Cookbook

Step-by-step a-z of recipes

Create delicious desserts and scrumptious savouries with this step-by-step children’s cookbook.

Cookbook

The simple recipes teach basic cookery skills, introduce children to a new vocabulary and teach them the alphabet - the Letterland way. From Annie Apple’s Happy Apples to Zig Zag Zebra’s Zesty Zooms, this alphabet of recipes will provide your your child with hours of culinary fun and early e literacy skills development.

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Child-friendly phonics

Lisa Holt

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Contents Introduction How to use this book

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Annie Apple’s Happy Apples Bouncy Ben’s Bean Burgers Clever Cat’s Carrot Cake Dippy Duck’s Delicious Dips Eddy Elephant’s Excellent Eggs Firefighter Fred’s Fruity Fish Golden Girl’s Green Fingers in Harry Hat Man’s Humous Impy Ink’s Fillings in Jumping Jim’s Junior Jackets Kicking King’s Chicken Kebabs Lucy Lamp Light’s Lamb Kebabs

4 - 5

p. 10-11

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6 - 7 8 - 9 10-11

p. 1 6-17

12-13 14-15 16-17 18-19 20-21

Munching Mike’s Munchy Mountains Noisy Nick’s Nibbly Nests Oscar & Peter’s Olive Pizza Red Robot’s Raisin Rocks Sammy Snake’s Sesame Seed Snaps Talking Tess’s Tasty Tomatoes Uppy Umbrella’s Upside-down Cake Vicky Violet’s Vegetable Soup Walter Walrus’s Watermelon Wells

22-23

Fix-it Max’s Biscuit Mix Kisses

40-41

Yo-yo Man’s Yummy Yogurt Zig Zag Zebra’s Zesty Zooms

42-43

What is a balanced diet?

Fruit & veg fun What does it mean? Glossary of terms Eat your words - Letterland language fun Index

44 45 46 47 48

24-25 26-27 28-29 30-31 32-33 34-35 36-37 38-39

42-43

Introduction An Alphabet of Recipes

This book is bursting with natural ingredients and natural ways to learn!

There is no better way to learn than when it feels like it is happening naturally.

That’s why cooking together is such a wonderful shared experience. While you are following the step-by-step recipes, opportunities to talk and learn will simply present themselves. You can: talk about the shapes, textures, flavours and colours of food, talk about different varieties of food and search for food groups, learn new vocabulary to describe preparing and cooking food, play language games with each letter of the alphabet.

There are lots of ideas for developing language skills in the back of this book, along with a glossary of cooking terms and more information about Letterland - the educational publisher of phonics books, proven to help children become happy, confident and successful in early literacy and in life!

Conversion tables We have used celsius temperatures and metric measurements in this book. Use these tables if you need to convert measurements to suit your cooking equipment.

Oven Temperature Celsius 110°C 120 140 150 160 180 190 200 220 2

Fahrenheit 225°F 250 275 300 325 350 375 400 425

Liquids

Gas Mark 1/4 1/2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Metric 5 ml 15 ml 20 ml 25 ml 50 ml 150 ml 200 ml 300 ml 450 ml

Solids

Imperial

Metric

1 tsp 1 tbsp 4 tsp 1 fl oz 2 fl oz 1/4 pint 7 fl oz 1/2 pint 15 fl oz

25 g 50 g 125 g 225 g 350 g 400 g 450 g 700 g 900 g

Imperial 1 oz 2 oz 4 oz 8 oz 12 oz 14 oz 1 lb 11/2 lb 2 lb

Preheating - Before you put food in the oven, always make sure it is at the correct cooking temperature.

There are over 20 recipes in this book with a range of sweet and savoury snacks, drinks, lunches and main meals. It’s important that you enjoy your food and also have a healthy balanced diet (see page 44). These recipes will help you do that!

Ingredient list.

Letterland character shown with a fun alliterative sentence to read.

Recipe description. savoury = green sweet = pink Useful tips and ideas.

Step-by-step instructions to follow.

Lists of food stuffs starting with the target letter sound to help build vocabulary.

Estimated preparation and cooking times to help you plan ahead.

Safety

Warning symbol to show where extra supervision is required.

Always supervise young children in the kitchen.

Where sharp knives, blenders or high temperatures are required, you will see this symbol. A young child should not do these steps.

Always wear an apron and tie back long hair when cooking.

Hygiene

Cooking terms to learn. See Glossary.

Difficulty ratings.

Wash your hands when preparing food.

