your comments
Paul K from Warwick
I can remember in the early 80s I went to school in Birmingham and we used to have the most georgous Chicken Pie. It was cut into squares, it had a light brown colour to the sauce and I think it had rice in it? All I can remember was that it was my favourite!
Tue Jun 2 08:11:17 2009
Phil from Newcastle
Does anyone remember the pudding that was chocolate crispy base with a orange mousse? Looking all over for the recipe.
Mon May 18 09:55:15 2009
Milly, Crawley
Does anyone remember pink marshmallow tart with sprinkles on the top? That with custard, used to melt in your mouth. Anyone got a recipe?
Mon Apr 20 11:47:41 2009
Deirdre Malin
I used to go to Roxton Volantary primary school in the 50s and I am searching for a recipe called chocolate tart and cream. I'm sure it was made with condensed milk and had a pastry base, I would so love it if someone out there has the recipe pleeease.
Mon Feb 9 09:44:03 2009
Layla from London
To Evelyn from Llwyneinion. Re: the butterscotch tart.What do you mean when you say R.G.G.S Butterscotch?
Mon Feb 9 09:27:15 2009
Charlie, Bristol
Theres a few good recipes on here! My Mum used to be the school cook at my old primary school, I'll get some recipes off her!
Fri Feb 6 07:53:15 2009
Sarah from Macclesfield, Cheshire
My Nanna was a head cook at my primary school from about 1960s to 1980. We had cheese flan but it was actually cheese and rice flan and was absolutely the best by far! I did have the recipe and never got round to making it and now my Nanna has sadly died. I know this version of the pie was made all around Cheshire and Lancs and was not just specific to our school so please if anyone has it can you post - TIA
Thu Feb 5 10:08:19 2009
Graham Orritt from Ormskirk
Oh my goodness - great memories! What about rainbow sponge and pink custard! Please, has anyone a recipe for this? I could eat this stuff until it came out my ears. I used to have double serving and skip main course!
Fri Jan 30 09:48:45 2009
Graham Orritt from Ormskirk
Oh my goodness! Great memories! What about rainbow sponge and pink custard! Please has anyone a recipe for this! Wow! I could eat this stuff until it came out my ears! I used to have double serving and skip main course!
Fri Jan 30 09:47:48 2009
Lisa Cromwell
Please can someone tell me the recipe for cowboy hotpot? It was my favourite at school. I would like to make it for my children. It contained liver beans.
Thu Jan 29 10:57:48 2009
Becky from South London
It was called Manchester Tart. Hope that helps. Search for a recipe on the net or there is one in my book - school dinners.
Mon Jan 26 08:11:44 2009
Kerry Harris, Essex
I am trying to find a recipe for a pudding my sister and I loved at school in the 1980s. She is now pregnant and is seriously craving it but we don't know what it was called. It was a pastry base with some sort of custard like topping and it had coconut sprinkled over the top. If anyone could help I would be really grateful.
Mon Jan 19 09:45:45 2009
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.
Thu Nov 27 14:41:20 2008
Cheese Pie Lover in Liverpool
Reading this page and my mouth is watering. I attended secondary school in the 90s and can still remember how good school cheese pie tasted and wanted a recipe for this. This was my favourite school dinner, will definitely be trying out Shirley's recipe...hmmm!
Fri Nov 21 10:34:50 2008
Michelle, East Yorkhire
Does anyone remember the gorgeous stew served with really crispy fried bread cut into triangles to scoop the stew up? I've not come across anybody mentioning this.
Tue Nov 18 10:49:20 2008
Chris Palmer, Ipswich
I think I have found the perfect site for everyone looking for old school recipes - schoolrecipes.co.uk Yum!
Fri Nov 14 08:05:10 2008
Isabelle, Lancashire lass
I used to love cheese pie and having tasted many cheeses over the years, I reckon it was probably made from one of the crumbly ones like Cheshire or Lancashire and no, it was nothing like a quiche.
Mon Nov 10 08:29:16 2008
Cas Smith from Pontardawe, Swansea valley
To Alison & her daughter - A good modern substitute for the white custard is Birds White Sauce on supermarket shelves near the Instant Custard. Delicious and just like the old stuff I used to have at school in Leicester.
Wed Oct 29 10:54:38 2008
Becky - South London
I am not sure if you will be able to publish this but your messageboard users may like to know a book of school recipes has just been published. School Dinners by Becky Thorn Pub Portico
Mon Oct 27 09:43:38 2008
Alison from Wales
My daughter is pregnant and fancying the white custard that they do in schools with the chocolate pudding. Does anyone have the recipe for these? White custard especially...
Mon Oct 27 09:28:21 2008
Barbara Good, Kent
At last a recipe for Chocolate Crunch. Can still remember our French teacher (who was from Yorkshire) commenting "It's lovely once you've tamed it!"
