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

[ThisPlumShark]

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

Sausage plait is a family-meal-size sausage roll. You faff about with the pastry a bit to make it look plaited.

britishrecipesbook.co.uk/recipe/mary-berry-sausage-plait/

Soup from a packet (just add hot water!) with a bread roll (also a packet mix)
Potato pie (mashed potato mixed with cheese and bunged in the oven)
Er... Scrambled eggs? I don't remember cooking anything sweet

I was very disappointed with home ecke - I started off all excited to learn how to cook and then we were just given a packet of soup and a kettle

Ha, I've just remembered that I was so excited with the potato pie - it featured real potatoes and everything - that I made it for my parents as breakfast in bed. Might have been some occasion...possibly mother's Day. Mum was quite unimpressed and I couldn't work out why 🤣

Fruit salad
Shepherds pie
Black forest gateaux

Kipper pate
Chicken gougere
Apricot dacquoise
Served with percolated coffee

It felt very sophisticated at the time!

Well posh!

Hmm.

Pancakes in a cheese sauce
Fish pie
Strawberry shortcake

No starter
Cornish pasty with all the filling seeping out of the side
Choice of pineapple upside down cake or strawberry fluff (the thing with jelly whisked with condensed milk)
And peppermint creams with coffee.

Disclaimer.

By the time the pancakes had 'rested' in our home economy baskets in the cloakroom for the afternoon, you could peel the cheese sauce off with a fork.

My vegetarian friend's fish pie was a bowl of mash, no alternative was offered for her.

The shortcake had cream amd fresh strawberries and was lovely.

My parents used to dread home ec day. I remember their gritted teeth as they attempted to smile about it. X 3 as my sisters had to do it too.

S: prawn cocktail
M: full English breakfast
P: pineapple upside down cake

Fond memories now of my wicker cookery basket 🤣😍

Cheese on Toast, first step was cutting the mouldy bits off the bright orange cheddar provided by the school.
Macaroni Cheese, I don’t remember making any other actual meals.
Coffee Mousse, which, to my mother’s horror, consisted mainly of Bird’s Dream Topping.

Mum taught me the basics and I learned to apply them pretty quickly when I claimed I regularly cooked full meals (not random pasta for just me) in my interview for my first nannying job aged 17, got the job and had to provide decent food for the whole family. Luckily they had a good selection of recipe books and were very kind about the occasions I got it wrong.

Ah the wicker basket. So embarrassing on the bus. I actually settled for getting the school bus and being late on those days after much mockery from other kids at different schools. No, I was not little red riding hood.

S: Cornish pasties
M: Chicken casserole
P: A ra-ra skirt.😁

I can't remember ever making any kind of pudding at school. The only other dish I can remember making was some really revolting cheese and pickle stuffed baked potatoes. (The more well-off girls had prawns, iirc.) I still ate them in the car on the way home though (oh for the days when I could eat like a horse and stay slim!)

Vegetable soup
Vegetable lasagne
Apple stuffed with raisins, baked.

Baked stuffed tomatoes
Brown bread and soda bread
Irish stew
Apple pie

The boys used to wait outside the home ec room and beg for food on baking day. I remember having hockey practice straight after school and bringing home DM's smallest Pyrex dish of stew on the bus as well as all my hockey stuff, and having to stand all the way because it was rush hour by the time practice ended. I wished I had given the stew to the boys.

Stuffed olives (stuffed with tiny cocktail onions)
Egg mornay- then had to carry it home on the bus)
Jam tart

We always cooked from scratch I our home ec lessons, apart from 1 comparison lesson.

We were paired up and could choose various options - can't remember the full list, I did chocolate brownies. One of the pair used a packet mix/jarred sauce/other convenience option for whatever dish we'd picked and the other cooked from.scratch, then we did taste test.

No starter
Russian fish pie
Chelsea buns

@NoBinturongsHereMate

Thank you for the Sausage Plait recipe. It actually looks delish! Might have to try that.

Fellow Australian 👋

Did you use 'Cookery the Australian Way'? That was THE curriculum cookery book, even at my fancy-pants private school. It features a chart of canned soups, where you combine different ones to make new soup!

This school had a full commercial catering kitchen and we actually learned a fair bit. The spinach cheese crepes, which I've never bothered making again, were so good I ate them on the tram on the way home.

I do remember some pizza/muffin type thing though... it was probably scone dough. Christ I could make scones in my sleep we did it so many times.

Kedgeree
Pizza
Swiss roll!

Tuna puffs
chicken Maryland
Blancmange

dont delay, hurry over before it’s all gone 😂

I could swap the chicken for milk poached fish if anyone prefers?

Mac cheese

Apple pie

I did Home Ec GCSE. Had to design a picnic. Remember making savoury pancakes of some kind and sausage plait .

My menu would not have chilli con carne with a film of solidified orange fat on it - since not only did we not drain any excess fat from it, when browning the mince we added extra.

Pudding- Eve's pudding. Or pineapple upside down cake.