does anybody have good memories bout school dinners!!!!

only the puds!!!! mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm stodge!!!

mmmmmm spam fritters, cheese flan, custard skin :love: :love:

semolina was fantastic but no matter what i buy it never tastes the same!!!

i wasnt keen on spam fritters wot bout cheese and rice croqettes

ive always loved the semolina,sago and tapioca but prefer making my own to the schools cos the lumps used to make me gip :gag:

I'm with Litha on that one!!

Can't eat semolina now (its got gluten in grrrr) but the rest are better homemade :D

would love to do suet pud one of these days but there's no such thing as gluten free suet unless you buy it straight from the cow!!!

mmmm jamrolypoly...... *drooooooooooooooooooooooool*

i wasnt keen on spam fritters wot bout cheese and rice croqettes

i absolutly loved the spam fritters, my own home made ones or the new shop ones dont taste nowt like i was soo disapointed.

i have never had cheece and rice croquettes.. or at least i dont remember them ( i went to school in rotherham ) maybe they were slightly different

We never had them in donny either!

sausage meat pie :)

oooo yeah em, the jam rolypoly ooooo and chocolate sponge with chocolate custard ( but the dinner ladies insisted it was called chocolate sauce ) :D

sausage meat pie :)
i dont remeber that either :(

oh i'm hungry now... and can't eat any of it :(

Litha, i think sheffield was a different country for school dinners!!!

we're foreigners!!!

Litha, i think sheffield was a different country for school dinners!!!

we're foreigners!!!
HEEHEE ill have to ask hubby bout rice n cheese croquettes and sausage meat pie see if he remembers them, we have talked bout school dinners loadsa times before and everything he says he had i did to ( hes a sheffielder) mind you wen i come over here to live with him ide never heard of a cake butty or seen a flat yorkshire pudding :hihi: :hihi:

I'm still none the wiser on those two Litha....

but then i married a derbyshire lad and moved here... no-one taught me sheffield food :(

well apart from fishcakes ;)

I'm still none the wiser on those two Litha....

but then i married a derbyshire lad and moved here... no-one taught me sheffield food :(

well apart from fishcakes ;)

i was brought up with them little round orange things been a fishcake and the other was a fish scollop. hubby swears me blind the little round orange things are called rissoles, but when i was little a rissole had mince type stuff in it. :hihi:

oh and every single morning playtime we would get a little bottle of "warm" milk and half a apple :D

I was milk monitor - always got extra milk :D

yup!! I was the same! Rissole is like a burger!

I still like both kinds of fishcake (well i would if i could eat them!)
I was once in a chippy in Whitby and asked for a fishcake... they guy serving was from barnsley and asked if i wanted a sheffield fishcake or a barnsley fishcake... i told him i wanted a donny fishcake and i got a 'rissole' :hihi:

I used to luuuuurve school dinners. I used to clear my plate and ask for seconds :)

The cheese and onion pie was so lovely - I have never managed to replicate it exactly.

cheese flan!!!
that dessert with the ice cream rolled up in a sponge mmm

I used to luuuuurve school dinners. I used to clear my plate and ask for seconds :)

The cheese and onion pie was so lovely - I have never managed to replicate it exactly.

me neither hennypenny, my kids never had it when they went to school, now they dont go we do baking days and i have tried so many different ways but NEVER get it to taste like the school one. :( neither did my spam fritter experiment

cheese flan!!!
that dessert with the ice cream rolled up in a sponge mmm

oooo yeah arctic roll, i dont miss that tho cos buy it all the time from the supermarket :thumbsup:

i went to jordanthorpe the croqettes were great!! cheese flanYUM YUM!!!!
Wot bout wagon wheels (chocolate shortbread wheels)

does anybody remember their tomato sauce , they used to serve it warm in white jugs!!!!

My memories of school dinners at middle school are ones that still make feel a bit iffy! The playground at Shiregreen middle were next to the kitchens and I can smell the aroma of overcooked carrots and cabbage mingled in with the sickly sweetness of something with jam in and custard even now :gag: :gag: :gag: The food at Comp' were quite good as a rule though :)

Caremel tart with a swirl of cream on top, sponge with jam on top covered in coconut served with custurd,cheese croquets,chocolate sponge and chocolate custurd,musarca(spelt wrong i know!) but made with sliced potatoes on top,Deep meat and potatoe pie with peas.These are the things i used to love at school.

Where are you now Brenda the bean server(All Saints)

Had a spat of taking packed lunches -'just cus my mates did'....but went back to school lunches.

Most of my favs already listed - spam fritters, cheese and onion flan and on Friday...Fish and Chips - that was the day we all used to bolt down the food in the hope of getting some seconds.

Only one I can recall I was not too fond of was the Irish Stew.

