{"id":2722,"date":"2018-09-21T00:38:10","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T00:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=2722"},"modified":"2018-09-21T13:55:27","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T13:55:27","slug":"cornbread-and-jam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/09\/21\/cornbread-and-jam\/","title":{"rendered":"Cornbread and Jam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ingredients<\/strong>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\nBasic boxed cornbread mix<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Eggs and milk as called for in the package directions<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Strawberry jam<br \/>\n<\/span>Muffin tin<br \/>\nCooking spray or muffin liners<\/p>\n<p><b>Directions<\/b>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>\nWe love to cook in Acorn, and try to cook once each week!&nbsp; First, all helpers must wash and <em>dry<\/em> their hands.&nbsp; To be most successful, try to have everything you will need on a tray and easily accessible\u2014measuring cups, measuring spoons, cornbread mix, measured amount of milk, right number of eggs, mixing bowl, muffin tin, and muffin papers, if you use them.&nbsp; If you\u2019re cooking with one or two children, give them specific jobs\u2014the egg cracker, the milk pourer, and, of course, the mixer!&nbsp; Cooking is a sequential process, and children need to know that, so be sure to let them do their specific \u201cjobs\u201d in logical order, but be sure you\u2019re talking to them and explaining what you\u2019re doing as you do it.&nbsp; And it goes without saying that children need to understand that ovens are <em>hot<\/em> and not to be touched!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cooking is a wonderful opportunity to use new vocabulary and touch on basic math concepts. And it\u2019s very creative! When we make cornbread muffins, the final step is to let each child add a little squeeze of jam to their muffin before it goes into the oven.&nbsp; Extra yumminess!&nbsp; And remember to leave the oven light on as the muffins bake so your helpers can observe what\u2019s happening as&nbsp; they cook!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ingredients&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Basic boxed cornbread mix Eggs and milk as called for in the package directions Strawberry jam Muffin tin Cooking spray or muffin liners Directions&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; We love to cook in Acorn, and try to cook once each week!&nbsp; First, all helpers must wash and dry their hands.&nbsp; To be most successful, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/09\/21\/cornbread-and-jam\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cornbread and Jam&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":2723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-and-activities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2722"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2755,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions\/2755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}