Nowadays, intensive farming is expanding, so that chemical pesticides and GMO are used. As these products aren't natural, a new way to produce is growing: organic farming. Even though products aren't produce the same way, we want to check if their taste are really different and which products are cheapper.
We decide to do the same recipe, first with organic ingredients and then with "normal" ingredients.

THE RECIPE (if you want to try, you will see it is delicious!!!): Cookies-pistachio with black chocolate

Ingredients for 12 cookies:

- 125g of slightly-salted (soft) butter

- 50g of caster sugar

- 50g of brown sugar

- 1 egg

- 175g of flour

- 1 teaspoon of backing powder

- 100g of black chocolate 

- 50g of pistachio

Preheat your oven at 180°C.

Cut the black chocolate in little pieces with a knife.

Cut roughly the pistachio.

In a salad bowl mix the butter with sugars until the mixture become creamy.

Add the egg and mix again.

Add the flour, the backing powder, the chocolate and the pistachio then mix until you have a soft pastry.

Arrange heap of the pastry on the hot-plaque, space out well!

Put in the oven then let it to bake during 10 to 12 minutes.

Let it cool during 2 minutes then arrange it one a shelf. 

  

We note some change as regards of the price, the aspect and the taste.

First, we note an important gap between the recipe with organics ingredients and the recipe with not organic ingredients.

For example, there are a big difference in the price of the butter and the pistachio: - 125g of slightly-salted butter cost 1.23€ if it is organic but just 0.94€ if it isn’t . 

- 50g of pistachio cost 1.44€ if it is organic but just 0.63€ if it isn’t.

In total, this recipe cost:  5.19€ with organic ingredients

                                        3.16€ with normal ingredients

We conclude on this point that there is an important difference in the price of the ingredients. Because of this difference, not many people buy organic products.

Secondly, there are differences between several ingredients: eggs, pistachio, flour and sugar. For example organic ingredients are smaller (eggs and pistachio), and the sugar and the flour seem more natural because they aren’t totally white.  When they are finished, cookies look also differents, for example organic cookies are less gilded.

Thirdly, they taste different, the organic cookies haven’t the taste of the pistachios but they are mellower. 

  

  

  

 

  

Good appetite !

 

 

It was Cooking Mama and Cooking Vava for this delicious recipe of cookies...

M.S and V.R (2°1)

 

 

In this document, I will present different corn-based ingredients and I will say what it is, how it is used and in what aliments we can find this ingredients.

 

ASCORBIC ACID is a sugar acid with antioxidant properties. We also know it under the name of Vitamin C.

It's used as a food preservative.

We can see it in lemons, fresh vegetables and fruit juice.

 

BAKING POWDER is a dry chemical leavening agent.

It's necessary to increase the volume.

There's that in muffins, cakes, bread...

 

CARAMEL is a confection made of a variety of sugar.

It's a flavor.

Puddings, desserts, candies, ice cream... can have caramel in them.

 

CELLULOSE is an organic compound obtained from wood pulp and cotton.

It's present in paper, cardboard, textiles...

 

CITRIC ACID is an organic acid which add an acidic taste to food or soft drinks.

We can find it in fruits and legumes, and more especially in citrus fruits).

 

CORN FLOUR comes from corn grain.

 

CORN OIL is an oil extracted from the germ of corn.

It's a frying oil.

We can see it in margarine or pharmaceuticals preparations.

 

CORNSTARCH is the starch of the corn.

It's an anti-caking agent in powdered sugar.

We can observe it in sauces or custard.

 

CORN SYRUP comes from cornstarch and glucose.

It maintains freshness, thickener and sweetener.

There's corn syrup in pecan pie for example.

 

DIGLYCERIDES are made of fatty acid and glycerol molecules.

There's that in beverages, ice cream, chewing-gums, margarine, confections...

 

ETHYL ACETATE is an organic compound, which is a colorless liquid with a sweet smell.

It's used as a solvent.

It's present in nail varnish removers, decaffeinated coffee, paints, perfumes...

 

FRUCTOSE is a white solid.

Honey, berries and melons are composed of fructose.

 

FUMARIC ACID is a chemical compound.

It's used as fumarates : it's an acidity regulator.

Beverages, baking powders or pudding have it in them.

 

GLUTEN is a composite of proteins.

We can find it in wheat, rye or barley.

 

HIGH-FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP is a corn syrup that has undergone enzymatic processing : the glucose became fructose.

It's in drinks, yogurts, cookies, salad dressing, tomato soup...

 

INVERT SUGAR is a mixture of glucose and fructose.

We can see it in lemon juice and cream of tartar.

 

MALTODEXTRIN comes from starch.

It's used as a food additive.

We can observe it in corn and wheat.

 

SACCHARIN is an artificial sweetener, so it sweetens products.

There's that in drinks, candies, medicines and toothpaste.

 

SORBIC ACID is an organic compound.

It's used as a food preservative.

We find it in some essential oils.

 

SORBITOL is a sugar alcohol.

Cough syrups, mint and chewing-gum are composed of sorbitol.

 

STARCH is composed of much glucose. It comes from green plants.

It's in potatoes, wheat, corn and rice.

 

SUCROSE is an organic compound.

It's present in confectioneries, desserts, candies, ice cream, sorbets, cookies or biscuits.

 

XANTHAN GUM is a food additive.

It's used in dressings and sauces.

 

XYLITOL is a sugar alcohol sweetener.

It's in fruits and vegetables like raspberries, plums, corn, mushrooms...

 

ZEIN is found in corn.

It's important for processed foods and pharmaceuticals.

 

 

CONCLUSION : We find corn-based ingredients in many things we eat, but we don't know all the ingredients in one aliment and what we really eat!

 

L.Z. 2°1

Haiti, a devastated island

We know that the lack of water and the poverty persist in Haïti for a few years. But the earthquake, which happened in middle January 2010, has increased the problems. So, most of the population leaves without anything (no water, no food, no housing and... no family). Many Haitian are injured or lost. The disaster paralyses all the island.

To remedy these difficulties, several countries (USA, Brazil, Canada, France...) and also the United Nations have proposed their help : humanitarian aid, sanitation, refugee camps... Food, water and medicines are brought. Associations ask for donations to help the disaster victims. All the world join forces and try to assist Haiti.

Example of the USA :

This country proved that it could participate to the humanitarian aid too. For example, the president Obama proposed to meet the Canada and the Brazil and lead a cooperation ( which means that US army will cooperate with the brazilian army) or they also begin  reconstructions (hospitals, houses...). Their help is omnipresent.

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