Thu Oct 23 09:55:53 2008
Anna, Shropshire
Anyone remember the orange tart at school on a shortcrust pastry with chocolate sprinkles? I used to have custard on top and then go for seconds. Got to find this recipe, it's so yummy!
Tue Oct 7 10:11:58 2008
Berni Deehan, Sheffield
I went to Birley School first middle and senior and they had the best school dinners ever, jam and cornflake tart, cheese pie, and, oh my god, cheese croquets. If anyone has a recipe for them I would love to make them for my 6 yr old son along with the butterscotch tart you uused to get with pastry and a blob of white cream.
Fri Oct 3 14:04:05 2008
Nikki
For those of you searching for Cornflake Tart with the jam and pastry underneath the cornflakes. It's in the book 'The dinner lady' by Jeanette Orrey.
For the pastry:
225g plain flour
55g margarine
55g vegetable shortening
15g caster sugar
25ml water
For the filling:
175g seedless raspberry jam
55g butter
55g caster sugar
25g golden syrup
175g cornflakes
Not sure if anyone might be interested in this one...again using cornflakes called Apple and Banana Crisp
900g Bramley apples
2 bananas
55g caster sugar
For the topping
225g plain flour
115g butter
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
55g cornflakes
55g brown sugar
Tue Sep 2 09:06:49 2008
Angela Jarvis from Leicester
Does anyone remember a sort of very thick stew? I'm not sure if it was lamb or beef but it was dark brown and served with mashed potato. Absolutely delicious. We had this at moat girls school in the 70s. Anyone got the recipe?
Mon Sep 1 09:40:21 2008
Lindsay from Luton
I found the recipe on here I was looking for & noticed someone looking for Chocolate Toothpaste recipe. Here it is hope you like it it's still just as good.
x1 sweet pastry case
35g marg. 75g sugar. 10g drinking choc.
10g cocoa powder. 115g dried milk powder.
75ml warm water.
Cream the sugar & marg until smooth. Add the cocoa & drinking chocto the mix & cream in. Then add the milk & water a little at a time to the mix. Using an electric whisk blend for about 4mins, until all milk powder has dissolved. Pour mixture into pastry & refridgerate for about 2hrs or until set. Once set cut into pieces & decorate with cream.
Mon Aug 25 19:37:19 2008
Andrea, Derby
Hi, I've been reading the threads about school dinners, and am desperately looking for the recipe for the cheese pie. A few ideas have been posted but I'm not sure if I am thinking of the same one. This was a huge pie on a bed of short crust pastry cut into smaller squares. It was really cheesy but had like a mash potato consistency and often also had a slice of tomato on top. For reasons I can't think of now it was sometimes served with gravy. Can anyone help? Is this the same one as the recipe below?
Fri Aug 22 08:08:49 2008
Sonya Thrush from Doncaster
I now live in Jersey and have introduced the 'Concrete' there - it goes down well. Though they have not had the experience I had at school when it was rock hard and sliding off the plate... those were the days. We used to have pink custard with ours. CHOCOLATE CONCRETE 510g margarine 680g plain flour 20g baking powder 510g sugar 55g cocoa 1 egg (size 4) pinch of salt Mix all dry ingredients together. Rub in margarine. Beat the egg and add to the mixture. (for best results mix entirely in a food mixer or processor). Knead lightly until mixture blends together. Press into well-greased shallow tins. Bake gently for 25 - 30 minutes Gas mark 4. Do not over bake. Put a lid on the tin and keep warm otherwise crunch will set hard - like concrete. Pink Custard Bought Strawberry milk 1 pint 4 Tablespoons of cornflour Mix altogether and put in microwave for about 6 minutes. Or another way add strawberry syrup to 1 pint of milk. Mix a little of the strawberry milk with 4 Tablespoons of cornflour and set to one side, bring to boil remainder of strawberry milk and then slowly add cornflour mix until thick. Adjust cornflour ratio if a thick sauce is required. Mint custard as above basically - just add peppermint oil/essence to strength required to 1 Pint milk 4 Tablespoons of cornflour. If you want green coloured sauce add green food colouring (but be careful) you do not want swamp green sauce!
I almost forgot about adding sugar to the mint custard. 2oz should do the trick and for the pink custard the same unless using the bought strawberry milk which should be sweet enough.
Fri Aug 22 08:07:40 2008
Sue Stokes from Fort Worth, Texas.
I went to Olive Mount School in Liverpool, in the '60s. Crispy liver and bacon, cheese pie and a salad with peas and beetroot, that I would give my soul to get the recipe for. Where can I find dinner lady recipes? Any help? This is the stuff of dreams...
Wed Aug 20 08:06:06 2008
Nicola from Derby
When I was at primary school in the 1970s we had ginger pudding and pink custard - just wonderful. I know the pink custard was warm strawberry blancmange, but cannot find an appropriate ginger pudding recipe. It was a dry, cakey one, not sticky at all, and not dark either. If anyone has the recipe, please let me know...
