BBC 英语学习 保留传统食谱

From BBC Learning English. Hello. This is 6 min English from BBC learning English.

I'm Sam, and I'm Rob. Now, all over the world, people love to eat, and most of us have favorite food we like to cook often.

This involves a

recipe that's written down instructions explaining how you combine the different items of food you are going to cook, the ingredients into a meal.

My favorite recipe is for banners and mash, a cheap and popular British meal made of sausage and mashed potato.

Um Cooking is a big part of our lives, something pleasurable we do with others, and a way of discovering the flavors and tastes of other cultures.

In this program, we'll be doing just that, discovering the food culture of Ghana in West Africa, and hearing about one woman's quest to preserve our countries traditional recipes.

And as usual, will be learning simulated vocabulary along the way.

But before we start, I have a question for you.

Rob Your favorite recipe is the classic British dish, bangers and mash.

It's easy to understand why mashed potato is called mash.

But how did sausages come to be known as banners?

Is it a because bang is an old fashioned word for pork?

B because sausage making machines used to make a banging noise, or see, because sausages would explode in the frying pan going, bang.

I think it's a bang is an old fashioned word for pork.

OK, rob. I'll reveal the correct answer later.

Food writer Adner of Vegema was born in Ghana, but moved to Canada as a child.

After school, she would go for burgers and fries with friends before heading home to eat traditional Garnean food with her family, food cooked with ingredients like dawa, dawa, a spice made from roasting locus beans and fufu.

Her mother's cooking gave Abner a love of traditional recipes, so much so that five years ago, she moved back to Ghana to rediscover her country's food culture.

But when she arrived, abner was surprised how much things had changed.

Many traditional spices and ingredients were no longer being used, and it was more common to see tomato ketchup, van garne in chipotle sauce.

Here, abna describes how her grandparen'ts used to cook in the old days to BBC World Service program, the food chain.

So they would actually cook the am you would cook the plantain, and they would use, you know, the mortar and the pestol to actually pound it.

You know, now, in Ghana, you could just buy potato flour and just make the food on the stove, but we're losing that, right?

That that exact communal experience of cutting the arm and cutting the plantine and cooking it.

Abner's grandparen'ts made food food the traditional way, using ingredients like yam ander green bananas called plantains.

These were placed in a mortar and pencil cooking equipment made of a bowl the mortar and a heavy stone the pestel, which is used to grind ingredients together.

The traditional method was to pound fufu to crush it into a paste or powder.

But nowadays, many people buy ready made flour and cook food foods the modern way, on a stove.

For Abner, this represented an unwelcome departure from ancestral ways of cooking, and she decided that something had to be done.

Here's Ruth Alexander, presenter of BBC World Services the food chain.

To continue the story, abana was so taken about by the loss of, know how about ghana's traditional recipes and ingredients in the towns and cities that she decided she had to do something, and set off to rural areas on a fact finding tour.

We traveled across the Upper East region.

Again, I just to document indigenous dishes and to ask, what are people eating now?

And learning that a lot of dishes are lost.

Abna was taken aback by the changes in ghana's food culture.

She felt shocked and surprised. Traditionally, recipes were passed down orally from mother to daughter, instead of being written down.

So a generation of young Ghanaians were losing cooking, no how, the practical skills and knowledge of how to do something.

Abner travelled around Ghana to document traditional recipes, to record information about them by writing them down or taking photos before they were lost forever.

If his story has inspired you to find out about your own countrys traditional recipes, or discover more about Ghana and cooking, you can read more on abner's website, living the ancestral Way.

And after all this talk of traditional Ghana and food, it's time for your question about a traditional British recipe bang as a mash or sausage and mash potato.

Now, you ask me about the name Banger, and I guess that bang

was an old fashioned word for book.

So was I right?

You were wrong. I'm afraid of the name.

Banner started in World War One, when meat shortages resulted in sausages being made using water

that caused them to explode, going bang when cooked.

Well, thats certainly one way to spice up your cooking.

OK, let's recap the rest of the vocabulary, starting with mortar and pessel, a bowl and a heavy stone, which is used to grind ingredients together.

To pound something, means to crush it into a paste or powder.

If you're taken aback, you feel shocked and surprised.

Know, how is the practical skill in knowledge needed to do something such as cook?

And finally, the verb document means to record information about something by writing about it or taking photos.

Once again, our 6 min are up.

Bye for now. Bye.

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