Anzac Biscuits

Today in cooking we got split into groups and were given different recipes of cooking goods, My group had consisted of Emily, Kahciar, Bradyn while we made some delicious Anzac biscuits. We would have worked better but in the end, but everyone did do their assigned jobs, it ended really well and we ended up with some beautifully select Anzac biscuits.

Anzac Biscuits

1/2 cups of Edmonds standard plain flour

1/2 cup sugar

2/3 cup coconut 

3/4  cup rolled oats

50 g butter 

1 Tablespoon golden syrup

1/2 teaspoon Edmonds baking soda

2 tablespoons boiling water


Method

Pre-heat your oven on 180 bake. Mix together the flour, sugar, coconut, and rolled oats. Melt the butter and golden syrup together in a small bowl. Dissolve the baking soda in the boiling water and add it to butter and golden syrup. Fold the butter mixture into the dry ingredients until it is combined. Roll the mix into medium-sized balls and fit them on a lined tray 4x3. place them in the oven for about 12-15 minutes or until it turns a golden brown color.

TASTE EVALUATION  

They had a nice crunchy outside while the inside was soft and chewy. The outside had this sugary coating while the inside had this chewy mix between a sweet coconut and the bitterness of the rolled oats. Overall it tasted amazing and had a great texture. When they cooled down they still have around the same taste but the biscuits were cruncher and colder. They still have an amazing sugary coating and chewy inside. Best ANZAC Biscuit 

ever!

Stake Holder Opinion

"It as a really nice flavour and texture, on the inside as well and the coconut gives it a nice kick to it as well with the oats.'

Summary 

Overall the biscuits turned out really well and it exceeded my expectations and along will my fellow peers; Although my group could have worked and communicated better I was still glad we managed to get our biscuits looking delightful and tasting delightful.

Fwd: Chocolate Chip Cookies

Today in foods we got to make the magnificent chocolate chip cookies, it was quite an experience I would have never really thought that making such a famous cookie could be so hard, nonetheless, my group and I toughed through it and actually had fun, the cookie's had such an exquisite smell it was really breathtaking. 

Ingredients
100g butter 
1/2 cup Chelsea White sugar
1/2 cup Chelsea Brown sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla essence
1 1/2 cups flour
pinch of salt
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 cups of chocolate chips

DIRECTIONS - MADE SIMPLE

We started off by turning our oven to 180 on bake. We then got our mise en place done (Finished getting our ingredients and putting them in order). After that, we softened our butter and added the sugars as well as the vanilla. Once that was creamed together, we added our egg and whipped it until it was incorporated into the mixture. When the wet ingredients were together we mixed all of our dry ingredients (flour, salt, baking powder, and chocolate chips) into a separate bowl to make sure everything would be incorporated at the same time. After that, we mixed the dry ingredients into the wet mixture making sure nit to River mix because that would activate the gluten. When we mixed it we got a tray and lined it with baking paper so the cookies don't stick to the tray. We rolled the cookies into medium-sized balls and placed them down so they don't touch when they spread out while cooking. Then you put them into the oven on the top shelf and cook for about 8 - 10 minutes.

     

            

Home Economics

In cooking, we have been learning about bacteria and how people can stop it from growing.

During this lesson, I had found out that I have been doing things wrong and I had learned a bit more about

how I can keep my family and I's food safe to eat.

What are the Bacteria?

1. Tiny single-celled microorganism.
2. Three main shapes: rod, spiral, and sphere.
3. Some can move using a whip of a tail.
4. No nucleus (control center of the cell)

Are Bacteria dangerous?

1. Not all are dangerous.
2. Bad Bacteria are called pathogens.
3. Some make you sick.
4. Saminallia, Food poisoning, Tetanus, Pneumonia, Diarrhea, Typhoid. Etc
5. Fight bacteria with antibiotics and antiseptics.

What are the Good Bacteria?

1. They are found in some foods and soil.
2. Foods - bacteria are in cheese, yogurt, pickles, soy sauce.
3. In our body - help in break down of food. (Digestion)

What do bacteria need to survive?

1. Warmth
2. Moisture
3. Oxygene 
4. Food 
5. Time
6. Neutral PH

3 examples of how to avoid spreading bacteria?

1. Clean hands
2. Bandage over cuts
3. Clean workspace. 

What is cross-contamination? What effect does it have on you? How can we stop it?

1. Cross-contamination is when you mix raw food together like raw meat and raw vegetables.
2. Minor side effects include upset stomach, loss of appetite, headache, nausea, and diarrhea.
3. Have a board for each raw food, bread, meat, cheese. etc

Baking

Vanilla Cupcakes

Techniques used to create the cupcakes?

There weren't too many techniques that were used while making the cupcakes but teamwork was the key point, we all had made a team effort and just, in general, it was much more fun than just being in a group that does their own thing and just ignores the task at hand.

What basic icing techniques and decorating where used?

Once the cupcakes had come out of the oven we placed the cupcakes on a long strip of baking paper and we had chosen two which we would have to decorate, everyone was given a small decorating knife(that's flat) and the key technique was rotating the cupcake while icing it.

Consider Sensory Evaluation relating to the product taste, texture, flavor, etc

The cake part of the cupcake tasted kind of like baking powder the texture was good flavor was generic it was vanilla, after all, it was kind of moist but it was a bit more on the dry side. overall it was great.

Pizza swirls

Pizza swirls

We started by grabbing all of our utensils and we got our mise en place, then we got the flour, salt then we sifted it all together after sifting one of my teammate cut the butter into small squares, then placed it into the flour mixture and rubbed the butter in with their hands.

Our team worked very well there were a few muck ups but we got over it and accomplished the dough, we got our toppings on and we rolled the dough and had it cut and placed it onto the lined tin and put it into the oven.

It had a very delicious taste to it and it tasted very fresh as well, the texture was mild there wasn't too much to it. the color was a nice golden brown too.

I would probably add more things to it, like spice it up or just add something to get the flavor kind of more exciting,

Savoury bread case

Savoury Bread cases

Today in home economics we got to make bread cases, 


Ingredients we used:


Bread
Butter
Spaghetti
corn 
Baked beans
Cheese 


Appliances:

Cupcake tin
Butter knives
Knives
Spoons

Teamwork:
I think my team worked very very well, It was very even between us three and we all did our part of the work