Thu Jul 17 08:26:26 2008
Jennifer/Hampshire
I would love the gypsy tart recipe. I have tried a few but never managed to find the one we used to have at school
Wed Jul 9 15:06:28 2008
Linda, Staffs.
uktv.co.uk/Food/thread/threadid/36801
Been reading through the posts on here and think the above site may be interesting to you all. Happy cooking folks!
Wed Jul 9 10:54:52 2008
Evelyn from Llwyneinion
Re The Butterscotch Tart Wendy Hancox from Nottingham is searching for. Could this be the one? This recipe was given to me some years ago by Miss Jane Jones who was a cook at Ruabon Girls' Grammar School
R.G.G.S. BUTTERSCOTCH
2 ozs Margarine
5 ozs Golden syrup
2ozs Flour
1 pint Whole Milk
Method: Melt the margarine & syrup together in a pan.
Mix a little of the flour & milk into a paste & add to the hot milk (similar to custard).
Combine all ingredients & heat gently until well blended.
Leave to cool & set.
Serve cold on its own or on a pastry base.
At school it was served on a pastry base, a huge one cut into squares.
I believe it was a popular pudding in the boys' school too (Ruabon Boy’s Grammar School)
Thu Jun 19 14:23:11 2008
Katie Millard Bury St Edmunds
CHOCOLATE CRUNCH recipes:
l. 8oz plain flour, 2oz cocoa powder, 4oz granulated sugar, 40z melted marg. Sieve first three ingredients add melted butter. Press into 7" tin. Brush top with water sprinkle sugar. Cook 30mins 190 degrees.
2. 190g plain flour, 190g self raising flour, 168g sugar, 190g melted marg, 1 egg beated 19g cocoal, vanilla essence. Melt the mar and add vanilla. Mix sugar, cocoa and flours. Add melted marg. beaten egg and press into tin. Brush top with water and sprinkle with sugar. Bake 30mins 160 degrees.
CHOCOLATE SAUCE: lpt milk, 25 grams cornflour, 25g coco! al powder, 35g sugar, 5g marg, few drops vanilla essence. Dilute cornflour, cocoa, vanilla essence and sugar with a little of the milk. Bring remainder of milk to boil. Pour a little of the hot milk on to the cotrnflourt mix, and mix to saucepan of milk. Continue stirring over low heat until thick enough to coat the back of spoon. Take off heat and whisk in butter to give a gloss.
YUMMY! MY FAV. AT SCHOOL
Mon Jun 16 08:36:43 2008
Anna, Norwich
Subject: Sticky Chocolate Tart Recipe
I've finally managed to find more people looking for the sticky chocolate tart / pie recipe - thank god I'm not the only one. I used to live in Bedfordshire so I'm sure it's the same recipe I'm looking for. Has anyone been successful in finding it yet? I'm so gutted because the day I left middle school the dinner lady gave me the recipe but I threw it away thinking it'd be easy to find it later.
Thu Jun 12 08:57:19 2008
Carla, East Yorkshire
Hi, can anyone give me the recipe for 'apple charlotte'? Was bramley apples with some sort of cream and cornflakes. My husband has been nagging me to find it! Thanks.
Mon Jun 9 14:18:32 2008
Wendy Hancox, Nottingham
Butterscotch Tart! OMG, does anybody have that recipe? I have been trying for ages to get an authentic recipe just like the ones from my school days. It was a shortcrust pastry base with a butterscotch firm custard top, and then ladled with creamy custard (yum, yum)
Fri Jun 6 07:55:20 2008
Vicky Hudson from Beverley
Anyone heard of iced cornflake special? I really need a recipe!
Thu Jun 5 08:05:59 2008
Kaz from Birmingham
Does anyone have the recipe for chicken pie we used to have at school? It was minced chicken in a lovely gravy with, I think, flaky pastry.
Thu May 29 09:05:59 2008
Sue, Flint
Message to Adele from Sheffield - although this is a late posting, thank you for the recipe for school cheese pie. I have written it down and will be making it - even the smell of it used to make my mouth water.
Wed May 28 08:25:24 2008
Tina Tompsett from Skegness
I am looking for a recipe for a chocolate cake we used to have at school, it had pastry base, sticky choc inside with a dollop of cream on top. It was made from powdered milk but that is all I know. Oh, and that is is fantastic! Can anyone help (choc o holic in need)?
Wed Apr 30 13:33:33 2008
Jo from Leics.
I really want to make chocolate pie, like I had at school in the '80s. I know it was made with dried milk and it might have had cream cheese in it too! Any suggestions?
Mon Apr 14 08:22:25 2008
Stacey from Middlesbrough
Receipe for cornflake cake.
Cornflake Pudding
Topping
4oz Marg.
4oz golden syup.
6oz Cornflakes.
Pastry case.
4oz marg.
8oz self raising flour.
water to bind
jam.
