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I used to work in a school meals kitchen and my absolute favourite was ice cream an chocolate sauce too, we used to make it by making a cornflour sauce:
bring your milk to boil, blend cornflour with cocoa powder and drinking chocolate with a little milk add to boiling milk stirring until thickened, cook for a few mins add sugar to taste, sorry I cant give you quantities as we were cooking for 400, I'm sure every school had their own recipe but this was how we made ours. Hope this helps0 -
:rotfl: a friend of mine rang me last week asking where she could buy pink custard as her daughter wanted it.
I'll give the cornflour sauce a go
thanks for that One day I might be more organised...........
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I posted this the other day for chocolate custard and yes it did taste like the old school stuff
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lil_me wrote::rotfl: a friend of mine rang me last week asking where she could buy pink custard as her daughter wanted it.
It is possible to buy blancmange powder (Pearce Duff I think). There is usually a pink one in the selection. Use it as you would custard powder.
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Just wondered if anyone had the receipe for the chocolate crunch that they used to make in the schools. We used to have it at school about 18 years ago and we called it chocolate concrete?Official DFW Nerd Club - Member no. 607 - Proud To Be Dealing With My Debts :T
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skysky69 wrote:Just wondered if anyone had the receipe for the chocolate crunch that they used to make in the schools. We used to have it at school about 18 years ago and we called it chocolate concrete?
Happy memories.........you put your spoon into the chocolate crunch to break off a piece...........and it goes flying across the table.:D
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This seems to be the sort of thing that we had, although I don't remember the honey:
http://www.botham.co.uk/chocc.htm
but I think that these 2, from the BBC Lancashire site, may be what you are talking about - they certainly sound good!
Lynn's Chocolate Concrete...
12oz Plain Flour, 7oz of margarine or butter, 3oz granulated sugar and 4 heaped table spoons of cocoa powder.
Method:- Mix ALL ingredients together until they look like dough and leave the bowl clean. Place in a baking tray and press down, until approx half and inch thick, press down firmly. Bake on Gas 3-4 for approx 30 minutes, or until centre is firm to touch. Cut into six portion before allowing to cool slightly. Serve with thick custard or even mint custard (you can cheat with making mint custard by just adding peppermint essence to your normal custard!)
Sonya Thrush's Chocolate Concrete...
510g margarine, 510g sugar, 680g plain flour, 55g cocoa, 20g baking powder 1 egg (size 4) pinch of salt
Mix all dry ingredients together. Rub in margarine. Beat the egg and add to the mixture (for best results mix entirely in a food mixer or processor). Knead lightly until mixture blends together. Press into well-greased shallow tins. Bake gently for 25 - 30 minutes Gas mark 4. Do not overbake. Put a lid on the tin and keep hot otherwise crunch will set hard - like concrete!0 -
My mum was a school cook so heres the recipe.
Chocolate crunch
Slow oven gas 2 / 150oc Time 25-30 mins
5oz SR flour
1 Beaten Egg
5oz P flour
5oz sugar
5oz Marg
1/2oz cocoa
Vanilla Essance
1. Melt Marg in a sauce pan and add the vamilla essance. Remove from heat.
2. Mix the sugar, cocoa and flour together in a large mixing pan.
3. Make a well in the middle and add the melted marg and beat in the egg. Mixture should bind together.
4. Press into a greased baking tin. The mixture should be 1/2 inch thick.
5. Brush the top with a little cold water and sprinkle with sugar. Place in oven.
6. When cooked divided into portions straight way as it hardens as is cools.
Variations.
Coconut crunch - omit cocoa and add 1oz of desicated coconut.
Vanilla crunch - omit cocoa and add 2 drops of vanilla essance.
hope that hits the spot
Think i will make some tomorrow.0 -
When baking and using Sugar, is it just the normal sugar like you have in your cup of tea?Official DFW Nerd Club - Member no. 607 - Proud To Be Dealing With My Debts :T
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yes thats granulated sugar.
You can use that or caster sugar in baking.0
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