Today Ili arranged for Daniel and I to swap classes so I could help the Grade 3 and 4 girls to bake biscuits in the school canteen. While I thought this was a little sexist, I was too excited by the idea of cooking and eating biscuits to protest much.
Ili had worded the kids up on the recipe in advance, as well as coached them on a few descriptive sentences to describe various parts of the cooking process, so all I really had to do was stand next to the girls while they cooked and make observational remarks in English every now and again. The whole thing was filmed by one of our colleagues and will eventually be sent to France and Finland as part of the ongoing e-Twinning language exchange program.
The biscuits were quite yummy, so for anyone who's interested, here is the recipe.
Ingredients
1kg plain flour
300g butter
200g sugar
300g honey
2 eggs
2 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda
50g cocoa powder
2 tablespoons of water
2 teaspoons honey spicemixture
Method
Heat the butter, honey and sugar together. Let the mixture cool.
Put the flour in a large bowl and add the rest of the ingredients slowly (including the cooled mixture).
Combine well and leave to rest for several hours.
Roll out the dough to approximately 1cm thickness. Cut out bicuit shapes and place them on a greased tray.
Bake for 10 to 15 minutes at medium temperature until the biscuits are light brown.
Okay, this photo doesn't have anything to do with cooking, but I thought it was too cute not to share. During the week Iago napped with Daniel and I on our bed, and when we got up he pretty much refused to follow us. Not even covering him with the doona would budge him - he just wriggled his head out and then went back to sleep. This kind of lazy behaviour makes me feel a little better about sending him back to Australia in three weeks' time via an epic 40-hour journey. I'm hoping that he'll sleep through most of it and emerge at the other end without being traumatised.
- Amanda
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