Goody O'Grumpity's Spice Cake

The students have been learning about early European colonists in North America. The Older Elementary students have been focusing on Jamestown. Here are two of their recent projects:





The younger children have been learning about the Pilgrims. They to have done a comparison of Native American food and Pilgrim food.

Today, we read the book, Goody O'Grumpity, and baked the spice cake recipe in the back of the book. Even though the recipe is called a "cake", by modern standards it would be considered a yeast-rising bread.



The kids all enjoyed the bread baking, especially the punching down and kneading of the dough.







The bread contained currants, candied citron, cinnamon, allspice, ginger, nutmeg, and cloves and it filled the school with a wonderful smell as it baked.

Here are our two big, beautiful loaves, just after they came out of the oven:


Everyone was able to have a big slice of bread to eat while we watched a movie in the afternoon. 9 out of the 10 children loved it.




A reminder to parents:
tomorrow (Wednesday) is silly hat day, Thursday is pajama day, and Friday is our class party, as well as being only a half day of school.