weather : hot hot HOT ! from morning till 6? hmm..thats bad and now 'night', there's no wind still. .. the day before was cooling, i like it that way ! and i haven't get a fan for my room, imagine, its 30deg outside and my room door are close except windows and NO fan...how torture is that?
current feelingss : sleepy, lonely and my finger HURTTTTSSSSS
main purpose of this post : (LOL)
*my uniforms*
Being part of LCB and studying abroad is always like my fairytale dream and im proudly to say it loud, YAY ! I've fulfilled it lastly and see now im here save and sound xD
*Brandy (Korean) with her scones*
LCB is a great school ! They are filled with a quite a numbers of commercial (BIG) utensils, equipments just like in the industry. We're lucky to be in this term, we get to use the new kitchen which will be our workplace for as long as 9 months? Almost everything from pots to trays to working tables to ovens and equipments are NEW ! Ingredients are all well prepared before classes starts, It's awesome to utilise expensive ingredients as well. Everyone students get to have their own station and happy to say we have 1 kitchen aid/ person. . .=D
*demo kitchen*
I've already started my 'week 1' , our timetable only stated 3 days of classes (Happy!? . . haha YEAP ! ). There's 3 hours of demo class at 7.30am from every Thurs till sat O.o" (everyone comes with their sleepy face. . . LOL) and then we're gonna have 4hours of hands on practical where we're gonna make, bake and and decorate our masterpiece according to the demo that we've attended in the morning. Great to say i only have 2 hours of theory class on Friday evening =D, I'm happy with the study environment where we get to see and have hands on experience rather than sitting for several hours and listen to your boring old lecturer babbling ! =P
Im currently doing basic patisserie, so most products are simple easy but the techniques are very IMPORTANT ! As time is running and in a higher level, there will be more nerve-wrecking and more creative types of pastry to be learn.
hmm . . .
so far, i've learned ; SCONES~
*my scones !*
. . . LOTS i mean !!! plain scones, fruit scones, cheesie scones !
In this lesson, 'rub in' method is used . . no machines for us ! Using hands can be real fun, u get to feel the product, the texture and touch is different when dry ingredients add in with wet ingredients, and different techniques gives different structure as well.
* classmates products*
then, we try out some madelienes and financier on the 2nd day . . .Again lots of muscles are used with the creaming method - we do basically from scratch to Ta dAaaa....
*since we dont have the traditional financier mould, we uses round tins*
*Madeleine - which has a shape like a shell*
genoise sponge and pound cake on saturday ! gonna turn into a ball if i keep digesting sugarss and carbs . . LOL
*pound cake*
*genoise sponge cake*
Obviouly, we cant do sponge cakes by hand, maybe it workds but it takes a while to do it cause the batter has to be keep whisking until the 'ribbons' form before the flour and melted butter are add into it. . . This cakes really need the correct technique or else it'll turn into a rock cake and u might lost ur teeth too ! LOL ! but seriously !
That is all for week one . . . though it's kinda boring in basic (cos i've learned most of it before) but i like learning in this way ! It's fun - It's like playing play doll when i was young. . .LOL !
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