THEME, GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

Theme:

• Bread was an essential part of a soldier's diet; therefore, breadmaking was an important activity.

Goals:

• Talk about the bakery duty and the breadmaking process.
• Explain why bread was so important in the soldier's diet.
• Describe various utensils needed to adequately prepare bread in the bake-house.

Objectives: After participating in this program, the students will be able to:

• Name bread as one food item a soldier got three meals a day, seven days a week, for his entire five year enlistment.
• Give at least one reason why bread is served day old instead of fresh to soldiers.
• Give at least three ingredients needed to make bread (flour, yeast, salt, water).
• List the various steps in the breadmaking process.
• Identify at least two tools or pieces of equipment used in army breadmaking.

  Suggested Activity:

• Have students engaged in various steps of the breadmaking process (eg. kneading the
  dough, rolling the dough out with a rolling pin, forming the dough into loaves.)