Entries Tagged as 'baking'
Each semester at the end of food appreciation classes we normally hold a dinner for the kids and their parents to show off what we’ve been making. This year we decided to add another element–baking–and the question was, how do we show off our stuff. Thus was “Tea with Ed” born. My wife pulled some […]
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The first thing my wife said when she heard that my food appreciation classes would be making this classic coffee cake by hand was this: “Be sure to tell the kids that it will be a lot better if they make it with an electric mixer.” We don’t use electric gadgets in our cooking classes. […]
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Ever tried to cream butter and sugar with the back of a wooden spoon? Most people would use an electric mixer. But we don’t cotton to electric gadgets in our food appreciation classes. We do everything by hand on the theory that if kids know how to make things manually, they will better appreciate making […]
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