Wash all fruit and vegetables thoroughly.

Be clean and tidy in the kitchen. Wash up as part of the activity.

Use separate chopping boards for meat and vegetables.

Store cooked and raw food separately.

Get cooking!

Try, adapt, experiment and enjoy.

You will need...

1 big red apple 1 tbsp flaked almonds A sense of humour

Annie Apple can’t stop laughing at these happy apples!

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Choose a lovely ripe red apple and wash that, too.

With the help of an adult, chop the apple into quarters.

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5 Carefully push the flaked almonds into the apple to make the teeth of the smiling face!

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Remove the core and chop out a wedge from the front of the apple quarter.

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Always wash your hands before you start making any food.

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2 tbsp olive oil

1 400g can blackeyed or cannellini beans

1 onion

50g fresh breadcrumbs

2 cloves garlic

1 egg

2 tbsp fresh coriander

pinch of chilli, salt & pepper

Bouncy Ben thinks these bean burgers are the best!

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1 Finely chop the onion and garlic. Heat the oil in a pan and soften the onion and garlic for 5-6 mins with the lid on.

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2 Take it off the heat and stir in the chopped coriander and the drained, washed beans. Mash until smooth.

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Take a small handful and shape it into a burger. Coat it in the remaining breadcrumbs. You should have enough to make about 6 burgers.

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3 Stir in the egg and half the breadcrumbs. Mix it well.

Add some salt, pepper and a little bit of chilli powder if you like spicy food.

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5 Fry them in hot, shallow olive oil until they are golden brown. About 4-5 minutes each side. Try not to move them too much while they are cooking.

6 Serve them in fresh brown burger buns, with salad.

You could add some chutney and some Dippy Duck Dippers, too. Brilliant!

Bouncy Ben’s

Main m eal

Bean Burgers

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2 eggs 100ml vegetable oil 175g soft brown sugar 200g grated carrots 50g chopped walnuts

100g sultanas 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg 1 tsp ground cinnamon 225g self-raising flour 1 tsp baking powder

Clever Cat can count the carrots in this cake. Can you?

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Gently beat the eggs in a bowl. Then mix in the vegetable oil.

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3 Now add the sugar, grated carrots, chopped walnuts, ground nutmeg and ground cinnamon to the egg mixture and stir together.

Grate the carrots and weigh out the other ingredients.

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5 Put it in a preheated oven at 200ËšC for about 30 minutes.

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Fold in the flour and baking powder. Pour the mixture into a baking tin. A nonstick loaf tin is perfect.

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6 When it is looking golden brown and firm to touch it is ready.

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Clever Cat’s

Carrot Cake

Clever Cat is careful to compost all she can. Can you think of five things starting with her sound that she can compost?

Cat Clever in... ’ ous says ‘c cous c ries r e cranbe er cabbag b cucum cake l curry carame s ard carrot nuts cust cashew er w cauliflo cocoa t coconu coffee cola corn

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What is a balanced diet? fruit and vegetables

bread, cereals potatoes, rice and pasta starchy foods

meat, fish, eggs and beans protein-rich foods

fats and sugary foods

milk and dairy foods

Look after yourself Do you remember what Harry Hat Man said? Eating healthily makes him happy! A balanced diet contains all the major food groups. Every day you should eat: • plenty of wholegrain starchy foods such as rice, bread, pasta and potatoes Full of carbohydrates that give you energy.

Wholegrain foods contain lots of fibre that keeps your intestines working properly.

• plenty of fruit and vegetables; at least 5 portions of different fruits and vegetables a day Full of vitamins and minerals. They help your body to work properly and repair itself.

• some protein-rich foods such as meat, fish, eggs, and non-dairy sources of protein, such as nuts, beans and pulses Protein helps your body to grow, build muscles and work properly.

• some milk and dairy, but not too much as they often contain high levels of fat Full of minerals such as calcium that make your bones and teeth strong.

• just a little bit of saturated fat, salt and sugar Too much is bad for you but fat and sugar are still important nutrients.

They give you energy and help your body absorb certain vitamins.

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Salt - Maximum daily intake should be: 1-3 yrs - 2g 4-6 yrs - 3g 7-10 yrs - 5g

What does it mean?

Glossary of terms Bake

- cooking food in the oven.

Blend

- mixing ingredients together in a blender or food processor.

Boil

- when water or liquid is heated to high temperatures it bubbles.

Chop

- cut into pieces with a knife.

Core

- taking out the centre of the fruit. The core is the hard bit in the centre.

