THEMES:
Nutrition; Food!
THE SONG:
This song goes with any activity designed to go with food! School sausage sizzles or hot-dog days require bread, lunches and picnics; even feeding the ducks on an excursion! It’s basically a sing-a-long song which can lend itself to the imagination in the last verse. “Pickles, gherkins, mustard, salami and beetroot” can all be substituted for other, equally delectable food. Create a monster sandwich today – YUM!!
ACTIVITIES:
Language: Word Study on food. Brainstorm names of foods. Make it as varied as possible and add a few of your own. As suggested above, create an alternative ‘Dagwood Sandwich’ from the one in the song. Draw an outline of the Dagwood and label it. Let the children place in their own filling words.
Science: Cooking: Mixing Ingredients; blending and mixing; yeast rising (or lack of it!) scones; damper; modelling dough; rolls etc.
Language and Social Studies:
Write to a local bakery or large bakery in the area and request information or guest speaker. Better still, a visit to the bakery. Failing that, take a walk to a supermarket and a variety of smaller ‘bread’ retail outlets and list the various many and varied ways of producing and presenting bread.
Maths:
Measure the size of the freshly mixed loaf with yeast in it – periodic checks through the day using calipers (width), rulers (height) and scales (weight).
Question: Al though the dough increases in size, does its mass increase?
Question: What weighs more; 1 kilo of dough or 1 kilo of feathers?
Bread cooking recipes
SCONES:
2 cups self-raising flour, sifted
¾ cup milk
30 g butter
milk, for glazing
Rub butter into the flour until mixture resembles breadcrumbs.
Add the milk and mix to a soft dough.
Turn out onto a floured board and Knead lightly.
Roll out to 2 centimetre thickness and cut with scone cutter.
Place on a greased tray and glaze with milk.
Bake in the upper half of a gas oven 220 degrees C for 12-15 minutes.
PLAY DOUGH RECIPE:
Cooked:
1 cup flour Mix over low heat until right consistency.
1/2 cup salt 1 cup water Keep in airtight container in fridge
1 tab. Oil
2 tabs cream tartar
Uncooked:
1 cup salt Mix, add water then oil. Knead
1 1/2 cups flour 1/2 cup water
2 Tabs. oil.
DAMPER:
3 cups self raising flour
90g. (3oz) Butter
1 cup water
1/4 cup instant full cream milk powder
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1 tablespoon flour, extra.
- Sift flour, instant full cream milk powder and salt into a large bowl and rub in butter.
- Add water and mix lightly with a knife, using a cutting action. Turn on to a lightly floured work surface and knead quickly and lightly.
- Shape into a 15cm (Sin) circle and place on a greased oven tray. Using a sharp knife, cut across in the top about 1cm (1/2 in) deep. Sift extra flour over the top.
- Bake in a preheated hot oven for 1O minutes, then reduce heat to moderate and bake for a further 15 mins or until cooked through.
- Remove from oven and wrap in clean cloth. Serve while warm with butter.
Song Lyrics:
Baker’s Delight
Chorus
Bread, glorious bread,
Soft in the middle with crust on the outside.
And take a slice and spread, with butter or jam, topped with slices of ham
Salad or honey and cream, It doesn’t matter how different or extreme!
Bread, glorious bread, Bread, glorious bread.
Verse 1
In rolls or buns and spicy fruit loaves
In white bread or brown bread,
In damper or toast. The flour and the water mixed in a dough,
And into the oven for an hour or so. Chorus
Verse 2
Out comes the bread, all golden and brown,
On all our dinner tables bread can be found.
In every country all ’round the world
Bread is a life giving, health giving food. Chorus
Verse 3
My favorite would have to be the Dagwood sandwich.
My mouth waters as soon as I open up the fridge.
Pickles and gherkins, mustard and chutney,
Salami and beetroot in bread thick and crusty! Chorus
SAMPLE
- Mark Bainbridge
- Baker’s Delight
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