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Licence to Cook

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Access teachers' notes, lesson plans and recipes for sessions 1 to 5.

Access teachers' notes, lesson plans and recipes for sessions 6 to 10.

Access teachers' notes, lesson plans and recipes for sessions 11 to 16.

Four videos to introduce getting ready to cook and weighing/measuring.

Four videos showing how to use small pieces of electrical equipment safely.

Thirteen videos showing how to prepare a range of ingredients safely - including knife skills.

Four videos showing how to use the cooker safely, including draining away boiling water (after boiling on the hob).

Five videos showing how to rub-in, form a dough, roll out a dough, fold a mixture and spoon mixture into cases.

Two videos showing how to make a white and a tomato sauce.

Access teachers' notes, lesson plans and recipes for the extra biscuit sessions.

Access teachers' notes, lesson plans and recipes for the extra bread sessions.

Access teachers' notes, lesson plans and recipes for the extra pancake sessions.

Resources to support the teaching and learning of food preparation and cooking

Explore food is a user-friendly online nutritional analysis tool for secondary school students

This video shows how to get ready to cook.

This video shows how to weigh ingredients.

This video demonstrates how to measure liquids.

This video shows how to measure with spoons.