Learning English through recipes In this edition: BAKING Cooking tutorials Daily
Get familiar with the ingredients: Ingredients - 1 cup melted butter 1taza de manteca derretida - 3 cups sugar 3 tazas de azucar - 1 tablespoon vanilla extract 1 cda sopera escencia de vainilla 4 eggs 4 huevos - 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1 ½ tazas de harina leudante - 1 cup cocoa powder 1 taza de cacao en polvo - A pinch of salt una pizca de sal
Recipe 1- Combine the melted butter, sugar, and vanilla in a large bowl. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, until blended. 2- Sift the flour, cocoa powder, and salt in a bowl. Stir flour mixture into the egg mixture until blended. 3- Bake in oven until an inserted toothpick comes out clean, 35 to 40 minutes. Read the recipe and pay special attention to the underlined verbs :
Meaning of verbs What do these verbs mean?
COMBINE Combine = combinar Example : combine milk and chocolate chips to obtain chocolate milk .
BEAT Beat = batir Example : beat eggs with sugar until everything is combined .
SIFT Sift = tamizar/colar Example : Sift flour to get rid of lumps .
STIR Stir = mezclar/revolver Example : stir all of the ingredients together with a spoon .
BAKE Bake = hornear Example : bake the cookies for 30 minutes and check to see if they are done.
Now , read the recipe again : 1- Combine the melted butter, sugar, and vanilla in a large bowl. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, until blended. 2- Sift the flour, cocoa powder, and salt in a bowl. Stir flour mixture into the egg mixture until blended. 3- Bake in oven until an inserted toothpick comes out clean, 35 to 40 minutes. Revision
Can you guess what we are baking ? Guess
That’s right ! We are baking BROWNIES ! Answer
Today we learned : Names of ingredients Names and meanings of verbs related to baking How to make brownies Summary