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[quote=Anonymous]14.38, sorry, I’m not in the dmv, or I’d offer to have a teen come teach you.  They’d get a kick out of it.

14.31, density is fun!  We can do so many experiments while cooking (sometimes while we wait, sometimes as part of what we’re making)!

By the way, OP, since I forgot to address it in my response...  I don’t make pastries more than once every week or two.  However, as I said before, cooking and baking are about a lit more than just desserts and starch.  Someone in my house cooks dinner every night, because home cooked food tastes better, and if you care about nutrition; it’s also better for you.  Turning a 1.75 gallon recipe for broccoli soup into either 2.75 gallon (and accounting for the increased height of the pot which slows the cook time) or 2 quart (smaller pot, with a much shorter side leads to more even cooking which decreases the cook time exponentially) is much harder than simply scaling a cookie recipe up or down.

You’re welcome to your own opinion.  I love to cook (baking desserts is actually fairly low on my priorities, but it’s always a favorite with kids) and I will continue to recommend it as a supplement to other parents and nannies.  Some kids don’t do well with worksheets, but they find an interest when they can apply what they learn in meaningful ways to real life needs.[/quote]

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