by Retha Basham | 4 Sep 2018 | Latest, Pastry
With our buttermilk scones lesson we teach the children about dairy products and show them photos of a cow. We ask the children what products that we can eat or drink comes from milk. We then use cream and whisk it to show them how butter and buttermilk is made. The...
by Retha Basham | 23 Oct 2017 | Pastry, Recipes
With this honey bear bread recipe, we usually do a lesson about honey bees and honey, and the health benefits of honey. We touch on how honey is made and show the children pictures of bees and honey combs. This is a very easy and lovely recipe that you can make...
by Retha Basham | 21 Sep 2017 | Pastry, Recipes
The half moon pie lesson is about shapes – we form a circle with our dough and compare it to other circles in the class. We also ask the children to tell us what circle shapes we get in nature, e.g. the sun and moon. We make our pie by putting some nutella or...
by Retha Basham | 4 Sep 2017 | Pastry, Recipes, September
During August we made a very interesting recipe – apple pie bites, which consisted of a croissant-like apple treat with cinnamon and brown sugar inside. The children learnt about apples, the apple blossom and different colours apples that we get. We learnt that...
by Retha Basham | 5 Jun 2017 | Pastry, Recipes
When we make cinnamon buns, we teach the children where cinnamon comes from. We show them photos of how it is harvested from the bark of a tree, and show them the cinnamon sticks and ground cinnamon. We roll out our dough, then cut it into rectangles, brush some...
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