School days recipes

rosieben

sandy2 wrote: »

Originally Posted by catznine
Does anyone have a recipe for the sweet "fake" cream we used to get piped on our desserts? I used to love that!

Do you mean dream topping?

Sandy

recipe in post #76 for mock cream

Vaila

Mothership wrote: »

We used to get this at school in Glasgow for lunch everyone loved it, does anyone remember it? Does anyone know how to make it??????

http://discuss.glasgowguide.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=11464&pid=251050&mode=threaded&start=

its the 2nd post

Fruball

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.

Recipes I recall from primary school:
Few cubes of Spam in a ladle of baked beans
Grey fishfingers
2 scrawny chipolatas
Beefburgers you could sole your boots with (2 burgers for boys, half for girls - don't know what was worse!)
Salad made entirely of tinned vegetables and pickled beetroot, with optional dead flies if you wanted protein
Cooking instructions: Place in low oven at 9AM and dish up three hours later. The exception is salad which must not be refrigerated under any circumstances.

Every meal was accompanied with two scoops of mash which had baked to concrete consistency along with the rest of the meal.

Pudding was usually a variation on milk pud with pink syrup. No-one wanted milk pud so we were permitted to just drink bowls of pink syrup.

Packed lunches were forbidden, the option was home lunch. If you were on free meals or had working parents then you were stuck with school dinners. Thankfully my mum was a stroppy cow and insisted that my brother and I could have packed lunches, along with the Fat Kid, The Lone Vegetarian and the Funny Foreigner. We were banished to a classroom in a different part of the building at lunchtime and generally treated like pariahs.

Secondary school was no better, but then we were allowed out at lunchtime and for 30p (the price of a school meal) we could get fish and chips which was yummy. Fish and chips are a bit low on vitamins but so were school dinners!

For a while I went to a different school in Bucks where the food was more palatable but in retrospect I realise that it was all ready made processed food and was hugely expensive (double what the meals had cost in the London school).

Reading this thread, and in the wake of the Jamie Oliver series, I'm always puzzled by the claims that school dinners were so much better in the old days. I reckon you lot were lucky, because the slop we were given was quite revolting and given a choice I would rather have Turkey Twizzlers.

I'd like to interview a few of my ex dinner ladies and ask them how they slept at night. I wouldn't have fed that food to a dog, and anyone who forces cabbage into a small vomiting child should be locked up :mad: . My mum worked as a dinner lady for just one day and walked out in disgust. That and the cabbage vomit incident are the reason I had packed lunches.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I do remember grey fishfingers and we had bouncing burgers. We used to throw them onto the table and see how high they bounced, much to the disgust of the dinnerladies

On the whole though, most of our dinners/puddings were gorgeous and I often went for seconds

Once the cafeteria style meals came in, my friend and I would have a plate of cheese and chips.... maybe some beans... then puddings. Not the most balanced or nutritious of meals!

I am looking for a school steamed (?) syrup sponge recipe - it was so gorgeous and stuck to the roof of your mouth

meritaten

lmao - thanks! I needed a good laugh!
right steamed syrup sponge pudding - lordy, I was taught to make that in cookery class back in the late 60s and it tasted exactly like the school dinner one! havent made one since........but as far as I can remember its
take one standard pudding basin and put a couple tablespoons of golden syrup in the bottom of it. then make a standard victoria sponge mix and put in the basin. cover with folded greaseproof paper (dont forget to fold over an inch in the middle to allow for pudding to rise), and tie with kitchen string. put into a large saucepan with boiling water to come about two thirds the way up the basin. steam (now this is where my memory falters - it seems like hours but cant be, because cookery lessons only lasted two hours, and allowing half hour teaching and prep then another 15 mins or so for the darn thing to cool down and washing up and writing our notes. it must have steamed for about 35 to 45 minutes?) er,,,,,,45 minutes?
other OSers may have to come to my rescue here (please?).
my mum actually loved it and used to buy these steamed puddings in tins - I am sure they are still available in supermarkets. microwave versions too!

In our school we did have a cook - and they actually did cook from scratch! it wasnt restaurant quality but it was edible! and her stew was lovely! and bless her she used to bring in pots of jam for us to put in the semolina pudding! otherwise it looked and tasted like wallpaper paste! we didnt have burgers or turkey twizzlers etc. just plain cooking but some kids loved the meals as they were far better than what they got at home. looking back, our cook did really well, even the teachers used to have the dinners (apart from the music teacher who had two slimming biscuits with a cup of hot water). oh my, I didnt even know I had remembered that! amazing how one memory can trigger another!

loocyloo

Mothership wrote: »

We used to get this at school in Glasgow for lunch everyone loved it, does anyone remember it? Does anyone know how to make it??????

an old nanny friend of mine used to make this! i think she put the spaghetti in the dish first , like you would pastry, and then top it with half a jar of pasta sauce, top with grated cheese then bake in the oven! i remember it was yummy, but you had to grease the dish well first! i think sometimes she used left over bolognese sauce!

have fun experimenting!

xxx

Vaila

arran_m wrote: »

http://discuss.glasgowguide.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=11464&pid=251050&mode=threaded&start=

its the 2nd post

already posted the recipe

cant say spaghetti pie sounds appetising though !

pixie1

We used to have stodgey choc sponge with choc icing - totally yum! Wish i had that recipe!

Pix

Mothership

arran_m wrote: »

already posted the recipe

cant say spaghetti pie sounds appetising though !

It doesn't sound at all appetising but its yummy LOL! My two youngest girls (now grown up) have pestered me for years to make this, had a few attempts but couldn't get it quite right. Thanks for this, greatly appreciated.

Hippeechiq

At the risk of showing my age here - It was Semolina Pudding & Pink Blamange in my day _pale_ .......no need for either of them to exist on this planet in my opinion

Oh, and chocolate pudding with pink, yes pink custard....what was that all about?

We seemed to be force fed lots of overcooked limp dark green cabbage and swede too _pale_

Isis_Black

chocolate haystacks were my fave!!
they were literally a large ball of soft crunch chocolate, but have never been able to find a recipe for it