WHO remembers heading home from school with your burnt offerings – often rock-hard rock cakes – from the home economics class to present to your mother, with the same pride a cat shows when it dumps a dead mouse on the kitchen floor? Or dashing off a quick Hawaiian Toast – basically toasted cheese with a pineapple on top – in between double English and a spot of staring out the window at the girls playing netball?

The Herald: These days, recipe books and TV cookery shows are all the rage, but at Hutchesons’ School in Glasgow back in 1953, pupils were rolling up their sleeves for the real thing, making a delicious cheese sauce from scratch

These days, recipe books and TV cookery shows are all the rage but at Hutchesons’ School in Glasgow's south side back in 1953, pupils were rolling up their sleeves for the real thing, making a delicious cheese sauce from scratch.