Alex's Kitchen

Алекс Рэй

Хотели бы Вы обучить своего ребёнка английскому языку в игровой форме? Тогда книга "Кухня Алекса” ("Alex's Kitchen") – это именно то, что Вы ищете. А ещё это Ваш шанс приятно провести досуг и научить своего ребенка готовить. На страницах этого красочного и очень аппетитного пособия Вы найдете множество различных рецептов, снабженных картинками и подробным описанием процесса приготовления. Красная панда Алекс (главный герой книги) даст Вам набор инструкций по приготовлению действительно вкусных блюд и расскажет вам историю этой еды. Каждый рецепт сопровождается уведомлениями о соблюдении безопасности, которые помогут уберечь ребёнка от травм на кухне в процессе создания шедевра. Это может показаться сложной задачей, но при поддержке родителей ребёнок сможет в простой и доступной форме начать изучение иностранного языка.. Будьте уверены, эта книга превратит утомительную готовку в любимое занятие для всей семьи. Приятного аппетита!

Алекс Рэй

Alex's Kitchen

FOREWORD

Hi! I am Alex. I am a matchless red panda and inimitable cookery expert. Moreover, I am both the best cook of all well-known pandas and the greatest panda among all famous chefs! OK, it’s a joke, and now I try to be more serious. I want to propose you something incredible: I invite you to a journey around cookery!

Firstly, I let you out something secret: your mom didn’t know how to cook when she was a child. And her mom, your granny, didn’t too. They learned this little by little, grain by grain, and now they are real home chefs, aren’t they?

Thus you have a brilliant chance to begin you culinary education, and I promise to help you with it. You will know how to make some dishes, to prepare basic foodstuff and then to surprise your mom and dad.

But before we start it, I’d like you to remember some rules. Above all, you should be careful very much. Kitchen is a place where there is a plenty of dangers: knives can be too sharp, stove is too hot, and some pots and pans are too heavy.

And you need to be very attentive with:

gas stove – it is very dangerous device. You can’t see gas as it’s transparent, and can be seen when burns. If you turned it on accidently or some put it out it keeps on its running. Gas can cause poisoning and explosion!

kitchen utensils – they become hot quickly and may burn you. Use special mittens – oven gloves to take the covers and handles.

oil – it is dangerous especially when hot! Do not stay near stove when oil is getting hot!

If you touched some hot pan or pot, or oil splashed on your hand you should put burned part in cold water.

unknown substances in plates, boxes vials, etc – they may be toxic, poisonous or just bad. Never taste any thing you don’t know!

knives and fragments of broken tableware – they are sharp, and you may cut yourself. Be careful with such things!

electric devices, of course – they are too intricate in using! You should always turn them off when their work is done. Don’t you dare to turn them on with wet hands or put your fingers into it!

Remember! If you are not sure in something, ask mom, dad or somebody else of grown-ups!

And some important abbreviations and conversions you should know:

tsp is for teaspoon which is used when you drink tea, equals 5 ml

tbsp is for a table spoon you eat soup with, equals 15 ml

drop is the less cookery measure that equals 1/60 of teaspoon

dash is a small cookery measure that equals 1/16 of teaspoon

fl. oz equals 30 ml

cup equals 240 ml

Well, are you ready to start?

So come on!

SANDWICH

Sandwich is the simplest meal you can only make. You needn’t fry, or boil, or cook something for it in any way. All you need is bread and some accompanied in slices – ham, cheese, sausage, fish and so on, and so forth. For more interesting sandwiches, you can take sauce or seasoning: mustard, ketchup, mayonnaise.

First sandwiches became known in 1762. A certain Edward Gibbon wrote in his diary that John Montague, Duke Sandwich, inveterate gambler, could spend twenty-four hours at a card-table. As he needed to eat something not leaving a game, he a