Version 2 (Year 2013-2014)

This year, the project has changed and the final task too!

Context:
Marcel Gimond has decided to organize a special meal at the cafeteria to promote tolerance and multiculturalism as part of an action plan against racism.
They have asked you to write recipe poems that will be exhibited at the cafeteria on the day of this special meal. 

Individual task:
Create a recipe poem dealing with multiculturalism or topics in connection with pluralism and friendship.

Evaluation:
You will be evaluated on your capacity:
- to write a recipe poem, using specific characteristics,
- to deliver a clear message of tolerance,
- to use relevant vocabulary and grammar(see evaluation grid for more details).

Remember that your poems will be exhibited at the cafeteria! 

Good luck and work hard :)

Dates of the meal and the exhibition coming soon!

Carrot-Cranberry Cake

Ingredients
- a plain yoghurt
- 2 pots (the one of the yoghurt) of flour
- 1 pot of maple syrup
- 3 eggs
- a half small bag of baking powder
- 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil
- a pinch of salt
- 1 medium carrot
- approximately a half teaspoon of cinnamon powder
 - approximately a half teaspoon of ginger powder
-100 g. of dried cranberries

Utensils
- a big bowl
- a cutting board
- a sharp knife
- an economizer
- a tablespoon
- a teaspoon
- the yoghurt pot
- a whisk
- a medium sized dish
- a oven

Method
1. First, peel and chop (or grate) the carrots finely, set aside.
2. Next, preheat oven at thermostat 6.
3. Then, take the big bowl and pour in the yoghurt.
4. After that, wash the pot of yoghurt and add in the bowl, the flour, the maple syrup (to replace the sugar), add the baking powder, the oil, the cinnamon, the ginger, the salt and the eggs. Whisk the preparation.
5. Put the carrot and the cranberries and stir.
6. Finally, don’t forget to butter the mould and pour the preparation in the medium dish. And bake for 25 or 30 minutes, until the cake is golden.
7. Before to eat, let the cake cool.
 

Personal Comments
I have chosen to make a yoghurt cake because it's French, simple to make and you can add whatever you want in this cake.
As to me, I have added some other ingredients. I have chosen to add some carrots and spices, because English people sometimes make carrot cake. It looks like pudding, "French pudding". Because in pudding there can be a lot of different ingredients. I know, for French people, a carrot cake is really strange, but I like to try other things.
After, I wanted to add something else: cranberries because it comes from Quebec, and Quebeckers cook cranberries very much. The I also added maple syrup which comes from Canada.
These three countries are linked by their past, because French and English people colonized Canada, and French people created Quebec. And thanks to that, they are bound by their way of cooking.
A lot of Quebec recipes come from England. French and Quebeckers speak the same language. So this cake gathers the culture of these three countries.

by Elisa Oddon

Delicious Apple Pie with Crumble

Ingredients
- Three apples
- Two hundred grams of compote
- One hundred twenty five grams of butter
- One hundred seventy grams of sugar
- Five hundred fifty grams of flour
- Three tablespoons of cinnamon vanilla sugar
- Eight tablespoons of water

Utensils
 -An oven
- A pie mould
- A large bowl

Method  
To make the pastry, mix three hundred grams of flour with three tablespoons of sugar.
- Next, add one hundred fifty grams of butter and mix with fingers during two - three minutes.
- During the mixing, pour eight tablespoons of water.
- You can now preheat your oven at a hundred eighty degrees.
 
Now, you can prepare the garnish of your pie.
- First, spread the pastry in your pie mould and job the bottom with a fork.
- Second, cover the bottom of your pie with the compote, after you can scatter with cinnamon or vanilla sugar.
- Peel the apples before slicing them.
- Next, place apples on the compote.

To finish, make the crumble pastry.
- First in a salad bowl, you need to mix with passion and love your butter with sugar and three tablespoons of cinnamon.
-Then, add the flour.
- Finally, scatter the crumble on the pie.
-And now, finish it, put your preparation into the oven and leave it for thirty five minutes.

Comments
England and France are today two countries in perfect peace.
The last conflict between them was during the American Independence War. In the twentieth century, they were allies for the two World Wars.
It's really funny because in just thirty years, two countries that difficult relations for one thousand years, have become the best friends in the world...
If you try to remove the crumble out of the pie, good luck ... Like England and France, the crumble and the apple pie are inseparable.

Santa Claus Short Bread

Serves 6 to 8 people

Ingredients

- 400 gr of flour

- 250 gr of butter

- 2 eggs

-2 00 gr of sugar

- 2 tsp of baking powder

-2 tsp of cinnamon powder

-1/2 tsp of salt

-2 glasses of orange juice

-2 tsp of honey

-1 dash of rum (optional)

Utensils

-1 hot plate

-1 large bowl

-1 rolling-pin

-punch

-parchment paper

Method

First, cube the butter in the large bowl

Second, add the sugar,the flour,the honey,the salt,the cinnamon powder, the eggs, a dash of rum (optional) in the large bowl and mix together until the preparation becomes smooth.

Third, let the preparation cool in refrigerator during two hours.

Next spread the dough with the rolling-pin and preheat the oven at 180°C.

After that cut the dough with the punch and impregnate it with the orange juice.

Finally let bake the preparation for 12 minutes.

