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

166 replies

ThisPlumShark · 28/02/2025 20:52

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

OP posts:
KathrynWheel · 01/03/2025 04:20

Bread
Jam Tart (eaten on the way home)
Blancmange and stewed apples (school friend left her wooden spoon in the blancmange whilst we we went for break. Came back to a beautifully smooth set blancmange with a wooden handle sticking out of it.)

(Don't ever remember making anything savoury)

MajorCarolDanvers · 01/03/2025 04:47

Scrambled eggs
sweet and sour sausages
rock cakes

(I only did home ecc for one terms)

sashh · 01/03/2025 05:06

Can we add where we went to school?

Mine would have never allowed us to make a pizza and I have no idea what a sausage plait is.

Starter, yep fruit salad, with lemon juice to stop the apples turning brown.

Main something involving mince cooked with onions. It could be a pie, a shepherd's pie, a strange thing with a pastry bottom with potato piped around the edge and filled with mince and onions. We seemed to cook mince for the best part of a year.

Pudding - Christmas cake or swiss roll the latter was the only time I got a 10/10

Lancashire late 1970s. Compulsory for the first three years, we didn't have the option of woodwork or metal work or any 'boys' subjects.

marriednotdead · 01/03/2025 06:24

No starter.
Sausage plait.
The most fabulous chocolate eclairs you’ve ever seen in your life. Never been able to match them since!

UncorrectedPersonalityTraits · 01/03/2025 06:30

Vegetable soup
Stuffed mackerel
Chocolate log

Antiopa12 · 01/03/2025 06:31

No starter
Shepherds pie
Apple crumble

I got a Good Work Mark for my rock cakes
( Still proud )

ObliviousCoalmine · 01/03/2025 07:13

Fruit salad
Ham and cheese parcels
Jam tarts

sashh · 01/03/2025 07:39

Just a question, has anyone made a fruit salad since?

saltandvinegarchipsticks · 01/03/2025 07:42

Pizza (actually a slice of baguette with tomato puree and grated cheese put under the grill for about three minutes)

Pizza

Baked apple

yes, I only ever made two things in my entire school life

Boutonnière · 01/03/2025 07:47

sashh · 01/03/2025 05:06

Can we add where we went to school?

Mine would have never allowed us to make a pizza and I have no idea what a sausage plait is.

Starter, yep fruit salad, with lemon juice to stop the apples turning brown.

Main something involving mince cooked with onions. It could be a pie, a shepherd's pie, a strange thing with a pastry bottom with potato piped around the edge and filled with mince and onions. We seemed to cook mince for the best part of a year.

Pudding - Christmas cake or swiss roll the latter was the only time I got a 10/10

Lancashire late 1970s. Compulsory for the first three years, we didn't have the option of woodwork or metal work or any 'boys' subjects.

’Savoury Mince’ was a favourite of one cookery teacher - served with triangles of fried bread croutons arranged around the edge like dragons teeth. It did not travel well.

ArmyBarbie · 01/03/2025 07:53

Fruit salad
Cottage pie
Pineapple upside down cake

ArmyBarbie · 01/03/2025 07:54

sashh · 01/03/2025 07:39

Just a question, has anyone made a fruit salad since?

Yes,we all love a fruit salad in this house. The DC usually make it now, since DS made one at school.

WonderingWanda · 01/03/2025 08:10

Cheese straws
Sausage casserole
Apple crumble

Ladyymuck · 01/03/2025 09:12

Cheese on toast with bacon, bread and butter pudding and a cup of tea. Totally uninspiring but it seems 2 of my least favourite things are the only ones I can remember and the cup of tea!

Blingismything · 01/03/2025 09:17

'Fresh' fruit salad with a sugar syrup
Mackerel with marmalade stuffing
Rock cakes

StellaAndCrow · 01/03/2025 09:30

Ezlo · 28/02/2025 22:57

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.

Walford salad is a great idea!

lucindalucinsa · 01/03/2025 09:41

Cornish pastie
Lamb Hotpot
Swiss roll with home made jam

70's home economics, everything made from scratch, had to bring all our own ingredients in and even had to sew an apron to wear each week.
Loved it.

NoBinturongsHereMate · 01/03/2025 09:43

A lot of peole are serving a fruit salad starter. Is that because your cookery lessons included nothing statterlike and you're improvising à la slice-of-melon (very popular 70s starter, if you wanted something fancier than a glass of orange juice), or were you actually taught that it was a starter rather than pudding?

yikesanotherbooboo · 01/03/2025 09:50

Plate salad
Stuffed tomatoes
Rock buns
1970s!

Gumbo · 01/03/2025 09:54

Charred fairy cakes
A very badly sewn baby's dress
A swiss roll with a tea towel still inside it, ,asking it impossible to cut (or want to eat)

EveryOtherNameTaken · 01/03/2025 10:05

Sausage plait
Fresh cream horns

I felt sick as a dog after making the cream horns. Our lesson was after lunch and I was already full. Then after making the cream horns ate the broken ones and all the leftover cream.

My parents were ooing and ahhing when they opened the tin and I had to leave the room 🤢. Never eaten one since.

ChopstickNovice · 01/03/2025 10:06

Fruit salad
Chicken pie
Chocolate fairy cakes

ChopstickNovice · 01/03/2025 10:07

lucindalucinsa · 01/03/2025 09:41

Cornish pastie
Lamb Hotpot
Swiss roll with home made jam

70's home economics, everything made from scratch, had to bring all our own ingredients in and even had to sew an apron to wear each week.
Loved it.

Yum!

strangeandfamiliar · 01/03/2025 10:17

Grilled grapefruit with brown sugar and a glace cherry on top
Ham and mushroom quiche with home-made coleslaw and bread rolls
Eve's Pudding and custard
Pot of coffee and home-made biscuits

1980s home ec O-level - the above was typical for an exam. I loved it and remember lots of what we did to this day. It was very hard work though and you had to bring absolutely everything in with you, down to the coffee pot, custard jug,and plates to serve it all on.

Dutchhouse14 · 01/03/2025 10:20

Two courses only don't think we ever did starters-

Sausage plait
Pineapple upside down cake