Practical Chemistry in the kitchen

Yesterday, my daughter and I prepared a sweet bakery at home. This is how it went!

Feeling the texture of the sugar is funny

I enjoy baking, so that is something I would like to share with my children. Both of them really like to bake, even though they do not want to eat everything I make. Yesterday, my daughter and I, had the idea that we should bake something. It was a long time ago. We did not have anything at home, nothing sweet at least. We ususally only buy chocolate sometimes if the urge is to deep, but cakes are something rare here in Tunisia. You do not find cakes here like in Sweden. For instance, you can find croissant and "mille-feuilles" with a nice sweet sugary paste inside. But for me, the swedish cookies are so much better in taste and consistency. 

Everybody in my family have been tasting everything I do and most of it they enjoy. In the afternoon, after asr until maghrib, we all feel a need for something sweet. That is when I serve them the cookies and the goodies. 


My daughter is very keen on learning new things. She listens carefully and precipite always with gentle hands. That is good. You can judge a lot of future characteristics by observing your kids at home and how they react and handle with challenges. Some of them whine, some of them are patient. If they are not patient, that is something you have to talk about right now. Not waiting until later. It takes years to change a habit, and it is always much easier to change when you are a child than an adult. 

After pouring the mix into the bowl you have to whisk.
That is the fun part. 

Bakery teaches the child how to move their hands and control their eyes. It is quite difficult to do something at the beginning. The hand is stadfastier after it has been trained. This is good if you want to become a doctor and chirurgien. It also help the kids to write better. Baking is also good if you want to teach mathematics. There are halv a cup of sugar. How much is it? This helps the kid think in whole and half. They also learn the measurement with dl and l. If you are talking about the ingredients you can also put it in a bigger perspective, talking about where it comes from, and the cycle of grain, wheat, eating and going back. 

You will also talk about new words like stirring and how you stir to get the paste white and fluffy. 

A gentle caress of the chocolatepaste -
and then into the owen. 

The best part is that you also learn the child to enjoy and share the good parts of life, with a little celebration, when succeeding. You do not have to run through life, chasing all the time. You can also sit down and reflect on the best things in life: Your children. And that is also something you should advice your children to have when getting older, because most of the grown-ups are enjoying their children, not their career, when they are getting older. 

To proudly present the result!