Cooking Scones Counts for Homeschooling, Right?
Monday, November 7, 2011 at 9:48PM When I got books for Michaela to read for the history chapter that we're on, one of the books I was able to check out was The Secret Garden Cookbook. While Michaela was not as eager as I had hoped she would be about reading Life in Charles Dickens' England, she was quite enthusiastic about the cookbook. She thumbed through it (with her right hand, of course) and found a recipe for scones. She asked if we could make them (I believe this was some time last week) and I said that would be a great thing for us to do on Saturday.
This morning she asked again if we could make the scones, since I did not remember one bit on Saturday about visiting Victorian England by way of tea time in The Secret Garden. I said sure but before I got "Sh" out of my mouth she had the flour measured out in a glass bowl on the counter alongside the gallon of milk.
She did everything: gathering ingredients, measuring, and mixing. (I did pour the milk into a measuring cup, but it was just to be helpful. I was not being a control freak AT ALL.)
While Michaela was happily smashing butter into her flour, Eliana was singing Elmo's World. La-la-la-la. La-la-la-la. Elmo's world! She sang it over and over, cheerfully, as she worked on a masterpiece at her little table in the back of our kitchen.
Now, it doesn't take much to amuse her sometimes. (Sometimes it takes much more energy than I have in a week, but other times...she is easy to entertain.) Today she discovered my silicone baking mat. Such joy! Such fun!
It's red!
And wobbly.
She would probably have been very happy to dig around in the cabinet and discover what other wonders are there, but I was not mentally prepared to have to clean all that up. No matter how much fun it would have brought to the kitchen.
Michaela rolled out her dough, cut it up, and we placed it on my baking stone. After just twelve minutes (or so) we had lovely golden scones. They got a thumbs up! (You can't even tell that's her wounded thumb, can you?) (It's just fine, by the way.)
It's no secret really...scones are delicious.
However, I think we probably ate a lot more than people in England eat with their tea...
Reader Comments (5)
mmmmmm . . . scones are SO good. How nice that you can now order some up any old time at all and your personal chef will bake them for you!
You are such an awesome homeschool mom! I can't let Catherine see this or she'll be even more mad at me. We've had the Colonial Life cookbooks in our house for at least 6 weeks and we haven't cooked anything. They bug me about it all the time. I will use you for my inspiration...we will cook hasty pudding! (Some day)
How fun is that?! I love it! A perfect homeschooling activity!
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I think that's a fantastic homeschooling project!!! And they look like they turned out soooo delicious. Mmmmm!