To say that some things about old fashioned school dinners tasted nice?

[malificent7]

Ok..so admittedly they are mostly puddings but i will start with australian crunch and that cornflake, jam treacle flan thingy. I want the recipie!

[AdaColeman]

I think Gypsy tart was created by a school cook in Kent during the 1950s, she was looking for something cheap with a high calorie content as she had a number of underweight children at her school.

[RainbowMum11]

I loved the lamb savouries - prob only flavoured!!
Also I really liked to the chicken supreme.

Cornflake tart and most puddings were brill!!

[AndromedaPerseus]

The butterscotch tart we had at school ( Yorkshire 1980’s) was a shortcrust pastry with an mousse textured filling with a whirl of dream topping and way superior to the gypsy tart sold in Asda. I’ve never being able to reproduce it much to my regret. My other school dinner favourite was sausage pie with mashed potato and onion gravy, heaven after a morning doing cross country or hockey

[Tillygetsit]

The best steak pie I have ever tasted.

[EleanorAbernathy]

Cheese and potato pie was my favourite - it was basically just very cheesy mashed potato. I worked at a place more recently with a canteen that sold exactly the same thing, shame I hated the job as the food was great!

Then there were these things we used to call "hedgehog pudding" - like little cornflakes cakes held together with treacle, in the shape of an ice cream scoop.

In the first school I went to in the early 80s the dinners were terrible, everything had a skin on it. Gravy, custard, mashed potato, semolina pudding... ewwww!

[PeachRose]

Chocolate sponge pudding with mint green sauce

[Natsku]

I'm now assuming your DD goes to school where I did... But do they still have to eat slimy dill meat?!

No, at least she's never described eating anything like that. She hates the liver casserole though, takes a tiny portion on those days.

[WhiteDust]

Curry made with some sort of mince. It had a green tint and sultanas in it. God knows what it was but it was so nice!

[meow1989]

The best puddings were sponge with icing on top and strawberry custard or chocolate brownie with vanilla custard (mashed up to make a brownie soup).
We had Funday Friday at my junior school which was chips with pizza or Turkey drumsticks, I used to spend the hour before lunch fantasizing about what I'd have.

[BlitheringIdiots]

Pink custard at school :-)

[Sweetpea55]

Loved the cheese and egg pie. Hated the curry. My school dinners were on the days of one choice only so on curry days I went hungry

[speakout]

I loved school dinners.
My mother is a horrendous cook, school dinners were amazing!

[AuntieCJ]

Cheese flan. mmmmmmmmmmmmm

[Lungelady]

Bilberry tart

[longwayoff]

Liver casserole with raisins??? Sounds, er, interesting. Had no idea such a thing existed. Any chance of adding to the description?

[Natsku]

longwayoff it's made with rice and minced liver and raisins and it smells horrible but is oddly popular

[SauvingnonBlanketyBlanc]

Mince beef and onion pie,chicken pie.Pie.
I remember the pastry was lovely

[burninglikefire]

From an infants school in the late 60's early 70's:

the best - lemon curd tart with chocolate custard - unbelievably delicious!!!!

the worst - thick stemmed lettuce, i.e. the outer leaves - there was no way I could stomach this - don't really know why but I just couldn't (even with the Headmistress standing over me!)

[BeerandBiscuits]

I loved school dinners, was always hungry as didn't get much food at home. Ate everything even though the mash was lumpy and meat gristly, the thin Oxo gravy made it all taste delicious.
My mouth is watering at the thought of treacle tart and custard, fly pie and jam sponge. There were never any seconds .
We used to get milk at morning break in small bottles. It was icy cold with a layer of cream on top, I'd have at least two as there were always some left over.
No one ever used to eat anything between meals.

[legolimb]

I was at primary school in the early 70s. I remember a lot of meat pies. Also spam fritters.

I liked most of my school dinners. We didn't have any choice as we were seated at tables of 8 and the food was delivered to table then served to each person by the two oldest.

[SoftBlocks]

The steak and kidney pie was nice and the chocolate cornflakes with orange milk jelly on top thing. I also liked the cold custard tart with the layer of jam on top of the pastry but my siblings thought this was ‘weird’.

[BadlyAgedMemes]

Liver casserole with raisins??? Sounds, er, interesting. Had no idea such a thing existed. Any chance of adding to the description?

longwayoff it's made with rice and minced liver and raisins and it smells horrible but is oddly popular

That's an accurate description. I wonder how much of its popularity comes from the time when there weren't really any ready meals in the shops, but you could easily buy a still popular brand of liver casserole ready from the shop, and just heat it up at home. My brother and I even just ate it cold after school (being latchkey kids) before the microwave oven arrived. It's a weird thing. I generally hate liver. I hate fruit in savoury foods. But I really like the raisiny liver casserole.

[longwayoff]

A TIN of liver casserole?! Still popular? No, never heard of such a thing. Is this in UK? You are some tough women brought up on this! Feel I've missed out

[BadlyAgedMemes]

I very much doubt this would ever have caught up in the UK. I grew up in Finland. I tried to find a picture that wouldn't look like dog food, so here's a lovely example of someone trying to dress it up with lingonberries and a random leaf... It was definitely one of the more popular school dinners in my school in the 80s, although I can't think of any very good reasons. We had decent food on the whole!

[GallicosCats]

I remember the dinners in my uni halls of residence (late 80s) were very school-dinner. Unidentifiable meat stew with random hidden bits of fat and gristle was the worst. A particular low point was curly kale that hadn't been washed and still had grit and soil on it.