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Design a cawl product that could be included in the Welsh food box

Welsh local

food box

Cawl is Welsh for a broth or a soup.

Like many traditional country soups it

contain what foods are in season or what

are grown locally. Traditionally cawl was made from bacon, today beef and

lamb is mainly used.

“Cystal yfed o’r cawl a bwyta’r cig” – its is as good to drink the broth as to eat the meat’ a proverb from Cattwg Ddoeth (Cattwg the Wise).

One popular food product you could

include in your Welsh Food Box is cawl. Let’s explore this food product a bit more.

What is cawl?

Why is cawl one the traditional dishes of Wales?

What are the main ingredients in cawl? • locally available ingredients

• fairly simply to prepare.

• inexpensive ingredients.

• filling and satisfying. Why is cawl not an everyday dish of Wales today?

Food from Wales

Design Task – traditional welsh cawl

INGREDIENTS

700 g/1½ lb of lamb - cut in small squares700 g/1½ lb of potatoes - cut in small squares225 g/8 oz of parsnips - finely chopped225 g/8 oz of carrots - finely chopped225 g/8 oz of swedes - finely chopped225 g/8 oz of turnips - finely chopped½ savoy cabbage - shredded2 leeks - finely chopped1 onion - finely chopped2.2 litres/4 pints of water4 tablespoons of parsley - finely choppedsalt and pepper

METHODLightly brown the meat in a frying pan and discard the fat. Boil the water and add the meat to it. After ½ an hour, add the vegetables, except the leeks, the cabbage and parsley. Cook slowly for 2 hours. Add the remaining vegetables for the final ½ hour's cooking. Taste the soup before serving and adjust the seasoning if necessary. Garnish with parsley before serving.

Functional properties of soup/cawl

Why not choose Welsh grown vegetables to put into this product?

Each ingredients does a different job or function in the soup. They can be used to add :

flavour

colour

thickening

texture

liquid

For each function can you name two suitable ingredients.

You may want to design a healthy cawl product for the food box.

Consider the nutritional properties of each ingredients. List the nutrients each ingredient provides and analyse if you have produced a balanced and healthy dish. Some examples have been completed.

Carrots

Potatoes

Meat

Leeks & onions

Swede & turnips

Parsley

Nutritional properties of soup/cawl

Vitamin C

Vitamin A Carbohydrate

Let’s look at the ingredients for Welsh Cawl again.lamb – cut into small squares potatoes - cut in small squaresparsnips - finely choppedcarrots - finely choppedswedes - finely chopped turnips - finely chopped½ savoy cabbage - shredded2 leeks - finely chopped1 onion - finely chopped2.2 litres/4 pints of water4 tablespoons of parsley - finely choppedsalt and pepper

Colour Flavour/

seasoning

Texture Liquid Thickening

carrots

Functional Properties of Soup

Now try to put these ingredients in the table opposite to show their functional properties, an example has been competed for you.

Your ideas for the cawl dish should

reflect the needs of consumer and also

the food available in your locality:

Select food ingredients for your cawl and give reasons for selection.

Reasons that you could include – readily available, in season, inexpensive, popular, easy to prepare etc.

ingredient reason why

Now start considering your selection of ingredients for your cawl/soup

You could follow a recipe you have been given by your teacher or change some of the ingredients a little or perhaps decide on the ingredients yourself.

Try to use locally produced ingredients if you can.

You could try getting ideas from books and websites. Look for recipes on the website ReallyWelsh.com

After making the soup, describe its appearance and flavour.

It you were to make it again, what changes

would you make? Why and how would you make these changes?

Evaluation and modification.