Sunday, June 20, 2010

Making a seed cake for the birds

The weather is very cold and there are not very many seeds and berries left in the school grounds for the birds to eat, so we decided to make some extra food for the birds. We had some dripping (fat) which we had to melt. Adam held the saucepan carefully and we put the fat in the saucepan and our teacher heated it on the cooker so that it melted.
Here you can see the dripping is starting to melt in the bottom of the saucepan. We stirred it with a wooden spoon.

Very soon, all the dripping had melted and we had a saucepan of liquid fat. We had to be very careful because hot fat is very dangerous. Our teacher carried the saucepan.
We took the saucepan back to our classroom to make the seed cake for the birds. We broke up brown bread into small pieces and dropped them into the melted fat. We then added a lot of bird seeds, some pieces of apple, some pieces of pear and some bacon pieces. Sara is stirring the mixture with Adam and Aminio, Ahmad and Lei are watching.
We took turns and stirred the mixture with the wooden spoon until all the ingredients were well mixed and all the melted fat had gone. When this was done we had to put the bird seed cake into containers.

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