french recipe for homework ??

mumofthetwins

Hi
Quick one .....
Does anyone have a french inspired recipie that i could make with the kids for there homework ???:D

Thanks
Lisa

Pink.

Hi Lisa,

We have a a number of French type recipes but it would help if you would let us know the age of the children and what exactly the teacher has specified that they need to do for their homework.

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Memory_Girl

Thinly sliced baguettes, spread with butter and served with sliced radish. Standard "after school" snack according to ex-bf (who was French otherwise that's just a random statement that means nothing LOL)

MG

anguk

Crepes, most kids loves pancakes, they're quick and easy, you only need basic ingredients and you can put anything on them sweet or savoury.
http://www.channel4.com/4food/recipes/seasonal/pancakes

VfM4meplse

Quiche Loraine?

mumofthetwins

Thanks for the replies
The kids are both 9 year old and they have to make a French recipie and use descriptive words
So I was thinking if we could get a recipie, then cook it and then they can write up the method themselves .... I was hopeing for something sweet 😉 that I could sample before school .
Lisa

anguk

mumofthetwins wrote: »

Thanks for the replies
The kids are both 9 year old and they have to make a French recipie and use descriptive words
So I was thinking if we could get a recipie, then cook it and then they can write up the method themselves .... I was hopeing for something sweet �� that I could sample before school .
Lisa

Crepes Suzette, classic French food! can you tell I love crepes. You can leave the booze out if the kids are making it.
http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/type-of-dish/desserts/pancakes/classic-crepes-suzette.html

Pink.

mumofthetwins wrote: »

Thanks for the replies
The kids are both 9 year old and they have to make a French recipie and use descriptive words
So I was thinking if we could get a recipie, then cook it and then they can write up the method themselves .... I was hopeing for something sweet �� that I could sample before school .
Lisa

Then I would go with anguk's suggestion. Crepes can be sweet, are easy and cheap to make, with minimal mess and easy for two nine year olds to write up what they did.

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bltchef

It mite be a bit much for the kids home work this but it is true the word scoff meaning To eat (food) quickly and greedily. Come from the famous French chef Auguste Escoffier strange but true

Stephen_Leak

This one immedately sprang to mind ...

BOULANGÈRE POTATOES

Serves 2

INGREDIENTS

400g of potatoes
1 onion
1 stock cube (see below)
75ml of water

METHOD

Wash the potatoes, but don’t peel them. Cut them into thin slices. Peel the onion, and cut it into thin slices.

Put a layer of potatoes in a shallow ovenproof dish. Then put a layer of onions on top of them. Then put another layer of potatoes on top of them.

Dissolve the stock cube in the water, then pour it into the dish.

Cover the dish with some aluminium foil.

Cook in a preheated oven at 180°C, 350°F, gas mark 4 for 45 minutes. Remove the foil and cook for another 15 minutes.

ADDITIONS & ALTERNATIVES

The traditional French recipe uses chicken stock, but this makes an otherwise completely vegetable dish unsuitable for vegetarians. Use a vegetable stock cube instead.

TIPS

Leave the skin on the potatoes, as it contains vitamins and minerals.

However many layers you have, finish with a layer of potatoes.

HISTORICAL NOTES

Boulangère is French for baker. What have potatoes to do with a bakery? Poor French peasants, who only had potatoes and onions to eat, but no fuel to cook them with, would take this dish to the village baker and leave it in his bread oven to cook slowly, as it cooled down from the morning’s baking.

When I told my mother about this, she told me that she could remember housewives in Bedminster, Bristol, doing exactly the same thing before, during and after the Second World War.

Owain_Moneysaver

Here's a French kids' cooking site
http://www.jeux2cuisine.fr/

And some classic French recipes for children
http://www.cuisineaz.com/dossiers/cuisine/recettes-pour-enfants-classiques-7348.aspx