RECIPE AND METHOD FOR CARAMEL SQUARES ☺

Method

The week before cookery:

1.       Immerse 2 cans of unopened condensed milk in a pot of boiling water with a lid on it. Boil & simmer the cans for 3 hours. Make sure the entire can is covered in water, if not just top up with boiling water from the kettle.  After 3 hours remove from water & leave to cool (its best to do 6 cans at a time as you don’t want to waste fuel & they last for months unopened)

In cookery class

2.     Prepare yourself and your unit for cookery

3.     Pre-heat oven to 160^oC/ Gas 3

4.     Grease sandwich tin

5.     Sieve flour & cornflour

6.     Mix in sugar & zest/vanilla if using

7.     Rub in butter- be careful to no handle it too much or it will get oily. Squeeze mixture together with fingertips

8.     Press into a greased sandwich tin & smooth with the back of a spoon

9.     Bake for 15-20 minutes until pale fawn colour

10.  Meanwhile, open cans of condensed caramel & place into a bowl- mix with a spoon to make it smooth. Spread the caramel over the shortbread.

11.   Melt chocolate- Break chocolate into a bowl and melt in the microwave for 30 seconds. Remove and stir. Continue to melt chocolate stirring every 30 seconds until the chocolate is melted (@ 2-3 mins)

12.  Spread melted chocolate over the caramel and leave to cool until the chocolate sets.

Ingredients	Equipment
125g flour 50g cornflour 50g caster sugar 100g HARD butter 2-3 drops of vanilla essence 1-2 cans of condensed milk 200g milk chocolate	Ingredients tray 2 plates Cutlery tray Large bowl Sieve Round tin Wire tray Spoon rest

fun week

This week I had work experience day 2 in my chosen Pharmacy. Again I left at 8.30 and was in for 9, packing away the delivery and sorting out trays. It was extremely busy because it was the start of October and they had to change all the dates of prescriptions. 

I got the job of removing any medication with the date 10/2014. It was fun but very tiring because I had to run around the medication stalls. I did that up until my break where I got toast. I was then given trays and prescriptions to stamp all the way up to my lunch break. ME and Gemma went to Zest to see sarah and we got carbonara which was very nice.

When i came back I was asked to clean the kitchen and collect any cups or plates left around the pharmacy which I did. So when I finished cleaning, I swept the floors and put away all the cups and glasses into their assigned places. 

The day went extremely fast and before I knew it I was allowed leave. Thursday we had our opening school mass where we all sang in the choir. We also had our funwalk but I had to leave early so i missed all the dances and the walk :((

This morning it was lashing rain out and me laura and aoife got soaked walking to school so we had to go home and change into our p.e tracksuit, this was quite exciting. 

bye for now