Baking: Winter Term, Week 2

Day One: We started off my reading the book "Pickle Museum" to get an idea of what the week had in store for us. We then discussed what a pickle is and how does a pickle become a pickle.

Day Two: We sampled pickles that were made using different recipes. We also tasted each of those ingredients individually and discussed what the effects of each were on the pickles.

Day Three: We began creating our own recipe by cutting cucumbers and covering them with salt. We used the information we gathered on day two about what salt does to foods to make hypothesis regarding what would happen to the cucumbers over night.

Day Four: We Found that the cucumbers were smaller and kind of wrinkly. We also noticed that a there was about four tablespoons of liquid in the bottom of the bowl that the salt had drawn out of the cucumbers. We then moved on to measure our the various ingredients that we wanted to use in our own recipe.

Day Five: We tasted our recipe and then made individual recipes to take home to share with families. We observed the flavors of the group recipe and used this information to adjust the amounts of the ingredients that we put in our own personal jars.