Takakau is a Maori bread that was first made when the Europeans came to New Zealand and they brought flour to the country. You can eat it with butter and syrup or you can have it with a boil up or hangi.
Ingredients
1 teaspoon salt (to your taste)
2 cups flour
2 teaspoon baking powder (optional)
100 ml milk or water
First mix the flour,salt,and baking powder together
Then sift or mix all the ingredients together.
Slowly add in the milk to the middle of the bowl and stir it.
Then knead the dough.
Place the dough into a pan and make it flat
Then it is ready to be cooked in the oven for half an hour at 200 degrees Celsius and eaten.
Hi Mathew & Room 8
ReplyDeleteIt was fun watching you learn and write then write about how to make takakau bread. I think you have written up the procedure really clearly, so it would be easy for anyone to follow your instructions. Good on you. It was a surprise when you set off the hall fire alarm when you were baking the bread!
Kia ora Room 8,
ReplyDeleteGreat to read that you were inspired by Room 5 at Kawakawa Primary School. It makes me realise how important connecting to other learners with blogging is and the power of Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu as part of this. I have not made takakau before but would be keen to give it a try. Do you have any tips for me? What did you all think of the taste? Did you eat it plain or add butter and jam like we do with scones? Thanks for sharing.
Tania
Wow! How awesome that we inspired you try takakau! How did you eat it? What did you think of it? We love it up here!
ReplyDeleteWe look forward to trying something new from you in the future :)
Most of us ate it with butter and syrup, as we saw you did! We first did a taste test of one recipe with butter and then we decided what we wanted to add/change the next time. Most of us really liked the bread, but it was interesting to find that a few of our students didn't like the taste of syrup! It was very tasty fresh out of the oven with butter - what a quick, easy and delicious food to make!
DeleteWow! How awesome that we inspired you try takakau! How did you eat it? What did you think of it? We love it up here!
ReplyDeleteWe look forward to trying something new from you in the future :)
Wow! How awesome that we inspired you try takakau! How did you eat it? What did you think of it? We love it up here!
ReplyDeleteWe look forward to trying something new from you in the future :)
Kia Ora Room 8.
ReplyDeleteI am really impressed with this blog post – where you explained using instructions and photos of How to Make Takakau. I never knew anything about Takakau or who even makes them.
This post reminds me of the different kinds of bread we either make at home or buy from the shops.
I am still wondering how the bread turned out in the olden days where they only used the fire but not ovens. Any idea where the first Europeans came from? It would be interesting to research that.