A recipe includes two central components–the ingredients and the procedure for combining those ingredients to make the particular “dish.” You will need to have both of these components in your recipe.
INGREDIENTS: A recipe has a coherent set of ingredients that, together, make up a particular dish. These ingredients are always listed with specific amounts. Thus, a recipe for bread has a particular amount of yeast, sugar, water, and flour. The amounts are in proportion to each other. When making bread, for example, a relatively small amount of yeast is combined with a relatively large amount of flour. Spices are often included in amounts that are sufficient to provide specific tastes without overpowering other ingredients. Your recipe must include ALL of the ingredients that help you craft a recipe that demonstrates your understanding of the assigned content.
PROCEDURE: Once the ingredients have been identified, a recipe includes a very carefully outlined procedure. Sometimes, there are “procedures within procedures” such as in the making of bread. One recipe for making bread has a series of steps for “activating” the yeast before it is added to the dry ingredients. Regardless, your recipe must include a logical series of steps that take the ingredients and “manipulates” them to create the final product. When thinking about procedures, there are a number of terms that are useful because they indicate different ways of working with ingredients. Some verbs indicate a gentle combination (fold, sift, incorporate) while other procedures are more aggressive (knead, whisk, crush.) Some things MUST happen before others–the clearest examples are that an oven must be pre-heated before baking or ingredients must be combined before they are baked!
Sample Assignment: A Recipe for African Colonialism
- Your recipe for AFRICAN COLONIALISM must have a clear set of ingredients followed by a coherent and logical set of procedures for turning those ingredients into the final product. SPECIAL NOTE: Consider your use of language and images very carefully. Colonialism and the surrounding events associated with it includes events and experiences with great emotion attached to them.
- The recipe must include reference to the many events, concepts, and ideas associated with the rise and development of African colonialism.
- The recipe will be presented in a clearly developed, poster-sized “recipe card.”
- Review your work using the attached Recipe Rubric. Be sure it meets or exceeds the identified criteria.