Border Biscuits S1 Food Challenge
Lesson Plan
Week
Lesson 1
Lesson 2
Homework
Week 1
Intro of design brief and
video from border
biscuits
Demonstrate basic
biscuit and talk
about how to use
different ingredients
Week 2
Biscuit tasting session –
different types of biscuits
produced in factory, also
costing exercise of biscuits
Costing of border
biscuits, bar graph of
food tasting results
All pupils bake basic
biscuit
Week 4
Make biscuit 1
Evaluate and cost
biscuit 1
Week 5
Make biscuit 2
Evaluate and cost
biscuit 2
Week 6
Holiday/ In service
HACCAP
Week 7
Evaluate and choose final
biscuit idea, making small
changes
Labelling worksheet
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Week 8
Make label for chosen
biscuit
Complete label and
personalise box
Complete task if
this is not done in
class
Week 9
Class competition bake
biscuits, store for tasting
in lesson 2 this week
Tasting and judging
by teacher and class.
Prize for best
packaging for each
class. Winning
biscuit recipe into
the final
Week 3
Research ideas for
biscuits, internet,
recipe books,
magazines – use
library, HE, home
In pairs design 2
biscuit ideas, food
order handed in
Final of all class winners,
judged by panel including
Reps from border biscuits
1
Where Can I Look for Ideas
Television
Cooking
Programmes
Where will I look
for
Childrens Biscuit Ideas
2
Ingredients Ideas
Flour
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Sugar
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Additional
Ingredients
Vanilla essence
Cinnamon
Ginger
Mixed Spice
Paprika
Sweet chilli
Cayenne
Strawberry
Essence
Lemon oil
Maple
flavouring
Blackberry
flavouring
Orange oil
Peppermint
Almond ess.
Ribena
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Decoration
Sultanas
 Butter icing
Toffee bits
 Glace icing
Milk chocolate
 Writing icing
Plain chocolate
 Fondant icing
White chocolate
 Sweets
Coconut
 Cherries
Pumpkin or
 Demerara sugar
other seeds
 Sprinkles
 Apple pieces
 Treat sauce
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 Cherries
 Maple syrup
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 Cranberries
 Strawberry
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pieces
 Blackberry
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pieces
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 Passion fruit
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 Apricot
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 Dried banana
 Maltesers
 Marshmallows
 Turkish delight
Choose ingredients from the table above to make your biscuits. You may add other ingredients you found when doing your research
to your recipes. Fill out the food order on the next page for your 2 biscuit recipes.
Plain Flour
SR Flour
Cornflour
Semolina
Rice flour
Porridge Oats
Jumbo oats
Cocoa Powder
Custard powder
Flavoured
custard
 Caster Sugar
 Granulated
Sugar
 Soft Brown
Sugar
 Demerara Sugar
 Honey
 Syrup
 Maple Syrup
 Treacle
Flavouring
H.C.C.A.P.
Objectives: In this lesson you will learn what HACCP is and how it is used for safe
food production.
Key Words: Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point - is a system for caterers
and food manufacturers used to control food and safety procedures.
If you cook a dish for your family and it makes them ill, it is unpleasant but only a few
people are affected. If a food factory cooks a batch of family-sized spaghetti
bolognaise meals and 200 families became ill, it would be a health scandal. The food
industry has, by law, to be extremely careful when preparing food products for sale to
make sure they are safe to eat. All food manufacturers use a system called HACCP
(Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point) to ensure food products are safe to
consume. HACCP is part of quality assurance. Food manufacturers use this HACCP
system to analyse what could go wrong during the production and establish controls to
stop anything going wrong.
HACCP identifies hazards. - A hazard is anything that can cause harm to a
consumer. It can be biological (food poisoning bacteria), chemical (bleach) or physical
(glass or metal). All possible hazards that can cause harm become critical control
points because they must be stopped or avoided. These critical control points must be
monitored regularly to make sure they do not become a hazard.
When you make your biscuits you must also make sure you identify hazard analysis
critical control points so that your biscuits are safe to eat. Look at the HACCP plan
below and using this word bank complete the sheet so that you will have a working
HACCP plan.
WORD BANK
Egg, dirt and germs, oven, gloves, date stamps, temperature, cool quickly,
cover cuts, wash hands.
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Costing of Border Biscuits
In the copy table below into you jotter and work out the cost of all the Border Biscuits you tasted
Biscuit Type
Cost per packet
Number of biscuits
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Cost per biscuit