Cooking & Baking
In reply to the discussion: For those who took home economics, what are the first things you made? [View all]japple
(10,459 posts)2 semesters of Home Ec were required. The first thing we made in the cooking term was cheese toast (I think), followed by orange toast. At some point we made biscuits or muffins and then peanut butter cookies. During the sewing term, we made an apron followed by a pleated skirt. We then had to model our skirts at a school mother-daughter fashion show. I took my skirt home and got my mother (who was a fabulous seamstress) to help me finish it. It would have been a pitiful sight without her help.
We moved to Georgia during the summer after 7th grade. In Georgia, Jr. High started in the 8th grade, and IIRC 2 years of home ec were required. I don't remember much about those classes. The school in Georgia was so hot and there was such an awful social hierarchy that I was miserable the whole time in Jr. High.