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Question
Here is a recipe to make a chocolate cake in a pressure cooker. Rewrite the instructions in the passive voice. The first one has been done for you.
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Ingredients
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Method
- First sift the flour, cocoa powder, and baking powder in a mixing bowl.
- Add butter, sugar, salt, water, and vanilla and beat the ingredients using a whisk.
- Add the eggs and beat the batter until it is smooth
- Transfer the batter into the baking tin.
- Heat the pressure cooker, covered with the lid, but without the pressure, for 3-4 minutes on high heat. Then place the cake tin in the empty cooker (Do not add water in the cooker).
- Close the lid (without the pressure), lower the flame, and cook for about 30 minutes.
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Solution
Method
- The flour, cocoa powder, and baking powder are first sifted in a mixing bowl.
- Butter, sugar, salt, water and vanilla should be added and the ingredients must be beaten using a whisk. .
- The eggs must be added and the batter must be beaten until it is smooth.
- The batter must be transferred into the baking tin.
- The pressure cooker must be heated. It should be covered with the lid but without pressure. It must be left for 3-4 minutes on high heat. The cake tin must be kept in the empty cooker. (Let not water be added to the cooker)
- Let the lid be closed without the pressure. The flame must be lowered and it must be let to cook for about thirty minutes.
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