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 teaching
-
My Cream Horns Talk
-
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.
-
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
-
Linda Taylor and Manzes
Watch the amazing Linda reading my story of visiting Manzes in 1970s Walthamstow.
Yes they served and sold live eels. Talk on this link
-
Watch Louise Davies talk
Link to Louise’s talk at my book launch for Cream Horns and Vol au vents. On this link
Discover how we met at Hurlingham School and went on to write many books together.
Louise runs The Food Teachers Centre which supports over 10,000 food teachers around the country.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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
-
Samuel Goldsmith
Samuel Goldsmith Food writer, author and podcast host
Read Sam’s piece on his passion for food. How he became a food teacher then moved onto writing, podcasting and so much more.
And now he’s Chair of the Guild of Food Writers and runs a successful Good Food Podcast.
Thankyou Sam for contributing to my book Cream Horns and Vol au Vents
Jenny Ridgwell 