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Cooked Playdough
Ingredients:
1 cup salt
2 cups plain flour
4 tablespoons Cream of Tartar
2 tablespoons cooking oil
2 cups water
food colouring
2 cups plain flour
4 tablespoons Cream of Tartar
2 tablespoons cooking oil
2 cups water
food colouring
Method:
* Begin by collecting all of your ingredients and a saucepan.
* Into a large saucepan, measure and pour the salt.
* Next, measure and pour the cups of flour.
* Add the Cream of Tartar.
* Pour in the measured cooking oil.
* Now add the water.
* Select which colour of food dye you wish to use and add several drops or squirts of dye depending on how deep you want the colour to be.
* Mix the ingredients together in your saucepan.
* Then stir over a medium heat for approximately 5 minutes or until the mixture congeals. (Children will need an adult to help them with this step as the mixture becomes quite hard to stir and can cause the pot to move around on the stove.)
* When you remove the dough from the heat it will still be quite sticky and you will feel like it needs more time on the stove. It probably doesn't and returning it to the stove will probably burn the bottom of your dough.
* Leave the dough to cool. As it cools the sticky texture becomes more playdough-like.
* Enjoy the dough while it is warm. It's a texturally different experience to cold dough.
* You could even add flavourings for smell but in our house playdough is already an edibly-desirable product without adding an alluring scent as well.
* Store your playdough in an airtight container in the refrigerator. It lasts quite a while. Our last batch lived in the fridge for many months before the dish cracked and it began to dry out.
* Leave your saucepan to soak in a little water. Once you've finished playing with your new playdough the pot will be ready to rinse and wash. Now you just have to find a couple of volunteer (or recruited) dish washers.
* Into a large saucepan, measure and pour the salt.
* Next, measure and pour the cups of flour.
* Add the Cream of Tartar.
* Pour in the measured cooking oil.
* Now add the water.
* Select which colour of food dye you wish to use and add several drops or squirts of dye depending on how deep you want the colour to be.
* Mix the ingredients together in your saucepan.
* Then stir over a medium heat for approximately 5 minutes or until the mixture congeals. (Children will need an adult to help them with this step as the mixture becomes quite hard to stir and can cause the pot to move around on the stove.)
* When you remove the dough from the heat it will still be quite sticky and you will feel like it needs more time on the stove. It probably doesn't and returning it to the stove will probably burn the bottom of your dough.
* Leave the dough to cool. As it cools the sticky texture becomes more playdough-like.
* Enjoy the dough while it is warm. It's a texturally different experience to cold dough.
* You could even add flavourings for smell but in our house playdough is already an edibly-desirable product without adding an alluring scent as well.
* Store your playdough in an airtight container in the refrigerator. It lasts quite a while. Our last batch lived in the fridge for many months before the dish cracked and it began to dry out.
* Leave your saucepan to soak in a little water. Once you've finished playing with your new playdough the pot will be ready to rinse and wash. Now you just have to find a couple of volunteer (or recruited) dish washers.
Please note that we doubled our mixture for these photographs. If you want the same amount of dough as you see in these images you'll need to double your mixture also.