Melt syrup in a pan with marg. Add cornflakes and mix together. Make pastry by rubbing marg and flour togther til it looks like fine bread crumbs. Bind with cold water., roll out on a well floured board and line a 7inch flan tin. Blind bake for 10 mins then spread the base with jam and top with conflake mix finish in the oven for 10 mins. Serve hot with custard or cold on its own or with cream!
Thu Mar 13 09:08:38 2008
I'm looking for the recipe for cornflake tart
Does anyone remember the mince crumble? We had it with cabbage and mashed potato.
Mon Mar 10 09:21:37 2008
Tracy
I have been searching for our old school recipe for the cornflake cake thing with no real name (ha ha ha)... it's the one where there was a thin pastry base, a layer of jam then kinda sticky cornflakes on top and then they used to put custard on it too. Please, please help me find it or at least tell me the real name for it if there is one.
Mon Feb 25 08:19:51 2008
Sarah, Buxton
Does anyone remember a cake called tarmac? I used to have it at my primary school.
Thu Feb 7 08:53:37 2008
I accept tax invaders
Does anyone have the recipe for the strawberry jam tart we had with custard? Mmmmm Yumm. I have the recipe for Gypsy tart (thick, sticky, treacle like texture) if anyone's interested!
Mon Feb 4 09:45:06 2008
Debra Mackay - Warwickshire
I used to go to Bishop Bell School in Crawley. I loved school dinners but hated the plastic mashed potato. Does anyone have the recipe for chocolate custard or the recipe for the pudding which had stewed apple under cornflakes with a kind of syrup over them? Between the syrupy cornflakes and the apple was a white mallow layer. I am going back to around 1976. Have always wanted to find this recipe. Great nostalgic site.
Tue Jan 29 11:14:08 2008
Khaleda
I have been wanting the choclate concrete cake for ages. I can't get it anywhere. Does anyone know the recipe?
Wed Jan 16 08:10:55 2008
Sarah from Bristol
I used to love my school dinners, including the roast dinners as we had the best gravy! But by far my favorite thing about school dinners was the pudding! I had an old school recipe for the chocolate cornflake cake but I have lost it and I am gutted! I remember trying to make it before I had the proper recipe and it was never quite right and the reason for this is because in the one they make at schools, they add coconut to the recipe! They use coco powder and drinking chocolate, golden syrup, butter and obviously cornflakes. I just can't remember how much of each one! But the coconut makes all the difference!
Thu Jan 10 11:48:36 2008
Rachel, Bedford
Hi, does anyone have the recipe for the sticky chocolate tart that we used to get at school?
Mon Dec 31 08:36:25 2007
Lauren Smith
I know what you're on about with the cornflake cake with the pastry-ish base and jam. I can't find the recipe anywhere and it's driving me mad! If you've found it let me know!
Mon Dec 10 08:32:07 2007
Claire from Wigan
When I had school dinners we had a dessert which I called cornflake cake. It had a base then a layer of jam then the cornflakes, served hot. It was great but nobody knows what I am on about. Can someone please help me and give me the recipe?
Thu Dec 6 08:16:18 2007
Rukshana, R, Surrey
Please help! Does anyone know how to make a proper 'Butterscotch Pudding' like they used to make in school? I'm just having no luck I can't find the right recipe.
Thu Nov 15 08:40:17 2007
Adele from Sheffield
Here is the cheese pie recipe, hope you enjoy (my mother in law used to work in the school kitchens):
8oz plain flour
2oz butter
2oz lard
1 small onion
2 eggs beaten into half pint milk
loads of cheese (mature red is best)
Method: rub the flour and fat to form breadcrumbs add a little water to make a dough, roll out and place in flan dish, blind bake for about 10 mins.
Remove from oven, add chopped onion and grate cheese until flan dish full (about half a pound) pour in egg and milk mix, cook in oven for about 30 mins at 160. Voila school cheesepie.
Fri Nov 9 12:42:16 2007
Wendy Rees
I used to love 2 puddings at junior school and would love to get hold of the recipe for them if anyone has managed to get it. It's for the chocolate sponge cake that used to come with chocolate custard, then the white sponge cake with a layer of syrup on it, would really love to make this old favourite again. Many thanks in advance.
Wed Oct 31 10:24:38 2007
Laura, England
I know the ingredients for cheese pies we used to have in school but if anyone knows the method of how to make it please tell me.
Wed Oct 17 08:21:47 2007
Clare, Sheffield
Hi has anyone got a recipe for cheese croquettes also the chocolate shortbread pin wheely things yummmmmm thanks.
Wed Oct 10 11:34:22 2007
Nina Gomez from Manila, Philippines
Hi! I got the recipe of Janice's Cheese Pie years ago from my sister who studied at the university at Humboldt, California. Janice I've been adding a few other things (bacon, spinach, leeks, and mushrooms) to your basic recipe and it's been a hit whenever I made that pie. What I like about it is there isn't too many eggs in that recipe. Thank you! I made it also when I visited my mother in Israel whenever we had to contribute something to a potluck party. Delicious!
