1 . If you’d like to learn how to bake bread, here’s a wonderful place to start. This easy white bread recipe bakes up deliciously golden brown.
Makes
● 2 loaves (16 slices each)
Ingredients
● 1 package (7g) active dry yeast
● 2-1/4 cups warm water
● 3 tablespoons sugar plus 1/2 teaspoon sugar
● 1 tablespoon salt
● 2 tablespoons canola oil
● 6-1/4 to 6-3/4 cups bread flour
Directions
● In a large bowl, dissolve yeast and 1/2 teaspoon sugar in warm water; let stand until bubbles form on surface. Stir together 3 tablespoons sugar, salt and 3 cups flour. Stir oil into yeast mixture, pour yeast mixture into flour mixture and beat until smooth. Stir in enough remaining flour, 1/2 cup at a time, to form a soft dough.
● Turn onto a floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, 8-10 minutes. Place in a greased bowl, turning once to grease the top. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, 1-1/2 to 2 hours.
● Punch dough down. Turn into a lightly floured surface; divide dough in half. Shape each into a loaf. Place in two greased loaf pans. Cover and let rise until doubled, 1 to 1-1/2 hours.
● Bake at 375 degrees until golden brown and bread sounds hollow when tapped or has reached an internal temperature of 200 degrees, 30-35 minutes. Remove from pans to wire racks to cool.
Kitchen Tips
● Be careful that your water isn’t too hot when proofing yeast.
● You can store homemade bread in a plastic bag or a bread box for maximum freshness.
Nutrition facts
1 slice: 102 calories, 1g fat, 0 cholesterol, 222mg sodium, 20g carbohydrate, 3g protein.
Reviews
☆ Helen
Mar 12, 2021
Fantastic recipe! I followed the directions, and it turned out perfect. Very good flavor and great for beginners. I really liked it and so did my friends.
☆ Mary
Mar 31, 2021
I was super excited to try this bread recipe, but the process was a bit frustrating. The end result was good though. It might be more helpful if it is made into a video.
1. How much sugar is dissolved with yeast?| A．Half of a teaspoon. | B．3 teaspoons. |
| C．Half of a tablespoon. | D．3 tablespoons. |
| A．It should be kneaded on a greased surface. |
| B．It takes 8-10 minutes to rise to double its size. |
| C．It needs to be put in a cool place to become softer. |
| D．It should be baked at 375 degrees for about half an hour. |
| A．It is not easy to follow. | B．It is great for beginners. |
| C．It is not as good as she expected. | D．It is the best recipe she has tried. |
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Students into the Kitchen
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3 . The Comfortable Kitchen: 105 Laid-Back, Healthy, and Wholesome Recipes
Here are healthy meals the whole family can enjoy, night after night.
What does comfort mean in The Comfortable Kitchen? For Alex Snodgrass, New York Times best-selling author of The Defined Dish, bringing her family around the table to share a home-cooked meal is a favorite way to show love. Her recipes are designed to bring joy into that display of affection, from your own comfort cooking for your loved ones' delight at the delicious flavors, to knowing that you are caring for your family 's nutrition with each bite.
There are plenty of recipes with simple, flexible ingredients for a meal when desired — perfect for people who are enjoying their “food freedom” stage of their health journey. And for those who have diet restrictions, Alex clearly marks each recipe as gluten-free (无麸质), dairy-free and grain-free, as appropriate.
Alex brings back the joy of being in the kitchen for those at all levels of cooking skills and provides food for every occasion, with soups, salads, pasta, vegetarian and non-vegetarian, ranging from one-pot meals to not-so-junky junk food — and even cocktails and desserts — with recipes including:
▲Cajun Chicken and Wild Rice Soup
▲Green Curry Poached Halibut with Herbs
▲Texas Style Brisket Tacos
▲Herby Green Olive Pasta with Feta
▲Sheet Pan Honey Sesame Cauliflower
▲Clayton's Margarita
▲7-Ingredient Almond Butter Cookies
With 105 approachable and nutritious recipes for real, busy life, The Comfortable Kitchen is a must-have cookbook for those who care about what they eat and what they make.
1. What is The Comfortable Kitchen mainly about?| A．Cooking. | B．Affection. |
| C．Kitchen facilities. | D．Family parties. |
| A．It contains many recipes. | B．It receives many complaints. |
| C．It can only be bought online. | D．It is published by New York Times. |
| A．Environmentalists. | B．Dieticians. |
| C．Businessmen. | D．Publishers. |
| A．Chef and customer. | B．Host and guest. | C．Husband and wife. |
5 . Tasty trips: delicious reads for you
From a Nigerian cook’s memoir（实录）to a classic novel of Mexican moles and magic, these books take you on unforgettable kitchen journeys.
Bon Appetite: Travels Through France with Knife, Fork and Corkscrew (2001), by Peter Mayle. After a childhood spent tolerating British cooking, Mayle fell in love with France’s cooking culture. It was a lifelong journey he kindly and knowledgably documented in this mouthwatering memoir, the most food-focused of his many books.
Dirt (2020), by Bill Buford. After befriending the always great French chef Michel Richard, the Italophile-turned-Francophile writer winds up at a cooking school in Lyon studying the country’s secrets for cooking delicious foods. Finally, he walks away having learned the taste of good food. That comes from a place, as it has for thousands of years.
