Bake the British Isles - Traditional Bonfire Night Oatmeal Parkin Cake

Come and have fun baking authentic oatmeal parkin with a British teacher, and learn some history around why we celebrate the Gunpowder Plot on November 5th. (Look out for other bakes in the series from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.)

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55 minutes

per class

Meets once

9-13

year olds

3-6

learners per class

per learner

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Description

Class Experience

We will start by putting our aprons on and briefly introducing ourselves, then we will find out what the students already know about our beautiful British Isles.  We will take a look at a map to locate the four countries that make up the UK.   We will look at London in particular, as this is where the famous Gunpowder Plot took place.  We will learn a bit about the events of the night of November 5th 1605, and how Guy Fawkes tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament.

We will measure/weigh...

Students will know about the Gunpowder Plot, bonfire night traditions, and how to make oatmeal parkin

Equipment
mixing bowls
wooden spoon
cup to break the egg into
pan or bowl and microwave to melt the syrup, treacle and butter
cupcake cases
weighing scales/measuring cups
wire cooling tray

Ingredients for parkin: NB if you can't find any of these ingredients, let me know and I will see if I can find a substitute
golden syrup (if you can't find this, we can use extra black treacle/molasses instead)
black treacle/molasses
butter
self raising flour (UK) /all purpose flour plus baking powder 
medium oatmeal (I just put porridge oats in the blender to make this)
brown sugar
egg
ginger
splash of milk

I always love to see photos of what your children have baked!

55 minutes per week in class, and maybe some time outside of class.

Teacher

Helena England, BA Hons, PGCE, MA

🇬🇧

Lives in the United Kingdom

Primary school teacher (3-11 year olds) with lots of experience. patience and positivity

131 total reviews

81 completed classes

About Me

Hello everyone!

My name is Helena, and I live in the UK.  I have been a teacher for over 25 years, and I still work in the classroom teaching children aged 3-11 in primary schools in England.  Alongside this, I am a private tutor (both online and...