School days recipes

mama67

Have just got the School Dinners book by Becky Thorn, it brouight back some lovely memories.

As a hot dinners server I know that alot of those wouldn't be allowed now due to the sugar and salt content, although I might ask the provider (transported in from approx 40 miles away) if any could be tweaked.

nickyhutch

Georgeous sticky chewy cornflake cakes:

1 tablespoon cocoa powder
1 tablespoon golden syrup
1 ounce of maragrine
1 tablespoon of icing sugar
7 tablespoons of cereal

Melt the first 4 together then stir in the cornflakes, and spoon into cases. Leave to set (if you can wait that long!).

geordie_joe

nickyhutch wrote: »

Georgeous sticky chewy cornflake cakes:

1 tablespoon cocoa powder
1 tablespoon golden syrup
1 ounce of maragrine
1 tablespoon of icing sugar
7 tablespoons of cereal

Melt the first 4 together then stir in the cornflakes, and spoon into cases. Leave to set (if you can wait that long!).

Thanks for that, I'll be trying that tomorrow.

I don't have icing sugar, but seem to remember something about using ordinary sugar and putting it the blender first. I also seem to remember reading that it's all the same once melted, so may miss out the blender bit.

Quillion

Does anyone have the recipie for the cheese pie you used to get at school years ago.

I am 38 and for some strange reason i have a craving for some.

Thanks Guys

Butterfly_Brain

Try this thread there are lots of old school recipes in here
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=15419&highlight=school+dinner+recipes

toottifrootti

you're not pregnant are you????:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
No I know you aren't!

I can vaguely remember what you mean - I think - was it like a very very cheesey quiche (without any other bits)??? Would that maybe be how it was made egss and loads of cheese?
toots xx

dogcat_2

MMm I don't remember It at school, - but I would love to try It now. MMmmm I feel really hungry now. I love cheese.

Bronnie

dogcat wrote: »

MMm I don't remember It at school, - but I would love to try It now. MMmmm I feel really hungry now. I love cheese.

I can remember EXACTLY what you mean, even after 40 years. Usually on a Friday lunchtime for some reason. A meanly-thin square of greasy pastry filled with some pallid cheesy stuff. Served floating in the lukewarm watery juice of some tinned plum tomatoes with a scoop of lumpy mash.

I can remember vividly to this day the bitter disappointment , after queuing up outside the canteen, freezing cold and starving, to discover that this was the dish of the day ....and I was a child that ate ANYTHING!!

Pont

Oh no in our school cheese pie was wonderful. Nothing like quiche, no pastry. Ours was fluffy mashed potato, buttery with melted cheese and onion mixed in. It was so molten it took the roof of your mouth off - but it was just beautiful. I attempt to make it for my tenagers now - they love it, but to me it never tastes as good as when I was 8 or 9 years of age.

moggylover

Bronnie wrote: »

I can remember EXACTLY what you mean, even after 40 years. Usually on a Friday lunchtime for some reason. A meanly-thin slice of greasy pastry filled with some pallid cheesy stuff. Served floating in the lukewarm watery juice of some tinned plum tomatoes with a scoop of lumpy mash.

I can remember vividly to this day the bitter disappointment , after queuing up outside the canteen, freezing cold and starving, to discover that this was the dish of the day ....and I was a child that ate ANYTHING!!

The cook from your school needed sacking them because at both my primary and senior schools it was a truly beautiful egg and cheese flan and was so popular that there was never any left for seconds:(.

The only thing I hated was the salad that had grated carrot and peanuts on it! I didn't like nuts as a child at all, and still do not much care for grated carrot although I love cooked ones.