SDEAS students and teachers attend baking class at SHRIM
By Cathy Alonso, SDEAS Faculty
Last Saturday of November 29, 2008, I, along with nineteen other participants (faculty and students) from SDEAS, attended the Baking Lessons sponsored by SHRIM’s Chefs In Progress (CHIP) as part of their Christmas Goodwill activities. The baking lessons were held at the 7th floor of AKIC building at promptly nine o’clock in the morning, with student Chefs Sarah Marcos and RV Manabat as our instructors.
The activities taught us how to bake three kinds of cakes for the holidays: Food for the Gods, Butter Scotch and Banana Cinnamon Cake. We were also taught how to roast chicken using three different kinds of herbs.
Everyone was so eager and I was lucky to be in the first group on the first long table because we were assigned to bake Food for the Gods. We let the students have first hand experience on how to mix the ingredients. It was amazing because they learned so fast and they need not be told twice what to do next on the other batch of cakes as the procedures were all similar to the first cake my group baked. The only exceptions were the ingredients they used in baking.
We had so much fun during the entire lessons especially before we put the cake in the oven and we had to drop the pan on the table which caused a loud banging sound. It was fortunate that most of us were Deaf participants so the noise didn’t bother us that much except that we’re sorry for our hearing friends. HAHAHA!
After baking pastries, we were taught how to do the Roast Chicken using different kinds of herbs: Rosemary, Taragon and Thyme. We were all elated at this last part of baking because we were quite sure we will end up eating the chicken afterwards.
The baking ended past twelve noon and student Chef RV gave us a copy of his cook book, “Gastronomy & I”. It was only at that time that I noticed that our instructor is a celebrity. We thanked both of our instructors and had our pictures taken.
The baking activities were very enriching as it were timely for this Christmas season. We can use the experience and start baking to either sell the cakes for profit or just give it away as Christmas presents to our family and friends.
We are very thankful to SHRIM for our wonderful baking lessons. I will never forget how very accommodating, kind and patient they were to us. We hope there will be other lessons like this in the future for this will benefit the students a lot and help them be more productive. However, I suggest that the next time there will be another activity like this, students and teachers should have separate lessons. Students can avail the free lessons but I think it will be good if the faculty will be tasked to pay for the ingredients since they have jobs and are already earning. That way, it will not be too much on SHRIM’s part. As faculty, we should also contribute something because we are so much blessed already to be given free lessons. I will never forget this and once again, thank you SHRIM for this enriching experience!
Photos courtesy of Lovella Catalan
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