To ask if you know the recipes for any of these school biscuits?

[HecticHedgehog]

When I was at middle school I would frequently get biscuits at tuck (or a lovely hot sausage roll), There were two types of biscuits, one had a plain vanilla or chocolate version. They were quite chunky and a little bit like shortbread in texture but I don't think they were actually shortbread. The others were bigger and flatter and had oats in them with either a choc button or glacé cherry on the top in the middle. It would have been around the1990s. Does anyone recognise them and know where I can find a recipe?

We also used to have small cubed fried/roasted potatoes at lunch sometimes and I swear they were called Garfield's but cannot find anything online that suggests these even existed! Has anyone else heard of these.

Oo and I do miss the spam fritters we used to get

We called them Bob cakes, cos they looked like poo but they were wonderful, one of the Deli's near me recently added them to the menu and they're selling hundreds a day.

Found this recipe in a school dinners cookbook

We had the same shortbread texture biscuits you described. Such a light, crumbly texture, and much easier to bite than shortbread, they were delicious! In our school, they had rice crispies on top.

Aussie crunch?? They were cornflakey/coconut/choc

Yeah fork biscuits came to my mind as well, I've made some with the DC fairly recently using the Mary Berry recipe:

thehappyfoodie.co.uk/recipes/fork-biscuits/

My friend works in a school she says they make like a thick dense shortbread kind of biscuit with sugar sprinkled on the top. You can add coco powder to make it chocolate. Can also be rolled thick for a softer biscuit or thinner for a crunchy biscuit. It's just flour, butter and sugar

Mum was a school cook, so this may be the one you’re looking for;

School Cookies

1.5kg plain flour
1kg block margarine
500g sugar

Cream marg & sugar, add flour & mix until it becomes a dough.
Roll into a log & chill wrapped in cling film (in school, they were often made the day before & chilled overnight).
Slice into 1cm rounds & bake on an oiled sheet for 12-15 mins at 180°c. Leave lots of space as they will spread!
Leave on sheet to cool for 10 mins, remove & finish cooling on a rack.
You can take half the dough & add 50g of cocoa, roll out plain & choc doughs, add one on top of the other & roll together to make spiral cookies.
You can cut as many as you need & freeze the leftover logs too.
Obviously, this makes about a billion cookies, you can always keep the ratio & scale the recipe down lol.

I’ve tried Mum’s recipe with proper butter, it just isn’t as nostalgic!

I remember these so well. I really disliked school dinners but got them free for a couple of years as a teen but hadn't developed for the weirdness. These were so bleugh but used to get them and hope they would be nice.

I remember the first biscuits! Me and my friend used to love them and rush to the hall before they sold out.

Ours used to be made of two halves with a creamy filling, maybe vanilla flavoured?

I swear by mars bars for these!

3oz butter
3 chopped up mars bars
3oz cereal (I personally use rice crispies)

Melt butter and mars bars in a saucepan, then removed from the heat and stir in the cereal.

Try this Website

http://www.schoolrecipes.co.uk/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3G2hYqhly2jjLlJJK8SdDz1/flakemeal-biscuits

Thanks everyone I will look at all the suggestions. Fork biscuits do look similar but I've made them in the past and they did not taste the same. I found an old school recipe website last night and noticed lots of the biscuity recipes contained lard so maybe that's why

I will definitely give that one a go @CentrifugalBumblePuppy

I remember these biscuits and I think @CentrifugalBumblePuppy‘s recipe looks right as it’s appears dead simple to make in high volume and cheap which let’s face it is the perfect 90s school dinner recipe! There’s no way my school would have used butter over margarine cost wise back then so this must be it… I’m going to make some today and will report back!

My Dad had this recipe using Rice Krispies, but you could use cornflakes instead.

4oz marshmallows
4oz toffee
4oz margarine.
Melt together, and add as many Krispies/cornflakes as the mixture will hold. He used to do it in a square cake tin, and cut it into squares.

http://www.schoolrecipes.co.uk/index.php/school-dinner-recipes/34-desserts-puddings/145-chocolate-cracknell.html

Chocolate cracknell from here is the cornflake/rice crispie cake one.

We used to have round shortbread type biscuit with custard for pudding. When I left school aged 16 I asked the cook for the recipie but over the years I lost it!

The shortbread type ones are called custard biscuits because they use custard powder to give the vanilla taste and crumbly texture. DD's primary school gave us a recipe eons ago but it's long gone I'm afraid. Google will have something.

@CamsPaisleyCuffs yes those are the ones I remember! They looked like this but a bit thinner. I hate commercial custard cream biscuits though, these were different.

The chocolate version of the sandwich ones are definitely in the McDougalls better baker's book. In the older edition they're called "Hungarian Chocolate Biscuits" (not sure if there was anything Hungarian about them!) and in the newer ones I think they're called "Extremely Chocolatey Biscuits".

I’m an actual idiot! Have just looked in my family’s cook book… the school recipe is;

1.5kg self raising flour
1 kg block margarine
900g sugar.

The 3:2:1 ratios is my usual shortbread recipe!

I can confirm the melting moments I've just baked are very similar to the oaty biscuits ! I think I need to squash them a bit flatter so they are thinner and crunchier next time though.

School biscuits were the best! Like a PP said, they came in a white grease proof paper bag, one half was cellophane. We used to have the most amazing flapjacks, I've never been able to make them the same. I remember the shortbread biscuits and the cherry ones. We also used to have big slices of cake, either chocolate or vanilla with pink icing.

The first were Dundee Biscuits