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Complete Childrens cookbook



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What are the skills that cooking needs? First off, there are different styles of cooking. Lets take the example of baking. If you are going to make a layered cake, how will you ensure that you have split the batter equally into two pans. I never faced this problem, as I never made layered cakes this way. But author Jessica Fechtor in her book Stir offers cute ways of doing so. First, stick toothpicks into the pans after pouring the batter, and then make sure that both are in upto the same level. Another is use a ladle and measure the batter by ladles to ensure that both pans have same amount of batter. So see, cooking will put many challenges in your child's way which they can solve in any ingenious way up to them.
Complete Children's Book starts with many easy kid friendly recipes like Granola and Granola Bars. It has 'Four ways with..' section after the recipes which will enforce to kids that they dont have to follow the recipes to the letter. They can replace any of the ingredients with a similar one and get creative and modify the recipe to their liking.
With time for preparation, actual cooking, number of people the food serves, Ingredients and Equipment, kids can learn many important concepts like planning, mis-en-place for smooth cooking and also knowing proportions, so nobody goes hungry.
The photos of each step along with little chefs handling the ingredients makes it easy for kids to relate to cooking.
Raisin cookies, Coconut cookies, Melting Moments, Orange Oatmeal cookies, Rocky road cookies are the recipes that I am interested in trying. I didnt realise that vegetable mousakka was so easy to make.
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