School cookery lessons.
My interest in cooking and baking began at school in the early to mid 1960’s.
One of my vivid memories is being taught how to boil an egg to make sandwiches to take home. If memory serves, we were told to boil the egg for 5 minutes. So I placed my egg in a pan of cold water and set the timer.
After five minutes, I cracked open my egg to find that most of it was still raw. What I hadn’t accounted for was the time it takes for water to come to a boil. Only one member of the class managed to boil their egg to perfection.
Lesson learned, 5 minutes from boiling point.
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Lynn
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I am mostly self taught. I did domestic science at school in the late 70s/early 80s and I did cook a couple of things, I think Shepherd's Pie might have been one thing, but I don't remember cooking much else at the time. My mother was a reluctant cook and I don't remember getting involved in the actual cooking of meals at home, although I was in the kitchen when she cooked because I remember her smoking while stirring a pot of something.
I left home at 17 and lived in a bedsit and survived on packets of 'Beanfeast' a dehydrated soya mince substitute. When I got sick of that, I learned to make a pasta dish demonstrated on a breakfast TV programme with Danish salami, peas, cream and bow tie pasta.
I then bought books like 1000 Recipe Cookbook, the Reader's Digest cookbook and Sunday Tilmes Cookbook. What really kick started my interest though was the Roux Brothers cooking show on the BBC in 1988 which is when I started collecting cookbooks and really taking it seriously. It's turned out to be a life long interest.
I like to say cookbooks taught me! Like N Leana’s mom, my mom would shoo me out of the kitchen, wanting me to study and “get a good education.” So I occasionally watched her but never participated. Once I was married, I had to learn and it was cookbooks that helped me (this was pre-internet). That and trial-and-error. Lots of errors, lol!