When I was at school, girls only were taught how to cook. It was called Domestic Science and then later renamed Home Economics we were taught all the basic cooking skills. As part of this we had to turn the tables on the teachers and plan, prepare and cook a meal with dessert in a mock up of a flat. It was good training because it had everything in it, furniture, a kitchen area and cleaning stuff to tidy up and clean at the end of using the flat. We would invite a teacher of our choice but the problem was the same favourite nice female teacher would get invited time after time. She did appreciate it but it wasn't helping with her waist-line at all, so later she would either hide whenever she saw a group of girls making a bee-line for her or try to find a good excuse to not be available!