Tue Oct 2 09:55:32 2007
Tess, Stroud
Does anyone have the recipes for the cheese pie and the chocolate tart please? Have looked for these recipes for a while - great to see so many other people share happy memories of those school dinner favourites and would love to try making the dishes again. Thanks, Tess
Mon Oct 1 10:26:37 2007
Claire Philips, New Zealand Ex UK
Love this site how can I get the recipes.
Mon Sep 17 08:45:23 2007
Alison from Runcorn
I absolutely loved the CHEESE PIE that we used to have in our school. If anyone has a recipe for it, I would be very grateful. Many thanks.
Thu Sep 6 10:39:45 2007
Mavis from Sheffield
Can someone send me the Cheese Pie recipe please?
Wed Aug 22 14:05:29 2007
Sheila, Stoke on Trent
I am after the recipe for cheese pie and chocolate concrete cake. The pie tasted like it had potato in it, could this be rice? As in recipe from Shirley, please help. I got this recipe for concrete cake: 530g plain four, 40g cocoa, 375g marg, 250g gran. sugar, mix together to form stiff dough, cook gas mark 5, 20 mins, haven't tried it yet though.
Wed Aug 22 11:50:23 2007
Sam, Warton
I am pleased to see so many other people have happy memories of cheese pie. I too have started a cheese pie club, that has been going strong for just over 6 months now. Can I point out - there is a big difference between cheese pie and quiche lorraine. Only an amateur doesn't know the difference.
Thu Aug 16 10:04:32 2007
L Davies from Swansea
Hi there all, I am trying to find the weights and measures for the Chocolate Cornflake Crisp they used to sell in my school, about 7 years ago. I know the ingredients, they are as follows: cornflakes, golden syrup, marg, cocoa powder (poss drinking chocolate) and powdered milk. When I got the recipie for this lot at first, I tried so many ways to get it right, but I know for a fact that you have to mix the cocoa or drinking chocolate and milk powder together first, then add the rest of the mix. Just don't know how much. Once you have done this, pop it in the fridge for a few hours. :) - if anyone knows the rest, let me know.
Mon Aug 13 10:07:41 2007
Sue from Woolton, Out Lane CP school
I remember the cheese pie as it was my absolute favourite, as well as my friends and we used to see who got the biggest piece and be dead jealous! I remember it being quite runny in the middle and had flaky pastry on the top, would love to have that recipe if anyone has it, also another firm favourite of mine if anybody remembers was Cornish pie, to me I would say it had possibly sausagemeat in it, and vegetables, similar to the filling in a pasty, that also had pastry on top and bottom, possible shortcrust, does anybody remember or even have that recipe too? If you could post it on this site.
Fri Aug 10 09:11:36 2007
Wendy from Walsall
Does anyone remember chocolate swirl biscuits and mint custard from school? Cannot find a recipe anywhere. Thank you to Tanya for the cornflake recipe. I had searched 3 days for it.
Tue Aug 7 11:47:55 2007
Margaret from Leics
My favourite pudding at school in Leicester was sticky chocolate pie. Pastry base, thick sticky chocolate, with orange or sometimes whipped cream on top. I have been told it was made using condensed milk, similar to banofee pie. Does anyone have the recipe?
Thu Aug 2 08:25:22 2007
Christine Wood, St Helens
Both myself and my husband remember cheese pie from our school days and are always saying that we wish we had the recipe. I am going to try Shirley's today - can't wait to see the look on my hubby's face - thanks.
Wed Aug 1 10:59:43 2007
Michelle, Widnes
I'll be making Shirley's cheese pie today, but Emma's now made me want Manchester tart too. Pity I'm so rubbish at cooking though...
Mon Jul 30 16:06:21 2007
Michael Owen from Manchester
Manchester Tart...To me, describing Manchester Tart is like entering a minefield wearing blinkers! I know of at least four variations:-
1) Pastry case, thick yellow custard over a thin jam layer, and dessicated coconut on top.
2) As above, but rice krispies on top. (This only works if its a tray bake, and the krispies are scattered over immediately before serving).
3) Substitute pink thick custard (flavoured with "beetle's blood?) and scattered with hundreds & thousands.
4) Substitute chocolate coloured thick custard and hundreds & thousands (never scatter with coconut, used to taste gritty! Yuck!)
In North Manchester, I also remember a plate-sized Manchester tart with pastry, seedy (raspberry) jam, sponge top, thin layer of artificial cream and dessicated coconut.The only thing that seemed to be a constant was the name and the pastry.Now cheese pie was always my favourite, and I was told to melt cheese and add plenty of milk to the mix (when I became fit enough to use the cooker!). I was once told that powdered potato mix (like Smash) could be added for extra body - I assume this was added to the milk first.Reading this site makes me feel very hungry.
