【英语趣味课堂】柠檬蛋糕派-Key Lime Pie

Senem: Hey, Shawn, I heard that you are really good at making key lime¹ pie.

 

Shawn: Key lime pie, that's my special recipe. I just can't give that out to anybody.

 

Senem: Yes, you can. Please. I really want to make it tonight. Please tell me.

 

Shawn: What for?

 

Senem: What do you mean, what for? Just be nice and tell me.

 

Shawn: Well, alright, because you're my best friend, I will.

 

Senem: Thank you.

 

Shawn: But you have to pay me back some day.

 

Senem: Alright. I will. I'll teach you how to make some Turkish food. There we go.

 

Shawn: OK. Well, first, key lime pie has a few special ingredients that you need to get.

 

Senem: Uh-huh

 

Shawn: And the first one is graham crackers².

 

Senem: Graham crackers

 

Shawn: Alright and if you can find them, the rest is pretty simple.

 

Senem: I see.

 

Shawn: What you need to do, is you have to collect, you have to find graham crackers first and then you also have to buy three limes³, to cans of sweetened condensed milk.

 

Senem: Right.

 

Shawn: And buy a stick of butter.

 

Senem: OK.

 

Shawn: And what you do first is you get your pie dish, right.

 

Senem: Uh-huh

 

Shawn: And you mix the butter. Well, you first you melt the butter down, and then you mix it with the crushed graham crackers, and when you crush the graham crackers, they have to be in pretty small bits, not two small, not like a powder, but sort of like bread crumbs⁴.

 

Senem: OK.

 

Shawn: And what you do, is you mix the graham crackers and the butter and you form a pie crust.

 

Senem: OK.

 

Shawn: Alright, and then what you do, after that you stick it in the oven at 200 degrees for 15 minutes.

 

Senem: 15 minutes.

 

Shawn: 15 minutes, and that's it, and while you leave it in for 15 minutes, what you do, is you take your limes, right, and you have to have a grater and a juicer for your limes. And what you do, is your grate the outer skin of the limes

 

Senem: All three of them?

 

Shawn: All three of them. Until you get about, maybe a bit, maybe a table spoon worth of this lime zest⁵ and you mix the lime zest with the lime juice and your condensed milk.

 

Senem: All together?

 

Shawn: All together and you mix it until it all becomes, until you can't see the lime juice anymore, 

and then that should take around 15 minutes, by which time, your crust will be done (right) and all you do is pour your mixture into the crust and then stick it in the oven again for about twenty minutes, at about a 180 degrees this time

 

Senem: So the top can go brown or?

 

Shawn: Um, you don't want the top to go brown, you just want to cook it throughout alright so it becomes a bit more solid than just the runny, the runny condensed milk mixture and then after you do that, you just take it out, and stick it in the freezer, and if you leave it in the freezer for about three hours, you'll have a nice pie.

 

Senem: Beautiful. Great. Thanks a lot.

 

Shawn: No worries. But you better pay me back.

 

Senem: I will.

 

学习内容：

 

stick in the oven

 

After that, you stick it in the oven at 200 degrees for 15 minutes.

'Stick it in the oven' is an informal way of saying 'put it in the oven.' Notice the following:

 

Will you just stick the chicken in the oven at 6 o'clock?

Dinner will be ready in 10 minutes. I just have to stick this bread in the oven for a bit.

grate

 

Get the grater and grate the outer skin of the limes. 

When you 'grate' something you use a special tool called a grater to cut it into long, thin strips by moving the lime up and down on a metal board with holes in it. Notice the following:

 

You have to grate the cheese so it melts faster.

Can you please grate these carrots to put in the salad?

lime zest

 

Grate them until you get about maybe a tablespoon worth of this lime zest. 

'Lime zest' is the bitter skin of the lime grated into very tiny pieces. Notice the following:

 

Does the recipe call for lime zest or just lime juice?

I can really taste the lime zest in this bread.

go brown

 

You don't want the top to go brown, you just want to cook it throughout. 

Used like this 'go brown' refers to something turning brown from being cooked. Notice the following:

 

The popcorn⁶ is beginning to go brown. I think it's done.

I like it when the cheese on my pizza goes a little brown.

runny

 

Cook it so it becomes a bit more solid than just the runny condensed milk mixture. 

When a substance is 'runny' it is like liquid and won't stay in one place without some sort of a container. If you fry an egg for only a short period of time and then you cut the yellow part it is runny and it flows out of the egg like water. Notice the following:

 

Put the ice cream in the freezer again. It's getting runny out here.

I should have cooked the pancake a little bit longer because it's still a little runny in the middle.

1 lime   

n.石灰，酸橙，酸橙树，粘鸟胶，钙；vt.施石灰，涂上粘性物质，沾上粘鸟胶

参考例句：

• Lime exists in many soils.许多土壤中都含有石灰。
• A broad avenue of lime trees led up to a grand entrance with huge oak doors.一条栽有酸橙树的宽阔林阴道通向巨大的橡木门的雄伟入口。

2 crackers   

adj.精神错乱的，癫狂的n.爆竹( cracker的名词复数 )；薄脆饼干；（认为）十分愉快的事；迷人的姑娘

参考例句：

• That noise is driving me crackers. 那噪声闹得我简直要疯了。
• We served some crackers and cheese as an appetiser. 我们上了些饼干和奶酪作为开胃品。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 limes   

n.古罗马边境的城墙；酸橙( lime的名词复数 )；石灰；酸橙树；欧椴树

参考例句：

• an avenue of limes 两边栽有欧椴树的林荫道
• I will never go in a boat again without salt or limes." 以后不带盐或酸橙，我绝对不再乘船了。” 来自英汉文学 - 老人与海

4 crumbs   

int. (表示惊讶)哎呀 n. 碎屑 名词crumb的复数形式

参考例句：

• She stood up and brushed the crumbs from her sweater. 她站起身掸掉了毛衣上的面包屑。
• Oh crumbs! Is that the time? 啊，天哪！都这会儿啦？

5 zest   

n.乐趣；滋味，风味；兴趣

参考例句：

• He dived into his new job with great zest.他充满热情地投入了新的工作。
• He wrote his novel about his trip to Asia with zest.他兴趣浓厚的写了一本关于他亚洲之行的小说。

6 popcorn   

n.爆米花

参考例句：

• I like to eat popcorn when I am watching TV play at home.当我在家观看电视剧时，喜欢吃爆米花。
• He still stood behind his cash register stuffing his mouth with popcorn.他仍站在收银机后，嘴里塞满了爆米花。