School days recipes

lumpy_bum

oh what was toffee cream tart?:D

ive just done the chocolate crunch one:D

im going to serve it with custard later to my un suspecting 10 year old lol
hope his teeth will survive lol... then again mine did;)

ive also had a poke around and ive adapted the cornflake recipe and just added cocoa... im wondering now though, do i zap it in the oven for a bit or just put it in the fridge?
ty all:D im 13 again lol

Diane_239

Hi everyone i have had a look around the site but i can't find a recipe for caramel tart that i had at school lovely with custard.
can anyone help please.

Bonaventure_babes

Diane_239 wrote: »

Hi everyone i have had a look around the site but i can't find a recipe for caramel tart that i had at school lovely with custard.
can anyone help please.

Hi Diane...hope you dont mind me hi-jacking your thread but I'll second your request...and marshmallow tart:p

she_grinch

we used to have a dessert at school that was a pastry base with like a thick blamange topping covered in hundreds and thousands. I would love to know what it was and what it was called, it deffinately didn't taste like blamange and held its shape when sliced????

lumpy_bum

theres a whole thread about it all lol
i asked earlier for concrete chocolate cake and chocolate cornflake cake:D oh and egg and cheese flan type thing. ive made all three today and managed to mess two of them up lol

amanda40

I made it using a pastry ( sweet case) then a tin of condensed milk -caramel flavour then top with vermiciili, or you could use the Dulco Leche (sp?)caramel topping - then at least you can make a few small ones at a time - delish!! Works out about £2.20 ish though but lovely. I also use the dulco leche to make banoffie pies - mmmm

squeaky

Hiya,

I've added your poss onto our main thread on school dinner recipes. Well worth a browse.

lumpy_bum

im off into town today to get peppermint essence, yeast and other bits i need to make more schooly type meals lol
i did the egg and cheese flan last night, bodged up the pastry turned it upside down then burnt the egg and cheese mix, it was nice... just took a bit of chewing pmsl

the cornflake cake, chocolate one, that went really soggy when i put custard on it. i think they poured the custard first then added the cake

Lunar_Eclipse

filigree wrote: »

I was at school in London between 1971 and 1984 and in those days schools were run by the Inner London Education Authority, I don't know if that has any bearing on things.

You posted this a long time ago, but reading your post reminded me of just how much I hated school dinners. They were IMO absolutely disgusting. My main gripe actually was that they were never hot enough. I'm not even sure if 'warm' would be accurate. They used to make me feel physically sick. But thankfully I was allowed packed lunches.

I think they are slightly better now (it does depend on the school's cooking facilities - for instance my youngest's school is supplied via the Junior school 2 miles away so there is no choice) AND both of my kids come out starving. My youngest has quite a small appetite as well so clearly doesn't eat much. Both currently have packed lunches - nicer, healthier and much cheaper. And she comes out of school in a much better mood since she's not starving.

However, my Grandma was a dinner lady and I can tell you that firstly she knows how to cook delicious meals (Italian background perhaps?) and that both my parents went to her school and loved the meals. They usually had seconds. I couldn't be paid to eat seconds when I was at school! That was in the 50's & 60's. By the time I went to school in the 70's/80's, standards had possibly slipped?

Humsta

Just made it - easy peasy so thanx! :T