Mon Jul 30 16:03:47 2007
Emma, Bradford
I remember Manchester tart - it had pastry jam, bananas and thick custard with choc sprinkles on top. Yum, yum. I'm going to try Shirley's cheese pie.
Thu Jul 26 08:29:59 2007
Gwladys from New Zealand
I went to Llansaint school many years ago and we used to have jam tart with a dollop of mock cream on top. It was my favourite. I have tried several recipes for mock cream but have not come anywhere near to the taste nor the colour, the cream was white. Can anyone help? Thank you.
Mon Jul 23 11:29:55 2007
Barbara from Australia
I went to school in Warrington. I loved my school dinners. My dinner ladies were lovely. My MOST favourite was chocolate cake (baked in big tin and cut into squares) with white custard. You never see white custard over here. I have found a recipe now and will try it. Yum Yum. I remember that the mashed potatoes were served with an ice cream scoop. Will try the cheese/rice recipe that you are all raving about. It sounds good too.
Mon Jul 2 08:05:46 2007
Rachel Johnson, Ashford, Kent
Can anybody remember the wonderful syrup sponge pudding which had a crunchy base? I have been looking for a recipe for this as it was my favourite pudding. Is there an online site for traditional school dinners? I went to Wittersham Primary School.
Fri Jun 29 08:38:18 2007
Shell M from Australia
I have arrived here after googling for school dinner recipes. Does anyone have the Chicken Supreme one, I used to love that! It was diced chicken in a white sauce with peas and carrots in.
Fri Jun 29 08:37:38 2007
Steve from Wrexham
Does anybody remember the butterscotch pie we used to have for dessert and have you the recipe?
Mon Jun 18 07:53:20 2007
Darren, now in Spain
At my school, the chocolate cornflake cake was called "Australian Crunch" - google it for a recipe.
The cheese pie was DELICIOUS and was called cheese flan.
I loved the school curry as well and the rice was so special! I'd love to know how the rice was cooked.
Mmm we used to have iced buns on Fridays which everyone was convinced were yesterday's bread rolls hehe.
And everything with runny custard (sometimes yellow, sometimes green and minty, sometimes pink). Oh it was lush!
Wed May 30 15:34:39 2007
Christine Stubbs from cheshire
I have been trying to re-create cheese pie the same as I remember it at school. My husband also loved it. An old friend of mine who used to be a dinner lady gave me this recipe.
20 ozs cheese
2 ozs long grain rice
1 pt milk
2 eggs
10 inch short crust pastry case
Made as Shirley from Liverpools recipe
Tue May 29 09:25:56 2007
Lori Hays
My son is in the 5th grade and he has been working on a big project on Wales. He has to bring in a food from that country for European day this week. Does anyone have any ideas for an easy dish that goes far that the children might like that we can make? Many thanks Lori from Jacksonville, Florida
Mon Apr 23 09:57:26 2007
Diane Smith, Liverpool
I have taken the recipe for cheese pie but am worried that it is going to be like quiche, which I don't want. I remember the cheese pie was solid although not as solid as a quiche so I hope the recipe is the right one! My colleagues and I are very interested to find the correct recipe if Shirley's isn't the right one! So if anyone knows another recipe please post it on this site.
Tue Mar 13 12:31:19 2007
Elmlea
Cornflake cake recipe! I suggest melting 4oz butter 4oz sugar together in a saucepan without boiling. Add equal amount of treacle whilst still on heat and enough cocoa to taste. Take off heat and add cornflakes. Put in cake cases and allow to set. Sweet!
Mon Feb 26 09:37:00 2007
Leanne from Newcastle
I went to Ryton Junior School in Gateshead. Does anybody remember the curry you used to get at school - it used to have raisins in it? It was gorgeous and for some reason, I had it with rice and mashed potato, and the dinner ladies used to use an ice cream scoop to put the mash on your plate! I also loved the chicken pie we used to have once a fortnight or so - it was just lovely, baked in a massive tray, cut into squares, with real shortcrust pastry. Yum! I'd love to get a hold of recipes for these if anybody can remember them. Rainbow cake also - it was a sponge cake that had different colours through it, topped with chocolate and sprinkles. Lovely served with custard!
Tue Feb 13 13:25:59 2007
linda from leek
can anyone remember the wonderful cheese pie from willfield high bentalee stoke on trent?
Mon Feb 12 11:43:33 2007
Clare from Northants
When I was at school I remember a cornflake cake dusted with icing sugar but it was not just cornflakes and choc it was quite chewy - they were great. Does anyone have any idea what they are and have a recipe?
Mon Feb 5 09:06:48 2007
Shirley Sass Stroud
Does anyone have the recipe for cowboy hot pot? We had it at school. I remember it contained beans and liver. Can anyone help please?
Fri Feb 2 11:24:53 2007
Katie, Hebburn
Can anyone remember Cornflake cake? It had a pastry base with a layer of jam and cornflakes with some kind of syrup? How do you make it?
