Steventon Children's House

Recipes

 

The children enjoy cooking at Steventon Children’s House. We cook to celebrate a particular festival, to give as presents or just so we can enjoy eating the results. Rice dishes, pancakes, flapjacks, apple cake, biscuits, fairy cakes, cheese straws, fruit kebabs and pear and apple sponge are just some of the dishes we have made.

Parents can use this page if the children want to make the dish again at home or if you'd like to do some simple cooking with your children at home.

Apple Cake
		The ingredients are: - 175g self raising flour - 75g margarine - 175g apples weight when peeled and cored - 75g sugar - milk
1) Rub fat into flour. 2) Add the diced apple. 3) Cover well with the sugar and mix together with a little milk into a very firm dough. 4) Roll out if it will, or, if a bit sticky, press out to a round about 18 to 20cm across. Mark into sections if you like. 5) Put on a greased baking sheet and bake in a moderately hot oven, Gas 5, 375 F, 190 C, for 20 minutes. Then reduce heat to moderate, gas 3, 325 F, 160 C, for a further 20 to 25 minutes until the apples are cooked.
Pear and chocolate sponge
		The ingredients are: - 100g (3.5oz) soft margarine - 100g (3.5oz) caster sugar - 100g (3.5oz) self raising flour - 5ml (1tsp) baking powder - 2 eggs - 25g (1oz) cocoa powder - 2 ripe pears - 15ml (1tbsp) water
1.  Preheat oven at 180C, 350F. 2.  Place margarine, caster sugar, flour, baking powder, eggs and cocoa into a bowl with the water.  Mix with electric whisk until light and creamy. 3.  Peel, core and slice pears. 4.  Grease and line 20cm (8in) round cake tin and arrange pear slices on bottom.  If there are too many pears for tin, chop the rest and add them to the mixture. 5.  Add the cake mix to tin. 6.  Cook for 30-35 minutes.