School days recipes

rosieben

I enjoyed reading through this thread and collecting the recipes, thanks everyone!

I went to school in the 50s and 60s and I always loved school dinners at both my schools. Maybe we were lucky living in the country and being relatively small schools though, we had lots of fresh veg and salads and we were obviously blessed with having really good cooks.

Grammar school pastry was so light and crumbly. Cheese pie was one of my favourites - got the recipe now, thanks! I loved the liver, beef wellington, fish pie, also the roasts - ma perret's roast potatoes were to die for! Puddings were great too, I used to love semolina, choc crunch and coconut tart. beautiful sponge pudds and pies. I'd forgotten about mock cream, loved that too and got the recipe now thanks to you great posters on this thread! :beer:

OMG this thread is so bad for the waistline :rotfl:

alwaysonthego_2

pink custard I use to love it on chocolate sponge

sahararose

I only ever once had a school dinner (used to be a sandwiches kid!!) and that was the cheese and onion or cheese and potatopie they used to do. I used to absolutely love the smell of it too !!!

Does anyone have the recipe for it, pretty please ?

xx

Plum_Pie

These should help you along.

Potato Pie
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=566566&postcount=153

Cheese and onion Pasty
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=468723&postcount=96

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The sticky near the top of this board has loads of great recipes, try looking there first and then ask if you don't understand something (some have more details than others!) or can't find what you want.

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moanymoany

School dinners .......

When I started school in 1953 they were 5 shillings a week and when I left in 1964 they were 5 shillings a week. There seemed to be little difference in the meals.

I remember the pie - I think. Was there pastry and the filling was potato and onion with cheese on the top?

Anyone remember the salads? A tin dish with rows of cubed beetroot, big, cold peas, chopped cabbage, cubed tinned carrots - I wasn't too keen, but by lunchtime we were so hungry we ate it.

Anyone remember those - not glass glasses - with - snigger, snigger 'durex' written on the bottom. If only I'd known why durex was a funny word!!!!;)

THIRZAH

Our school dinners were pretty revolting. They were cooked at another school about five miles away and delivered in large metal tins with lids so things like pastry would be soggy because of the steam in the tins.

The teachers took turns to supervise dinners and it always seemed to something really horrible on a Thursday when the teacher who made us eat everything up was on duty.

Pink.

There's a great thread on school dinners so I'll merge this one with it to keep all the replies together.

Pink

kunekune

I remember getting apple pie with wensleydale cheese. Wow. It was wonderful. Mind, most of the rest wasn't. I was a vege in those days and so I got veges plus a lump of cheese! Though like everyone else, my favourite memory is of gypsy pudding. Yumyumyum.

sandy2_2

Just read thro all of this thread.
Brought back lots of memories of school dinners..mostly horrible...pink custard ...yeuk...tubey liver...over boiled veg...icecream dollops of mashed potato with lumps (usually grey)...took me about 20 years to start to like veggies after that.....pig bins of left over uneaten food

I went to a girls only grammar school and why did they think we needed so many sugary stodgy puddings and even solld iced buns and donuts at break times

I do remember some sort of roly poly meat pudding, which was probably a suet based pastry with a, 'thin' layer of mincemeat, and one of those large aluminium trays with a meat pie with fatty gristly meat

OH school dinners cost 2/1d a week...yes he is that old
Thanks everyone

sahararose

moanymoany wrote: »

School dinners .......

When I started school in 1953 they were 5 shillings a week and when I left in 1964 they were 5 shillings a week. There seemed to be little difference in the meals.

I remember the pie - I think. Was there pastry and the filling was potato and onion with cheese on the top?

Anyone remember the salads? A tin dish with rows of cubed beetroot, big, cold peas, chopped cabbage, cubed tinned carrots - I wasn't too keen, but by lunchtime we were so hungry we ate it.

Anyone remember those - not glass glasses - with - snigger, snigger 'durex' written on the bottom. If only I'd known why durex was a funny word!!!!;)

That's the one !!! I'd love to try that !