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?

@TractorAndHeadphones yes well aware of that, but it’s just not the same as a decent curry paste/blend. Or the stuff my mum bought certainly wasn’t!

My mum used to make this, and it was bloody revolting. She put sliced celery in it too, it was like she hated us.

@BruceAndNosh

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

Yes! Just had this tonight.

@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.

Yes exactly this. My mum used to make this exact same curry with chicken breast instead of mince

My mum used to make chicken curry with apples and sultanas. It was actually a mildly spicy chicken stew but I loved it.

I remember the curry powder was called Vencatachellums before it was taken over by Sharwoods. The blue tin was mild and the pink tin was hotter.

Why has no one mentioned the weirdly textured accompanying rice?

Looked like maggots

There’s the genuine curry powder which is great for certain dishes, and there’s this weird sh*t which was always green and the predominant flavour was fenugreek.

Mixing sweet and savoury is just wrong with very few exceptions (pork and apple sauce being one). Things like lemon chicken, turkey and cranberry sauce, Coronation Chicken and any type of curry with raisins or sultanas in them are the work of the devil!

I once bought what I thought was a plain cheese salad sandwich from a shop but it turned out the bread had sultanas set in it. Vile!

And as for those of you who think it's a good idea to put grapes in a sandwich with cheese . . . . . you need locking up.

Once a week, early ‘70s, we had hard boiled eggs sliced in half and covered with a lumpy, pale yellow cheese sauce. Served with tinned plum tomatoes…

I still have nightmares 🤢

Would that Mayflower curry powder do the trick and add sultanas. My dad used to put sultanas in his curry too. I had Mayflower the other day so nice not had it in ages.

Ham and pineapple is nice in a salad.

Yes my mum made Bobotie (fake) in the late 1970s/80s. She must have gotthe recipe from a magazine dating from the pre-lasagne and garlic bread cookery period (pre- microwave)

Sounds my mum's 1970's boil in the bag Vesta curry with added apple, big onions and extra sultanas. Vom.

Our school did that curry dish and I loved it. We never had curry at home as my mum didn't like spicy foods, so until I was in my teens I had no idea what a travesty it was.

I don't remember it being green though.

I don't remember the meat being mince but I do remember the sultanas.So tasty.

My mother would tut abut the sultanas and say they shouldn't in curry when I told her how tasty it was (we ate a lot of curry when I was growing up)

DDs BF's DM (I've been in MN too long, haven't I?) apparently makes 'curry' with sultanas in, using a can of homepride curry sauce.

https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/products/homepride-curry-cooking-sauce/683659-361863-361864?utmsource=google&utmmmedium=cpc&utmcampaign=PPCGShopping&gclid=2dc69fdb8f891da7af7afebdf1c16c22&gclsrc=3p.ds

I descend from somewhere where curry is a staple and I remember being so confused when they said we were having curry and being presented with that. I loved it though.

I remember it from school paticularly the green tinge, but i think my school must have used beef rather than mince, it didn't resemble any other curry I have ever had though, and only had the faintest of curry flavour 😂

Back in the 60s my DM would make curry with sultanas in, from the chopped up remains of whatever Sunday joint we’d had. With rice.
I really liked it.

I was at school in the 70's and my absolute favourite was the spaghetti bolognaise, which bore no resemblance whatsoever to the proper stuff, especially when the spaghetti had been there for a while and was stuck together! loved it though!! Mind you, I spent a lots of times in hospital as a child, so am very easy to please culinary wise!

@MrSlant

Maysan tubs of curry powder compressed... Like 80s chip shop curry, blimmin gorgeous. Usually can get it from Butcher's!

My mum used to make that once a week. Horrible!

I’ve just had a flashback to spam fritters with tinned tomatoes and tinned new potatoes fir main followed by semolina with grated chocolate for pudding!

@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.

Yeah, mine too.

Boiled beef mince and onion, stir in curry powder, add sultanas, serve on a dollop of cheap plain white rice.

I think apple and bananas may have been involved if there were any going off spare.

Maybe Franny Craddock or another one of those cookery lunatics made it on the tv in the early 1970s, because it was suddenly everywhere. Or it was a frugal way to replicate a rip-off Vesta curry.