Videos: Brilliant baking

Teachers' Guide

This is the main guide for Cooking and Food Skills for children aged 8-11 years.

Key Fact 1

Around the world people use a range of different ingredients, equipment and cooking techniques to prepare food.

Key Fact 2

When planning to cook we need to consider current healthy eating advice, the needs of different people and occasions.

Key Fact 3

When planning to cook, we need to select the most suitable ingredients, equipment and food skills for successful results.

Key Fact 4

There is a range of additional food skills which enable us to cook.

Key Fact 5

Buying, storing, preparing and cooking food safely and hygienically are vital for health.

Sensory work with food

Explore the senses.

FFL Podcast

The FFL podcast has been produced to provide teachers with news and information about food education in primary schools.

Cool creations

Non-cook recipes for the primary school classroom.

Hot and happening

Recipes that involve the use of the grill or hob.

Brilliant baking

Baking recipes for the primary classroom.

Videos: Peel, chop and grate

See how to prepare fruit and vegetables safely.

Videos: Cool creations

See how to make some recipes that do not need any cooking!

Videos: Hot and happening

See how to cook delicious hot meals.

Videos: Brilliant baking

See how to bake a range of recipes.

Fruit Scones

Fruit scones

First, get the equipment ready.

Next, get the ingredients.

Sieve the flour into the bowl. Add the butter and rub-in using your fingertips until it looks like breadcrumbs. Gently shake the bowl to see if there are any large lumps remaining.

Stir in the fruit and sugar.

Pour in the milk and mix together to form a soft dough.

Place the dough on a floured work surface, then roll out to about 1½ centimetres thick.

Using a round cutter, cut out your scones, and place these onto the baking tray.

Finally, brush the top of each scone with a little milk. Wearing oven gloves, place the tray into the hot oven. Bake for 12 minutes, until golden brown.

Wearing oven gloves, remove the scones from the oven, and place onto a cooling rack.

Fantastic fish cakes

In this demonstration you will see how to make cod and vegetable fish cakes.

Fancy fish fingers

In this demonstration you will discover how to make salmon fish fingers.

Bread

In this demonstration you will see bread being made. There are hundred of different varieties of bread, which are eaten throughout the world. Bread is made from flour, which is milled from wheat.

Delicious Dough

In this demonstration, you will see bread dough being used to make something savoury and something sweet.

Fruit Scones

In this demonstration, you will see fruit scones being made. Making scones uses a method called rubbing-in. Scones can be sweet or savoury.

Cheese Straws

In this demonstration, you will see cheese straws being made (a type of savoury biscuit). This recipe uses a method called rubbing-in.

Gingerbread People

In this demonstration, you will see gingerbread people being made. This recipe uses the melting method to make biscuits.

Blueberry Muffins

In this demonstration, you will see blueberry muffins being made.

Special smoked haddock samosas

During this demonstration you will see how to create delicious smoked haddock samosas.