Halloween Classes

It is almost Halloween, so this week has seem some very spookey classes! The children have been learning about ghosts and goblins and other gruesom Halloween words.

As a Halloween creepy craft, the children prepared Marshmallow Frankensteins. They dipped marshmallows in green food colouring, then used melted chocolate to make the hair and mouth, and stuck candy eyes on using the chocolate. It was then finished off with some pretzel bolts.

English Cooking

Over the last few months we have continued the English cooking classes.

In August we made Eve's pudding. The dish is like a sponge cake with apples baked into it. The name comes from Eve in the Bible who couldn't resist the lovely sweet apples. This time we made it with the traditional apple, but we can prepare it with many different types of fruit. Of course we prepared a custard sauce to go on top.

In September we made chicken crumble. This is a savoury version of the sweet dish that is famous across England and America. The base is a chicken and vegetable stew and then it is topped with breadcrumbs, oats and cheese and baked in the oven.

In October we tried our hands at two dishes. We made the sweet crumble that August's cooking is based on. It is traditionally made with apples or peaches, but we also tried a pear one this time and everyone could have a bite of three flavours. While it was baking in the oven, we made a sponge pudding. This normally takes several hours to steam, so this time we cheated and made a microwave version that cooks in 4 minutes! Again, as well as the traditional raisin and cherry versions, we also prepared a chocolate one. We then made a vanilla sauce to top it off.