Cooking Iron Age food

Topics Year 4/5
This unit is part of Stone Age to Iron Age Britain Iron Age life

Objectives

History

  • Continue to develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of Britain, local and world history, establishing clear narratives within and across the periods they study.
  • Know about changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age, including Iron Age life.

Science

  • Explore changes that are difficult to reverse.
  • Observe and compare the changes that take place when baking bread or cakes.

Lesson Planning

Children discover what Iron Age food would have been like by making their own examples!

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To gain an understanding of Iron Age food, through research and by making oatcakes and soft cheese.
  • To gain an understanding of the changes involved in turning milk into cheese.

Children will:

  • Understand first-hand what some Iron Age-type food would have tasted like.
  • Understand some of the processes involved in making Iron Age foods .

You Will Need

  • 1 tbsp. pearl barley
  • Boiling water
  • A large container
  • 1 litre (2 pints) whole milk
  • 250ml (9 fl oz) sour cream
  • Sea salt
  • Muslin or loose-weave cloth & a bowl
  • 500g (18oz) medium oatmeal
  • 250g (9oz) stone-ground wheat flour
  • 60g (2oz) lard
  • A griddle or oven