Preserving traditional recipes

Question 1

Recipe

Answer 1

That’s written down instructions explaining how you combine the different items of a food you’re going to cook.

All over the world people love to eat, & most of us have favourite food we like to cook. Often this involves a recipe.

Question 2

Bangers & mash

Answer 2

A cheap & popular British meal made of sausage & mashed potato. A classic British dish.

My favourite recipe is for bangers & mash. Cooking is a big part of our lives, sth pleasurable we do with others. & a way of discovering the flavours & tastes of other cultures.
How did it come to be known as this?

Question 3

Mortar & pestle

Answer 3

Cooking equipment made of bowl(the mortar) & a heavy stone(pestle) which is used to grind ingredients together.

Many traditional spices & ingredients were no longer being used. Green bananas called plantains. They would use a mortar & pestle to actually pound it.

Question 4

Pound

Answer 4

To pound sth, to crush it into a paste or powder.

The traditiona method was to pound fufu. This represented an unwelcome departure from ancestral ways of cooking & she decided sth has to be done.

Question 5

Taken aback

Answer 5

If you’re taken aback, you feel shocked & surprised.

She was so taken aback about the loss of know-how about traditional recipes & ingredients.
They were losing cooking know-how …. .

Question 6

Know-how

Answer 6

The practical skills & knowledge of how to do sth.

She was so taken aback about the loss of know-how about the traditional recipes & ingredients.

Question 7

Document (v.)

Answer 7

To document, to record information about sth by writing it down, or taking photos, before they were lost forever.

We travelled across this region, just to document indigenous dishes.
If her story has inspired you to find out about your own country’s traditional recipes, … .