Mon Jan 8 10:20:14 2007
Richard from Montreal, Canada
I went to Canon Drew up to 64, I remember the cheese pie, it was great, I have no idea how it was made, but I always liked it.
Fri Dec 22 08:22:10 2006
Corinne from Connah's Quay
I don't remember cheese pie but certainly remember Miss Mole (I am a mole and I live in a hole} in the board school Buckley and nudging you in the back if you didn't eat your dinners at those long tables in the hall.
Wed Dec 20 08:24:27 2006
Kelly from Wolves
Could someone send me the cheese pie recipe please?
Mon Dec 18 11:43:35 2006
Sue Barker (Nee Evans)
Is there anyone on here that went to Northop Hall C.P. School? I would love to hear from anyone that attended between 1963 and 1969. I have lived in Barbados for the last 4yrs but I still have family in Buckley, The Quay and Northop Hall. If any relatives of Janet and Kenneth Peers or any one who knew them both would like to contact me I would love to hear from them.
Thu Dec 7 14:41:58 2006
Joanne Askew
I have been trying for a couple of years now to recreate a cheese pie similar to what we had in school and although I've got close I can not quite get it right. I am going to try Shirley from Liverpool's recipe but can she please state what sort of mustard is used? I know it's sad but recently we have started a cheese pie club meeting every Thursday night. Admission - you have to make and bring a cheese pie (and some alcohol). I'm sure mine will be the best this week! And remember, we are not talking about a quiche. To call something so tasty a quiche is sacrilege!
Thu Dec 7 08:52:27 2006
Eva from Bury
I work with the homeless and we do cookery. They are asking for mint custard, please has anyone got the recipe as I can't find it on line, oh by the way cookery class is tomorrow! HELP ME PLEASE!
Wed Dec 6 09:25:18 2006
Pauline from South Africa
I went to Gwersyllt Primary school and I loved the butterscotch - it was my favourite. Can someone give me the recipe?
Mon Dec 4 12:29:12 2006
Vicky, Bedfordshire
I've only been out of school a short while and the only thing I miss is a pudding we used to have. It was similar to the cornflake cake except on the pastry base was some sort of thick chocolate sauce with a dollop of whipped cream on the top. Does anyone have the recipe and I am having major cravings!
Thu Nov 30 16:07:16 2006
Sarah Beam Liverpool
I loved that cheese pie at school, tried shirley's recipe although I was told to use single cream which I did, it was divine! the real thing, trying not to think about the calories!
Thu Nov 30 08:28:35 2006
Sarah Wedgbury - Northfield
I got this recipe from Nigella Website
Chocolate Concrete
8oz plain flour
2oz cocoa powder
4oz granulated sugar
4oz melted margarine
1 Sieve flour and cocoa powder into a large mixing bowl.
2 Add the granulated sugar and mix well.
3 Add the melted margarine, mix well until fairly stiff.
4 Press into a prepared 7" tin until flat.
5 Brush the top with water, sprinkle on a little extra granulated sugar.
6 Bake for about 30 minutes at 350 degrees F, 180 degrees C or gas 4.
7 Cool slightly in tin before slicing and serving.
Wed Nov 22 08:09:59 2006
Kim in Runcorn
I have recently lost my school cheese pie recipe! So gutted! Shirley in Liverpool's recipe sounded familiar but the true one had rice in it (pudding rice), sounds wrong but I swear it did and was as lovely as I remember it from school!
Mon Nov 6 08:18:46 2006
Denise from Mold
I went to the national school in Mold. The cheese pie was the highlight of the week. I will be trying out Sheila's recipe.
Tue Oct 31 09:20:28 2006
Tanya from England
I have the recipe for the cornflake cake! I work with an ex dinner lady here it goes: jam 4oz, syrup 4oz, marg 1oz, cornflakes 2 1/2oz. Buy pastry case spread jam over base. Melt marg & syrup in saucepan, stir in cornflakes and bake 200c for 5 min. V.easy good luck x
Fri Oct 27 16:05:07 2006
dawn tipler, cornwall
i remember the cornflake cake at school, but i can only remember what was in it roughly but no grams etc. it had a pastry base, with jam spread ontop of that (warm jam) then cornflakes mixed together with golden syrup and then baked in the oven but dont know how long. I suppose you could keep having a go until you get it right you never know. sorry i couldnt be more help.
Tue Oct 17 08:08:03 2006
Karen Kemmis-Morse
I have a friend in England now, getting ready to return to the states and he loves the Cornflake Cakes there. I would love to be able to surprise him when he gets home with one. Does anyone have a good recipe?
Mon Oct 16 10:04:41 2006
Mike Demack Rhuddlan
Bacon, Boiled Potatoes and Beans - plenty of bacon fat on the spuds. Don't recommend it for weight watchers or dieters. What about fried onions ( gently ) stirred with crushed boiled potatoes with grated strong cheddar - then baked in the oven. Serve with tinned tomatoes warmed through.
