Preserving traditional recipes

Preserving traditional recipes - 6 Minute English

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Some dishes have the taste of our childhood. Cooking is not only about nutrition, but also about culture. But some traditional recipes are being lost. We talk about one woman’s quest to preserve the food culture of her native Ghana in west Africa, and teach you related vocabulary along the way.
This week's question
Bangers and mash is a classic British dish. It’s easy to understand why mashed potato is called ‘mash’ - but how did sausages come to be known as ‘bangers’?
a) because ‘bang’ is an old-fashioned word for pork
b) because sausage-making machines used to make a banging noise
c) because sausages would explode in the frying pan, going ‘bang’
Listen to the programme to find out the answer.
Vocabulary
bangers and mash
(informal) sausages (bangers) and mashed potato, a common British meal
mortar and pestle
cooking equipment made up of a bowl (the mortar), and a heavy stone (the pestle) which is used to grind and pound ingredients together
pound
crush into a paste or powder
taken aback
feel shocked and surprised
know-how
the practical skills and knowledge of how to do something
document
record information about something by writing about it or taking photos of it
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@trangdieu.18c Жыл бұрын

VOCABULARY 1. Bangers and mash : (informal) sausages (bangers) and mashed potato, a common British meal 2. Mortar and pestle : cooking equipment made up of a bowl (the mortar), and a heavy stone (the pestle) which is used to grind and pound ingredients together 3. Pound : crush into a paste or powder 4. Taken aback : feel shocked and surprised 5. Know-how : the practical skills and knowledge of how to do something 6. Document : record information about something by writing about it or taking photos of it 7. Plantain: a kind of banana that is cooked before it is eaten, or the plant on which it grows 8. Indigenous dishes : used to refer to, or relating to, the people who originally lived in a place, rather than people who moved there from somewhere else 9. Fact-finding: done in order to discover information for your company, government, etc 10. Plantain : a tropical fruit similar to a banana with green skin, or the plant that produces this fruit

@lenguyen458 Жыл бұрын

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@michael841209 8 ай бұрын

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@bbclearningenglish Жыл бұрын

More to come!

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@vavilovasvetlana9044 Жыл бұрын

Delicious unusual recipe. Thank you, I start cooking right now.

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Oh! I love this program. 🙏

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@user-ff3pz5zl4m 2 ай бұрын

Hello, let me introduce myself, my name is Salsabila from the superior high school CT Arsa Foundation Sukoharjo. So here I will give my response regarding this video. I think this video is very interesting, because it discusses traditional food and others. thanks to this video, my English learning really 💕😍

@bbclearningenglish 2 ай бұрын

😀 We're glad you enjoyed this episode of 6 Minute English! Can you tell us about the traditional food in your country? 🤔

@Reinolds_Recipes Жыл бұрын

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@collinsaddo3982 Жыл бұрын

That's fufu, one of the popular Ghanaian local dishes. I can't get enough of it.😘

@jayamohan9988 Жыл бұрын

This session about Ghana's recipes is interesting. I am from India and Indian food too has big variety , in different parts of the country we have different recipes. I too want to preserve traditional cooking of my family. Thanks to BBC team for bringing interesting programme to increase our knowledge and to improve our English as well..

@bbclearningenglish Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us! And for listening. :)

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practice listening or listening while combining looking at the words. Which is effective for communicating and listening to English? thanks 🤗

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@tgchan 6 ай бұрын

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@LanTran-gn9tm Жыл бұрын

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@mostafaal-ghurabi640 Жыл бұрын

Before 5000 thousands years the sumerians were able to document their recipes until today by write it down on cuneiform tablets, which makes us taken aback. Thus we know-how to cook indigenous recipes in present. Also my mother used to grind ingerdients by mortar and pestle, but that no longer happens after the development of technology and the spread of machines like blenders which take almost no efforts.