to ask you for old fashioned school dinner pudding recipes?

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I am having a moment of nostalgia as I try to teach my British kids the delights of growing up in England in the 1980's... the poor buggers have ne concept of having dessert with their school lunch! And the US school lunches are utterly vile.

I want to make them warm shortcake with cherries in and lashings of custard, chocolate pud with choccy custard, cornflake tarts... what other great options do you remember, and any idea where I can find the recipes?

Drooling in anticipation...

Manchester tart, pastry base, then a layer of jam, then set custard, topped with desiccated coconut.
Rice pudding, homemade is really lovely.
DS(12)'s speciality is microwave upside down sponge, with something like jam or pineapple. With custard it tastes just like school sponge pudding.

Butterscotch tart.

I had the recipe somewhere as my neighbour was a school cook, my mother used to make it so I got the recipe from her. It is probably packed away somewhere, I think it involved condensed milk, butter and sugar and rock hard pastry.

This is not the same recipe but similar

katespuddings.blogspot.com/2014/05/butterscotch-tart.html

Ooooh, semolina with a blob of jam,
Spotted Dick,
A kind of jam and custard tart which was the rock hard pastry covered in jam and then covered in custard.
Jam roll and custard
Pink custard, thick stuff, just a dollop in a bowl.
We also had a rectangle of dry sponge cake with a little bit of jam on it with custard.

ooh these sound good. I can feel the pounds piling on already

The best rice pudding ever. Goodness knows what their secret was. I've never been able to replicate it. It even beats that fantastic thick rice pudding you get in Normandy and parts of Spain.

A heavenly butterscotch tart.

Chocolate and lemon curd marbled steamed pudding.

A syrup steamed pudding that hasn't been bettered.

A baked custard topped with lemon and meringue.

A sort of souffle thing which I think was lemon or lime jelly whipped up with condensed milk.

Eve's pudding:
buttered pie dish
sliced apples (or other fruit)
sprinkle sugar
sponge topping (equal weights sr flour, butter, sugar, eggs)
bake
serve with Bird's custard

Also delicious made with canned apricots

Bread and butter pudding

Baked rice pudding

Steamed syrup sponge

Semolina and jam, spotted dick with green custard, fruit salad and evaporated milk

Chocolate concrete! For true authenticity, serve with pink custard:

allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/9885/chocolate-concrete-like-school-makes-it.aspx

My school produced a recipe book that included a lot of the school dinner puddings.

Unfortunately it's in storage, so this is completely useless information, but it looks like similar books have been published by other people!

Chocolate Floorboards. God only knows what they were, but we loved them. Sort of a flat chocolate flapjack, with a tough texture that took ages to chew, served with custard.

Oh, nostalgia [sigh] My DC have grown up outside the UK & don't get the concept of school dinners at all. It's been packed lunches all the way for them. They've missed out, they really have.

Butterscotch tart is obviously the number one - when I buy it now it’s never good enough. But the one I keep craving is jam tart. Made in a big tray like the butterscotch tart, but with a jam topping instead, cut into triangles. With custard. I don’t have an exact recipe but I could really got for some of that right now

I still have my old school recipe book. It isn't just puddings although they are in there.

There is a lot of lard. 😀

There was a topping, like a swirl of cream, used on flan slices. It wasn't real cream but it was gorgeous. Anyone know what it was?

Loved school coffee as well. Poured from jugs into metal beakers.

We used to have a dessert known as chocolate splodge. It was a pastry kind of base with a thickly set chocolate on top (sometimes with a dollop of artificial cream). I'd love the recipe for that one!

Steamed type Sponge with jam and coconut with custard was the best! On Fridays we used to have burger, chips and this bizarre green coloured milk drink. I was never sure what flavour it was but these were the days before McDonald's in a rural village so it was quite cosmopolitan 😂

Chocolate Splodge was known as Chocolate Toothpaste at our school!

Ah I'd never heard of it as chocolate toothpaste! If it's the same dessert we're thinking about then wasn't it delicious!

You’ll find quite a few on Pinterest if you search for ‘old school dinner recipes UK’

Australian Crunch. Be-Ro has a recipe on line. I might have to make some now

www.schoolrecipes.co.uk/index.php/school-dinner-recipes.html
There's loads on here.
We used to have chocolate squidges, which were like brownies but really hard on the outside and very soft in the middle...loved them

https://www.worldofbooks.com/en-gb/books/jeanette-orrey/the-dinner-lady-change-the-way-your-children-eat-forever/GOR001375540

I have this cookbook, lots of school dinner recipes including some very yummy puddings! A family favourite is the jam roly poly recipe. Haven't made it in a while, maybe I will this weekend

Chocolate cake and chocolate custard.
Pineapple upside down cake.
Arctic roll.

Steamed type Sponge with jam and coconut with custard

We had that too. I'm wondering where we all were and age. My secondary school was north east Scotland 1972-1977

Wash the rice and leave to soak overnight in half the measured water

From that list of recipes. I wonder if that is the secret to my school's sublime rice pudding? It would never occur to me to soak rice.