School days recipes

Triker

Am I the only one who used to love school dinners? I loved the chips, roasts, pies, bakes, puddings....all of it, except custard whatever the colour, yellow or pink...because I hate custard.

If you know the awful slop given to me at home, you'd understand....I loved my school dinners....they probably kept me alive.

One of my fave's in my inner city school was cottage cheese pie, basically cottage cheese baked in a pastry pie crust, it was lovely but I've never seen a recipe for it.

Triker

Isis_Black wrote: »

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

Is this it, taken from Daily Mail website



Here goes, only our cook calls them chocolate haystacks and we have scaled it down from serving 300 so hope it is OK!

10 ozs cornflakes
14 ozs block margarine
1 lb golden syrup
14 ozs dried milk POWDER (not granules)
2-3 ozs cocoa

mix dry ingredients together, crushing those cornflakes a little.
melt margarine and syrup till warm.
mix it all together by hand (but she has to use a big mixer as she caters for all those kids)
roll into balls, put in paper cases and leave to harden.

This recipe makes about 25.

My pink custard is easy

2 ozs cornflour
2 ozs sugar
1 pint milk
2 tablespoons or more of raspberry crusha milk shake

make just as you would ordinary custard.

Let me know how you go on

Triker

Quillion wrote: »

Isa Lancashire Lass, Derbyshire
The great school cheese pie of the 1970s 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 inLine 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.

Will have to just try both xx

Not pregnanat Toots just the Food !!!!!! again lol apparantly its quite a common side effect.

Quillion you star...this may be the long lost recipe for that cottage cheese pie I was on abbout. I'll give it a bash asap.

Thank you. BTW I went to school in Bolton initially...so it may be a regional thing.

babyshoes

I remember enjoying the food at primary school - apart from the insects in the broccoli and cauliflower! Wouldn't touch either of them for years as a result, but strangely enough I love them now, though when preparing them I do chop them smaller than necessary checking for bugs!

They did the most amazing hot chocolate sauce for icecream, have never been able to recreate it. It was sort of like a chocolate custard, but less eggy. Would probably have been made with cocoa powder rather than chocolate. Anyone have any ideas?

rosieben

Triker wrote: »

Am I the only one who used to love school dinners? I loved the chips, roasts, pies, bakes, puddings....all of it, except custard whatever the colour, yellow or pink...because I hate custard. ...

No I loved school meals too. I went to a little village school where all our dinner ladies mothered us and the meals were great; at Grammar school we had a really good cook, very little that I didn't enjoy. I come from a large family and we were brought up to eat what we were given and not be fussy as we weren't well off

Hadley

Hi I was wondering if there were any dinner ladies or school cooks on the forum from the 1970's.If there is I was hoping you could help me.
I am looking for a recipe for chocolate sponge and also a recipe for lemon sponge.I remember them both being really nice I also remember them sticking to the roof of your month.
I bought the book School dinners and made the chocolate sponge from it tonight and it was nothing like the one I remember this one was more like a brownie than a light sponge.
Thanks in advance

Triker

This is where I look for old school recipes....http://www.schoolrecipes.co.uk/index.php/school-dinner-recipes.html

Hadley

Thank you very much Triker I'm off for a good look now.Thanks

D&DD

Hadley my mums over tomorrow and she was a dinner lady then will ask her

Hadley

Thanks D&DD that would be great.