Cookery in Schools

[Kirstie]

Did Home Economics in the late 70s/early 80s. In my school, both sexes did all the subjects like cookery, metalwork, woodwork etc.

I can't honestly say I remember any of the recipes as we seemed to cook bizarre seventies dinner party food like pineapple upside-down cake and cheese straws. I probably learned more basic cookery from 'helping' my mum at home than I did at school.

I still can't make pastry to this day, as my hands are too hot

[alrhem]

I find that when you are stuck in teh arse end of nowhere (back of beyonds in donegal) and the shops are closed and there is nothing you would recognise as "dinner"... you start to look at teh old cookeryy books.

especially cos theres nothgin to do cos its lashing outside and blowing up a gale.

Necessity is the mother of invention...

[Fiona]

Originally Posted by Kirstie

I still can't make pastry to this day, as my hands are too hot

Oh dear where are we going from here

[Ian@1904]

Originally Posted by alrhem

I find that when you are stuck in teh arse end of nowhere (back of beyonds in donegal) and the shops are closed and there is nothing you would recognise as "dinner"... you start to look at teh old cookeryy books.

especially cos theres nothgin to do cos its lashing outside and blowing up a gale.

Necessity is the mother of invention...

Roadkill?

[liamm]

I checked this out with the home economics teecher at break today. cooking / home economics has been on the syllabus in N Ireland the past year from 11 to 14yrs but there is some building issues to be sorted. In England they changed it from home economics to food technology about ten years ago which doesnt have to involve cooking. I guess now that theres lots of fatties they think it was a mistake.

I'm not sure what they do in Scotland, possibly a short course in turning on the deep frier and dropping in a pie.

[alrhem]

LOL!!!

i ended up baking in donegal... :P
and have been known to blow the dust off ancient cookbooks...

NI schools sometimes have an idea what they are doing!!! i was taught how to use gas cooker and electirc old skool one with a grill on the top!!! lol

[Ian@1904]

Originally Posted by Kirstie

I still can't make pastry to this day, as my hands are too hot

I'll bet Turbie appreciates the warm hands though

Originally Posted by Fiona

Oh dear where are we going from here

Downhill slope appoaching

[paramedic paul]

I was at school in the lae 70's early 80's. As has been mentioned several times we did metal/ woodwork girls did cooking. My mum even contacted the school (at my request) to see if i could do cookery but without success.

I was taught to cook initially by my Mum then later by Keith Floyd, now wheres the red wine!

[ardhill]

I went to an all boys high school in a tough area, so we didn't do cooking.

We did do woodwork, plastics and metal work. We got to make hammers and heat things up to white hot and shove in a bath of oil (that was fun ) and stuff like that. We didn't do girly stuff like cookery. That was in the early 80's

I did learn to cook at home though and from an early age had input into making the family dinnner till I was doing it myself when my Mum was working and I came home from school earlier than her.

[dry suit diver]

we did basic cooking in infants ( 4-6) none at all in juniors (7-10) and then we hit Home economics in secondary, by which time cooking scones and fruit cake oh and Jacket spuds FFS, was frankly to me, like getting a maths proffesor to do 2 figure additions.

it got changed to food technology at options (13) so it got dropped by me, we also had a huge amount of sewing to do in H.E. so can easily sew buttons hem a pair of trousers, the sort of stuff you need to know when you live on your own. Shockingly I can even iron but SWMBO doesn't know this

I struggle to see how they are going to fit it in what with all the other compulsory stuff tha ' must get taught' like a foreign language.

ah well lets see how much they screw the schools up with this one