Cookery Corner
This week our pupils have continued to enjoy a variety of different foods from the snacks that they have at break, the lunches cooked freshly for them or within their class cooking experiences. It really is a joy to see how much everyone is enjoying the experimentation of new flavours and textures.
Mary Berry's Fork biscuits
(Makes 16)
Ingredients
100g butter, softened
50g caster sugar
150g self raising flour
For variation it is nice to add a teaspoon of flavouring or perhaps 20g of cocoa powder.
Method:
Preheat the oven to 180°C /fan 160°C/ gas mark 4.
Lightly grease two baking trays. Measure the butter into a bowl and beat well to soften. Gradually beat in the sugar and then add the flour. Bring the mixture together with your hands to form a soft dough.
Form the dough into 16 balls about the size of a walnut and place on the prepared baking trays spaced well apart. Dip a fork in a little water and use this to flatten the biscuits.
Bake in the preheated oven for 15–20 minutes until a very pale golden. Lift off the baking tray and leave to cool completely on a wire rack.
Cooking Club
This week in cooking club the children made mini crumpet pizzas. They all tried the pizzas straight out the oven and said they were delicious!
Next week they will be making a pasta salad.
Big cook, little cook
If you and your children enjoy cooking, please share your own recipes and photos with us through the contact us email (contactus@langleyparkprimaryacademy.org.uk) and we will add as many as we can to our Cookery Corner.
This week, Year 2 pupils have been making human and dog-friendly oat and fruit cookies with their class teachers. The cookies did look and smell delicious when they came out of the oven. Two Year 6 pupils taste tested them and said they were amazing. Well done to Year 2!
Did you know?
The toffee apple that is traditionally served on Halloween and Bonfire night was accidentally discovered by a sweet maker in America in 1908 when he dropped an apple in a sugar and cinnamon potion he was creating for Christmas!
Toffee apples can either be made with honey or sugar. We, however, traditionally use a sugar mix combined with red food colouring for a sweet autumnal treat.