Baked or set cheesecake contains, well, cheese. And this doesn't
Except for the fact it does contain cheese.
In any case, there's no point making stuff that tastes horrible. Which a baked cheesecake does.
My Home Economics lessons consisted of 6 recipes.
A cup of coffee, half water, half milk, to teach kids how to use a hob and boil/heat liquids. My mother complained that this was a waste of milk.
Cheese on toast to teach slicing cheese with a blunt knife, making toast without burning it and then melting cheese without setting fire to the toast.
Salad to teach cutting things up (I nicked a sharp kitchen knife and a mandolin from home that morning and got 5 merit marks for having perfect, thin slices of cucumber and neat zigzag tomatoes).
Cheese and potato pie (peel, cut and boil potatoes, draining them, mashing them, adding butter and warm milk, dice cheese and melt through).
Tuna pasta bake (boil water, cook and drain pasta, open a tin and drain Tuna, make white sauce) it tasted awful because I'd never eaten Tuna before
and the most successful one that everybody liked -
One packet of jelly.
One tin of evaporated milk.
Make jelly according to instructions. Mix with milk and whisk up. Allow to set.
Two years later we did another six weeks of Home Economics.
Hedgehog rolls.
Chocolate Chip Cookies.
Something with a pananda. Can't remember what, I just remember thinking 'isn't this a white sauce?' and my mother complaining that she had to buy butter when it was cheaper to buy a packet sauce, getting a block of Echo instead and then having the teacher give me the proper ingredients.
Mince pies. I hate mince pies, but I nicked a star shaped pastry cutter from home and got extra marks for the idea. Again, a block of Echo was provided rather than butter.
Christmas sweets - peppermint creams and truffles.
A three course meal of our choice to share at lunchtime. We enjoyed that greatly as we smuggled in cheap wine instead of fizzy grape juice
They weren't particularly exciting. Or tasty. But they were all thought out to teach small skills that not everybody had; I'd not been allowed near the oven or hob at home (it was OK for me to make tea for my mother and she permitted me to microwave eggs and loads of milk to make scrambled egg to put on toast for her on Sunday mornings, though). She didn't see the need to bother with rinsing soap off plates or having them clean in the first place, using salt to make bread, wiping down surfaces, cleaning the washing up bowl, drying anything with a teatowel or having things with proper places to store them, so it was the first time I'd done any of those things.
If I were a child now, I'm sure that I would have had even less knowledge, as she would definitely have gone for instant/readymade everything because she hated cooking for me.