School dinner mince curry with sultanas

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I’m craving it.

It had a green tinge.
Definitely mince with sultanas and was slightly sweet.
1980s school dinners.

How on earth was it made?

Really? 😬🤮

I think it had diced apples in too.

I heaved reading that 🤮. I'll take iced buns and pink custard with skin instead please.

Curry powder but no other spices. My mum used to do it. I was in university before I knew what curry was supposed to taste like.

...and sliced banana and dry as the desert desiccated coconut. Think ours used to come from a tin with an outline of a man wearing a bowler hat?

I can taste that curry now. Quite appalling and bearing no resemblance to real curry in any way. 🤢

Bleurgh

@gaggiagirl

I think it had diced apples in too.

I think it did! It was lovely!

How did it get the green tinge?

No wonder I'll still eat pretty much anything

Bobotie is a traditional South African dish which is curried beef with sultanas.
It's delicious if made properly

It was lovely! No idea how to make it though? Curry sauce from the chippy, sultanas and half a bag of sugar?

Stop vomiting all over my thread 😡

Think that is how my mum made curry, but with diced beef rather than mince

@wolfstarling

It was lovely! No idea how to make it though? Curry sauce from the chippy, sultanas and half a bag of sugar?

Possibly!! I’m searching recipes right now!

@BruceAndNosh

Bobotie is a traditional South African dish which is curried beef with sultanas. It's delicious if made properly

Mmm... that looks good! Maybe not with the topping though.

'English' Curry in the 1970's would be made with Sharwoods Vencat curry powder.. it was strangely yellow/green ...
My mum always put sultanas in her curry.. I think the recipe was printed on the side of the tins of Vencat . we loved it

Here's the recipe! With Apple and Sultanas ! But not mince ...I expect that school would use mince as it was cheaper.

Omg I remember 1980s curry with apple and sultana!!! I ate it for a decade before I realised it bore no resemblance to ACTUAL curry!!

My Mum made it and added chicken oxo, curry powder, raisins and water and sometimes chicken Noodle soup mix, she caled it Chow Mein, it was similar to Vespa curry with those lively crispy noodles you would pan fry and they would curl up

At my secondary modern they used to add curry powder to the bread rolls served with said curry . Some weird mis-interpretation of nan bread? Crikey, I can visualise it now....greenish bread!

Think it might have been this?

Dear Lord, you have brought back nightmares!!! I have pstd from the ‘curry’ memories I miss the cheese n rice cakes (made like Fish cakes) wth beans as a side ….

@Orangedaisy

Curry powder but no other spices. My mum used to do it. I was in university before I knew what curry was supposed to taste like.

You do realise that curry powder is a blend of all the other spices... right? It's perfectly acceptable to use only that provided it's a proper curry powder and not some half baked version with only chilli powder, tumeric and onion...

Also maybe I'm confusing the British curry powder with the SouthEast Asian