Question: You work as a kitchen hand in a Cafe. Your supervisor asked you to help make strawberry jam for a catering order that was placed

You work as a kitchen hand in a Cafe. Your supervisor asked you to help make strawberry jam for a catering order that was placed this morning.

The customer paid for 600 pancake orders; each order contains 2 pancakes and a serve of 25 ml of strawberry jam.

Read the strawberry jam recipe and calculate the figures requested using a calculator.

strawberry jam recipe

(Makes 1 litre)

  • 750 grams of strawberry
  • 1/2 cup of water
  • 250 grams of sugar
  • 20 ml of lemon juice

1- How many litres of jam will you need to make? Explain how you obtained the result

2- If you require the following to make 1 lt of Jam how much of each ingredient would you need to cater for the 600 serves? Explain how you obtained the result

3- The ingredients are in the cold room and they come in the following sizes. How many whole containers of each would you need to get? Explain how you obtained the result

1 kilo punnets strawberries

1 L bottles water

2 kg bags sugar

250 ml bottles lemon

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