School cheese pie/flan

[ellamoromou]

Just reminiscing about 70's/80's meals and remembered the 'cheese pie' I used to get at school in the 80's early 90's! have googled and lots of the recipes have onion and things in! not my school cheese pie so be off!

Can anyone else remember it? it was definitely just cheese and egg and was crispy brown cheese on top.

And for the 'what is your unreasonableness?' just to ask for the recipe! please!

[KimchiLaLa]

Yes I remember this! Loved it. I had a toffee sponge (I think?) with custard the other day and it really took me back. My junior school had some amazing school dinners which were made on site. Loved them!

[FannyWisdom]

If you know the cheese pie can you remember the sausage meat pie?
The grey pastry.

[mhaddy4p0]

Hello fellow pie lovers!!!! This is my first post since being burgled and without ant internet 18 MONTHS AGO!!!... 1st thing i go to is to try and find 'THAT RECIPE!!!', keep searching if you still havent found it, all i know was i left Marlborough scooll, woodstock, Class of '86, and WE had the real thing there!!!! Hunted online about five years ago and found a recipe, No onion, NO potato... JUST CHEESE!!!! secreet ingrediwent was cottage cheese, mild cheddar as wedll for filling, and LOTS of mnature to burn on the top!!!! It took us a bit of recipe tweaking, but we got there in the end..... it's even better than you remember it being!!!
Best wishes all, Becky

[AuntieStella]

60s/70s here, and the version we had was just cheese pie - a bit like a quiche but much firmer. No tomato, no onion.

It was one of my favourite dinners, usually served with mashed potato and tinned tomato.

[picklemepopcorn]

Thanks purple

[pieceofpurplesky]

I will post the recipes when I have been to see my mum (ex dinner lady)

[Squills]

I was at school in the 60's and remember the cheese pie vividly. I loved it as I hated meat.

You had no choices available at school dinners at that time and almost every day there was meat of some sort or other. everyone had to have a portion of everything whether they liked it or not and I used to go through hell every lunchtime. I remember we had hexagonal tables and we would be told that no-one could get their dessert until everyone had finished everything on their plate. I used to physically gag on the meat and used to hide it in my handkerchief, drop it on the floor, do anything really just so I didn't have to eat it. Of course I came in for flack from my eating companions as I was holding them up! I'm not sure what they hoped to achieve as I still detest meat and don't eat it.

I loved the cheese pie!

[jmh740]

I work in a school I usually take a packed lunch but always have cheese flan when it's on the menu it's just pastry egg mixture topped with cheese.

[AwaywiththePixies27]

My BIL makes the best cheese pie thing.

I remember being made to finish the coffee cake every time. Apparently even if you didn't like coffee it didn't matter because it was swimming in custard so you wouldn't notice it. I did.

[EastMidsMummy]

Ours was soggy. So just make a regular meatless quiche and add about 200ml too much milk with the eggs!

[Marcipex]

We loved it. It was very strong with lots of cheese and lots of onions.

Our most dreaded school meal was the stewed liver. I think that was unanimous.

Chocolate crunch was very popular but deserved it's nickname of Chocolate Concrete.

[picklemepopcorn]

Piece of purple can I have the cheese/rice recipe please? It was served where I taught in Cheshire...Mmm.

[Sillymummy81]

Oh my god I remember this! Soggy quiche with nothing else in it at all. It was grim! It was always the last option when they'd run out of everything else. OP you'd have loved our school- no one else wanted to touch it- you could have had seconds and thirds!!

[Cherryskypie]

I loved it.

N West and there was no rice in mine.

[BusterGonad]

Pieceofpurple the recipe for chocolate crunch you say?

[Tomorrowillbeachicken]

Yes we had it too.. Had pastry bottom and tomatoes on top.

[Roystonv]

We had what we called slosh (boarding school in the 70's) packet mash, tinned tomatoes and loads of cheese topping, sounds vile twas lovely.

[Catlady1976]

Loved school dinners when it was proper food. Not the same when they moved over to a cash cafeteria and it was all burgers and chips etc.

[Amummyatlast]

I loved cheese flan. But even more than that I loved cheese croquettes. I have never been able to find a recipe for the croquettes.

[empirerecordsrocked]

I didn't have it at school but my husband's aunt makes a cheese and potato pie which is cheese and mash baked in a dish. It is amazing. Must get the recipe.

McDonald's did this pretend rib things for a while - never really understood that'!

[Catlady1976]

I remember it. It was gorgeous.

[ShowMePotatoSalad]

Yes I think I remember having some something like that! I liked it.

Does anyone remember the "BBQ ribs?" It was actually a pork patty type thing, shaped with ridges in it to represent the ribs, and a weird sweet sauce on it. Horrific!

Also, luncheon meat with an egg in the middle. Bleurgh!

[spanieleyes]

Ours had onion in, but so soft you couldn't taste it. Together with cheese and egg, very wobbly!

[Okumara]

I was in Liverpool, I remember it being soggy with no rice or potatoes and absolutely disgusting