What did you learn to make in home ec?

[spinbaby]

When I had it in the 60s, we learned how to make tuna casserole, jello, and little tea sandwiches. We also sewed an apron and a skirt.

[BarenakedLady]

1. How to burn cookies and

sew a pillow in the shape of a hamburger.

[Shell Beau]

2. I took it in the 90's and learned how to sew (hahahaha).

We were also put into groups and each group had to prepare a whole meal. Dessert included. It was fun, but some of it was pointless.

[ScreamingMeemie]

3. A gym bag, sweatpants, a shirt, fried chicken, instant (lol) mashed

potatoes, pancakes, pillsbury dough pizzas, stuffed cheeseburgers etc.... They had us moving.

[Shell Beau]

5. I bet those instant potates were a doozy to make!

:rofl:

[suninvited]

4. I learned to cook

a complete breakfast including bisquits and an omelette and freshly squeezed orange juice. We had to serve our breakfast to a group of teachers, as well.

I learned to sew an apron and a pair of pants, which had to include a zipper.

I was in home ec in the mid to late 70's.

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. Reparations

[tigereye]

7. I don't remember!

I remember trying to sew wool and that was really hard. Oddly no one told me that was a bad idea.



I mostly remember the teacher lining us up against the wall so that we would stand straight... :eyes: She was kind of a pest.

[Haole Girl]

8. I didn't take it...

...now I wish I had taken it. But I wanted to be an artist, so I took drawing and painting instead... had no talent, at all, for either. :-(

[Inchworm]

9. I learned I REEEALLY really liked girls

I was the only dude in the class. It rocked.

:D

[Zavulon]

10. Ginger ale salad (whatever the hell that is), ham and eggs, pizza from those store "pizza kits."

They still sell those kits, and I still buy them. It's the only thing from Home Ec that I used once the course was done.

[TZ]

11. Didn't take it...

I took orchestra instead. Don't regret it either. Don't have a domestic bone in my body.

[spinbaby]

12. We had to take it

It was a 60s thing--apparently girls weren't fit for life without tiny tea sandwiches.

[davsand]

13. Never did Home Ec. Did 4-H however.

I never had time for Home Ec in school because my HS adviser said I didn't have time for it. Good thing I had 4-H because I never would have learned this stuff otherwise.

Made a blouse, a skirt and a lined dress with a set in zipper...

Learned how to cook, and every week we had to make a new recipe that ranged from desserts to main dishes to sides. I was making scalloped corn, spaghetti, cherry crumble and various cookies by the time I was about 11.

I still use some of those recipes 35 years later! They had the best and easiest spaghetti sauce recipe I have ever seen short of opening a jar:


Brown one lb of ground meat with onions and sliced mushrooms. Drain.

Add:
1 can of tomato sauce
1 can of tomatoes

Rinse cans with water and add to pan.

Add:
garlic, oregano and basil to taste
1 "palm full" of sugar
dash of salt

Simmer on low until tomatoes break down (30 minutes or so)

Add 1 small can of 1 can of tomato paste, rinse can with a bit of water, and stir frequently until heated thru (will thicken sauce a bit.)

Correct spice if needed, turn off heat and stir in 1/2 cup of parmesan cheese.

Serve over pasta.


I wish they still had an active 4-H locally because I would happily send my daughter. It was great program!

[PassingFair]

14. Chain stitch!

and cookies, that's all I remember.

[grannylib]

15. In 7th grade, we made flannel pjs and some other crap; in 8th

(I was living overseas at the time) we did a lot of cooking (of course, it wasn't called Home Ec; it was "cookery" so that's what we did *lol*) Shepherd's pie, scones, lots of traditional British Isles foods.

[electron_blue]

16. english muffin pizza, cake from scratch, skirt, and 2 pillows.

I also took Home-arts (shop) and made something with a woodburner, plastic paper weight with bicentennial quarter in it, a lamp, and a penny-hockey game made out of wood.

That was one of my all-time productive years so far! LOL

[texanwitch]

17. Nothing.

Girls were forced to take Home Ec in junior high.

We had classes in cooking and sewing, I didn't like either.

My friend did my sewing for me, and we had two girls at our table who did all the cooking.

I would have rather taken wood shop, a lot more interesting.

[Rambis]

18. Industrial Shop Apron

they assumed I was going to need that? I never did:P

[Shine]

19. Nothing I can remember

ok, a pillow.

That's about it. :D

[tjwmason]

20. Nothing really.

I only did it for 1 year, and even then it was only part of the year. We made a couple of things, but they were all stuff I'd made at home before.

There after I went to a boys' school and we didn't have any Home Ec., despite our protests that this was sexist.

[lost-in-nj]

21. A gym bag and a pillow

and I learned that you can not
and should not put lemon in your tea if you want to add milk to.....

blech

and how to separate an egg
thats all I remember



lost


oh and I remember the stoves were green.....

[Iggo]

22. I took it in the late 70s.

Fully co-ed by then, and for the first time with a new and idiotic name: Adult Lifestyles. Maybe they thought it was less girly than Home Ec. I'm not really sure. I do remember that my parents thought it was the funniest thing they'd ever heard. Dad would wink and say, "You sure that's Home Ec and not Health class? Know wut um sayin?" I was a senior at the time, so I don't know for sure if the name stuck, or how long it lasted. But seriously...Adult Lifestyles?

Anyway I don't remember what we cooked, but I do remember learning to do basic sewing. I vividly remember the girls I sat next to, though: Terry (cheerleader) and Lisa (stoner.) Many's the morning I walked out of that class with...um...my notebook "in front"...know wut um sayin?

(I'll be in my bunk.)

[suninvited]

23. In 1978 we had a trial class of

"Adult and Family living". I didn't take it. From my friends that took it I gathered that it was all about getting married, entertaining, that sort of thing. But, it was still all female at our school.

[Iggo]

25. That jogged my memory a little.

Now that you mention it, we did do a section on living married. One of those "take-care-of-your-egg" projects.

Sad that I can't remember stuff anymore just by trying really hard...lol.

[Stuart G]

24. How to sew on a button..

[SalmonChantedEvening]

26. We had chef's class in the 70's

We made oatmeal butterscotch cookies. And a few messes.

Our poor teacher. She sounded just like Carol Channing, and we could never stop doing bits.

"This is Louis, Dolly" :rofl:

[femmocrat]

27. I also had to take it in the 1960s. The boys took "shop"!

We made a skirt one year and a blouse another year in sewing class. The useful part was learning how to read and use a pattern.

In cooking class, I can only remember baking cookies and muffins, and melting cinnamon candies to make candy apples.

I hated Home Ec. BTW, it's called "Family and Consumer Science" now and it's probably a lot more relevant.