning took them out of the oven for us because the home time bell had rung.

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Mrs de Koning put out cooled biscuits into an airtight container. And she brought them to school on Monday for us to taste.

Did we like the original mix best? Did we like our special recipe best? Which treat ingredient did we choose? Ask us all about it!

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