Baked tuna and apple flambé

Ingredients

1 onion

1 apple

some stale bread

1 tin tuna

100g butter

a bottle of brandy

Preparation

First …1… the onion and the apple. Thinly …2…. the onion, and …3… the apple into small pieces. …4… the butter in a pan, and …5… the onion gently in the butter until it begins to turn yellow. Then …6… half a cup of water. Bring to the boil and leave to …7… for a few minutes. …8… the tuna and the chopped apple, and …9… thoroughly. Put the mixture in an ovenproof dish. …10… with breadcrumbs over the top, and …11… in a hot oven for 30 minutes or until it is golden brown. Warm a small glass of brandy and …12… it over the baked tuna. Set light to it, and …13… immediately.

Would you eat baked tuna and apple flambé?

Part 2. Work in groups. On a piece of paper, write a list of ingredients. Give your list to another group, who will write a recipe for you.

What do you think of the result?

Pre-listening

ripple ice-cream - a block of ice-cream with wavy lines of a fruit sauce running through it so that the sauce looks like ripples on water.

icing - sugar mixture, made by adding the white of an egg to fine icing- sugar, used to decorate cakes.

blancmange - flavoured milk pudding, eaten cold.

wouldn’t go for - wouldn’t choose.

palate - here, sense of taste.

pastry cases - shapes made with pastry.

Listening

Decide which of the following is true and which is false, according to the tape.

1. Ray doesn’t recommend coloured ice-creams.

2. Ray would put jelly with sponge cake.

3. He suggests cutting the cake into small pieces.

4. He thinks sandwiches would be useful.

5. Isabel has already decided what to put in the sandwiches.

6. Ray thinks children would like salami.

7. Chicken would be too strong for children.

8. Ray is the first to mention egg sandwiches.

9. Making a cake would be no trouble.

10. Pastry cases would be useful to put the cake pieces into.

Post-listening

I. Find the word or phrase opposite in the meaning to each of the words and phrases in italics. They are all taken from the tape.

1. very, very simple

2. small individual jellies

3. differences in colour

4. you could buy

5. a lot of work

6. a good idea

7. chicken is rather nice

II. Listen to the tape again and fill in the blanks below.

“You can, .....………, make certain things ………….. which would be very, very .....…. to do. You could make very small ……………. jellies, different …………. jellies; you could ……. some ripple …………… or a …………. of coloured ice-creams and put small ………… of ice-cream with the ………., but again emphasis being on …………. of …………”.

 Writing

You are going to entertain four very old people / small children and want to give them supper. Make a list of food suitable for old people to eat in the evening.