Home Economics / Working from home

Today for working from home I have been told to choose a suitable recipe to bake at home to write about which what I am doing now. First I thought about it and I decided to choose ginger bread men because it is a very easy recipe and I had most of the ingredients at home. First I got the recipe and started reading it through but most of the time when I was making the ginger bread men I read through the recipe each step that I was doing. 

First what I did was preheated the oven to 180c bake. After that I lined two baking trays with baking paper.

Next I put the flour, baking soda, ginger and brown sugar in a large bowl

After I added the cubed butter and rubbed with my fingertips in food processor until it reassembles fine breadcrumbs.

After that I made it into breadcrumbs I added the egg and golden syrup and then mixed with a wooden spoon until it made a dough.

If dough is sticky, add a little more flour until it forms a workable dough.

Then I wrapped dough in plastic wrap and put it into the fridge for about 30mins max.

Next I rolled out the dough on a lightly floured surface and cut out shapes using  cutters or ginger bread men cutters.

Then I placed the shapes on the baking trays, with the rest of the dough roll it out again and make some more.

Finally I put them in the oven for 8 to 10mins until golden brown. Next I left ginger bread men on the trays to cool down.

Now its time for the icing.

First I beaten a egg white with a fork until frothy.

Then I folded in the other ingredients until thick but not to thick. Not that long after I put icing in a resealble bag.

After that I snipped off the corner and pipped onto the biscuit and decorated them with the icing to make them look better.

Most of all I decorated them with M&M's and choc chips.

Here is the final product.

Here is the full recipe. 

2 cups Edmond Standard Grade Flour
½ tsp Edmond Baking Soda
1 Tbsp ground ginger 
1 cup Chelsea Soft Brown Sugar, Chelsea Dark Cane Sugar or Chelsea Organic Coconut Sugar
150g Tararua Butter, cubed
1 egg, beaten
1 Tbsp Chelsea Golden Syrup
Icing1 egg white
1 ½ cups Chelsea Icing Sugar1 tsp lemon juice

Lollies or currants to decorate

Preheat oven to 180°C bake (160°C fan-forced). Line two baking trays with baking paper.

Place the Edmond Standard Grade Flour, Edmond Baking Soda, ginger and Chelsea Sugar in a bowl or food processor. Add Tararua Butter and rub in with fingertips or pulse in food processor until it resembles fine breadcrumbs. Add egg and Chelsea Golden Syrup and stir or pulse to mix. If the dough is sticky, add a little more flour until it forms a workable dough. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes.

Roll out on a lightly floured surface or between two sheets of baking paper until 5mm thick. Cut out shapes using biscuit cutters and place on trays. Form leftover dough into a ball and re-roll and repeat cutting out until dough is used up.

Bake for 8-10 minutes until golden brown. Cool on a wire rack.

Icing
Make icing by beating egg white with a fork until frothy. Fold in the other ingredients and place icing in a resealable bag. Snip off the corner and pipe decorations onto each biscuit. Use icing to attach lollies or currants.

How to stop bacteria / Food technology

Today for food technology working from home I have been learning about bacteria can grow in things like Food, Oxygen, Our environment, Temperature, Moisture and Time. It was quiet confusing because oxygen can't stop bacteria because bacteria uses oxygen to grow. After that we had to write about it in our blog which I am doing now. Sorry that this is a short blog post because there isn't really that much to do. Here is the work that I have done today.

WHAT IT NEEDS TO GROW	HOW TO STOP
FOOD	To make sure food is thoroughly cooked in order to kill any bacteria. Make sure that your fridge is at the correct temperature to keep cold foods chilled.
OXYGEN	In most cases bacteria requires oxygen to grow
NEUTRAL ENVIRONMENT	To stop bacteria in the environment people need to wash their hands to stop the bacteria getting from their hands onto other furniture where it can carry to other people
TEMPERATURE	Freezing food and holding it at temperatures below 0’F can stop bacterial growth. Temperatures at the high end of the danger zone above 140’F can also be used to prevent bacterial growth
MOISTURE	At a certain temperature their can be a lot of moist  which can prevent bacteria
TIME	A single bacterium can multiply to over two million in just seven hours

Food safety thermometer / Food technology

For food technology working from home I have been learning about food safety thermometer and to see what is happening to the bacteria. Then I had to search up food safety thermometer and select an image about the thermometer. After that at each point I needed to identify what is happening to the bacteria. Here is the thermometer that I have been completing. Sorry for the short blog post for today.

