The Cream Horns Talk has proved very popular
- Book launch in Putney
- Talk to large audience Putney Library
- Various WIs around London including Putney and Barnes
- Future talks to U3a , National Health Retirement Groups, More WIs and more ….
Category: 1970s teaching
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My Cream Horns Talk
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Angel Delight tarts
I taught my students how to make Angel Delight tarts for a Convenience Food lesson. The aim was to show how quickly you can make a dessert.
I got letters from parents –
‘You should be teaching them to cook not open packets!’Read my story on this link.
And if you want to make the recipe it’s here. It does get students to eat more milk which was a target of the day.
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Thankyou Delia
How Delia stopped me from making 300 mince pies.
Click the link to see my reading from Cream Horns and Vol au Vents at my book launch.
READ the the full story on this link
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Gilly Smith’s Podcast
Listen to Gilly Smith interviewing me on Cooking the Books Podcast.
My book I taught them to cook is a blistering expose of teaching teenagers in 1970s London how to cook fatty pastries and cakes.
But it was fun.
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You tube video part 1 Planning book
This YouTube video is Part 1 of planning to write Cream Horns and Vol au Vents
There’s a diary for 1973 to get the dates right.
A list of rude cooking words
Planning the characters and changing names
Planing 1974 with three day week and blackouts.
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My students in 1974
This photo is a group of my students. I am on the right wearing an all-brown outfit. High, suede leather boots, a brown mini skirt, roll neck jumper, belted at waist and a jaunty cap.
Read about those days in Cream Horns and Vol au vents.
Story on this link
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Pink Nylon Overall
This is my uniform as a 1970s cookery teacher with matching pink rubber gloves.
The post on this link became my most popular website click. But I don’t think it was to read about about food teaching.
Are pink overalls and rubber gloves a fantasy?
Made from Nylon it caused static in clothes -
What is cookery called now?
Government report 5/11/25 says – We recommend renaming ‘Cooking and Nutrition’ as ‘Food and Nutrition’
In 1970s my subject changed names 5 times!
Story from I taught them to cook is on this link.
Curriculum and Assessment Review says that students should have a grounding in practical cooking skills. They should also understand food hygiene and sustainability.
The focus should be on cooking healthy, nutritious meals.
Download the report on this link – go to p70
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Corned beef story
Anyone ever lost one of these?
Boys were especially good at breaking the keys on their tins.
You can read the story on this link.
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Instant starch
For their out of date 1970s Housecraft exam they must starch and iron a tray cloth
We used starch powder for this pointless task.
Read all about it here
Jenny Ridgwell 