Today many Home Ec classes are no longer on the schedule in high schools and middle schools. Often the classes that remain teach little in the way of actually cooking or life skills, instead focusing on using boxed or prepared foods to assemble a meal of sorts. We’re happy our Home Ec classes taught us genuine recipes and techniques!
11) How To Make a Good Cake from Scratch
You can argue that cake from a mix is just as good, but everyone knows that homemade cakes are some of the tastiest ever made. Learning how to perfect different types of cakes takes years, but we’re glad we got the fundamentals in Home Ec.
12) How to Make and Present Appetizers
This may seem like no big deal, but we had a head start for all our dinner parties because of Home Ec.
13) How to Properly Clean Up
This is another very basic, yet extremely important lesson. Knowing how to make sure a kitchen is really clean is something we should all learn early on.
14) Table Manners
Not just etiquette that we could use at home with family, but for more formal occasions, the table manners we learned in
Home Ec turned out to be very useful!
15) How to Time Your Food Prep
One thing we learned in Home Ec was how to budget time in order to ensure the success of the end product we were making. As nice as it was to be free from our desks, we still had to stay on task so that those blueberry muffins would be done before the period was over.
