Spicy Enchilladas

Mini pizza's - Thursday 21/06/18

325g strong white bread flour

1tsp salt

1/2 tsp castor sugar

1 packet of fast acting yeast (7g)

1/2 tsp sunflower oil

100g of creamed tomatoes/tomato passata/ pizza sauce 

300g cheese (cheddar or mozzarella etc)

selection of toppings of your choice (any raw meats must be cooked prior to the lesson)

large container to take pizza's home

foil to wrap pizza

Welcome to Food Technology Year 8

During your second lesson you will be working in pairs in order to conduct a scone experiment, which will look at the qualities of a dish made from various quantities of flour.


The ingredients will be provided for you during the lesson but please bring in a container in order to take any example scones home.


In preparation for the lesson you could research into the effects and uses of fibre starting with the following links:


https://www.nhs.uk/chq/pages/1141.aspx?categoryid=51


http://www.foodafactoflife.org.uk/Sheet.aspx?siteId=19&sectionId=75&contentId=241


http://www.eatbalanced.com/why-eat-balanced/why-do-we-need-fibre/

Christmas Themed Dish

Mincemeat Christmas Tree

Ingredients
Puff pastry
Jar of mincemeat
1 egg
6 glace cherries

Large container and foil

Or you can choose to make the more challenging melted snowman cupcakes:

For cupcake

• 120g / 3oz Vanilla Sugar (or normal sugar if you don’t have any)

120g / 30oz Butter

2 Eggs

120g / 3oz Plain Flour

1 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract

1 Teaspoon Baking Powder

1/2 Teaspoon Bicarbonate of Soda

For the Topping

• 250g / 6oz Icing Sugar
• 2 – 3 Tablespoon of Water  (this can be provided at school)
• Large Marshmallows
• A small Black Icing Pen
• A packet of Strawberry Laces
• A packet of Cadbury’s Caramel Nibbles

Large container to hold 12 cupcakes