6th COURSE. DIDACTIC UNIT 2. FOOD. THE ORIGIN OF FOOD

READ THESE TEXTS ON THE ORIGINS OF SOME TRADITIONAL FOOD AND DRINKS

Horchata is a traditional drink in some parts of Spain. It looks like a vanilla milkshake, but it isn´t made with milk – it´s made with tiger nuts! They are pulses that grow underground.

To make horchata, you leave the tiger nuts in water for a day. Then you squeeze the juice out of them. You can add sugar, lemon, and cinnamon. Horchata is also the name of a drink in Mexico, but it tastes very different. It´s made with rice!

Custard is a traditional British desert. It´s a creamy pudding made with eggs, milk, sugar, and vanilla. To make custard, you mix all the ingredients and then cook them very slowly. 
You can eat the custard warm or cold. Some British people like to put custard on other desserts like fruit pies.

Custard is also used to make fruit trifle. Trifle is a traditional British dessert made with cake, custard, fruit, and jelly. Jelly is fruit gelatine. Most people also put lots of cream on top. It´s a very rich dessert!

Maple syrup is traditional in Canada. It´s made from the sap of maple trees. You can see a red maple leaf on Canada´s national flag. The maple sap is collected in early spring. People cut small holes in the sides of the trees and collect the sap in buckets. 
Then they cook the sap to take out the water and make syrup. If they continue cooking the sap, it turns into maple candy. A lot of Canadians put maple syrup on their pancakes. They also add it to cakes, cookies, and other desserts.
All trees have sap inside them. It takes 40 litres of maple tree sap to make a litre of pure maple syrup.
Now you can see all the process on the following video.