School days recipes

Penelope_Penguin

I'll add this to the School Days Recipes thread.

Penny. x

Keeop

Galtizz wrote: »

Can anyone help Celtic FC find a recipe for Chocolate chrunch cake?

Better late than never!

Chocolate Crunch Recipe

I was having a milk chocolate cookie in Subway the other day and the smell was really familiar. I have whittled it down to being either the smell of 'Milk Cookies' which from what I can tell aren't made any more and in fact I can't find a referene to them anywhere - did I dream them?! - or something from school dinners past which lead me to it possibly being 'Crunch', albeit the vanilla version I'm guessing.

Cheers.
Keeop

Surfing_spaniel

Don't suppose anyone knows if you can get a recipe for the delicious meat & potato pie we used to have, the pastry was different to normal shortcrust, I guess it was some sort of suet, Also was there some kind of beef cobbler?? I seem to remember it had a scone on top & was it haricot beans?? I'd love to try making that.

slm6002

Great thread. When pregnant with my first i had cravings for the famous cholcolate crunch. In the end i wrote to my old school and asked for a copy of their receipe. I got a reply and the actual recipe - school quantities mind you. It even gave me the recipe for the pink custard that used to accompany it. I was a happy bunny

Dazi

I was at school during the 60/70s and have to say there is nothing I would want to eat again :rolleyes: all I remember is rice pudding with a couple of dates stuck on the top, semolina with a strange tasting red sauce and tapioca with brown sugar on top

Oh and a strange green curry thing, have to say I didnt like school dinners and thought as my mum had paid for them it was up to me if I ate them......not so at my primary school, you had to eat it all.....was often still sitting in the dining hall with cold food infront of me when my mum came to pick my sis up from the infants......I think a lot of my eating habits/hates stem from that time.

Seeing the recipes on here makes me think grrrrrrrrrrr I went to the wrong school lol

SusanC_2

slm6002 wrote: »

Great thread. When pregnant with my first i had cravings for the famous cholcolate crunch. In the end i wrote to my old school and asked for a copy of their receipe. I got a reply and the actual recipe - school quantities mind you. It even gave me the recipe for the pink custard that used to accompany it. I was a happy bunny

Any chance of you sharing it?

Eve006.75

The great school cheese pie of the 1970's recipe

Yes - I think I've cracked it.

I made this last night and the taste and texture match what I remember.

Use a rectangular brownie tin to make it in

Line the tin with pastry and up the sides.

Mix 5 ozs grated mature cheddar ( or cheese to your liking) with
approx 10 ozs cottage cheese
1 whole medium egg
4 ozs milk

Bake blind the pastry alone for 10 mins at 210 oC

Pour in cheese mix and cook in oven at 170 oC ( fan oven) may need 180 oC/190 oC for non-fan oven) for approx 30 mins or until top is set and golden

This pie has the lumpy (from the cottage cheese) , tangy feel that I recall. It passed the family taste test.

Enjoy:beer:

moanymoany

Asda sell Gypsy Tart - yuk! No-one liked it.

thriftlady_2

Apologies if this has already been mentioned on this thread (too lazy to read it all) but there's a book:D called School Dinners by Becky Thorn. It has mysteriously just arrived through my letterbox from Amazon :whistle: (oops breaking my new year's resolution already).

It is full of recipes for school dinners from the 1960s and 70s. They include; liver and bacon, rice pudding (always served with stewed prunes in my school), fish and chips, chicken curry, cheese flan, mashed potato served with a scoop, chocolate concrete, chocolate cornflake tart, custard-yellow, mint and pink_pale_ , bananas and custard_pale_ _pale_ , jaffa tart, gypsy tart andspam fritters.

It's a good read too, she's funny.

Boy, did I loathe the custard:eek: I used adore chocolate concrete and I'm going to make some for my kids pud tonight.

recovering_spendaholic

thriftlady wrote: »

Apologies if this has already been mentioned on this thread (too lazy to read it all) but there's a book:D called School Dinners by Becky Thorn. It has mysteriously just arrived through my letterbox from Amazon :whistle: (oops breaking my new year's resolution already).

It is full of recipes for school dinners from the 1960s and 70s. They include; liver and bacon, rice pudding (always served with stewed prunes in my school), fish and chips, chicken curry, cheese flan, mashed potato served with a scoop, chocolate concrete, chocolate cornflake tart, custard-yellow, mint and pink_pale_ , bananas and custard_pale_ _pale_ , jaffa tart, gypsy tart andspam fritters.

It's a good read too, she's funny.

Boy, did I loathe the custard:eek: I used adore chocolate concrete and I'm going to make some for my kids pud tonight.

Ooh! Cheese flan - have just had to buy it for that alone!