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Holiday Assignment
Bukit Merah Secondary School
Nutrition and Food Science
Secondary Three Express
Holiday Assignment
This holiday assignment aims to prepare you in selecting suitable recipes for the
execution of your O level coursework next year.
When choosing recipes for coursework execution, we need make choices based on:
1. skill set;
2. application of research information:
a. has ingredients required by the task eg various uses of egg, fruits, convenience
food, etc, and
b. recipes should contain / modifiable ingredients that provide nutrients needed by
target group.
Complete the questions using the recipes given below:
Banana muffins
Dry Ingredients Equipment
€ Self-raising Flour - 100g € 1 Mixing bowl
€ Caster sugar - 50g € 1 Cooling rack
€ Salt – ¼ tsp € 1 Patty tin
€ 6 cake cases
Wet ingredient
€ 1 Measuring jug
€ Melted butter – 3 tablespoon
€ 1 Sieve
€ Milk – 50ml
€ 1 Teaspoon
€ Medium banana - 1
€ 1 Tablespoon
€ Egg, beaten - 1 tbsp
€ 1 Balloon whisk
€ Vanilla essence -1 tsp
€ 1 Small bowl
Steps
1. Sift flour and salt into a mixing bowl. Add in sugar.
2. In a small bowl, break banana into small cubes using a tablespoon.
3. Measure 50ml milk in a measuring jug.
4. Add in vanilla essence, egg and melted butter. Mix well.
5. Make a well in the centre of flour mixture.
6. Pour in the milk mixture. Mix well using balloon whisk.
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7. Add in diced banana. Gently mix well.
8. Using tablespoon and teaspoon, fill each cake case ¾ full. Repeat until the whole
mixture is used up
9. Bake in a preheated oven at 180°C for 10 mins.
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1. Circle the skill set.
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2. (a) Make modifications (add, reduce / replace) 2 or more ingredients to make it more suitable to the target group or fulfil knife
skills
NOTE:
1. When modifying, the proportion of fat:flour; sugar:egg ; baking powder :flour cannot be changed.
2. When replacing ingredients, the replacement ingredient must the function of the replaced ingredient.
Original Modified
add reduce replace with
ingredient amount ingredient amount ingredient amount ingredient amount
self-raising flour 100 g
caster sugar 50 g
salt ¼ tsp
melted butter 3 tbsp
milk 50 ml
egg, beaten 1 tbsp
vanilla essence 1 tsp
medium banana 1
(b) Brainstorm on key factors to check that muffins are applicable as an execution dish:
Reasons that you can use in decision making
State reasons related to lifestyle / other needs
Age group [only 1 (E,P,S) reason need to be included for each
Reasons related to nutrients
[choose only 1 √ ] ingredient, BUT should avoid using the same reasons
for more than 1 ingredient]
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Function
value for money food preference family / peer /
main (relevant to
ingredient (economic (psychological media
nutrient target age
reason) reason) (social reason)
group)
€ school children
€ teenager
€ adult
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€ senior
3. Assuming you have selected muffin as your first dish, refer to the table given in question 1, select 2 other recipes from the list
below to complete the skill sets requirement. Estimate the time required for each recipe.
Preparation Knife skills
and cooking (state the ingredients)
Recipe
skill set time
[choose 2 √]
required dice slice
(in minutes)
€ mui fan
€ kebabs
€ chicken burger
€ fried dumpling
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€ creamy mushroom soup
€ curry baked rice
€ fluffy waffle with strawberries
€ jempot-jempot pisang
€ tuna roll