School days recipes

Simba_25

16011996 wrote:

our manchester tart has bananas sliced on top of the jam and beneath the custard, does anyone else do this?

Yes!! i thought that when i read the recipie....where are the bananas!!?? lol
manchester tart isnt manchester tart without the bananas


oooh chocolate concrete with pink custard mmmmm that was my fave! i have bought the chocolate concrete from cooplands but it dont taste no where near as good as the what we had at school...... maybe it was because i didnt have any pink custard with it??? lol

anyone know how to make the pink custard??? cause it tasted different didnt it? i tried making normal custard with colouring in to make it pink bu it just wasnt the same lol

Smiley_Mum

Anyone know anyone who worked as dinner ladies in the 70s?

Ticklemouse

Simba_25 wrote:

anyone know how to make the pink custard??? cause it tasted different didnt it? i tried making normal custard with colouring in to make it pink bu it just wasnt the same lol

I think you'd have to make a basic sweet white sauce then add some pink food colouring and possibly some strawberry flavouring - maybe you could use milkshake mix for it ?

In fact, I bought some Crusha mix yesterday just so that I could try flavouring my HM yogs to see if DS's would eat it. Methinks a pink custard session is approaching - especially as the kids have requested sponge pud and custard next week

squeaky

there's a thread in the community section of delia on line and an ex school cook says they used blancmange.

Pink Custard

marg1_2

They still do chocolate concrete and the cornflake things in schools now
CALLING all dinner ladys

taplady

I remember the ice cream scoops of mashed spuds and being made to eat a vile spam fritter :eek:
the puds were more to my liking! prunes and custard and the pink custard my mum was a dinnerlady for years!

rammy007

Found this if anyone wants the chocolate crunch recipe sorry but i am not very techie minded so i dont know how to set a hyperlink(must ask my 8year old)but its this;
http://www3.thny.bbc.co.uk/gloucestershire/focus/foodanddrink/2003/02/chocolate_crunch.shtml
(Wow somehow it worked not sure how i did it)

squeaky

If you click on the blue "Welcome" in my signature below, down at the bottom of that post are some direct links to great tutorials by sra that will show you how to make them. Links, that is, not school puds

Lipsticklady

Please can anyone help me find the receipes for 'Honey Buns'??? They were a bread like consistency ozzing with honey and were served warm with icing sugar on top.
I absolutely adore them and woudl love to know how to make them. Please can anyone help me?

Ticklemouse

After reading this thread again yesterday, I've just ventures into Tesco's (I'm forgetting what it looks like ) and bought a pick packet of Semolina Yum yum. LOVED it at school. Best get cooking some for tea.....mmmmmmmm

And, at the checkout, the lady looked at it and said she loved it, hadn't had it in years and was off to buy some herself.