Kitchen Garden

                Kitchen Garden News 

For the final week of our Kitchen Garden ‘Honey Unit’ with 1/2 L and 1/2 JL students observed the ‘changes of state’ as Vicki made honeycomb confectionery. Students enjoyed tasting the honeycomb when it cooled and was broken into smaller pieces.

Students wrote and published their own Kitchen Garden books, writing and illustrating their favourite learning experiences throughout the four-week unit. We are very proud of the hard work and fun year 1/2s had in the program and looking forward to the upcoming unit on ‘Bread’ with the Foundation students till the end of term.

Enjoy reading the texts from the books some of our 1/ 2 students. Well done everyone!

I learnt how to do the chopping. I loved the fruit salad and the honey granola snacks.

I liked the honey dumplings. They were yummy. I learnt how to roll the dough. The mixing was so much fun. -  Sarafina

I loved the fruit salad because it was juicy. My second favourite I loved was making the honey dumplings. My third favourite was the honey granola snacks. My favourite was doing kitchen garden. I really loved eating the food.-Omar

The honeybee is not a native bee. In fact it’s from Europe however blue banded bees are native. 

There are many types of native bees in Australia and one is called the mimic wasp. It’s name suggests it looks like a wasp. 

I enjoyed eating the fruit salad because it has fruit in it. My favourite was the honey dumplings. We made honeycomb and it was scrumptious.-Remy

The chopping was my most favourite thing in the whole world. I loved mixing the dumplings. I loved the fruit salad because it’s my favourite food.

I loved when we did drawings of the flowering gum flowers. It was my favourite thing in the whole world.-Arielle

I learnt how to make honeycomb. I liked the honey granola snacks. I liked chopping the fruit and mixing it for the fruit salad. -Anas

I learnt about honey changing its smell when heated. I enjoyed the honey dumplings. My favourite thing was the honey granola snacks. I was so excited to learn about bees.

- Sanne

                                        Homemade Honeycomb

In the Kitchen Garden program, we continued to investigate mixtures and reactions. We added bicarb soda to a sugar syrup which produced a gas and the mixture became honeycomb!

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups (335g) white sugar

1/2 cup (125ml) honey

1/3 cup (80ml) water

2 tbsp golden syrup

2 tsp Bicarbonate Soda

Method 

Step 1

Grease and line an oven tray with baking paper.

Step 2

Combine sugar, honey, water and golden syrup in a medium saucepan. Place over low heat and cook, stirring, occasionally brushing down side of the pan and spoon with a pastry brush dipped in water to remove any sugar crystals, for 5-7 minutes or until sugar dissolves. Increase heat to high and bring to the boil. Cook, without stirring, for 5-7 minutes or until the syrup reaches crack stage (154°C) on a sugar thermometer. Remove from heat and set aside for bubbles to subside.

Step 3

Add the bicarbonate of soda and quickly stir with a wooden spoon until combined (mixture will bubble and foam). Pour onto the tray and set aside to cool completely.

TIP You can test the syrup has reached the “crack” stage by dropping a small amount into a class of cold water. When it forms a small crunchy ball, it is ready.

-Robbie & Vicki

-Robbie & Vicki