School days recipes

[Deleted User] · 23 May 2009 at 8:42PM

gizmo111 wrote: »

Can anyone remember pease pudding ? Does it still exist?

There is a company called Foresight that makes it in tins. I think I've seen it in Tesco.

My worst school dinner was the pilchard with the head still on. Mind you it looked more alive than some of the nuns.

mcjordi · 23 May 2009 at 11:54PM

i think i can remember something similar when i was at junior school

although i loved the sausages and bbq sauce hmmm

pease pudding is available, ive seen the tins of pease pudding about as well

Mrs_Ryan · 24 May 2009 at 12:52AM

I live in Leicester but I'm originally from the north-east.. I grew up eating ham and pease pudding sandwiches and now OH has discovered he loves the stuff so I always have to take some home for him when I've been home

mashup_2 · 25 May 2009 at 8:01AM

I remember going back up to Durham on the Rapide coach and the Hostesses sold ham and pease pudding stotties to keep us going. I now live in Surrey and Asda have started selling stotties down here. So ham and pease pudding stotties all round.:j:j:j

[Deleted User] · 25 May 2009 at 9:19AM

I only had school dinners for a week when my late Mum had to go to Scotland to look after her sick sister.
My Mum bless her wasn't the best cook in the world it was usually basic stuff and no frills as rationing was still around but she cooked far better than the school lunches.
Lumpy mash, greens that were almost black and the meat was mostly fatty and grey looking.The gravy had a smell of its own and I could pick it out from a thousand blindfolded.You didn't have a choice either you had to eat it or else. I liked the custard but the sponge puddings were like rocks and I think had been boiled in old socks.I dreaded the school dinners but as my Dad was working it wasn't a choice, I couldn't not stay. Even now over 60 years later I can remember that week of revolting food. My children had packed lunches as I wasn't going to put them through being made to eat food they wouldn't like. I aslo remeber gipsy tart which I think was made with floor polish it tasted so bad, I stuck mine into my shoe bag and disposed of it on the way home from school.My plimsolls were never the same after that

noonesperfect · 25 May 2009 at 10:35AM

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

My sister and I went to a sort of boarding school where the food was so poor when we had lunch served at day-school it was like eating at the Dorchester. They served that molten-lava cheese pie thing as well and it was one of our favourites. I'd forgotten all about it until I read this thread. Oh, happy days!

The boarding school's idea of a suitable evening meal on the cook's day off was cold tinned tomatoes served with cold pilchards. Sorry that was one cold pilchard. Mind you, I think it stood us in good stead, we were never, ever faddy eaters after that. We still aren't.

I don't know what it's like now but boarding school food in the 70's was dire!!! Everything was sooooo greasy and usually nearly cold...and nary in a chip in sight (well, maybe now and again - occasional Friday treat of "inhouse" fish and chips.)
Like you say, portions were anything but generous!!
The cheese pie we got was the awful greasy and somehow very damp version with pastry and a peculiar eggy filling. Sausage pie was worse tho', gristly sausagemeat balls and tinned tomatoes under a topping of sliced potatoes. I shudder when I think of the globules of grease :eek:.

You had no choice but to eat every morsel - including fat and gristle.

No wonder I still love puddings to this day - they were the only edible part of the meal (apart from the lumpy custard - complete with skin)

Re: pease pud - it's available fresh in Aldi as well as Asda.

Rikki · 25 May 2009 at 10:44AM

Bronnie wrote: »

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 was trying to remember exactly what it was and then when you mentioned, lukewarm watery tinned tomatoes and the lumpy mash. I remembered.:eek:

jo1972 · 25 May 2009 at 11:54AM

I've just been having a nostalgic moment after seeing the tins of Spam in Sainsburys, I used to love the spam fritters at school! I knew they'd be a school recipe thread or two on here and have had spent the last half hour or more imersed in school dinner memories!

I have found a good website that has some old classics on, apologies if it's been linked before, but there is some delicious stuff on here including spam fritters :drool:

[Deleted User] · 25 May 2009 at 7:26PM

jo1972 wrote: »

I've just been having a nostalgic moment after seeing the tins of Spam in Sainsburys, I used to love the spam fritters at school!

We didn't have Spam, we used to have "Plumrose Plopped Ham with Chalk!"

noonesperfect · 26 May 2009 at 12:18PM

Oh no waggle dancer that takes me even further back to primary school (mid 60's to 1970) where my most dreaded lunch (at the time) was luncheon meat, cold lumpy mashed potato and pickled beetroot (eugh! I can smell it now) I could only get the mashed potato down with the aid of much watered-down salad cream;
followed by jelly that had somehow formed a hard crust at the edges.

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