F2F Class Notes 29th December (Celeste)***

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Vocabulary

in bulk (idiom) – in large quantities

eg. It is less expensive to buy nuts in bulk.

circles / disks 

eg. We shaped the cookie dough into flat disks.

dough – the mixture of a powder like flour and a liquid like milk or water, butter and sugar

eg. cookie dough, bread dough

batter – mixture of flour and liquids  for cakes

no rhyme or reason – without any reasonable explanation or purpose

eg. There’s no rhyme or reason as to why the provinces and streets are named the way they are.

Original

Actually we are a little bit hurry because we have to prepare them before the Christmas Eve. We have traveled at Nanjing a few days ago. When we came back it’s left only 2 days for these things. At first we make a list and we found that there’s so many people that we want to send them the gifts. We have to make a big amount of cookies and other desserts. So we just ordered a lot of ingredients on the internet. When those ingredients were arrived we started to cook. Firstly, it takes lots of time to …

I think making cookies is easier than making traditional Chinese desserts because making cookies we only need to mix all the things together and make them into little disks and bake them. But, for other Chinese desserts it takes us a lot of time to deal with the dough.

Edited

Actually we were in a little bit of a hurry/rush because we had to prepare them before Christmas Eve. We had traveled to Nanjing a few days before. When we came back we only had 2 days to get everything ready/to prep, bake, package and deliver. At first we made a list and we found that there were so many people that we wanted to send gifts to. We had to make a big amount/pile/bunch/mound/mountain of cookies and other desserts. So we just ordered a lot of ingredients on the internet. When those ingredients arrived we started to prep. Firstly, it takes lots of time to…

I think making cookies is easier than making traditional Chinese desserts because when making cookies we only need to mix all the things together and make them into little disks and bake them. But, for other Chinese desserts it takes us a lot of time to deal with the dough.

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