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School days recipes

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Galtizz
Galtizz Posts: 1,016 Forumite
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Can anyone help Celtic FC find a recipe for Chocolate chrunch cake?

Anyone got any more school days recipes?

I've got one for toffee pie (hmm :P) but it doesn't seem to turn out quite like the ones I remember from shcool. When I find the recipe I'll post it on here.

(Before the introdution of pizzas and chips a few years ago) School dinners used to be made from scratch by a cook and (I should imagine) on quite a limited budget so there should be some good ideas on frugal cooking.
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  • Spendless
    Spendless Posts: 24,151 Forumite
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    You can buy chocolate crunch where i am (doncaster, S,yorks) from a chain of bakers called cooplands.

    Don't know if they have have any branches outside Doncaster though :-/
  • hilstep2000
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    I've made gypsy tart. You need a pastry shell, bought or made, and basically you whisk up brown sugar and evaporated milk till it's thick, pour it into the shell and bake slowly until it's set.
    Manchester Tart is a pastry with a layer of red jam (any sort) a layer of thick custard, and coconut spread on top, and baked. We love it! :)
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  • halloweenqueen_2
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    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!
  • halloweenqueen_2
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    Does anyone else remember the white bubbly sauce served with desserts? I'm starting to think it was a figment of my imagination! It was lovely light and creamy and usually got served with some big cookies or something - I've never been able to find anything like it?
  • 16011996
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    I've made gypsy tart.  You need a pastry shell, bought or made, and basically you whisk up brown sugar and evaporated milk till it's thick, pour it into the shell and bake slowly until it's set.
    Manchester Tart is a pastry with a layer of red jam (any sort) a layer of thick custard, and coconut spread on top, and baked.  We love it! :)


    our manchester tart has bananas sliced on top of the jam and beneath the custard, does anyone else do this?
  • catznine
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    Does anyone have a recipe for the sweet "fake" cream we used to get piped on our desserts? I used to love that!
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  • vanoonoo
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    that on gypsy tart was FAB!

    its a kind of mock cream isnt it? I have often wondered how to recreate it and looking at the gypsytart recipe I am wondering if it was something like evaporated milk whizzed up with something?

    I also used to like cheese pie - did anyone else have that? (and no, its not quiche)
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  • Sarahsaver
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    traffic light tarts
    hot rice pud with jam
    beef cobbler
    steamed jam pudding
    homemade crisps
    yum! I was only discussing school dinners yesterday with my 7 year old. We had a proper cook and she made all the food, and thats not MANY years ago, only in the 1970s. We always had Fish on a friday (church tradition) and the only thing i didnt like was the fish pie.

    Had a steamed pud last night, its a doddle. for 4 greedy people you need 2 eggs, then weigh the eggs and use the same weight in self raising flour, margarine or vegetable oil and sugar, for example the eggs i used weighed 4oz in total so it was 4oz each of everything else. Plonk a nice big dollop of jam or marmalade into a pudding basin, then add the other, beaten ingredients. Steam, having covered the basin with foil or greaseproof paper, for about 2 hours
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  • Galtizz
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    I also used to like cheese pie - did anyone else have that? (and no, its not quiche)

    I remember eating and making (in cookery class) cheese and potato pie. It came in pale green oval individual dishes. I think it was just mashed potato with grated cheese mixed in (it might have had a wisked egg in as well) cheese on top and put in the oven.

    Is that the same thing Vanoonoo?
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  • Sarahsaver
    Sarahsaver Posts: 8,390 Forumite
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    naaah
    we had cheese pie and schools still do it, pastry with a really cheesy greasy filling but definitely not a quiche and definitely much nicer ;D
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