Rock cakes

Rock cakes: Take your pick...

Aah, rock cakes. That takes me back:

In my first senior school boys spent a term learning to cook (fried breakfast, Trifle and rock cakes) and the girls did metalwork. That's quite modern thinking for 1963.



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  1. John Perriment20 January 2015 at 23:57

    I remember rock cakes! We don't have them these days because they don't make teeth like they used to.. I love the yesteryear look of this picture, enhanced by the sepia treatment.

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