2.3 Cooking: Using Flour Mixtures

• Types of flour mixtures used in food production, such as batters and doughs.
• Preparing flour mixtures for food production.
• Making products such as pancakes, mandazi and chapati from various flour mixtures.
• Displaying and appreciating the products made from various flour mixtures.

• identify types of flour mixtures used in food production
• prepare flour mixtures for food production
• make products from various flour mixtures
• appreciate products made from various flour mixtures

“How can we make products from flour mixtures?”

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1. What a flour mixture is
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   Flour plus liquid, and the amount of liquid decides everything.
2. Types of flour
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   Only wheat brings gluten, and gluten is what lets a dough be rolled.
3. The ingredients and their jobs
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   Five ingredients, and the proportions do the rest.
4. Raising agents
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   Make gas, trap it, then heat it so it expands.
5. Making a batter
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   Liquid a little at a time — that is the whole trick against lumps.
6. Cooking pancakes
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   Hot pan, thin layer, one turn.
7. Making and kneading a dough
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   Kneading builds the gluten strands; resting lets them relax.
8. Making chapati
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   Oil, coil, rest, roll again — that is where the layers come from.
9. Making mandazi
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   A soft sweet dough, rested, cut and fried in oil at the right heat.
10. Safety and hygiene
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    Hot oil, open flame and food all at once — every rule has a reason.
11. Measuring ingredients
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    Weight for solids, volume for liquids, and level every spoon.
12. Faults and remedies
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    Six faults, three underlying causes.
13. Displaying and judging the products
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    Five things to judge, and honesty about your own comes first.
14. Matching the mixture to the product
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    Read along a row and you have the recipe in outline.