PANELLETS: READING RECIPES
26/10/25
“Learn how to cook—try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless and above all have fun.”
Julia Child
As you know, Tanits have a very important mission: organizing the autumn activity of making “panellets”.
We agreed on the recipe but… can we recognise that same recipe in English?
We had a set of dessert recipes among which we had to locate the “panellets” one. Difficult? Not at all! Working in small groups, we discovered that every Tanit used a different strategy to do the task: looking at the numbers, finding the key words (almonds and sugar) in the text or eliminating recipes when we discovered ingredients that are not necessary in panellets (Milk- als panellets no hi ha llet!, aquesta no és!). Matching each recipe with its corresponding image was a bit more complicated but not impossible using the strategies we have shared.

When we discovered the recipe it was time to read it more carefully and understand all the steps. Since last year we cooked pancakes in class, we were familiar with some vocabulary and it was quite easy to recognise words like MIX and ADD. We also discovered new words like SMASH and BAKE.
Do you know these words in Catalan? Just do like we did in class to guess the meaning: use what you already know about the recipe and the images to help you understand the text.


















