What should the youth cook?

[thom]

Agreed - our toddler loves sitting on the worktop and helping out - sometimes it's the only way to engage her interest and get on with what needs doing at the same time.

[/proud parent]

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Exactly. As long as you don't seat them next to the knife block or on the wok-burner then all is well.

I forgot to mention that the best thing about dough is explaining to your child that yeast is efffectively a tiny animal which is too small to see and which is asleep until the warm water wakes it up.

My eldest tried his best to get his fledgeling intellect around such a concept and the smallest animal he could imagine were beetles, meaning he was intrigued as to where the "shells" went when you cooked the dough.

The world is a wonderful place when you are four.

Cheers

Thom