Ah, yes, the Science part of Domestic Science. Load of rubbish. Luckily for me I was too old for that by the time it came in - we did actually cook quite a lot at my school but as 95% of the pupils came by bus from ~25 surrounding villages, we were limited to things that were not likely to be dangerously hot when transported home on a bumpy coach. There was a lot of cake and biscuits, and not so much in the way of casseroles or soup.

Making scones with smallclanger recently reminded me of that kind of an afternoon. I miss that bit of my childhood, but not the endless peeling and coring of apples that went with it (we had the biggest single cooking apple tree in the village)... :D