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Cooking and food

For the grown-up beside a child who loves cooking and food.

The child's own door is Cooking and food on Spark & Anvil.

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At the event

The sideline card

Three numbers to notice

  1. The oven temperature and the timer: one says how hot, the other how long.
  2. Halving or doubling a recipe changes every amount by the same factor, the spoons and the cups alike.
  3. When to start, worked backward from when the food should be ready.

On the way home, ask: “If we only had one pan, what would you cook first?”

Ask because you are curious, and let any answer stand. Print this page for a half-page card.

Understand it

A short course for you

Where it came from

A little history, and what nobody knows

The standard cup

Fannie Farmer’s Boston Cooking-School Cook Book of 1896 helped to standardise the measurements used in cooking in the United States.

The source does not say how quickly home cooks took the new measures up.

Source: Fannie Farmer (Wikipedia)

Your child's ladder · on Spark & Anvil

The same idea at every age

  1. Ages 3–5You Cut, a Friend Chooses
  2. Ages 6–8The Lost Cup and 1 more
  3. Ages 9–14Dinner at Six and 1 more
  4. Ages 15–18Baker’s Percentages and 1 more

Your child will meet this idea again at every age. The tools and courses here are the part for you.