[Sca-cooks] Girl Scout Demo

[Olwen the Odd]

Say Christianna, that sounds like a lot of fun.  What a nice demo to put on.
  Will you be going back again this week?  What other types of things were
done at the demo?
Olwen

>One of the Mom's in our group has three girls that are in Brownies/Girl
>Scouts.  She signed them up for an activity camp this week, with a 'Middle
>Ages' theme.  She asked for volunteers to come out and help during the week
>nights.  We went last night, and had a good time.  I took the "Old
>World/New
>World" game, and it was a big success.  The girls had about 10 minutes with
>me, and I got groups of about 15 at a time.  We talked about the map, what
>was "old world" and what was "new world", and then I had them each pick up
>one of the food items and we talked about each one and where it might have
>come from.  Aside from guesses like 'the green beans can looks old, so it
>must be from the Old World', and 'Where does chocolate come from?' 'It
>comes
>from cows!' (- oh, man, the power of advertising), they did pretty well at
>it.  The most amazing part came when I got out "Take a Thousand Eggs or
>More", and had volunteers read the modern Gingerbread recipe, and then take
>a stab at the original.  To my surprise, most of the girls did really well
>with the early English.  The lady from our group commented that since they
>were all stressing phonics in school nowadays, they were used to sounding
>out words that may not even look like the proper words at all, to get used
>to reading phonetically.  I said 'They're being trained to read early
>English texts, how wonderful!'  I said "How many of you have heard some
>Shakespeare" (the majority of them raised their hands, I was pleasantly
>surprised), "Well, trying to read these early recipes is like having
>someone
>read your Mom's "Joy of Cooking" like it was a Shakespearean play".  This
>got lots of impressed reactions from the girls and Moms alike.  One of the
>Mom's got a hold of my cookbooks and started copying recipes down like mad,
>I think we've got a potential convert there! ;)
>	Christianna


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