Spend a day in Mother Goose's kitchen! Seventeen familiar and classic nursery rhymes inspire recipes and cook-along stories that will create a whole new generation of little chefs.
From breakfast to dinner, any time is a perfect time for nursery rhymes and food. Join the fun as children learn to cook with familiar kitchen-time rhymes like "Humpty Dumpty," "Three Blind Mice," "Hickory Dickory Dock," and more.
Cook Me a Rhyme combines the magic of storytelling with the fun of cooking for a truly unique nursery rhyme experience.
Bryan Kozlowski is a lifestyle and British-culture researcher. Author of Long Live the Queen! and The Jane Austen Diet, along with three previous books, his works have been featured in Vogue, the New York Times and the Washington Post.
This is a very strange cookbook for children, weaving mostly reasonable recipes for a child to make with adult supervision with nursery rhymes. Many of the connections are quite wild, but the recipes themselves are pretty interesting.
I've been neaning to make a batch of homemade geanola, so I took this opportunity to make the Baa Baa Black Sheep Bag Full of Black Wool Granola, or a somewhat modified version of it, at least. I added lots of other stuff to mine, like ground flax seed, chia seeds, and shredded coconut.
The recipe, as shown below, is easy to follow and makes a good-sized batch.
Baa Baa Black Sheep Bag Full of Black Wool Granola (pp. 10-13)
Serves Four
Ingredients 1/4 cup (23g) cocoa 1/4 cup (60ml) vegetable oil 3 tablespoons honey 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 gallon-sized resealable bag 2 cups (180g) oal fashioned oats 1/4 cup (57g) packed dark brown sugar salt
Preheat oven to 300° F (150° C)
Baa, baa, black sheep, have you any wool?
Put the 'black wool' cocoa powder, oul, honey, and vanilla extract into a small mixing bowl and stir until combined. Set the bowl aside.
Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full
Open the plastic bag and pour the oats inside.
One for my master...
Add the brown sugar and a pinch of salt into the bag. Seal the bag closed and shake until the sugar is mixed with the oats.
One for the dame...
Open the bag and pour in the cocoa honey mixture. Close the bag tightly and shake it well until all the oats are coated in the mixture.
And one for the little boy who lives down the lane.
Open the bag and place the oats onto a nonstick (or parchment-lined) baking tray. Walk down the lane to the oven, and slide the tray inside to bake for 20 minutes.
Baa, baa, black sheep, have you any wool? Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full
Using oven mitts, remove the tray from the oven. Let the granola cool before breaking it into small clusters, and then store it in a reaealable bag until ready to eat."
It has a good mix of simple assembly type projects and more involved cooking projects.
Some of our favorite selections were Baa Baa Black Sheep's granola, and Little Bo Peeps yogurt pops. The kids loved looking through the book and selecting a recipe as much as they enjoyed cooking. -Alexis S.