Cooking With Ma Aurora

Cup Cakes

8 April 2019

Last week on Monday My group, Aroha, Madi and I got to ice our cupcakes. Our Method to make our cupcakes were very easy also our icing method.

Cupcake Method:

1. Line 12 Cupcake tin with cases
2. Beat 2 eggs together in a bowl
3. In another bowl cream butter and caster sugar
4. Add eggs to creamed mixture and beat to mix
5. Fold in sifted flour and milk
6. Place mixture in cupcakes tin
7. Bake at 180 c for approximately for 15 minutes  

Icing method:

1. 1 cup of icing sugar
2. 25g butter
3. Vanilla Essence
4. Add your colour
5. Mix all together  
6. WAALAA Masterpiece

Scones

Scones A few weeks back My Group and I made Scones with cheese On the first lesson my whole group were at a stars mentors day trip out so we made cheese scones and not normal scones

Method :

1. Sift flour , baking powder , and salt into a bowl
2. Cut butter in until it resembles fine breadcrumbs 4
3. Add milk and mix quickly with a knife to a soft dough
4. Knead a few times
5. Place baking paper on a tray **
6. Press scone dough onto this. Cut into 12 pieces

Brush with milk

7. Bake at 180 c for 10 minutes
8. Add ¾ cup grated cheese , pinch of cayenne pepper to flour before baking top with a little cheese

Investigating State Changes

Aim: To observe water as it changes state from solid to liquid and then to a gas

Method:
1. collect enough ice so that your beaker is half full and place the thermometer into it while you set up the
 rest of the equipment.

2. Set up the retort stand and clamp alongside the tripod and gauze mat.

3. place the beaker of ice on the gauze mat and gently clamp the thermometer so that it is held upright
 and the scale is easy to see. 
The bottom of your thermometer should be low enough to still be covered by water when the ice melts,
 but not touching the bottom of the beaker.

4. record the initial thermometer of the ice in the data table below.

5. Light the Bunsen burner and start timing with the stopwatch.

6. measure and record the thermometer every minute.

7.continue measuring and recording the thermometer until the water has been boiling for 2-3 minutes.

Making a dilution series

Aim: To make a dilution series to investigate the concentration

Equipment: A potassium permanganate crystal, six large test tubes, tweezers, a plastic transfer pipette, a test tube rack, 10ml measuring cylinder

Method:

1. Place the six test tubes in a test rack. Label the rack with numbers 1-6

2.  Using the measuring cylinder, fill the test tube 1 with 10 ml of water. Fill the remaining test tubes with 5ml of water

3. Using your tweezers, add a single crystal of potassium permanganate to test tube 1

4. Gently shake the test tube until the crystal has dissolved

5. Using the transfer pipette, carefully remove exactly 5ml from the test tube 1 and pour in into test tube 2

6. Rinse the transfer pipette again and repeat the transfer process for test tube 4, 5 and 6

 Discussion:  We put a tiny bit of solute into solvent to make a solution and to make a dilution series.

Chromatography Science Experiment

Aim: To separate the different pigments in ink or dyes using paper chromatography

Method: 1. Cut a strip of filter paper that is long enough to reach the bottom of your beaker.
2. Fill your beaker with enough chromatography solution to fill you beaker to a depth of 10cm
3. Place a dot of ink above the ruled line on your paper. you need to produce a concentrated dot of ink so repeated applications may be necessary.
4. Wait to see what happens. It is important that you do not disturb the beaker. If the solution come in contact with the ink dot, the ink will run down into the solution rather than move up the filter paper

Results: They turned out very well some of mine failed because the ink got into the solution and different colours I tried out did not do as well as other colours.

Discussion: When the solute is to low and the solvent is to high  it wont work. The water will soaked the paper an it wont turn out the way you want it to.

If the solute and solvent / solution work well you could try different colours different patterns eg

Science Experiment (Crystals)

19 March 2019

Aim: To separate a solute from a solvent in a solution using evaporating

Method: 

1. Set up the Bunsen burner, tripod and gauze mat. Dont place the Bunsen burner under the tripod yet.

2. Add approximately 50ml of hot water to your beaker and place it on top of the tripod, on the gauze mat.

3. Add enough copper sulfate solution to quarter fill the evaporating basin.

4. Carefully place the evaporating basin on top of the beaker.

5. Light you Bunsen burner.Open the air hole and gently push the Bunsen burner under the tripod.

6.Heat the solution until most of the solvent has been evaporated and crystals of solute are forming

7. Turn off your Bunsen burner

Distillation Experiment

Aim: To separate a solute from a solvent in a solution using distillation 

Method: 

1. Set the equipment shown in the diagram

2.  Add approximately 50ml of salt water to your conical flask

3. Light your Bunsen Burner. Open the air hole and gently push the Bunsen burner under then tripod

4. Heat the solution until most of the solvent ha been evaporate.Turn  off the Bunsen burner.

=  We were using coca cola instead of salt water.

 Discussion: The coca cola is mixed with salt and water which is a solution, Then we would heat that up, then the gas will go down the delivery tube into the beaker with ice then it will condense = (The gas going back to liquid.)

(This is all a distillation)

100 Facts On Planet Earth

8 March 2019

Today in English we all had to read a book of our choice and then summarise some facts.

Summarise:

1. Flint is found in chalk and limestone. Thousands of years ago people used to make axes,knifes and arrow heads.

2. Some fossils of bacteria are three and a half billion years old

3. Everyday there are 45,000 thunderstorms on the earth

4. 30 to 50% of all living species may be extinct by the middle of the 21st century

5. In one part of Turkey,people have cut caves in huge cones of rocks to make home

Quiz

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1. If a sandstone has red,round,smooth grains,where was the sand made?

2. Which rocks are made from seashell and tiny sea creatures?

          3. Which rock changes into slate?

Answers:

1. The Dessert

2. Limestone and Chalk

3. Mudstone