Reactions to home baked cakes

Lucie_2

My Mum used to bake every week when we were kids & I remember most of my friends at school had "homemade" packed lunches (as opposed to "shop bought"). I do bake occasionally but dh hasn't really got a sweet tooth, so I end up eating it all myself. Not good. I made some cookies the other week when my parents came to visit & my Dad nearly fell over himself in the rush to dunk them in his coffee.

Queenie

SAHM's, women who work only part time, family close by, are a rarity these days. Our nation pushes the work ethos and with the high rise in housing/taxes it can seem that the only way to live is via the rush to work/supermarket ready meal route.

Home economics altered hugely between when I was taught and when my dd was taught - gone were learning the basics of cake making, pastry making and the theory lessons we were given.

All these things have contributed to an era where good home cooking is a rarity and obesity/heart disease increasing.

Everyone is facing the challenges of a fast paced working life, fast paced social life and very little time is given to promoting the basics.

After the end of rationing, there was also an increase of canned foods, freezer foods and then the evolution of "ready meals" and longer shelf life of everyday foods such as cakes/biscuits etc. Babies these days are more likely to have their first solids from a tin rather then HM. It's all very sad really

Murtle

Queenie wrote:

there was also an increase of canned foods, freezer foods and then the evolution of "ready meals"

haven't these always been around

*run away, run away....*

Queenie

Murtle wrote:

haven't these always been around

*run away, run away....*

:rotfl: Have I told you today ..... I WUV YOU!!!!!

bethscott1970

my son (12) has cooked in his home economics lesson for the last 3 weeks.
So far we have had :-
1 Apple crumble (packet crumble and tinned apples)
2 chocolate sponge (packet mix just add egg and water)
3 tuna surprise (tins of tuna and sweetcorn with pasta, cooked in advance by teacher, and mayo stirred in)

OK he has got aspergers but he's in a mainstream school and the rest of the class "cooked" exactly the same :eek:
No wonder children never learn to cook, how much effort does it actually take to measure the ingredients for a cake as opposed to opening a packet? It's not as if they can blame the parents for not supplying ingredients as we get a bill at the beginning of term and the school supply the stuff out of that.

moggins

All my kids love to cook, especially my son. I just wish I had a bigger kitchen so I could have them all in there with me, unfortunately it's too small to swing a cat, let alone a sharp knife around a small child.

Queenie

moggins wrote:

All my kids love to cook, especially my son. I just wish I had a bigger kitchen so I could have them all in there with me, unfortunately it's too small to swing a cat, let alone a sharp knife around a small child.

Mine too Now, as mine is a 1930's pre-the-pill family home .... I often wonder how women with larger families managed

I have mine in one at a time - special Mum&me cooking time.

ocemeer

I take cakes into work when i can but trying to get them past the dh who seems to think any cake made in the house is for his consumption alone is awful. But work are just as bad if i have been home for the weekend there are expentant faces on a monday morning for coffee time and cakes.
Dont mind love baking and making preserves though the jam and pickle making they think i am mad because you can buy them in the shop, what about my stress relief!

My gran is so proud of me and that i still cook (my mum was a home economics teacher and my gran made everything so all the kids can cook well) and i give the olds a little hamper at christmas of home made stuff from jam to chocolates.
already started this years hampers expanding to the exotic. just one question do little christmas cakes (sponge pud tin size) keep well?

raeble

I baked a cake (chocolate sponge) on Monday, I have a third of it left. I live alone and have had no visitors. I like baking but I can't leave it alone once cooked - I always go and pick at it because it tastes so nice.

moggins

I keep getting requests for my christmas puds, I think it's because I've poured so much alcohol into them by christmas that no one needs to have a drink