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Tag: bread
An important part of my bread adventures is the Day 2 test. How does it eat when not fresh from the oven? I cannot answer this question as Mr L skipped straight to The Toast Test, intended for Day 3. Nor can I offer a photograph, as the evidence has been eaten.
Daily Prompt: Show and Tell
You’ve been asked to do a five-minute presentation to a group of young schoolchildren on the topic of your choice. Describe your presentation.
My presentation today is about bread – the staple of our existence. I want to show the children what bread is made from and give them a taste of some real home-made bread.
My Aim:
- to enable the children to make choices about their basic foodstuff
- to raise their awareness of all the undesirable additives in shop-bought bread
My visuals are:
- A supermarket loaf, sliced and wrapped
- A poster, showing the list of ingredients in the above mentioned loaf:
- including preservatives, fortifying agents, raising agents, mould inhibitors etc.
ingredients – ad nauseum
- including preservatives, fortifying agents, raising agents, mould inhibitors etc.
- A lovely country wicker basket, lined with a chequered cloth, and piled high with an array of hand-baked loaves and rolls, including muffins.
- A poster, showing the ingredients in the basket of bread:
- Flour
- Yeast
- Salt
- Water
- Samples of the four ingredients
- A plastic tub, with some mixed dough
Audio:
- Music and words for “Do You Know the Muffin Man”
Extras:
- slices of bread and butter from both types of bread
- some muffins
- Five minutes is not long so we will start by engaging attention with a quick burst of “Do You Know the Muffin Man?” – few children will not already know the song but probably none of them will be able to answer the question that comes next:
- Do you know what muffins are?
- The answer, of course, is “A type of bread” (show Muffins to kids – pass round)
- Ask kids which kind of bread they are used to – get them to indicate sliced loaf or home-made
- Ask kids if they know what bread is made from?
- Show them what goes into the bought loaf (use poster)
- Show them what goes into home-made bread (indicate the 4 ingredients)
- Tell them that the four mix together to make dough (show dough) and that it is the yeast that makes the bread rise.
- Ask kids if they would like to try a bit of each kind of bread and find out which they prefer (offer little pieces of bread and butter)
- Show of hands and summarise.
- Do a little dance to Muffin Man, if time permits.
Go home: breathe large sigh of relief and exhaustion, pour even larger gin, ponder whether any good has been done and acknowledge internally that US culture is ubiquitous and kids now think I am a raving loony… Muffins are cake, great over-sized buns in paper cases. Sigh again. It’s a lost generation.
More Show & Tell:
My new Milk Roll tin arrived today. I could not wait to try it out, and immediately washed and dried it, oiled it, and set…