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 ….
Tag: Food in 1970s
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My Cream Horns Talk
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Seville Oranges and Marmalade: A Culinary Journey
Click to read my story of my school marmalade lesson from 1970s.
It’s from the first book I taught them to cook, about cookery lessons in an east London comprehensive.
There’s also my school recipe for Marmalade. How did I get fifty students to each end up with a well set jar of this delicious sweet and sour jam? I don’t know.
The recipe is on this link. Notice there is no pectin used.
In Valencia last week, the streets were filled with Seville orange trees laden with fruit. They are too sour to eat so the 10,000 trees get left alone.
The city harvests the oranges in January each year and uses the fruit for juice and perfume making. Dundee marmalade has passed them by!
In January the streets of Valencia are filled with orange trees, laden with fruit. -
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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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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I never taught Chicken
In the 1950s, Britain produced 1 million chickens a year – today it is over a billion. Intensive farming in the late 1960s reduced the price of chicken.
In 1972, chicken was too expensive for me to cook at school and there was nothing in the textbooks or exams.
Read about my chicken lesson here. From I taught them to cook
Today chicken is the most popular meat around the world.
Photo by William Moreland on Unsplash
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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 -
Boys don’t do cooking
Boys were able to take cookery lessons from the 70s.
Read my story of why so many came to my classes.
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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
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Peas please
Teaching Peas and making Pea risotto.
Remember the Bird’s Eye advert?
Sweet as the moment when the pods went pop.
Read the full story on this link
Jenny Ridgwell 