Aim:I need to figure out/research traditional ways of preserving food that have been used in New Zealand.

Method:
Step 1:I need to ready all my equipments.
Step 2:Prepare my blog.
Step 3:Research how traditional ways of preserving food that have been used in new zealand.
Step 4:When done show Miss Aitken my research.

My reasearch:
The hangi or earth oven is a traditional Maori method of cooking,It is especially sited for preparing food for large numbers of people.Hot rocks and water is used to craete the steam in a shallown pit dug into the earth.The food is layered on top of the rock and covered with leaves,then the soil is then placed to trap the steam for a few hours.The exact time depends on the lsize of the hangi.

Mara kai is a traditional  fermentation process for food such as crayfish and fish,after european arrival,it was also used for corn.The kai is placed in a flax basket and steeped in very slow running water for days or weeks until the inner flesh settles to the bottom of the kete.

Food could be dried in embers or,in the geothermal rotorua area,spread on hot rocks.Foods commonly dried included kumara,,shellfish and fish.Shellfish were threaded onto long lengths of twisted flax and hung from lines or platforms to dry in the sun and wind.Meat,fruit and seeds are also dried.

Fatty birds such as muttonbirds were preseved by their own fat.After cooking,the hot fat was set aside.The meat was packed into gourds,and the fat poured in to set around it.Southern tribes inflated bull kelp to make storage containers for muttonbirds.

Vacuum packing:Using a vacuum packing for storing foods in a vacuum packing or a jar.
Curing/Salting:draws out moisture in meat through a process called osmosis.The meat is cured with salt or sugar or both.
Sugaring:use to preserve foods.
Smoking:used by exposing meat to smoke off of materials such as wood.
Pickling:pickiling is a method of preserving food in an edible anti-microbial liquid.Typical pickling agents include brine,vinegar,alcohol and vegetable oil,especially olive oil but also many other oils.
canning and bottling:canning involves cooking food,sealing it in sterile cans or jars,and boiling the containers to kill or weaken any remaining bacteria as a form of sterilization.





4.The research is easy and fun because i get to figure out how to preserve foods.
5.It's fun doing the research especially to know how to preserve food so you can save and maintain foods.