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Here are a few recipes that are dead easy for you to make with your child! Fi from Stirrin'Stuff has written the instructions in a child-friendly way to make it nice and clear

FAIR TRADE Banana ice-cream (or ICE LOLLIES)

450g peeled FAIR TRADE bananas (4)
200g reduced fat crème fraiche

1. Peel the bananas, cut them into slices (less than one cm).
2. Cut each banana piece in half. Lay the small banana slices on greaseproof paper, on a freezer proof tray (so that the pieces don’t touch each other). Freeze for 1½ - 2 hours until the banana has frozen.
3. Put the frozen banana and crème fraiche into a food processor and put the lid on.
4. With dry hands, use the pulse button to blend the banana and crème fraiche – quick little pulses until it mixes up. If some of the mixtures sticks to the side, stop the machine, remove the top and carefully push it down with a wooden spoon. Replace the lid and start using the pulse button again. It is fun isn’t it?
5. Put the banana ice-cream into a bowl.
Makes enough to fill six ice- cream cones

ADVENTUROUS STUFF:

Add some grated Fairtrade chocolate.

For crunch - put four ginger biscuits into a plastic bag, tie the bag and crush the biscuits with a rolling pin. Gentle hits or rolls or you may break the bag. Add the crushed biscuits to your ice-cream.

EVEN QUICKER STUFF:

Cut a banana into half and carefully push a lolly pop stick into one end.
Freeze and you have a banana lolly. Try coating it in yogurt or grated Fairtrade chocolate for a special treat.

EAT IMMEDIATELY!

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Banana and Lemon Pancakes

What to find:
Rind of half a small washed lemon
One large Fair Trade banana
1 medium egg
100gm self raising flour
25g Fair Trade caster sugar
125ml milk
Butter for greasing

Kitchen Stuff

Grater
Small knife
Small bowl
Sieve
Large mixing bowl
Damp cloth
Whisk / wooden spoon
Frying pan
Dessertspoon
Tea towel

What to do:

1. Grate the lemon rind, turn the lemon around as you grate and be careful not to grate the pith (white), keep your fingers safe.
2. Peel the banana and cut the banana into 15, one cm slices. Cut off the small pointed end pieces, so that the banana pieces are flat.
3. Break the egg into a small bowl.
4. Sift the flour through a sieve; use a spoon to work the flour through to a large mixing bowl. Add the sugar and lemon rind. Put a damp cloth under the mixing bowl to stop it moving.
5. Make a hole in the centre of the flour with your finger and add the egg.
6. Use a small whisk or wooden spoon to beat the egg and draw in the flour, a little at a time. Add a little milk from the measuring jug and beat it into the egg and flour. Keep drawing more and more of the flour in, until you have added all of the milk and mixed up all of the flour. Little whisks mean that you will keep the mixture in the bowl.
7. You will end up with a thick batter, beat it well.
8. Put a little knob of butter onto kitchen towel and lightly grease a heavy even bottomed frying pan. Put the pan on to the hob to heat.
9. When the pan is hot carefully drop two slices of banana into the pan and drop a dessert spoonful of the batter over each banana slice. Make two pancakes at a time.
10. When the pancakes puff up and start to bubble flip them over with a palette knife. Cook for about another 30 seconds until the pancakes puff further and the underside is golden.
11. When the pancakes are cooked place them in a clean tea towel to keep warm.

(Makes 15)

ADVENTUROUS STUFF

For pancake faces, use the raised banana for a nose, and add a blob of cream cheese or honey to stick blueberries on to make eyes and a smile.

SAFE and TIDY STUFF

For safe knuckles. Wrap a clean dishcloth between your hand and the food that you are grating.

Egg separating practice at step three: When a recipe uses a whole egg, it is a good opportunity to practice separating the egg white from the yolk, because it doesn’t matter if you get it wrong, as the recipes uses all of the egg anyway!

Messy Stuff .A large bowl means that it is easier to whisk (keep) the mixture in the bowl.

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For other mouth-watering recipes, take a look here!

What is FairTrade?

‘FAIRTRADE’ is a growing movement, which ensures that farmers who live in poorer countries get a fair deal for the things that they grow. The payments must cover the cost of growing and of harvesting as well as give the growers and their workers a decent income. It is about reducing poverty in the third world. The income from exporting is very important to Sub Saharan Africa.
We are beginning to hear lots of talk about ‘food miles’ – or the cost (including in pollution) of transporting food from the fields all the way to your plate. Perhaps we should buy local but buying flowers and food from poorer countries, helps the people there who may have no other jobs.
There are lots of ‘FAIRTRADE’ products and customers are becoming more interested in buying them. It means that poorer communities, and not just big companies, are benefiting.

You can buy lots of ‘FAIRTRADE’ products; it is not just food there are also ‘FAIRTRADE’ clothes and toys. You can find ‘FAIRTRADE’ in supermarkets, local stores, and charity shops like Oxfam. When you are in a café find out whether the coffee that they sell is ‘FAIRTRADE’, and if you go out to a restaurant look on the wine bottles – even some of those are ‘FAIRTRADE’.

Check out the ‘FAIRTRADE’ website for more information.

A RECIPE FOR FAIRTRADE MUNCHIES

The joy of a treat is that it is special and you don’t have too many of them on a daily basis – otherwise it isn’t special. These treats are made with FAIRTRADE chocolate and muesli and are really yummy.

What to find;

150g Fairtrade chocolate
One tablespoon Fairtrade muesli

Kitchen stuff:

Tablespoon

Small bowl
Pan
Glass (heatproof) bowl that will fit over the pan
Wooden spoon
Teaspoon
Bakewell paper
Tray

What to do:

1. Measure the muesli into a small bowl.
2. Half fill the pan with water and put the glass bowl over the pan. Break the chocolate into the bowl.
3. Place the pan on the hob and heat to bring the water to a gentle boil and melt the chocolate. Stir with a wooden spoon. When the chocolate has melted turn off the hob.
4. Use oven gloves to remove the bowl from the pan.
5. Lay the non stick paper over the tray and carefully drop teaspoons of melted chocolate onto the paper. Move the tray around as you fill it, so that empty paper is close to the bowl.
6. Scatter the muesli over the chocolate rounds and WAIT for them to set (about an hour depending on the temperature of your kitchen).
Notes for Adventurous Cooks
• Make your own muesli. Cut up Fairtrade dried tropical fruits and mix them with some toasted oatmeal.
• Cut some Fairtrade fresh fruits into small pieces e.g. pineapple. Stick a cocktail stick into the fruit and dip it (half coat it) in chocolate.
• Find out more about tempering (melting) chocolate it is a real skill.

For more Stirrin'Stuff Recipes, take a look here.