Comments

For my recipe I have chosen ingredients from lots of places in the world and that we can find at Christmas. 
My cake called Santa Claus Short-Bread is inspired by the original Short-Bread from Great-Britain (Scotland), then I added honey from Egypt, orange from China and cinnamon from Asia. The whole recipe comes from the East of the world. Concerning the character of Santa Claus who gives his name to my cakes, it takes his origins in America.

To conclude my recipe illustrates peace and love in the world that we can only find for Christmas. Besides Christmas is unique, but celebrates all over the world, my cakes represents the world's impact of Christmas.

Lemon Coco Cake

Ingredients
- A large bowl
- A cake pan
- Malibu
- Lemon juice
- One lemon (for zest)
- Shredded coconut
-Three eggs
- Three yoghurt of flour
- One and half yoghurt of rapeseed oil
- One yoghurt of brown sugar (or sugar)

Method

1. First, preheat the oven to one hundred and eighty degrees

2. Then, mix in a large bowl three eggs, three yoghurt pots of flour, one and half yoghurt pot of rapeseed oil, one yoghurt of brown sugar (or white sugar if you don't have brown one), two tablespoons of Malibu, the zest of three lemons and shredded coconut (in the order!)

3. After that, mixing well the preparation and add it four tablespoons of lemon juice and mixing well again

4. Next, put in the buttered cake pan (or in a silicone pan) and bake for forty minutes

5. Finally, dust the cake with shredded coconut again, cut into slices and enjoy

Personal comments

The lemon coco cake is not a simple cake for me, in my dish, I wanted to show the link between Spain (for the lemon), Malaysia (for the coconut) and England (for the cake obviously).

I want England to accept Spain and Malaysia in their diversity of culture and food. And I think if I integrate English food with Spanish and Malaysian food in dishes of English people, I'm sure it could be possible to integrate it into the English system.

I love English, Spanish and Malaysian food. I think it could be interesting to mix three countries into the same cake, three very different countries in their diversity of culture, language and traditions... And it's a good challenge to merge all of this into one unique cake.

I know Malaysian culture is not really famous, but I'm here to help Malaysian food to seduce English people; I want to show that the mix of Malaysian, Spanish and English culture is very interesting and delicious.

by Grégory Moncassin

British Pizza

Ingredients 1 tsp yeast 1 ½ cup of warm water 4 ½ cups of flour 1 tbsp of olive oil 6 tbsp of tomato sauce 4 porc sausages 4 pieces of bacon 4 mushrooms graped cheese (cheddar) 1 egg Method First you have to make your dough. So in a large bowl drop 1 tsp of yeast, 1 cup of warm water, 4 ½ cups of flour, 1 tbsp of olive oil, then mix with your hands until you get a nice firm dough, put it a side. Then you're going to chop your bacon,mushroom and sausages, and cook them all together, to give it more taste in a cooking pan. Afterwards take ck your dough spread it on a large pizza plate, then spread your tomato sauce equally on it and drop your filling of chopped mushrooms, bacon and sausages, on top of it and drop the grated cheddar cheese. Place it in the oven for about 20min, take it out crack the egg in the middle and put it back in the oven for about 10min until the egg is cooked. Personal  comments I chose to do a British/Italian pizza because Italian food is my absolute favourite !!! I think it's really tasty and classy, i love it ! But I also love British food even if isn't as classy as Italian food it's my origins and I'm proud of that. So I thought "Why not try and mix my two favourite types of food?" I thought of it as some kind of challenge, since those two types of food are not the same at all !  Italian food is a delicacy, it's hard working, pushing cooking to the perfection. British food is greasy, and more of a fun way to eat (at least for me it is). I chose the pizza to be the base of this dish and took the British breakfast ingredients for the topping, since British breakfast it one of the best British dishes ever. And there you have it, a dish with my two favourite types of food. I think it makes a good mix, and it could be a new connection between Italy and UK, and it is really good. Enjoy ! By Eva A.

Appel Clafoutis with maple syrup and vanilla pod

Utensils

- A pie dish

- A medium mixing bowl

- A sharp knife

- A whisk

- 1 Tablespoon

Ingredients
- 3 apples
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup of flour
- 1 cup of sugar
- 1/2 pt of milk
- 1 tbsp of vanilla sugar
- 1 tbsp of oil

- 1 Vanilla pod from Madagascar
- Maple Syrup
- Butter


Method
First, preheat the oven at 180° (thermostat 6). Take the butter and spread it on the pie dish.
Next, peel the apples and cube them finely. Place them in the pie dish.
After that, break the eggs and whisk them with 1 cup of sugar until they are white and become voluminous.
Then, add 1 cup of flour, one tbsp of vanilla sugar, 1/2 pt of milk, 1 tbsp of oil. Take a vanilla pod, cut it in two pieces and take the vanilla seeds. Put the extract of vanilla in the mixture and mix.
Now, pour the mixture in the pie dish and place it in the oven for 20 minutes.
When the pie is firm, pour the Maple Syrup on it for the taste and to decorate. Enjoy!

Personal Comments
First, I chose this recipe because the Apple pie is a delicious dessert.
I chose to add Vanilla from Madagascar and Maple Syrup because I love foreign ingredients. Through this recipe, I wanted to say that everybody can live together and share their own culture with others.
We can learn a lot of things about foreign people when we eat their dishes, learn a lot about their cultures, their different food habits and traditions.
And when we understand what is to share, we can also share our traditions with other people. We have a lot of things to learn about the world. And I think the world is like a big dish that we have to taste. That's why I chose this dessert.