What did you cook at school?

[batey]

Just had a converstion with dds on "how did you learn to cook Mummy". So ended up telling them about learning from my parents and my scary cookery teacher at school. My first "dish" was sausage plait! So the dds want to make this next w/e. But I can't remember any more? What were your first dishes?

I think we mainly made cakes and pastry

my first cooking lesson was when i was 10 years old. My mum and sister had gone away on a school camp and my dad and myself were at home so i cooked dinner that night and by memory it was carrot and parsnip and spuds as well. I can remember asking dad do you put milk in mashed carrot and parsnips and he said no.

martianbishop you didn't copy my Little Green Cookery Book did you. It reads just like mine. Uncanny.

pineapple upside down cake
scones
shepherds pie
apple crumble

great cookbook called day to day cookery - great basic meals and things - fab to use - unfortunately mine fell apart and have never been able to replace it.

christmas cake and formal decoration

biscuits of different types

bbq meatloaf

I remember making cheese and potato mash,in school,i made cakes at home with my mum,but this was the first thing i made myself,even peeling my own potatoes,grating the chesse and using the oven ,it was lovely,i still make it today but add onion.

My first cookery lesson at primary school was Irish stew. It took us the whole afternoon to peel all the veg so we had to take it home to do the actual cooking!

madeleines

victoria sponge

rock cakes

quiche lorraine

pasties

curry

toad in the hole

rock cakes
pineapple upside down cake
swiss roll
welsh rarebit

beef cobbler. has no-one mentioned beef cobbler?

Egg mornay - I have never had occasion to cook it again thank god and I remember it leaked all the way home.

My cookery teacher was terrifying. When we made bread I put too much water in my dough and mine was liquid whilst everyone else was kneading theirs. She went ballistic.

Strangely I do enjoy cooking now and am quite good at it but no thanks to school.

cheese scones
bread and butter pudding
pizza
apple crumble
and the christmas yule log which consisted of a chocolate swiss roll which we covered in chocolate buttercream and sprinkled with icing sugar, toppped off with a little robin on top

Jacket potato with the potato scraped out, mixed with grated cheese and put back, then browned under grill. This was my first cookery lesson on entering secondary school, 1965! Next week it was shepherds pie, with a quarter of mince. We had to take all our own ingredients, I don't remember having a fridge to keep it in at school, mind you I remember actually first getting a fridge at home, can't have been long before this!

scone base pizza
farmhouse fruit cake
Queen of Puddings
mince pies

can't remember anything else - only did it for 2 years as I had to give it up and do Latin instead

cottage pie - opened a tin of corned beef, mashed and put in bowl, put my boiled, mashed spuds on top and that was it. Was 12 years old, and my mum managed to melt the dish my effort was in when re-warming it to eat for dinner. Pretty pathetic all round.

Cooking at home was much more significant than learning at school. The first thing ever made was jam tart with help from my mum and then raspberry buns from my Fred cookbook (he of Homepride flour) was my first independent cooking at about 7. I took on being the family baker for afternoon tea on Sundays. Cooking at school didn't happen until secondary and then we did the whole gamut from scones to soup to shepherd's pie. Didn't learn much re savoury cooking at home but self taught at University with the kind help of Delia .

Now ds's both love to cook and can help with most things. Ds1 taught his aunty how to make soup .

scones! always just scones, fruit cheese or plain. probably explains why im not much of a cook now!

Peppermint creams were the first ever thing we were taught at primary school. Prob. not allowed to make them now as they contain raw egg whites.

Gem13 - I feel so much better now as I did exactly the same thing, to me dough was dough, it never occurred to me that pizza shouldn't have sugar in the recipe, and yes, it was truely disgusting also!!!

School cookery class, aged 11, first dish:

A sausage twisted into a ring, on top of a 'round' of fried bread, with scrambled eggs in the middle and a baked tomato on top of the pile. And this was after 3 weeks of taking notes on 'nutrition'!!!
Put me right off cooking for years.

I can only remember

cinnamon toast
boiled egg
vegetable lasagne
eves pudding

Oh and plaited bread and shortbread!

School.... 'Food Technology' ... first dish was prob scones or Welsh cakes.

potato surprise! (guess what it had in it!)

I only know as my mum found my old cookery recipe book over the summer - the problem i seemed to have was that I managed to write the recipe out but never had enough time to write the 'method' How I managed to get an A in Home Economics I'll never know!

Good job my mum is a great cook and tried to teach me!