Thursday, February 18, 2010

February Kids in the Kitchen

On Wednesday, February 17th, our Kids in the Kitchen group met to make pancakes.

We had a small but very enthusiastic group. We were delighted to have YaYa back as our instructor. Maggie Rennie and Gracelyn Missman were our two chefs for the day. Logan and Lillian Missman were our official taste testers. They held up their end of the job quite well.




Here Maggie is getting ready to pour the oil into our mixing bowl. Gracelyn explained to us that there are different kinds of oil. Here, we're using vegetable oil.




Gracelyn expertly poured in the milk to our egg and oil mixture while Maggie and YaYa looked on.



Here, Maggie shows us how much easier it is to get the flour out of the bag by standing up on a chair.


Don't laugh....it works!




Maggie shows Gracelyn how to stir the mixture together. Between the two of them, we had a nice smooth batter. Way to go girls!




Due to the extremely hot griddle, Yaya took over scooping the batter out of the bowl onto the griddle. We recommend that all young kids have an adult in the kitchen to help them when making pancakes.



Look at those delicious pancakes cooking on the griddle!




Here, Gracelyn is explaining to Maggie that you have to watch for the bubbles in the batter to go "pop, pop, pop" before you flip the pancakes.



Maggie is going to show us how to expertly flip a pancake while on the griddle.




Voila! Perfect, Maggie, just perfect!




Doesn't the finished product look yummy? Can't wait to dig in!




Maggie and Gracelyn show off their finished dish. Good job girls!




Add some maple syrup and something to drink and you have a delicious meal!




Just ask Gracelyn. That smile on her face shows us just how good they really are.



Maggie appears to agree!

Can't wait til next month when we do baked chicken nuggets!


See you there!


Calhoun County 4-H

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

This was a good presentation of learning how to make pancakes.