Social Studies - The breadwinner task

In social studies we have been learning about the breadwinner it is all about a 11 year old girl who must risk herself so her mother and sisters can survive life in Taliban controlled Afghanistan. First we watched the movie about the breadwinner and then we had to do a task about that. The movie took about 2 hours we did't watch it for 2 hours straight because people kept being noisy and naughty. After a couple of days later of watching the movie we had to do a task about the movie THE BREADWINNER. Here is the task that we had to do.

1. How old is Parvana?

• 11 years old

2. Describe what she looks like?

• She looks like a Muslim because that is what he believes are
• During the film/movie she changes from a girl to a boy because only boys were allowed on the sheets and only boys were allowed to buy groceries and ect…
• She was disguised from a girl to a boy because only boys could go to prison to visit

3. Explain what Parvana in interested in and how she spends her time

• Pavana spends her time trying to get her dad from out of prison
• Pavana spends her time selling things to get money to beg the people for her dad to get out of prison
• She is interested in on buying food for her family to keep them not hungry and not staving to death
• She is interested in on getting water from a well into a bucket for her family to put in cups to drink out of so they don't die and so they can keep hydrated

4. What are some of the things that Parvana worries about? Identify and explain an example from the film

• She worries about her family especially he dad when she goes to prison for example because she thinks that the people that took her dad to prison will kill or hurt him
• She worries about getting food for her family for example because she is scared that people are going to find out that she is a girl so she makes a boy voice

• She worries about getting water from the well for example because she is scared that someone is going to attack her

1. Create a flowchart to describe Parvana's journey in the film

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Parvana is sitting down with her father in the market	Parvana’s father goes to prison from these evil people	Parvana decides to change into a boy to go out to the market
Parvana sells things to make money to go to prison	Parvana goes to prison to get her father and then she gets pushed away	Then Parvana decides to go as a boy to the prison and then got Parvana’s father but he was badly hurt

    6. Create a Venn diagram to compare and contrast Parvana with another character. Compare to her friend

Social Studies - Dictatorship Research

For the last 2 weeks in social studies we have been learning about types of governments. Our teacher Mr Wilson gave us a research task to do about a types of a government for the last 2 weeks and it had to be done. First we had to chose a type of government's here were the options Dictatorship, Totalitarianism, Communism, Republic, Maori law, Monarchy and Feudal system. Then we had to do these following things. Here is my slideshow with all of the detail in it.

Home Economics - Cupcakes

Today in Home Economics we have baked cupcakes. First when we got in the kitchen we washed our hands and then we put our apron on like we always do. After that we washed our table and then got our recipe and started reading it. Then we got all of the ingredients in their little and big bowls and then got them organised on the table nicely. Next we started making the cupcakes, here is a recipe of the cupcakes.

125g butter
3/4 c of sugar
1t of vanilla essence
2 eggs (Size 7)
1 1/2 c of plain flour
2 t of baking powder
1/2 cup of milk

First we creamed the butter in a large bowl with a wooden spoon. Then we added the sugar and continued creaming until light and fluffy in texture. Next we added the vanilla essence and beat briefly. After that add eggs one at a time, beat well after you have added each egg. Sift flour and baking powder onto a large plate. After that using a rubber scraper, scrape all the mixture off the wooden spoon. Then add 1/3 sifted flour, baking powder mix and fold in half of the milk using the rubber scraper. After that Repeat step 7 for the next 1/3 flour mix and the rest of the milk. Do not over mix. Add the last of the flour and gently fold this into the cake batter. Carefully spoon cake batter evenly into 12 paper cases. Bake at 180C for 7 min then turn oven to fan bake for a another 6 - 8 min. After that put your cupcakes into the fridge to cool down.

Here is the photo of the whole recipe that we did used.

Here are the pictures of the cupcakes during the making.

Here are pictures after the cupcakes were cooked.

Buttercream / Viema cream

50g of Margarine / Butter

100g - 150g icing sugar

Flavouring (Essence)

Food colouring

Cream together margarine, icing sugar, flavouring and the food colouring. Spread icing onto cooled cupcakes and decorate with sprinkles or any sweets if available.

My group chose to chose the colour pink because we thought it would be very nice and the flavouring we chose orange because our teacher said that is the best one and it taste so good.

Here are the photos of the cupcakes with the buttercream on

Last but not least here are the photos of the cupcakes with the buttercream and sweets.

The ugly shakespear

Today in period 1 and 5mins of period 2 all of the year 9s and 10s were watching these 3 people doing a shakespear performance. There group name is called the ugly shakespear and for me it was all right but very very cringe. 

The shakespear theme was about Racism, Evil and domestic violence, the set of the performance was on our school stage in the auditorium and it had a background on the stage where they can hide to get changed into there costume. The three people names were Iago, Desdemona and Othello, the roles that they were doing was Iago was the dadum music, Othello was a black soldier and Desdemona was white.

Sorry for the short blog post