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SP.287 Kitchen Chemistry Seminar at MIT -Syllabus for Spring 2009

Tuesday, February 17th - no class due to monday schedule on a tuesday, but if you want an experiment, make some Pancakes

Weekly assignment

• Take a look at the recipe
• Reading assignment from the text (On Food and Cooking by Harold McGee, hardcover (copywrite 2004) 553-54,46-50, 551, 668-69,
• Additional reading:
  • pancakes as viewed from a chemical engineering perspective
  • everything you did not really want to know about harvesting maple syrup
  • Instructions to go out an tap a maple tree yourself

Fun Websites:

• Three pancake math problem
• IHOP

Homework questions

1. Do we really need to add both baking soda and baking powder? Why or why not?
2. How do they make buttermilk?
3. How do you make maple syrup?
4. What is sour cream?
5. Why do you whisk the dry ingredients separately from the wet ingredients?
6. Why don't you want to over mix?
7. Why does the last pancake you make always taste the best?

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