The Spice Necklace: A Food-Lover’s Caribbean Adventure (2010), by Anne Vanderhoof. As a brave couple pilot their sailboat, the Receta (Spanish for recipe), around the Caribbean, they dig into local delicacies along the way. The lively memoir-cookbook will make you want to head to the tropics—or at least your kitchen—to try frozen pumpkin soup or delicious coconut-custard tarts（蛋挞）.
Like Water for Chocolate (1989), by Laura Esquivel. Set in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Mexico, this novel combines magical realism with food sensualism（感官刺激性）to tell the tragicomic（悲喜剧的）story of Tita De La Garza, a farmer’s daughter with mad kitchen skills—but no luck at love. Each chapter starts with a traditional recipe (oxtail soup, turkey molé) tied to the storyline.
1. What can we learn from Bon Appetit?| A．Mayle was fond of cooking at an early age. |
| B．Mayle finally enjoyed France’s cooking culture. |
| C．Mayle spent his whole life writing an autobiography. |
| D．Mayle himself could cook the most mouthwatering food. |
| A．Dirt | B．Bon Appetit |
| C．The Spice Necklace | D．Like Water for Chocolate |
| A．Food lovers. | B．Cook trainers. |
| C．Book collectors. | D．Kitchen adventurers. |
| A．Lily. | B．Timmy. | C．Grace. |
| A．315 degrees. | B．350 degrees. | C．355 degrees. |
1. Who did the speaker go on a cookery course with?
| A．Her cousin. | B．Her sister. | C．Her mother. |
| A．The one-day course. | B．The three-day course. | C．The one-week course. |
| A．The course was popular. |
| B．There were many teenagers. |
| C．Many teachers were there to help. |
| A．A restaurant. | B．A market. | C．A supermarket. |
9 . Porridge doesn't have a very tasty name, does it? It doesn't have a very tasty reputation, either. I'm here to try and convince you that porridge isn’t boring and tasteless, that it can be a delicious, convenient and very healthy way to start the day.
If you’ve never eaten it (although you probably have), porridge is a type of food served for breakfast. It is usually a type of grain, like rice or oat (燕麦), mixed with either milk or water, and often heated up. It is often thicker than liquid, but not solid and is very easy to digest, so it's a better option for people who are ill, and it provides long-lasting energy for the day.
Porridge preparation--the amount of ingredients (配料) and cooking time—depends on what you choose to use as your porridge base. If I'm cooking for myself, I put a very big handful of ‘rolled’ oats in a saucepan, add a little bit of water and about 200ml of milk, and let the mixture boil. I stir the porridge constantly, and it takes about five to ten minutes to cook.
Once it's cooked, the fun part is adding the flavors. Porridge alone doesn't have a very strong flavour. Although some people think this makes porridge boring, I think this is what makes porridge exciting! It is like a blank piece of paper—you can add almost anything you want to the porridge base. Greens, nuts and dried fruits are very healthy options to add and can give you energy for the day. But if you don't like these, or you're allergic, then honey and chocolate are also very tasty options. (Just don’t add to much!)
One of the best things about porridge? You can make it almost anywhere in the world. Either oats or rice or both are “staple foods (主食)” for many people across the world. You can usually buy big bags of either, then add local ingredients to make your porridge interesting—whatever is cheap and convenient to find, wherever you are. I am currently in Mexico, and I love to heat my oats up with milk, then mix in peanuts and pumpkin seeds and cacao nibs, and I put a layer of sugar over the top to make my porridge sweeter.
Porridge? Hopefully it sounds a lot tastier now!
1. According to the author, what is the best thing about porridge?| A．It provides long-lasting energy for the day. |
| B．It is cheap and convenient to make. |
| C．It's a better option for people. |
| D．It is never boring and tasteless. |
| A．To give brief introduction to various porridge. |
| B．To show how to prepare porridge for the patient. |
| C．To warn us not to have porridge for breakfast. |
| D．To introduce the benefits of porridge. |
| A．Porridge is often thicker, liquid and solid. |
| B．Porridge alone has a very strong flavor. |
| C．Porridge is to many people's liking. |
| D．Porridge is only served for breakfast. |
| A．Porridge with Sugar. | B．Porridge with oats. |
| C．Porridge with fruit. | D．Porridge with milk. |
10 . How to Make a Chinese Hot Pot
Eating a Chinese hot pot is a very common experience. People gather around the pot, dipping their food, waiting for it to cook, mixing their own seasonings (调味品) and enjoying each other's company.
Firstly, prepare a large pot of soup. There is no right or wrong way to prepare a soup, so feel free to make your own. A simple soup can be made by boiling water with the addition of meat bones or fish heads and a mixture of herbs, seasonings and vegetables.
Then, cut a variety of meats and fish into thin slices.
| A．Finally, arrange the seating reasonably |
| B．Now comes the turn to enjoy your hot pot |
| C．It will guarantee that the items will cook quickly and fully |
| D．Here are some easy steps to make a Chinese hot pot at home |
| E．For more variety, consider dumplings, rice cakes and tangyuan |
| F．Popular choices include: cabbage, pea leaves, winter melon and tomato |
| G．You can eat them easily |
