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...

Toffee cornflake layer with tinned manadrins and cream

Warm ginger sponge with white vanilla sauce! We had warm jam doughnuts every Tuesday lunch time too! Very early 1980s, this was!

Australian Crunch was my favourite! Off to search out a recipe on pinterest

Chocolate sponge with peppermint custard was a regular pudding at my junior school.

Rice pudding with raspberry jam.

Cornflake cake is the business.

The pink jelly fluff was great. No idea how they managed such a thing, but it was a mousse / jelly combo

The pink jelly fluff was great. No idea how they managed such a thing, but it was a mousse / jelly combo

I think you make up the jelly but with less water (330ml which is a standard tin size) and when it is almost, but not fully, set you whip in a tin of evaporated milk and leave it to set.

sorry, I mean you make up the jelly with half the quantity of water and thern add the the evaporated milk to make up the difference.

www.littlestuff.co.uk/school-dinners-fudge-tart-recipe-2/

Pink blamange, tapioca... Not pleasant choices but they definitely stuck in my head!

My OH would say Gipsy tart. It is a regional thing I think, I've never had it myself.

We used to have a trifle that was clearly tinned fruit, a tiny bit of disintegrated sponge and loads of artificial cream (dream topping?) on top with sprinkles. It must’ve been frozen too because it nearly always wasn’t 100% defrosted on eating which added to the charm I used to like that one.

Cornflake tart with apple!

We had warm ginger cake with a thick lemon syrup sauce which was amazing.
Also something they called college pudding which was really just fruit cake, but lovely.

Iv got this book it's fantastic. I made marbled sponge, jam pudding, home made custard.
www.amazon.co.uk/Dinner-Lady-Change-Children-Forever/dp/0593054296

I make half quantities of this in a loaf tin

www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/fruit-recipes/jammy-coconut-sponge/

I just microwave a couple of spoons of jam, brush it over and sprinkle with coconut (a lot less than the recipe)

We never had pink custard at school or hot sponge puddings. I was a deprived child! but the iced buns were to die for!

Arctic roll
iced bun
chocolate coconut slice with green icing
pink custard
sponge with a layer of jam and coconut
cornflake tart
apple pie with squirty cream on top
treacle sponge
the rice pudding! What the fuck did they put in that because I've never seen one like it since I've never seen one as good !
chocolate sponge with green custard

allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/9885/chocolate-concrete-like-school-makes-it.aspx
theenglishkitchen.blogspot.com/2009/07/strawberry-jam-tray-bake.html?m=1
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Thanks everyone! I'd forgotten 3/4 of these and can't wait to remember... I had an iced bun every day for breaktime... and a jacket potato with baked beans and cheese for lunch with a blue raspberryade to drink... I miss that teenager metabolism :D

At primary school, Manchester tart as described by a PP, although the I don't remember the coconut. I think it would be easy to make without recipe.
At secondary school, my favourites were Polish cake, which was a chocolate and digestive biscuit base with a layer of chocolate on the top. I don't think it was baked, more a refrigerator cake. We also used to have Jamborees which were jam sandwiches that were battered and deep fried. I am not huge on battered fried things but these were delicious!

The jelly thing mentioned above is definitely made with evaporated milk, my gran used to make it the way described.

I was at school in the 90s and 00s and didn’t get any of this ☹️.

I do remember pink custard that tasted like washing up liquid and blancmange that was also pink in primary school but I don’t think we got a sweet everyday. I struggled to eat, so maybe they refused to give me pudding. At Juniors, I bought a slice of cold apple pie or an apple turnover stuffed with cream a couple of times.

At home Syrup Sponge, Apple Crumble and Treacle Sponge, all with custard were firm favourites!

Rockmysocks I'd forgotten all about the swirls of 'cream'! I know exactly what you mean but, alas, have no idea what it consists of.

Treacle tart and custard was my favourite, along with chocolate sponge with chocolate custard - oh and jelly and ice cream, but that hardly needs a recipe!

I remember DS2 coming home from reception saying, "Mum, we had this amazing pudding; it was circles of sponge, carved out in the middle, with the thinnest thinnest layer of jam and then the hole filled up with ice cream."

So Arctic Roll then, you poor deprived child.

We used to have an amazing sponge cake with icing on top that had hundreds and thousands in it. So nice! Also raspberry ripple ice cream in little tubs!

Mid/late 80's