WHS bakes up goodies to sweeten up the food pantry
By Patricia Bogumil
Interim editor
Waterford High School student bakers have measured, stirred, blended, shaped and baked batch after batch of homemade cookies this holiday season.
All (except for one cookie permitted per baker) were sent to Community United Methodist Church, where volunteers packed up the treats for delivery to local needy families served by the food pantry.
Cookies were prepared in classes held in the high school’s Family Consumer Science Department.
A nice assortment of treats to try and please all tastes were prepared, including Mexican wedding cakes, peanut butter blossoms, butterscotch brownies, oatmeal chocolate chip, raspberry meringue kisses, strawberry pinwheels and peanut butter balls.
Before starting up the ovens, student bakers in teacher Theresa Ricco’s Foods I class had to prove their culinary savvy via a pop cookie quiz, the results of which were handed back Monday morning.
Questions were helpful and practical, like the best placement of two cookie sheets in one oven (answer: place them next to each other and add three minutes to baking time).
And, thankfully, no one had a problem with Question 6, which asked whether flour or salt should be sprinkled on a counter and rolling pin to make it easier to roll out cookie dough (answer: flour, of course).
This year marks the first time that the high school’s Food classes are baking cookies for the local food pantry run through the church, Ricco said.
“Usually, we emphasize health and wellness, using fruits, vegetables and whole grains,” she said.
“So this is our one ‘fun’ unit where the kids get to let loose and eat some sugar.”
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