What We Did (Yesterday)…

I’ve only just uploaded photos, so this is a belated post for yesterday…

We did some science experiments, based around cooking… looking at air bubbles in foods…

First we made meringues. My oven still isn’t working, so I had to google a microwave recipe –

1 egg white, lightly beaten, mixed with 10 oz icing sugar.

Microwave on high – the recipe said 1.5 minutes, I found that ours were done in 50 seconds. They did not hold their shape…. 😀

Still tasted lovely, though!

Then we made cream/butter (I didn’t think Littlest boy could shake the cream for the required 15 minutes to make butter).

We put thickened cream in a sealed container, with sugar (for whipped cream) or a pinch of salt (for butter), each with a clean, silver coin. Much shaking later, and we had delicious afternoon tea… and sore arms…

The butter was a little “curdy” (we drank the buttermilk), but… yum!! It seems to go a bit harder in the fridge than ordinary butter, but it’s worth it. 😀