My 13 yr. old daughter wants to become a pastry chef, where should she start?
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At home with you!!
Seriously, what a great bonding time you'll have.
Search on-line for recipes and cooking tips. Try allrecipes.com or Kraftfoods.com or better yet, go to the library and check out their world of cook books (a favorite pastime of my youngest son and me) and find easy recipes to start with. Go shopping for the ingredients together and start baking!
What better way to support her talent than by nurturing it!
write to all the hotels in your area and ask if your daughter could visit just to observe
the only way she can start if she starts practicing at home with you. she can also take cooking classes in high school too if your local school offers it.
well sense she is only 13yr old she could just start with you in the kitchen making easy stuff and working her way up to a more diffucult dish good luck and i hope her dream comes true!
Id say start at home. Since its spring let her start her own business. have a stand outside and sell homemade pastry stuff<--the best tastin things ever!
She can be in charge, cashier and the manager.
It'll be good so she can learn how money works and how to deal with costumers. Just stick around and you'll get a brand new house and a mercedes in the garage if she keeps that up.<--inside joke.
She can start at home, right there in your kitchen. Get your daughter some good cookbooks and let her practice her intended craft with you as her number 1 cheerleader!!
I believe It's going to be great fun for both of you.
Is there classes thru school or adult ed. If you find classes outside of school, something you 2 can do together. Watch cooking shows or go on sights for ideas. Good Luck to you two. ENJOY time with her shes gonna grow up fast, but memories of who incouraged and supported her will always be there.
A few weeks ago my bf and I visited York. There is a very famous tea shop there called Bettys and we went there for lunch. I found a timetable there for their cookery school! Now I won't make any bones about it - the prices weren't cheap and if you don't live in the area getting there could be a problem. However I do think it would be the perfect thing for your daughter! The link is below - it's a bit mega long, so if it doesn't work try www.bettys.co.uk and click Our other websites at the top. They do holiday courses for kids. If you're too late to book you could try ringing them anyway and they may be able to give you some tips.
Good luck to both of you! =)
http://www.bettyscookeryschool.co.uk/con...
At 13 I had the same asperations. Luckily my local college had cake decorating classes at their community classes division. Being a townie I could take the class w/o being admitted into college. They wouldn't have let me anyway. :)
Purchase the Cake Bible cookbook. Let her prepare each and every item in the book. Then move on to other cookbooks in the same field. By the time she's worked her way through these books, she will be familiar with the tools of the trade and you will have purchased most of them, the greatest and best cookbooks on this subject, having read and mastered each recipe, and no ingredient should by this time be new or surprise her. Then she'll whiz through those classes in no time when she's old enough. Enjoy each and every bite your princess makes! Jog in your free time!
Disney World offers tourists the opportunity to take classes with chefs for specific training in the culinary arts
go to a big hotel and ask to talk to the pastry chef c if they mind helping and get some cook books and make sure she dosent eat everything she cooks
Just let her bake and experiment all she can and wants at home. Encourage her and make the ingredients she needs available to her and that is the best you can do right now..
Maybe in a few years there will be something educationally available for her. Have her take what she can in school for food classes.
try to get kids cook books!my daughter loves to make food out of those books!they are fun and easy!also really delicious!good luck!
It depends so much on where you live, there may be schools with classes for teens/moms/families, or there may be a family pastry shop nearby that would hire her for weekend work. In DC, there is L'cadamie de cuisine and many community recreation courses on general cooking. Look at your local rec classes, cooking schools, ( who may allow a intern or a worker) or a local family bakery. good luck, and kudos for supporting her interests!!
Since She's thirteen she could learn a lot just from watching and helping you cook. also even if there are not culinary classes in your area right now, try looking up camps that might occur during the summer. These will fuel her love for baking as well as teach her the basics she'll need to learn. I went to one and have been baking ever since. : )
I just wanted to support cooking pancakes answer. The Cake Bible by Rose Levy Beranbaum is amazing. It is more than a home cooking book, it is a technical manual that can be used at many different levels, whether you are a top international chef looking for a quick reference on gluton percentages, or someone starting out wanting to learn things the proper way. Her other books are just as full on, cooks who like their recipes with pretty pictures from the magazine supplements are going to run miles if they were to follow the recipes.
I also use her Bread bible, it takes months to perfect one bread recipe, however, it is the best sourdough withing 50 miles.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_w_h_...
other really good references include "the professional chef" from the culinary institute of america. Not many recipes, but excellent descriptions, images and explantions of techniques.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/professional-che...
And finally any budding chef needs to have a good understanding of basic french techniques and food knowledge go straight to larousse gastronomique
http://www.amazon.co.uk/larousse-gastron...
Contact Jamie Oliver, He supports Young would be chefs.
Please see the web-site below. his own fan club. its brilliant!!
If she is still interested when she is ready to leave school enrol her in a catering college I did when I was 15 that was 50 years ago and I still love to cook .
It's great that your daughter can cook as many today just use ready meals home cooked "stuff" is so much better good luck to her and her career if this is what she chooses
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