🍳 Part 1: Understanding Recipe Ratios

1. A pancake recipe uses flour:eggs:milk in the ratio 2:3:1. If you use 4 cups of flour, how many eggs do you need?

4 eggs

6 eggs

8 eggs

12 eggs

2. A cake recipe calls for sugar:butter:flour in the ratio 1:2:3. Which statement is correct?

You need more sugar than butter

You need equal amounts of all ingredients

You need the most flour

You need the most butter

3. A biscuit recipe uses 200g flour, 100g butter, and 50g sugar. What is the ratio of flour:butter:sugar?

Ratio: _____ : _____ : _____

4. If a recipe serves 4 people and you want to serve 8 people, what do you need to do to all the ingredients?

Add 4 to each amount

Multiply each amount by 2

Divide each amount by 2

Keep the amounts the same

📊 Part 2: Scaling Recipes

Original Chocolate Chip Biscuit Recipe (serves 6 people):

• 300g plain flour
• 150g butter
• 100g caster sugar
• 50g chocolate chips

5. Scale this recipe to serve 12 people. Calculate the new amounts:

Flour: _______ g Butter: _______ g Sugar: _______ g Chocolate chips: _______ g

6. Scale the same recipe to serve 3 people. Calculate the new amounts:

Flour: _______ g Butter: _______ g Sugar: _______ g Chocolate chips: _______ g

7. A soup recipe uses carrots:onions:potatoes in the ratio 2:1:3. If you use 6 carrots, how many onions and potatoes do you need?

Onions: _______ Potatoes: _______

8. Explain why it's important to keep the same ratio when scaling a recipe up or down:

🎯 Part 3: Problem Solving

9. A pizza dough recipe uses the ratio cheese:tomato sauce:dough as 3:2:5. If you have 400g of dough, how much cheese and tomato sauce do you need?

Cheese: _______ g Tomato sauce: _______ g

10. Create your own simple recipe using ratios. Choose 3 ingredients and write them in ratio form, then scale it for different numbers of people:

My recipe: ________________________________

Ingredients ratio: _____ : _____ : _____

For 2 people: _____ : _____ : _____

For 8 people: _____ : _____ : _____

Recipe Scaling Ratios

Recipe Scaling Ratios

🍳 Part 1: Understanding Recipe Ratios

📊 Part 2: Scaling Recipes

🎯 Part 3: Problem Solving

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