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Today we celebrated the end of our testing and Miss Stone's dissertation with a food technology lesson and pizza party. We have had a tough two weeks testing and we have all worked hard to improve throughout the year.

We decided to make everything, including the pizza bases ourselves so that they were more enjoyable. We started by mixing the ingredients together to make the dough.


After we left it to rise we floured our tables and began to knead it and roll it into a pizza shape.

Then we covered our pizza in the sauce and toppings of our choice: bacon, chicken, pepperoni, tomato,  mozzarella, pineapple, garlic and different types of herbs.

Miss Stone took them to the staffroom to cook and we prepared for our pizza party. We all really enjoyed eating the pizza that we had created.

How to make scones

This week we have been working on adding detail to our sentences so that our audience can follow our recipe easily. Check out Mathews recipe for scones:

Scones are an English type of bread which are very popular and they have been eaten for hundreds of years. The British upper class take their scones very seriously and follow rules about how to eat them. This recipe makes 6 small or 4 large scones.

Ingredients

Plain flour, for the dusting

1 ½ cups self raising flour

½ cup milk

40g butter

Instructions

First wash your hands and get ready to cook.

Add the flour and butter into a big bowl. Rub the ingredients together
between your fingers and mix it and it will become like breadcrumbs.

After that, add some milk slowly to the centre of the bowl to make sure it doesn't get too sticky

Then you knead the dough on a floured tray and shape it into small balls. You should be able to make six small scones.

Put the scones on a baking tray and make sure you don't touch them too much because it will make the scones tough to eat.

Put the tray in the oven at 200 degrees celsius and then it the scones will be ready to be eaten in 20-25  miniutes

You might like to eat them with cream, butter and or jam. Traditionally they would be eaten with tea. Why not have a tea party and have a go at following tradition British Etiquette? There are tips in the video below!

How to make Takakau

This week we made Takakau after being inspired by Room 5 at Kawakawa Primary School.  We then learnt how to follow the structure of a procedural text. This is what Mathew created:

Takakau is a Maori bread that was first made when the Europeans came to New Zealand and they brought flour to the country. You can eat it with butter and syrup or you can have it with a boil up or hangi.

 Ingredients
1 teaspoon salt (to your taste)
2 cups flour
2 teaspoon baking powder (optional)
100 ml milk or water


First mix the flour,salt,and baking powder together

Then sift or mix all the ingredients together.
Slowly add in the milk to the middle of the bowl and stir it.

Then knead the dough.

Place the dough into a pan and make it flat

Then it is ready to be cooked in the oven for half an hour at 200 degrees Celsius and eaten.

Clubs

Today was our final session in clubs. We have really enjoyed learning about different things and working with students from across the school. Check out what Alex, Trent, Davarni and Amelia have got up to this term in cooking club!