I am with Jackie on the leavening. I was going to suggest trying to make pita pockets. I made it a couple of times as a teen and it was labor intensive so should count for a couple hours. And it is a lesson in itself on why the pocket forms in the bread. Cooking is excellent science and art. Teach her the art of plating the food as well. And the art of good table setting for different occassions. Another off shoot aside from meals is preserving, make jam's/jellies, pickling, canning, freezing, dehydrating. Beef jerky is relatively easy for dehydrating and most men love it Again learning different chopping techniques for food when preparing. ex- dicing, slicing, mincing, julienning, etc And learning just cookbook terminology is huge. What are the differences between whisking, folding, stirring etc and how do those differences effect the food. My mom was a learn by yourself and clean the mess up afterwards sort of mom. It was great because my sister and I made some really huge blunders as kids that we learned a lot from. Like not knowing what shortening meant, we left it out of the recipe altogether and the cake we made had the most awful slant lol.
We are doing the abeka family consumers science course. It is an elective with abeka. Some of it is really basic/easy so I have changed it up a little bit for my kids. They have already learned how to do many things that are not in the program. For example my son smoked all of our salmon this summer and then helped can it. The book seems to give a good guideline. We haven't completed the course yet so I don't know how it will be a month from now, in addition we are using the dvd course.
***WARNING....DIGRESSION IN PROGRESS*** Do you fish for salmon in Michigan? or do you buy at a fish market and can it? Just curious, but very intersted.
Make cheese! Okay, so this may not be for everyone, but my DS11 has logged...hmm a lot of time making feta, mozzarella, fromage blanc, chevre, etc. We have 2 milk goats, but you aren't required to produce your own milk to experiment with cheese-making. Also, you don't need special equipment to make the four cheeses mentioned. Just an idea...but, he's fascinated with it now.
I never thought to put cooking down as part of their curriculum. But, I must say my kids cook a lot. Yesterday, they made chicken soup. There is a lot of cutting for that. Then we had their grandparents over for dinner. They were able to serve it, I would think that would count. Plus, all the clean up. I think that takes more time than cooking. We had guest come over later in the evening and they served them tea. I think things like that should count for something. Even making a simple sandwich for lunch. There are many people out there that wouldn't even do that for themselves. Just a thought
My kids love to cook and I have even got them to try gluten free recipes. They are completely on board with it, but I am happy to eat the final product!
160 hours?!! Yowza! I think I'd be counting time every time she eats. Sorry....that was no help, I admit it.
Hi, Why are you try to cook Indian food? Its very tasty and also healthy because its very different food compare than others. So, you can get credit.......The many variety is in Indian food.......its any veg or non-veg.....I think u can do like any special food....
If you want to do a section on baking. There is a website that has a free baking ebook http://www.preparedpantry.com/how-to-bake-free-cook-book.htm Lots of info. And some yummy recipes.
Is anyone actually doing cooking classes right now or is this just an old thread being revisited? I'm asking because one of my older daughters teaches Foods in a local high school and I was going to ask her some questions if anyone is doing cooking now.
Oh my goodness...this was posted a long time ago. I never remember to check the date on a post. Anyway....did she ever get the 160 hours logged in?
