Simple and healthy recipes that are easy to make are always the right choice to diversify one’s nutrition and learn some new cooking skills. The recipe for cheese wheatmeal cookies is exactly the kind of easy-to-prepare and healthy recipes, and, for this reason, we are going to cook them today. The first and most important step is to prepare all the ingredients. For this recipe, you need to sift 100 g of wholemeal flour and 50 g of self-raising flour, get 100 g of butter and 100 g of finely grated cheddar cheese, one large egg yolk, and 25 g of medium oatmeal (Barrett, para. 1). Secondly, you have to preheat the oven at 350℉ so that it warms up while you are making the dough. If you have never used an oven before, please do not hesitate to ask adults for some help to show you how it works. Following this, you need to put soft butter in a large bowl and then add the flour and oatmeal to mix all the ingredients. The next step is to add finely grated cheese to the butter mixture.
As was mentioned above, you need to separate the egg yolk and the white. Therefore, you have to carefully break the egg over a glass or a plate and free the whites by pouring the yolk from one half of the shell to the other but holding it inside. Add the egg yolk to the butter and knead all the ingredients with a fork until the dough is ready. For the next step, you need to put the dough between two sheets of parchment and roll it out to a thickness of one inch by using a rolling pin. The dough is now ready for cutting out the cookies of any shape you prefer. Then you have to transfer the cookies to a non-stick baking sheet and put them in the oven for 10-15 minutes until they reach a golden brown color. As an alternative, you can also roll the dough balls, put them on a baking sheet, and slightly press down with a fork to create various patterns and shapes on the dough. When the cookies are ready, give them few minutes to cool and thicken, and then you can remove them on a plate for serving.
The Rationale for the Approach
Considering the core principle of this assignment, as well as the target audience, I focused on three fundamental aspects of writing to complete this paper. These aspects include the simple concept and health-oriented type of the chosen recipe, the emphasis on additional explanations and cautions for third-grade students, and also the features of the Strayer Writing Standards (SWS). With that said, all of these elements were crucial for developing the proper structure and text of the recipe, which is easy to comprehend for the children.
Explanation of the Steps
The first step that I considered is that the snack I am planning to write about has to be both delicious and healthy for children. It is commonly perceived, especially by the kids, that healthy snacks and food, in general, cannot be tasty. For this reason, I chose cheese cookies because they have a salty taste like crackers, but are not as harmful as chips or cheese balls. In addition, I aimed at finding a simple recipe that does not involve slicing or long kneading. As such, the most challenging processes in preparing the cheese wheatmeal cookies recipe are turning on the oven, grating the cheese, and mixing all ingredients. I decided to add some details on how to separate the egg yolk properly since the children were unlikely to perform such a procedure before. My goal was to demonstrate how easy this process can be without parents’ assistance. However, it was still crucial to remind the audience that parents’ help is highly needed when learning how to use the oven because it can be dangerous for children.
Furthermore, I found the SWS style quoting tips extremely helpful when writing the sample instructions for the recipe. Considering the simplicity of the cooking steps, I did not remember the exact proportions of the ingredient, so I found them on the BBC website in the article written by Valerie Barrett. I have also followed the advice that writing work is better in an active voice. The final step of completing this assignment implied checking the formatting rule according to the SWS, including editing and arranging the structure of the text.
To conclude, accomplishing a technical writing assignment was enabled by just a few simple steps and recommendations that assisted in writing the paper that corresponds to the purpose and intended audience. Hence, the essential element for creating interesting and compelling content was a proper investigation of the features of children’s audience, together with adding useful details to facilitate the process and make it easy to understand. It was critical to adhere to adequate topic delivery but also provide entertaining content for third-grade students. Ultimately, tips and guidance of the Strayer Writing Standards was the finalizing point to edit and format a written material and include a proper citation.
Work cited
Valerie Barrett. 2012. Cheese Wheatmeal Biscuits.