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.

Just found this recipe book on Amazon and it has so many of the things listed in this thread!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/School-Dinners-Recipes-Classic-Dinner/dp/1717758215/ref=sr11_1?keywords=school%20dinners%20recipes&qid=1580974761&sr=8-1&fbclid=IwAR1i8QlXmyhaALsS6bVpXOds6P7fsVHpRD0sAyjxQZ003oiQvaeP-Pp4L-I

Used to love chocolate concrete and cornflake tart - both recipes can be found easily online thankfully.
The one I really want to get a recipe for is some sort of cookie that they used to serve with milkshake in primary school. I don’t know what it was called but it had pink and green sprinkles scattered inside and was a really buttery, crumbly texture. Practically dissolved in your hands as you ate it. Bit like melting moments but much crumbliest and had more of a taste.
I also used to love the cheap pizza squares and spam fritters were one of my favourite foods. I don’t eat meat now so no chance or replicating that but used to love them so much

That chocolate sponge with mint custard was divine.

So were the chocolate filled doughnuts.

I also remember cheese scotch eggs. I don’t think there was any meat involved, just eggs coated with cheese and breadcrumbs, deep-fried.

I don’t have good memories of school dinners overall though. I still remember the tubes in the meat

Chocolate cake and mint custard!!

I think the shit cakes may have been the same thing that we called "hedgehog pudding" - sort of syrupy treacly tasting scoops of chocolate cornflake cake.

I loved the cheese and potato pie - it was a lovely big dollop of comforting cheesy mash with extra cheese on tip.
I worked at a place with a canteen a few years ago that must have worked from the same recipe and I really wish I'd asked for it as my efforts never come close!

@HalfShrunkMoreToGo

Just found this recipe book on Amazon and it has so many of the things listed in this thread!

[[https://www.amazon.co.uk/School-Dinners-Recipes-Classic-Dinner/dp/1717758215/ref=sr]]11_1?keywords=school%20dinners%20recipes&qid=1580974761&sr=8-1&fbclid=IwAR1i8QlXmyhaALsS6bVpXOds6P7fsVHpRD0sAyjxQZ003oiQvaeP-Pp4L-I

That mentions the cheese and potato pie, I don't know how to thank you for this enough!

Nutty Slack & Gypsy tart

I was VERY lucky to mostly attend schools that did amazing school dinners (dad was army we moved about)

Ones I remember

Ghoulash

We also had the cornflakes and treacle tarts so sweet your teeth went on edge! But yummy

Sponge cake with strawberry custard

Warm donuts

Steak and kidney pudding I loved them (veggie now)

Gypsy tart yes

Stroganoff

A very mild curry we used to get at one school was lovely

Spam fritters I used to love! No veggie version of spam! Or corned beef for corned beef hash!

@Graphista I wonder if this might work as a Spam substitute?

My favourite pudding was ginger cake with a thick, syrupy lemon sauce. I loved that lemon sauce!!

'Shit cakes' as they were known grin. 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

These things were called 'krakolettes' at my school. No fucking idea why.

Not at school exactly but my nan used to make a really nice fruit cake and I would get given a doorstop-sized piece whenever she picked me up from school. It was a Dundee cake but not dry, and really nicely spiced. She died 20 years ago and I never asked for the recipe so it's lost in time now. Would love to have a piece of that cake now (and a cuppa and a chat with her).

I was at boarding school for a while and still have fond memories of the cauliflower cheese. In a way it was very bland and beige, but also somehow comforting.

I'm embarrassed to admit that I have a secret love of institutional type food (school dinners, work canteens, even aeroplane food). On one level I know it's awful, but on another level I just love it.

Ah yes school dinners. Made me the person I am today! Greedy!!).

I usually had seconds and even thirds! The same bunch of kids would run like starved things to the dinner ladies for more. I was not actually starved at home, and certainly did not look like it either!

I loved the cheese pie and Gypsy tart the most. Our Gypsy tart came with a lemon sauce. Was very please when mum made it at home! Managed to get it in Sidcup Morrison's and one in Ealing Broadway!

You can always tell who went to school in Kent on these threads - Gypsy Tart with half an apple in a vain attempt to stop your teeth falling out.

Have tried to make Gypsy Tart and it has NEVER turned out properly.......wails - and as an adult I wouldn't even have to eat half an apple after it

We had great school dinners in the 70's at my school...
Steak pie with mash/veg/gravy
Fish fingers with melted cheese on
Roast dinners with amazing roast potatoes
Hand cut chips
Syrup sponge and custard
Chocolate concrete cake with mint custard
Iced cake with sprinkles

Steamed Square sausage and onions in gravy.
Pink custard and iced sponge.
Iced ginger cake with custard.

School 'pie'. It was a spoonful of tinned mince with a square of separately baked pastry plonked on top. That pastry was always fresh out of the oven and crisp and melt in your mouth. The mince was horrible.

@Hortuslover

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

Oooo I loved that.

Also loved the pink custard.

Cornflake tart? We had this at school, it was incredibly sweet, but not as sweet as gypsy tart which was like insanely sweet mud on a thin layer of pastry.
www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/easy-cornflake-tart

And OMG a pp mentioned chocolate sponge with mint custard - the custard was bright turquoise-green!

We also had spam fritters (and it wasn't 1945!)

Ha - cross post with MajorCarol

My primary school (late 60s). Lovely lunches we had gammon with pineapple which was gourmet in those days and donuts with a milk coffee for a change for pudding. Thanks Mrs Munday

Chelsea buns the size of your head

Just after the war, at infant school, we had rice pudding with a dollop of orange jam. Not marmalade, but like the orange jelly in a Jaffa cake. I've never been able to track it down. It came in a huge tin from S.Africa.

At primary school, I loved their liver with onion gravy and there was a suet roly-poly filled with minced ham-hock? and onions.

Secondary school had the best puddings. Cheese rolls and oranges and
Viennese Tart - chocolate pastry and chocolate sponge with a layer of slice apple.

As a teacher, I'll always remember ILEA's Cheese flan with chips. Much
better than any quiche I've tasted.

Fish and chips was lovely and they also did this sponge cake with white frosting on the top with custard.

sort of caramelly tart, maybe it was butterscotch, jam sponge with coconut on top, spam fritters, a sort of green curry but tasted nice, first time I'd ever had curry. chocolate sponge with chocolate sauce. cheesy mash.