Julia Finke grew up at Ballybrado in times of near food self-sufficiency. She is a qualified chef and worked in this capacity in Switzerland, Jordan and Ireland. Since finishing her studies of Culinary Arts at Cork CIT she is back at Ballybrado and today looks after product development.
"Involving children in baking is very important, as quality time is spent together to achieve a certain result, like a cake or dessert for example, but not just that, you will teach your children much more than you may think like pouring, measuring, weighing, whisking, rolling and simple mathematics such as adding and subtracting and all sorts of other baking techniques that are used .It also teaches your children the importance of good nutrition and you should encourage them to taste new foods to develop their taste buds. Baking with children can channel the children’s natural curiosity as many foods or fruits change in colour, size texture when baked."
Most of all it gives children a sense of pride and achievement when these baked creations can be enjoyed by friends and family.
These skills that our children learn in the kitchen are skills for life which means that they will never be dependant on third parties that produce ready meals and are basically told what to eat by the food producers who are more interested in making money than our children’s nutrition.
Involving children in baking and cooking is sowing a seed for change, a gift for life. So why not start making a change now?"
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Once all these tasks are easy for the child to do you can bring them onto the more challenging tasks like
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