OS Wednesday 21st September 2005

johanne

curry_queen them recipes sound like what i learnt to cook at school... off the top of my head i can remember:

scones
flapjacks
fresh fruit salad
pizza (shop bought base!!)
Chicken casserole (using a colmans mix)
sausage rolls (with shop bought pastry!!)
bolgnese (most complex thing we did!)

and i honestly cant remember the other things.. or how we made the above listed things in the first place! We only had 12 practical cookery lessons in all my time at senior school and 2 of them at least where "written work - not cooking". My little brother is in the same school 6 years later and is making the EXACT same things!

stressedoutmumof1

School cookery classes!! What a laugh! My first "dish" was a cheese and tomato sandwich :rotfl: !!! The following week it was fairy cakes! I do remember making Christmas cake at school, and because it obviously takes a lot longer to cook the cake than the lesson lasted the teachers had to take them out of the oven - and burned the lot!! I remember my mother was furious!! It isn't cheap to buy all the ingredients for an Xmas cake - but you just couldn't have a shop bought one :eek:

Anyway thanks for the nostalgia trip!!

anguk

When I was at secondary school in the early 80's we had "Home Economics" twice a week, one lesson was cooking the other sewing and household duties! Only the girls had those lessons, the boys had woodwork and metalwork instead!

stressedoutmumof1

Anguk - exactly the same!! I did Home Economics - Food and Nutrition and Sewing and Textiles - this was in the late 1980's to early 1990's. All the boys got to do the fun stuff like metalwork, woodwork etc.

But having said that I am glad I did the "girlie" stuff as I think that too many people don't even know how to cook a pot noodle these days!! :rotfl:

Curry_Queen

r.mac wrote:

C_Q - you do have to wonder the point of teaching kids cooking these days if they can't do it properly. I suppose it is a start and may spark an interest that might otherwise lie dormant........

I think you've hit the nail on the head there r.mac, and what seems perfectly normal to us OS'ers to be cooking HM food from scratch will be a totally alien concept to many kids in school who think food comes ready made in a packet or box from the freezer

This term's list is: flapjack, pizza, cheese biscuits, veg soup, cheese & potato pie, swiss roll and some sort of cooked breakfast (yet TBA) and the only thing there that will be new to my son will be the swiss roll, which I don't think I've actually made myself since leaving school LOL! :rolleyes:

Ah well, it's only for one term then they get to do needlecraft and woodwork or something for the rest of the year - umbrella subject being "technology" these days!


Congrats on the OFSTED inspection Pooky, excellent news!!! :T :T :T

purplegirluk1

I remember making cheese and potato pie whilst at school and having a competition to peel the potatos so that the peel didn't fall apart. We did have a very OS teacher at that time and she made us take in basic ingredients and cook from scratch. We retired and we ended up doing food tech which involved researching factory farming and how pizzas were made in factories. We didn't really cook much, we did pizzas with ready made bases. I work in a secondary school now and wre don't do any food technology or home ecomonics at all, its such a shame!

I work with a friend who went to a girls grammer and had a far different experince of HE, they were taught such useful things as "always kneed pastry with one hand so that the other hand is clean to answer the telephone or front door!" Hee hee.

LearningToSave.

Congratulations Pooky :d

johanne

ohh there we go thats another one of ours.. cheese and potato pie... which involved mashing potatoes and adding (shop bought - i.e. pre-packed) grated cheese. lol The "complex" bit was adding the grated cheese over the top too and oh my gosh chopping a tomato for "garnish" - it was just life changing! Move over Jamie Oliver. hehe

squeaky

Gosh! Never ever thought of using mash. It was always diced taters and cubed cheese. Or was it the other way round...?

elona

Well Done Pooky:j