Using only things you remember making at school , create a three course meal?

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I will start
Starter fruit salad
Main sausage plait
Dessert mars bar slices

Ok what is the sausage plait thing? That, and fruit salad are the only things I remember making in home economics. I've never come across it since. This would have been early 80s. Assuming you weren't all at my school, was this a weird 80s thing?

I still have my home economics exercise book from the 80s so, having consulted it, I am making...

Mackerel pâté on toast
Kedgeree
Fruit cobbler

Served with a small sherry apparently! 😋

Stuffed eggs
Russian Fish Pie
Sponge Fruit Flan

I have to say, I recognise so many dishes from my Cookery lessons in the 60s and 70s. Fruit salad, Queen of Puddings. I only got rid of my school recipe file a couple of years ago!

Did anyone make a jar of jam?

Gazpacho
Spinach and ricotta pancakes
Chocolate and banana crumble (made in the microwave!)

I apologise that all of the above are pretty rank!

Eggs mornay (hard boiled eggs sliced and covered in cheese sauce - vile)
Beef casserole (with no gravy as it leaked from the casserole dish through my cookery basket all over the floor of the bus on the journey home)
Apple pie

Scone base pizza
Some hideous savoury rice that had tinned tomatoes in and breadcrumbs/cheese on top
Fruit salad

Quiche Lorraine

Macaroni cheese

Obligatory Swiss roll

Not a lot only got cooking last few months before leaving.
Wasn't allowed to do home economics as It was only for girls that was pity because I loved cooking and hated wood and metal work.

I remember some weird pizza concoction

Walford salad
Pizza
Jamaican trifle

There were always two per workstation and one day when the dragon-like teacher was demonstrating at another workstation, someone noticed the hob who I shared a workstation with was on fire because I'd left a tea towel near the lit hob. The girl wasn't even someone I considered a friend but she was lovely all the same. She took the blame for me. I was incredibly shy back then. Painfully so and her taking the blame really spared me humiliation. I've never forgotten her kindness and I left school 24 years ago.

Pizza English muffins (English muffins bought, so just topping muffin with tomato paste, ham, cheese)
2 minute noodles (instant ramen) with tinned tuna
Decorated packet cake (cake pre cooked by teacher)

Food tech class in Australia wasn't very good at actually teaching cooking, it was more like ticking the box for teaching "practical skills" but with as little exposure to dangerous things like cooking appliances, meat, or knives as possible.

Pasta salad
Cheese and vegetable pie
Rock buns - these definitely live up to their name as far as hardness goes!

Fruit salad
liver casserole with carrots conservative( buttered carrots! Not sure why it was given this name)
pineapple upside down cake

Savoury egg salad, spaghetti Bolognese, Apple pie

A similar thing happened to a friend of mine - she left a trail of gravy down the road as the lid slipped in the basket.

Starter - a cress sandwich made with cress I grew on a sheet of kitchen paper and butter made by passing a jar of milk around the class and shaking it vigorously.

Main - stuffed courgettes. Actually quite tasty. Might make them this week!

Pudding - a ‘milk jelly’ concoction made by mixing carnation evaporated milk and strawberry jelly then leaving it to set. Weird idea for an hour long lesson - 5 mins of stirring and then left it in the fridge all day.

Bon appetit!

Fruit salad
sausage plait
flapjacks

Some kind of chilled soup
Chicken curry with rice and ‘other accompaniments ‘ (what ? Have a dim memory of sliced banana, dessicated coconut and some kind of pickle)
Apricot Fool

Part of my O level Cookery practical exam from the 70s. When I did a practice run through, the blender lid wasn’t on properly and my bench mate ended up wearing part of the Apricot Fool !

Everything we did was from scratch and it did give me a good grounding in every type of method, including drawing and dressing a chicken (country area, lots of farmers’ daughters who didn’t turn a hair 😬) and doing a formal decorated cake with royal icing.

Sardine and cheese rolls...like sausage rolls but made with cheese pastry and filled with mashed sardines.
Macaroni cheese....how to make a roux!
Rice pudding

I remember I made a picnic for my GCE exam, sardine & cheese rolls, devilled eggs and a whipped sponge cake, plus a jam jar of wild flowers for decoration!

Starter: Egg snow (Not ile flottante, which seems to be the dish that typically goes by that name these days. This was a savoury dish - as far as I remember just raw whipped egg whites on toast. Can't tell you what it tastes like because this was before hens were vaccinated for salmonella and had been sitting in a warm cupboard all day, so my mum binned it the moment we got home.)

Main: Cauliflower cheese, with a side of macaroni cheese.

Pudding: Victoria sponge.

Another watery vegetable soup
Lasagne (we got to taste test boxed ones and compare them to our own)
Almost inedible apple pies without sugar in (because it rots your teeth)

Pea & ham soup
Spinach & cheese crepes
No-bake cheesecake

What is a sausage plait please??

Melon with a cherry.
Cheese and potato pie with a pink tinge from a cut finger.
Strawberry shortcake (that was actually fairly decent).

We only ever baked thinhs which either contained chocolate chips, glacé cherries or desiccated coconut.

I took Home Economics for 2 years 1978 to 1980 and we didn't seem to do a lot of actual cooking.
I can only remember fruit salad and some sort of biscuits which were almost completely flat (mine anyway).
A milkshake may have been involved but made from milk and Nesquik.
Useless 😁