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Here are some words about cooking and baking for you to learn.

• bake
• baking powder
• batter – a mixture of flour, milk and eggs used to make eg pancakes
• beat – using a fork or spoon or an electric beater
• boil – to cook in boiling water
• bring to the boil – to heat water until it boils
• chop – cut into little pieces
• dough – a mixture of flour, water and yeast for making bread
• fry – to cook in hot fat or oil
• grate – using a grater
• knead
• liquidise – generally, in a liquidiser
• melt – heat something (eg chocolate) until it becomes liquid
• pastry – a mixture of flour, fat and a little bit of water
• peel – to remove the skin or peel from eg a potato or an apple
• pour
• roast – cook in the oven. We roast meat or vegetables; we bake a cake or dessert.
• roll – to make eg pastry flat using a rolling-pin.
• season – to add salt, pepper or herbs to something
• self-raising flour – flour with some raising agent (eg baking powder) added
• serve – when we have finished cooking we put the food on the table or on plates ready to eat.
• sieve – you put flour or sugar through a sieve to break up all the lumps
• simmer – to boil something very gently
• stir