(Eric [Jakarta] and Fred [Shanghai] rolling out their first American cookies.)
Nice to be back into the mundane routine of school, after shoot-outs and assault rifles in my driveway. For our last day of class, I cut up a recipe and had the students figure out the amounts and sequences. Since they know non/count nouns, they did very well with guessing the ingredients amounts. But as some of them have never cooked/baked before, the step by step instructions were harder.
There's a teeny kitchen at the school with limited equipment (which I will be remedying with some Goodwill trips), so they had to take turns rolling out and cutting out the gingerbread dough.
The backs of Leonardo (Brazil) and Lily and Cecilia (Schezwan Province of China).
They were delighted with the final product and swanned about the school with their plate of fresh cookies. Happy December, indeed! Now we need some snowflakes.
I love that they sit/squat in the kitchen. Most of my South Asian students did that as well - it was Chair Anywhere sitting. I noticed that Nikki (PUC, PR, back in the day) did it after spending a year in China... and she had that unfortunate tendency to wear micro-minis...
ReplyDeleteThey're actually just watching so that the second pan of cookies didn't crisp like the first one. Half the class liked the crunchy texture and the other half wanted chewy.
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