Catering Craft Practice WAEC

Standard And Local Measurements

Resumen

Two cooks follow the same jollof recipe, yet one pot comes out perfect every single time and the other is a lottery: today too salty, tomorrow too dry. The difference is rarely talent. It is measurement. A recipe is only a promise that the same amounts, cooked the same way, will give the same result, and that promise holds only when the amounts are measured the same way each time.

This lesson teaches the two languages of quantity a Nigerian caterer must speak. The first is the standard language of grams, litres, degrees Celsius and the level teaspoon, tablespoon and cup, the same anywhere in the world. The second is the market language of the mudu, the congo, the derica, the paint rubber and the milk tin, the measures the trader actually pours with. You will learn to convert between them, to scale a recipe up for a crowd, and to cost a menu to the naira.

Objetivos

  1. Distinguish between standard and local units of measurement
  2. Identify the standard units of weight, volume and temperature used in catering
  3. Convert between common standard measurements
  4. Describe local Nigerian measures such as the derica, mudu, congo and paint rubber
  5. Explain the importance of accurate measurement in food preparation and costing

Nota de la lección

A caterer in Lagos wins a contract to cook for two hundred guests. She has cooked the dish a hundred times for her own family, but always by feel: a handful of this, a tin of that. Now she must tell an assistant exactly what to buy, brief a second cook in another kitchen to match her taste, and quote a price that covers her costs and still leaves a profit. Feel cannot do any of that. Only measurement can. The caterer who can move freely between the gram and the mudu, the litre and the derica, is the one who can scale a recipe, keep a dish consistent, and cost a job without guessing. This lesson gives you that fluency.

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  1. One tablespoon is equal to about: A. 5 ml B. 10 ml C. 15 ml D. 25 ml Answer: C
  2. Which of the following is a LOCAL measure? A. Litre B. Gram C. Mudu D. Millilitre Answer: C
  3. A standard measuring cup holds about: A. 100 ml B. 150 ml C. 250 ml D. 500 ml Answer: C
  4. A derica is approximately equal to: A. Twice a mudu B. Half a mudu C. A paint rubber D. One litre Answer: B
  5. One litre is equal to: A. 10 millilitres B. 100 millilitres C. 1000 millilitres D. 10000 millilitres Answer: C

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WAEC SSCE - Catering Craft Practice - 2018

Pregunta 1 Informe

The diagram below are portion control equipment. Study them and answer questions 4(a) and 4(b)

(a) Name the equipment labelled I, II, III and IV.

(b) State one use each of the equipment labelled I, II, III and IV. 

(c) List four points to note when correcting a crream soup.

 

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