A chocolate cake

Nora: Move out of my way, Peter. I want to make a cake.

Peter: How doyou make a cake, Mum?

N: Fancy you being interested! Well, listen and I’ll tell you. First you take some flour and add the eggs – oh no, that’s wrong, you mix the fat and sugar first, but you’d better watch me doing it. Now look. First I mix the fat and the sugar, there – do you see?

P: Yes!

N: Then I add the eggs, one by one, with a littleflour, and beat them into the mixture.

P: Why do you beat them?

N: Well eggs help the cake rise nicely if you beat them. And then I add the rest of the dry things.

P: What are the dry things?

N: Oh, the rest of the flour, the fruit, if you are making a fruit cake, or a chocolate powder, if it’s chocolate cake – it depends on what sort of cake you are making.

P: Make a chocolate cake.

N: Yes, that’s what I’m doing. Now I’m stirring a little baking powder.

P: Does that make the cake rise too?

N: Yes, but not until you heat it.

P: Is that chocolate powder you are putting in now, Mum?

N: Of course, it is.

P: I say Mum.

N: What is it, Peter?

P: What’s the salt for?

N: What salt? I don’t put salt in a cake.

P: Y ou did, you know. Perhaps you thought it was sugar.

N: Oh, good gracious. I’ve put salt in instead of sugar. The cake is spoilt. What a shame – those lovely eggs! I’m always doing things like that. Now I shall have to begin again and make buns instead – they don’t need eggs.

25. RESTAURANTS OF QUICK SERVICE (РЕСТОРАНЫ БЫСТРОГО ОБСЛУЖИВАНИЯ): AT MC DONALD’S

McDonald’s is a joint Russian-Canadian restaurant which was opened on the 31^st of January, 1990. It is situated in Pushkin Square in the centre of Moscow. The seating capacity of the hall is seven hundred seats. Coming into the restaurant hall you go to the main counter, get the illustrated menu-card and a girl (or a young man) recommends you dishes, beverages, milk cocktails and dessert. You make your choice, pay the money, take the tray with your dishes, beverages, dessert and occupy any vacant table. The service is quick and excellent. The quality is first-class! What’s on the menu? For a snack you can have “Big Mac” – minced beefsteak made from plain beef, sliced lettuce latuk, brown onions, a slice of cheese and pickled cucumbers. All this is placed in a bun. Fillet of fish – delicious white fillet of Atlantic cod in dried bread. Single or double hamburger made from plain beef, slices of pickled cucumbers and brown onions, single or double cheeseburger also made from plain beef of high grade quality, slices of cheese and pickled cucumbers.

For a drink you can order cooling beverages – “Coca – Cola”, “Coca – Cola Light” (made without sugar for diabetics), “Sprite” and “Fanta”. There are milk cocktails, thick and nourishing, with chocolate, strawberry and vanilla syrup. If you like you can have dinner consisting of “Big Mac”, fried crisp potatoes and refreshing beverage. For a change you can have double cheeseburger or if you care for fish – fillet of fish. For dessert you can taste “Sunday”. It’s a soft ice-cream poured with hot chocolate, hot caramel or cooling strawberry syrup. There is also tea and delicious apple pies.

Welcome to Mc Donald’s!

VOCABULARY
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pie
dried
Taste, to taste
strawberry

Welcome to Pizza Hut!

Pizza Hit was recently opened in Kutuzovsky Avenue in Moscow.

We invite you to visit our Pizza Hut. There are excellent products in our assortment for making pizza of several kinds. We recommend you to taste our delicious Pan Pizza, rich and tender baked from our fresh rich pastry. Each pizza is covered with our special tomato sauce and two layers of cheese “Motzarella”. We can offer you nine kinds of special pizza (three-sized each). Small pizza is for one customer, medium – for two, large – for three or four. After choosing the size you should choose the kind of pizza. We’ve got