Can you imagine life without electricity? The children in year 2 had to
think about all the different electrical appliances we use everyday that
make our lives so much easier and how difficult it would be to live in a
place where there are no fans, no air conditioning, no computers, no tape
players, no television, and not even a light!
Mariko
and Twanya mixing it all together.
Before Thomas Edison and Benjamin Franklin brought
electricity into our lives food was cooked over an open fire. Year 2
experienced what cooking was like in the pre-electricity days, as they made
a traditional Australian “bushman’s tucker” meal of damper over an
open fire.
Here are some reports of how Year 2 made damper bread,
using no electricity:
Watching
the damper being cooked over the fire.
“Yesterday we made bread by using water, salt, flour
and butter. First we put two handfuls of flour. Second we sprinkled salt.
Abi and I got to have one go each of sprinkling the salt over the flour. It
made little holes in the flour dough. We added the water and it felt gooey.
After a while, we added some more water. We took out the dough and we shaped
it into whatever shape we liked and cooked it on the fire. At home time we
ate the bread we made without using electricity,” said Henri.
Yum,
yum, yum. Robin, Adam, and Gabriel enjoy their damper.
“What did we use? We used flour, salt, butter and cold
water to make the bread. What did we do? We mixed it all together and made
them into shapes. We took them downstairs and put the bread on the fire. The
fire was very hot. Then we went into the classroom and ate the bread. I had
jam and some butter and when I ate the bread, it tasted weird, but I like
it,” Robin reported.
Showing
off gooey hands.
