Home Economics - Ginger Gems

Today in Home economics (Cooking) we have been making ginger gems, they are like ginger bread mens but in gems.

When we got into the cooking room we got our apron on, washed our hands, washed our table and then we mis en place, what that means Is that we get our ingredients ready. After that we got into our groups and then we read the instruction but we made a mistake. What we did is that every group didn't read the instructions properly so we got mucked up.

After that we had two pieces of paper of instructions, one piece of instruction was paper and the other one was laminated. What we did for the paper copies our group write down our names beside the bit of ingredients that we got ready.

After that our cooking teacher told us what to do next with the laminated instruction, what we did is that we did from 1 to 5 on the instructions and then stopped for the next instructions from teacher. Our group didn't need to stop because our group was the first ones done and the other groups were well behind, so we keeped going.

My group put the muffin trays in the oven for a little bit until it was hot. After that Our group had left over butter so we put them into the muffin trays that we got out waiting for them to melt, and that's what every group done. Then we put our batter into the muffin trays. After our group was finished making the Ginger gems we put them into the oven for about 15 minutes.

Then our whole group started doing our dishes we all did our bit, my bit was Putting the equipment away. After that we got our Ginger gems from out o the oven and then got them out of the muffin trays and onto the rack and waited for them to cool down.

Sorry but I forgot to take a photo of the instructions so I cant write them down.

Here are the photos of the Ginger gems that we made.

Back in the old days they used to put the Ginger gems into a metal tray which forms them into houses shapes. Here is a photo of the tray.