January Recipes of the Month
This months recipes offer you the January
mix of Hot and Cold. When you have cold-you get snow or a solid
liquid material that can be "shaped". After playing out in the
Cold--you go in to Warm-Up--when means you need a melting
snowman..................
Melting Snowman Soup
Ingredients Needed:
1 25.6 ounce box of dry milk
1 6 ounce jar non-dairy creamer
2 cups powdered sugar
1 16 ounce can instant hot chocolate
individual candy canes (bargain shopped after the holidays)
optional: mini marshmallows
Equipment Needed:
Large bowl
Mixing Spoon
Tablespoon
Screw Top Snowman jars (see craft section for January) or zip lock bags to make individual "soups"
Mugs to serve "soup" in
Directions:
1. Wash and dry hands.
2. Combine all the dry ingredients, and mix well.
3. Spoon into jars to store (or spoon 3 tablespoons into zip lock
bag and seal. (Marshmallows may be added to jar or bag before sealing.
4. Make a tag of the following poem and attach to jar or bag with a candy cane.
Individual Snowman Soup!!!
I am told 2006 will be a great year!
I am always glad to hear it!
With freezing weather drawing near,
You'll need to warm the '06 spirit!
So here is a little snowman soup
Complete with a stirring stick.
Add hot water, sip it slow
It's sure to do the trick!
Snowman Soup!!!
I am told 2006 will be a great year!
I am always glad to hear it!
With freezing weather drawing near,
You'll need to warm the '06 spirit!
So here is a little snowman soup
Complete with a stirring stick.
To 3 tablespoons "soup" --add hot water, sip it slow
It's sure to do the trick!
This
is a great recipe for discussing beginning fractions and division
problems--like 3 teaspoons equal 1 tablespoon. 2
tablespoons equal 1 ounce, and 16 tablespoons make 1 cup. So
approximately 1 cup of mix will make about 5 servings of snowman
soup.
Since this is the first month f the year we have a
BONUS "snowman" recipe! This one is great for science! When
you start out with a snowman, you have a solid, then he melts and you
have liquid! Well this recipe the kids will love!
Melted Snowman Bread
Ingredients needed:
1 pint (2 cups ice cream)-don't use a fat free ice cream
cherries and chocolate chips for decoration
1 1/2 cups self-rising flour
cooking spray
Equipment needed:
Large pie tin
Large Bowl
Measuring Cup
Spatula or spoon for stirring
2 5"x3" loaf pans
Directions:
1. Wash and dry hands.
2. Dump ice cream out of container onto pie tin and decorate with
cherries and chocolate chips to look like a snowman. Have each
child guess how long it will take the "snowman" to melt.
3.
Once the snowman has melted, combine the ice cream and flour.
Chop up the cherries and add them and the chocolate chips to the
batter, stir until moistened.
4. Spoon the batter into greased 5" x 3" pans (pans sprayed with
the cooking spray). Bake at 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes.
5. Remove from oven, cool. Slice and eat.
This "snowman" went from a cold solid to a cool liquid, and when heat and other ingredients were added, it became solid again!
This cooking experience can lead to a lot of questions that your students can ponder--If you add more
ice cream or less ice cream, would the melting time be different?
What about the temperature of the room, does that affect the melting time? What if you put the ice
cream outside? Delicious questions--don't you agree?
