On Saturday, May 4th, I went to school to take part in Mandy’s service activity – to learn to cook a kind of western food. Cooking food, especially foreign food must be a useful skill to live abroad. I should arrive at school before 9 o’clock. However, I woke up a little bit late, and it was about 9:30 that I got to school.
The cook teacher in our group is Ms Hadley, when I came into the classroom; I only saw her and Ada there. She told me that other 5grouop members had gone out to by the materials we need, and then she gave us the teaching sheet to prepare for the cook. Our food is pancake. I have heard about it, but I have never tried it. The ingredients are flour, sugar, milk, sugar; salts, butter, eggs, baking powder and vanilla, or we can also put something else, such as chocolate or bananas. It is not hard to make pancakes. What we need to do is just to mix dry ingredients, and mix liquid materials, and then put them together. After that, we need to put some mixture onto the pan, and then turn it off when there are some bubbles on the top. Ms Hadley asked me to stir the solid, and Ada to mix liquid ingredients. When we finished our work, it was the time to fry it. However, we failed to cook because the pan was not suitable to fry the cake. What a pity! In the other hand, all the group members have already known how to make it.
A week later, Ada and I went to Mike’s house to cook pancakes. Mike’s pan was not suitable, either, but we made it in the microwave oven. Therefore, our pancakes were not ‘pancakes’ because they were all very soft, but some classmates still enjoyed our food!
Learning to cook is not only a happy time I spent at school, but also a useful skill for me to live abroad. Although our pancakes were not so perfect as we thought, but I still love them~