Fri Sep 22 07:39:52 2006
leila from walsall
I used to eat chocolate 'concrete' cake with mint custard at school. Does anyone what I'm talking about? Even more importantly, does anyone have the recipe for it?
Thu Sep 21 08:29:16 2006
Claudia, Sheffield
I remember Cornflake cake, does anyone have a recipe?
Mon Sep 18 10:09:07 2006
Maureen from Australia
I went to Longview School Huyton nr Liverpool and I loved the cheese pie. Am trying Shirley's from Liverpool recipe
Tue Sep 12 07:55:16 2006
Carol Norwell from Newbury
I am going to try making Shirley's recipe for cheese pie tonight...I was at school in the mid fifties and we used to lunch at tables seating 12. I used to be one of the only ones who liked cheese pie, so would benefit from half a dozen helpings. I've spent years looking for the recipe!
Tue Aug 22 09:30:09 2006
Pearl Holt from Jersey
Remember Semolina pudding and jam, how we used to mix it up, lumps too, and make it 'sick' pink? And cornflake cake, and UUUGH, cabbage at school dinners, the smell and colour were obscene (but I like cabbage now I've learned to cook it). What about Sago pudding, we called it frog's spawn. We were dreadfully ungrateful little demons?
Mon Jul 10 11:24:09 2006
Sarah from Wales
Ooo I too remember my dear old friend the cheese pie. My school in the state of Alabama used to serve this meal once a fortnight. My school was all girls and was extremely strict. The teachers made you eat everything on your plate and til this day I cannot face the dreaded shepherd's pie whih consisted of left over mince and packeted mash potato! mmm cheese pie I'm literally drooling!
Mon Jul 3 13:58:48 2006
Val, South Africa
I remember the butterscotch at Ruabon Council School, that was the best. But to this day I hate fish as I was made to eat it every Friday and I am still not that keen on mashed potatoes.
Mon Jun 26 13:32:40 2006
Sarah from France
Does anyone have a recipe for cowboy hotpot? Also one for strawberry shortcake? Many thanks
Thu Apr 20 11:43:12 2006
Shirley from Liverpool
Recipe for School Dinner Cheese Pie. I got this from my aunt a couple of weeks ago - it's the real thing. 6oz grated cheese (preferably mature or red leicester), 1 egg, 5 fluid oz milk, mustard to taste, pepper to taste, shortcrust pastry to line a 10inch cake tin with pastry and blind bake for 10mins in hot oven. Mix cheese, egg, milk, pepper and mustard together. Pour into cooked pastry base and bake at 170 - 180 for 20 mins. Enjoy.
Wed Mar 22 12:29:41 2006
Mary from Buckley
Elfed dinners are unhealthy and horrid.
Sat Feb 4 01:19:40 2006
Nick
I've just started to eat and enjoy cauliflower cheese - 30 years after I was put off it by a dinner lady who made me eat it as a five year old boy. I still can't stomach the thought of eating macaroni cheese after one of her colleagues made me eat that on another occasion! School cheese pie? Loved that!
Fri Feb 3 10:23:46 2006
Reg Pyzer, Liverpool
I too remember the cheese pie meal as my favourite school dinner. My school had its own kitchens and the pie must have been made there, I wish I had that recipe. Some comments have referred to quiche lorraine, the pie I recall was no quiche, I think it must have been a cheese and potatoe mix, whatever it was it has stayed with me for almost 50 years.
Tue Jan 31 12:04:13 2006
Steven in Scotland
12/11/5
I attended Canon Drew school hawarden between 67 - 71.
I also remember cheese pie with great affection! Janice, when were you there ?
Sat Nov 12 20:16:41 2005
Jan, Buckley
I remember cheese pie too. I went to the Board School in Buckley (1970 ish). I remember this meal well, sitting in the hall at a long table stretching almost half the width of the school hall dreading a certain teacher (Miss Mole) coming around and poking you in the back for not eating your tomatoes because 'You don't know what's good for you' (she was a good teacher in fairness though). I loved the cheese pie and the mashed potatoes with it but hated the tinned tomatoes. I was dying to eat my cheese pie but used to look to see if she was doing her rounds near me, if she was I used to put my pie on top of the tomatoes so she would think I'd eaten them to avoid a dig in the back, when she had gone, I'd demolish my pie and would be on my pudding next time she came near. We used to have jam roly-poly with custard, that day for pudding. I still remember the taste of that cheese pie and no matter how many times I've made it over the years it never tastes the same.
Thu Feb 17 21:58:44 2005
Janice from Canada
It was what we called cheese pie. More commonly known today as quiche lorraine. It was one of my favourites too. There was no potatoes in it. It was served with potatoes. I went to Cannon Drew school in Hawarden and we had it once a week usually on a Wed then spotted dick for pudding (yuk).
Wed Feb 16 15:17:33 2005
