School days recipes

foreverskint

Right you 'orrible lot, since this thread was started I have had dreams of the cheese & onion flan thingy that we used to used to get at school with baked beans and mash (thanks squeaky). Ours wasn't really soft like a quiche, but was very cheesy .
Anyone know a) what I'm talking about

b) a recipe

Please 'cos I have weird cravings...................

squeaky

I make mine by grating cheese into a bowl, adding two oz (50g) SR flour, big pinch of mustard and of paprika. Add chopped onion if you wish. Or bacon. Stir it all round until all the flour is picked up and then crack in an egg stir more, and perhaps add a little milk to get it sloppy but not runny.

Yum


edit: this technique gives a lump free quiche and also works very well for cheese sauce.

Liney_2

halloweenqueen wrote:

Gypsy tart - dark muscovado sugar and evaporated milk, whisk for 10 minutes then put it in a recently turned off oven to set and its great - its in one of gary rhodes cook books - my mum used to make it years ago and you can't beat it - well you can for 10 minutes!! Any less and its not as good!

Is this the same as the 'Toffee Cream Tart' that we used to have at School but maybe with a different name? Let me know as I'd love to make that, which gary rhodes book is it in as I have a couple at home...

thanks Liney x

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Smiley_Mum wrote:

I liked the vanilla slice, puff pastry sandwiched with dream topping type filling and jam.

Farola pudding with a big blob of jam in the centre.

Tapioca (frogs eggs) and tinned pears.

Chocolate crispy type slice with custard, white, yellow or pink variations.

Jelly and dream topping or ice cream.

Haggis neeps and tatties.

Sponge and custard, I didn't like.

Had like a dark sponge/gingerbread type slice with custard too.

One thing I hated with a passion was the fish in white sauce, the smell that wafted along the corridor as you stood in line. _pale_

Here is a link that maybe of interest.

http://education.independent.co.uk/news/article12173.ece

Yeuk Frogs Spawn (Tapioca Pudding)
and what did our 'dinner ladies' do to the greens, ours were always boiled to a black slimy mush.
I went to an Open-air school back in the 1950s and we had to have breakfast,dinner and tea there, it was awful.
Breakfast:
luke warm grey porrdge
cold toast,even colder cocoa

Lunch mashed lumpy spuds, black greens,peas like bullets and a browny-grey stringy meat, god knows what animal it came from(probably one that died of old age)
Gravy so thick you could spread it on your bread.

Tea,
sandwich with meat paste, and sometimes what looked like grass,but we assumed it was mustard & cress, but it could well have been grass
Fairy cake that was so hard it could have been used as a ground -to-air- missile (and often was by the boys)
and either a banana or a maggoty apple.
This was for a school that had sick children attending.I had a weak heart and underdeveloped lungs. We all used to hope for our release back to main-stream school as soon as possible.
When the six monthly health check came around it was a case of fingers crossed, and try to look as healthy as possible. I remember rubbing a spot of my mums rouge into my cheeks I was released in April 1957 after three years at this god-forsaken school.Thank goodness they don't have them anymore.

Chipps

Jackie, what was an open air school? I mean, how "open air" was it? (if that's not a silly question.)

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I was born and brought up in London, and after the war there were about 10 of these schools around London.I went to one in Downham which is on the outskirts of London near Bromley. I don't think there are any left now.They used to be for children that were sickly ,or had weak chests,lungs ect,.There were a lot of kids at my school which was called Woodlands that suffered from asthma,bronchitis or t.b. we also had children that for what ever reason had been in hospital for a long period of time. When I was there for three years in the mid fifties there were several deaths from children who couldn't recover from their illness's.We all used to get a day off when ever there was a death. I remember a brother and sister who died within a couple of months of each other. I know there used to be another school quite near to Shooters Hill in London but I think it closed down in the 1960s.
We had to be at school by 0.8.30.a.m. and before we went into breakfast we all had to do a series of keep-fit excercises in the playground. then it was breakfast then if the weather was good gardening on the large allotments attached to the school. The four classrooms looked like swiss chalets. They were all built of half wood and half glass. Most of the time the windows would be opened wide to the elements. I did virtually no written school work for three years as we were made to spend as much time in the open-air as possible.
Including myself, in my class of thirty, there were only about 20% of children who could actually read and write
I spent most of my three years reading books as there was very little else to do. After lunch we all had to have an afternoon's sleep for an hour on camp beds in the Hall if it was wet or in the playground if dry. We went home at 4.00.p.m.
I remember that if you didn't close your eyes and look like you were asleep then you would get either a punishment of spud -peeling, or in more drastic cases of insubordination there would be the cane.Both girls and boys were caned and you just had to accept it.
I recall going to a main-stream secondary school at 13 years old and being surprised that girls weren't caned as well as boys.
It gave me a life-long loathing of the open-air .When I went back to a 'normal' school I hadn't a clue what half the lessons were about . I truanted at an almost permanant level until I reached 15 and left school. I was so far behind the rest of the other children that I skipped off school at every opportunity.
I am now 60 and started at the basic skills level 5 years ago at adult education and in the last two years have passed both English and History at GCSE. I am studying a Law GCSE this year and also doing a part-time history course at Kent Uni.
Thank goodness that these schools no longer exist and now children are cherished instead of being beaten
I love going to Adult -Ed, and my grandchildren all think that Nanny is a 'cool dude'I warn them of the dangers of not having a decent education, and like me having to get one so late in life. I only hope they listen.

moonbeam682

hope you don't mind me posting on this old thread but I wondered if anyone has heard of 'The dinner lady' by Jeanette Orrey? its a really great cookbook full of cheap delicious recipes including some that have been mentioned on this thread cornflake tart, jam roly poly etc. the recipe for chocolate chip cookies is delicious!
hope this may be of help.

squeaky

Hiya,

Of course not - join in and welcome

carol_a_3

Notice how all the happy memories of 60s/70s school dinners are of the puddings. I too loved the rice with jam, tapioca, semolina, sponges etc etc but detested the liver (eurrgh!!) and bacon, lumpy mash, cabbage you could smell beginning to cook at morning assembly and insipid looking "ragout". My kids all had packed lunches!

moonbeam682

carol_a wrote:

Notice how all the happy memories of 60s/70s school dinners are of the puddings. I too loved the rice with jam, tapioca, semolina, sponges etc etc but detested the liver (eurrgh!!) and bacon, lumpy mash, cabbage you could smell beginning to cook at morning assembly and insipid looking "ragout". My kids all had packed lunches!

I remember the only edible main course was the salad!

And the curry was disgusting :eek:

Puddings were great weren't they :j