Name: ____________________
Get Cookin’!
Directions:
1.
Find one recipe (your choice) from a magazine, newspaper, or recipe book. The recipe must contain at
least one whole number, one mixed number, and one fraction.
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Copy or cut out the complete recipe, including the ingredients and the directions.
Double the ingredients in your recipe. Re-write or type the recipe with the doubled ingredients.
a.
To double a recipe, add the amounts together
i. For example: if the original recipe called for 1 ½ cups sugar, you would double it by adding
1 ½ + 1 ½ = 3 cups sugar
b. Remember to double the number of servings (if this amount is stated on the original recipe).
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Please note: you do not need to double the baking/cooking time, just the ingredients & serving size.
Glue the original recipe to a piece of construction paper.
Glue the doubled recipe next to the original. Make sure to note that it is doubled. (an example is provided)
Cut out or draw pictures of the ingredients and of the finished recipe and glue on construction paper.
Please make sure that it looks nice. Take pride in your work.
Example of Final Copy Layout on Construction Paper
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Original Recipe
Doubled Recipe
Ingredients
Ingredients
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
4 ½ cups all-purpose flour
Drawing or Picture of Food
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoon salt
1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
2 cup (4 sticks) butter, softened
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1 ½ cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
1 ½ cup packed brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Etc…..
Etc…..
Drawing or Pictures of Ingredients
2 large eggs
2 cups (12-oz. pkg.) NESTLÉ®
TOLL HOUSE® Semi-Sweet
Chocolate Morsels
Elizabeth Dodd 2013
Name: ____________________
Show your Work Page
Get Cookin’ Grading Rubric
All Details of Original Recipe are Included ___/5
Doubled Recipe is Correct ___/10
Work is Shown Above ___/10
A Picture/ Drawing of the Finished Recipe is Included ___/5
Additional Pictures/ Drawings are Added ___/5
Neatness ___/5
TOTAL ___/40 ___ %
Elizabeth Dodd 2013