Part of Lesson Plan: Standardized Recipes

Activity Overview / Details

Give students a copy of Handout 3 ”Recipe Comparison,” and three or four recipes. Handout 3 contains the components of a standardized recipe. You should have a copy of the handout for each recipe. For each recipe, write the number on the handout. Then check each of the components that it contains.  

At this point you can either group or pair students to Discuss: the reasons why or why not the recipes are standardized recipes.

Discuss: The differences between standardized recipes and “home” recipes.

Discuss: How “home” recipes can produce different products or yields based on who prepared them.

Ask the class if two different cooks prepared the same standardized recipe could they produce two very different products?

Make sure the class understands that if the cooks did not accurately measure the ingredients or follow the directions carefully they would certainly produce two very different products.