What recipes or foods from your school days would you dream of eating again?

[NoEffingWay]

Most of my school dinners were grim or grey but there are some things I would desperately like to eat again mainly cake.

They include, but are not limited to;

'Shit cakes' as they were known . They had cornflakes and golden syrup and looked like turds-hence the name they were known by. I have searched in vain for these to make them at home

School pizza- greasy, cheap cheese and tomato. Molten hot and square.

Sponge and custard-the custard was luminous, a bit lumpy and was served in generous portions with vanilla sponge covered in sprinkles. My teeth are rotting in sympathy.

I was about 6 stone and could have disappeared if I turned sideways yet ate this crap every day sadly not true these days.

[Hortuslover]

My primary school served chocolate sponge with mint custard..I loved it..but remember it always being cold.

[FindingMeno]

The mince and onion with processed peas in it, served with mash.
Yum!

[StrictlyAFemaleFemale]

Oh the various sponges and custard! I liked the pizza - very doughy and tomatoey. Also chocolate shortcake - or was it chocolate crunch?

[FedUpAtHomeTroels]

Oh the puddings. Manchester tart, eves pudding, pie and custard, Semolina, rice pudding, Cake with chocolate custard, cake with pink custard. It goes on and on.
I don't want tapioca pudding again frog spawn we called it.

[Elderflower14]

I went to boarding school. After swimming on a Tuesday we used to have a dish with sausages and tinned tomatoes with cheesy mash on the top.. Absolutely delicious....

[NoEffingWay]

It was in part fuelled by my parents absolute ban on cakes and sweets, and that in the early 90's my school sold giant trays of homemade cakes every lunch time.

I used to eat baked beans on toast every day as it was cheap, and spend the rest on cake . Jamie Oliver would have been most unimpressed at the cafeteria. Not a bit of fruit in sight!

[FarmCat31]

@NoEffingWay

Most of my school dinners were grim or grey but there are some things I would desperately like to eat again mainly cake.

They include, but are not limited to;

'Shit cakes' as they were known . They had cornflakes and golden syrup and looked like turds-hence the name they were known by. I have searched in vain for these to make them at home

School pizza- greasy, cheap cheese and tomato. Molten hot and square.

Sponge and custard-the custard was luminous, a bit lumpy and was served in generous portions with vanilla sponge covered in sprinkles. My teeth are rotting in sympathy.

I was about 6 stone and could have disappeared if I turned sideways yet ate this crap every day sadly not true these days.

The cornflake cakes we had too and my mum used to make them. Off the top of my head you melt butter and golden syrup, add cocoa powder then stir in corn flakes or rice crispies, shape and allow to chill.

[Tillymintpolo]

Cheese pie with beans, semolina with jam, Manchester tart, chocolate sponge with mint custard

[Bontanics]

Butterscotch tart. I've never searched for a recipe because if I knew how to make it my pancreas would not thank me for it.

[AlwaysLatte]

Gypsy tart and a piece of apple ❤️

[HalfShrunkMoreToGo]

Is this the recipe you're looking for, school poo ball cakes

recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-detail.asp?recipe=2495890

[Reptar]

On our last day of little school, me and a mate badgered the school dinner lady for the recipe for butterscotch tart. We didn't realise it would be the catering size

[miniwolf]

Sponge with pink custard and rock hard flapjacks with a corner dipped in chocolate

[vampirethriller]

My secondary school cafeteria used to sell iced fingers that were still warm and doughy, there was plain, pink or chocolate icing. They did sultana flapjacks and chocolate shortbread too. I can't make it the same.

[PollyannaWhittier]

School chicken pie - it's never quite the same from anywhere else ! I now work in a school and we get lunch provided on inset days; me and another lady in my department get very excited when there's chicken pie on offer

[DeathMetalMum]

My favourite was a cheese and ham thing with breadcrumbs around it probably fried - I think maybe cheese hamwhich? One of the few dinners i love in primary school I remember one lunchtime I must have eaten about five as none of my friends liked them.

High school would be the school sausage rolls with or without gravy. And a chocolate brownie cake/biscuit thing.

[Dilbertian]

We used to get a piece cut from a massive jam tart that covered the whole deep catering tray. Kids who loved the pastry (me!) would be delighted to get an edge or corner, because the pastry would always go up to the top of the tray and it was like getting extra biscuits with the jammy bit. Best of all was when they sprinkled cornflakes on the jam - we called that breakfast pudding

The custard was loathsome. Except the chocolate custard that came with the steamed chocolate cake.

Other than that, my primary school diners were mostly on a par with the custard - loathsome.

[AdaColeman]

Manchester tart and gypsy tart were sweet favourites. I also liked the liver & mash with onion gravy, and there was a meat pie with thick crumbly pasty which was tasty. About once a month there was a roast pork meal with roast potatoes which was good too.

Our school kitchen was huge, and not only provided meals for our girls, but sent lunch out to nearby primary schools too. Almost every one stayed for school lunch, and one of the highlights of the year was the Christmas lunch, complete with crackers, and sixpences in the puddings of the various pregnant teachers.

[Cervicalflop]

Chocolate concrete cake with custard

[evilharpy]

We had these chunky biscuits sometimes for pudding, they were definitely oaty but not like any other oat biscuit I've found a recipe for. They were very chunky and almost a bit shortbready, crumbly but not as crunchy as most oaty biscuits. I see similar ones sometimes at home in NI in the supermarkets but never in England and I can't find a recipe that turns out right.

I don't remember anything about the main meal in primary school, and I don't remember anything at all about the food in secondary school, but I do remember the primary school puddings.

[Gatehouse77]

Slab of a giant square jam tart with custard!

When my school switched to a cafeteria style I’d have chips, chocolate sponge with chocolate custard and a hot chocolate! Not every day though because they varied the puddings.

[NerrSnerr]

Our school did cheese patty's (vaguely like a normal patty in Hull which is like a potato cake in batter) and cheese triangles which were some kind of cheesy pastry.

Cheese patty was my favourite (but would settle for a normal patty as I moved away a long time ago)

[Seeline]

Hated school dinners generally but I loved the meal they called spaghetti Bolognese. It was nothing like proper Bolognese but was lovely. The other thing I really loved was their macaroni cheese with chips!

[chuffoff]

Our local bakery sell slabs of school dinner butterscotch tart.