Crush

- pressing on the food to break it up into small pieces.

Coat

- cover with a layer of something (e.g. oil, or breadcrumbs).

Drain

- remove the liquid by using a sieve or a colander.

Fold

- combining ingredients gently so lightness and air is kept in the mixture.

Freeze

- put the ingredients in a freezer to turn the liquid into solid.

Fry

- cooking in hot fat over a direct heat on a hob.

Grate

- shredding hard food by rubbing it against a grater.

Mash

- crushing foods to break them down from a solid form to a smooth form.

Paste

- a soft, thick mixture that can be spread using a spoon or knife.

Peel

- removing the outer layer of a fruit or vegetable.

Pinch

- a small quantity of dry ingredient that can be held between finger and thumb.

Prick

- make small air holes in something. This is usually done with a fork.

PurĂŠe

- foods such as fruit or vegetables that have been blended to a smooth pulp.

Simmer

- cooking over the direct heat on a hob, but gently bubbling, not boiling.

Slice

- using a knife to cut strips/pieces of an ingredient. They can be thick or thin.

Sprinkle - scattering food (generally dry or powdery food) over something.

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Whisk

- mixing ingredients with a whisk to add air.

Zest

- fine grating of the peel of fruit. Generally citrus fruit.

Eat your words Letterland language fun There are lots of opportunities for speaking and listening while you cook. Talk about: the shapes, textures, flavours and colours of food, the different varieties of food and search for food groups, new vocabulary to describe preparing and cooking food, healthy quantities of food, food groups and having a balanced diet.

You can also play games with language. Here are a few ideas for you.

1. Alphabet Challenge - Go through the alphabet saying the Letterland character, making the letter sound and naming a food that starts with that sound. Note the right sound is at the start of each Letterlander’s name.

Annie Apple says ‘a’. She likes avocados.

Bouncy Ben says ‘b’. He likes bread.

Clever Cat says ‘c’. She likes carrots.

2. Mystery Food - Play in pairs or groups. Take it in turns to think of a food. Don’t say what it is, but give clues to describe it. For example, if you choose a carrot you could give these clues. It’s crunchy and sweet; It’s a vegetable; It’s long and orange; Clever Cat likes them.

The other person has to guess what it is. Swap over and play again.

3. Knock! Knock! - Play in pairs. Take turns to start. A: Knock! knock!

B: Who’s there?

A: I like sausages and soup. Who am I?

at the nics k o o l Take a ange of pho at: tic r rland fantas from Lette om .c ts produc w.letterland ww

B: Sammy Snake!

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Index

38, 42, 44, 45 Frying 6

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Apples 4

Grapes 14 Grating 8 Grilling 20

B Baking 8, 10, 18, 22, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34 Bananas 42 Beans 6, 18 Biscuits 22, 28, 30 Blending 36, 38, 42 Blueberries 24 Boiling 12, 36 Burgers 3, 6

C Cakes 8, 28, 34 Carrots 8 Cheese 26, 32, 36 Cherries 34 Chicken 20 Chickpeas 16 Chocolate 24 Chopping 4, 6, 10, 12, 16, 18 Coating 6, 10, 22, 32 Compost 9, 13, 38 Coriander 6, 10 Coring 4 Courgettes 20, 36 Cous cous 32 Cucumber 16

D Dips 7, 10-11 Drizzling 16

E Eggs 12, 44, 45

F Fat 44 Fibre 44 Fish 14, 18, 44 Freezing 42 Fruit 4, 14, 15, 24, 28, 32, 34,

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H Humous 16-17 Hygiene 3

J Jelly 14-15

K Kebabs 20-21 Kiwi 15

S Salad 12, 18, 20 Salsa 10-11, 18 Simmering 36 Slicing 10, 14, 20, 26 Strawberries 14, 42 Sweetcorn 18

T Tomatoes 10, 12, 32 Tuna 18-19

V Vegetables 36-37, 44, 45 Vitamins 44

W

Lamb 20-21

Walnuts 8 Watermelon 38-39 Whisking 22

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Mandarins 14 Mango 42 Mashing 6 Meat 20-21, 44 Melting 24, 30

Yogurt 42

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O Orange juice 38 Olives 26

P Pears 14 Peaches 14 Pineapples 15, 34 Pitta bread 20 Pizza 26-27 Potatoes 44 wedges 7 jacket 18 Protein 44

R Raisins 28 Raspberries 38 Roasting 20, 32 Rubbing 28

Z Zesting 42