As for the puds - Jam Sponge and Custard - has to be No 1 for me

If I had 12 school dinners I would be streaching it the fish and chippy just down from Hurlfield Boys was the go everyday 1/2 a cob filled with real chips.

i used to love school dinners.

i remember the cheese croquets...they were my fav, also remember the sausage pie...that was lovley too. cheese flan also went down well.

does any one else remember the pastry and mincemeat they used to serve up?

i used to love the deserts mainly cos i used to like the "skin" that would top the custard and loved the wagon wheels mentioned above. australian crunch was on the menu in my secondery school and even though i went to the shops for lunch would always pop into dinner hall to buy an austrailian crunch...yummy

Did anyone else get 'chocolate concrete' and custard?

i used to love cheese and rice croquetts.i have tried making them and they taste nearly the same.



strong cheese
cooked pudding rice
an egg
worchester sauce
salt and pepper

mix all together then leave to chill in the fridge for 24 hours.when this is done make into croquettes roll them in egg then breadcrumbs and deep fry.taste yummy

:hihi: :hihi: and what about when they thought they were giving us a treat ... the nasty watery milkshake, and sometimes on really cold wet play times we would get very nasty watery hot chocolate. it tasted awful but we all got really excited about it anyway

i used to love cheese and rice croquetts.i have tried making them and they taste nearly the same.



strong cheese
cooked pudding rice
an egg
worchester sauce
salt and pepper

mix all together then leave to chill in the fridge for 24 hours.when this is done make into croquettes roll them in egg then breadcrumbs and deep fry.taste yummy

I've just made millet and chesse croquettes, never had them at school but lived on them on honeymoon as a shop in the nearest town sold them (glutenfree snacks WOOO!!!) and i had one almost every day for lunch :D

very similar recipe but i added a bit of onion and pepper too :)

If I had 12 school dinners I would be streaching it the fish and chippy just down from Hurlfield Boys was the go everyday 1/2 a cob filled with real chips.

Cob and 6d of chips.
Totally brilliant, seagulls used to feast on the bread you ripped out.

cheese flan chips & beans or sausage pie

lol............................................

I used to have the same school dinner every day..

Cheese pie, chips and beans and a can of tropical fruit flavoured pop....:) (wished it was lilt):hihi:

Does anyone know how to make cheese pie ??

remember my mates used to have the cheese flan n chips with the runny tomato sause,i loved the chicken pie with 2 scoops of mash n gravymmmmmmmm..........and caramel pie thing ............lovely

I used to have the same school dinner every day..

Cheese pie, chips and beans and a can of tropical fruit flavoured pop....:) (wished it was lilt):hihi:

Does anyone know how to make cheese pie ??

You mean you had a choice?? - when I was at school (mind you this was in teh 50's and 60's) you ate what you were given. If you didnt like it there were usually two outcomes - depending on the teacher on 'lunch duty' :

1. You left your food and went hungry
2. You left your food but was then given a reprimand/clip round the ear for being so ungrateful - especially when there were 'so many starving children elswhere in the world'

I certainly remember at junior school the headmaster taking the last option - woe betide any kid who left any food on his plate - depending on his mood you would either get a fairly stiff telling off but kept qiuet-ish....or... if he was in a bad mood - the whole school would know how ungrateful you were because of the 'starving kids etc etc'

Many was the time I ate some food (cannot remember what it was now) with my nose pinched between my nose like some foul medicine

semolina was fantastic but no matter what i buy it never tastes the same!!!

Semolina urrrrrgh, looked suspiciously like wallpaper paste

I remember ice cream with hot butterscotch sauce, Mmmmmmmmmm (Drools)

I remember the cheese pie (with tomato on the top) and chocolate sponge with chocolate sauce. I also remember having stew and getting a piece of dry bread with it - we thought that was quite a treat. Also do you remember the plastic cups of water we were given?

Anyone remember the potato shortage, every school dinner we were given a bag of crisps instead of potato??? Still don't know were the potato's came from to make crisps.

I can remember the warm tomato sauce, we use to have it over fish.
These are from a school dinner lady years ago, I was really suprised that the croquette's were cheese always thought it was potato!

CHEESE CROQUETTE’S
2Pints Milk 12oz Pudding Rice
2oz Flour 2oz Onion Chopped small
11b 10oz Cheese 2 Eggs Beaten
For best results use 11b 5oz mature red chedder/5oz normal red cheddar.
Method

Cook rice in 2 pt milk until soft or absorbed all milk.
Grate cheese and onion, mix with rice and allow to cool.Then chill in fridge for a few hrs or over night it’s easier to shape then.
On a floured surface shape rice mix into shape ( 20 portions )
Dip in egg then breadcrumbs
Deep fry in moderate hot oil until golden brown.

SCHOOL CHEESE FLAN

Bake a pastry case blind ( lined with greaseproof and topped with dried pasta or dried peas) Not blindfolded !.
FILLING

3qrt 1b Cheese 1 third Pint of Milk 2 Eggs
Half Tsp Mustard ( powdered mustard ) 4 Onions ( grated )

Method

Just mix all ingredients together then add to pastry case
Bake middle shelf Gas 6 or 200C / 400F

Infant School Recipe For Flan

As above leaving out the Onion and Mustard, add the grated cheese to flan base and then pour mixture on top.

I always love the above with chips and spaghetti but some of my friends love them with chips and tinned tom's.
Denise

SORRY,
last post should have said Suprised they were "Rice".

You mean you had a choice?? - when I was at school (mind you this was in teh 50's and 60's) you ate what you were given. If you didnt like it there were usually two outcomes - depending on the teacher on 'lunch duty' :

1. You left your food and went hungry
2. You left your food but was then given a reprimand/clip round the ear for being so ungrateful - especially when there were 'so many starving children elswhere in the world'

I certainly remember at junior school the headmaster taking the last option - woe betide any kid who left any food on his plate - depending on his mood you would either get a fairly stiff telling off but kept qiuet-ish....or... if he was in a bad mood - the whole school would know how ungrateful you were because of the 'starving kids etc etc'

Many was the time I ate some food (cannot remember what it was now) with my nose pinched between my nose like some foul medicine

with reference to the above,
even though i had a note from my mother stating that i was allergic to liver, i was given instead, mash and cabbage with .........the gravy from the liver!

Thanks denise - since reading the thread i just had to make the cheese croquettes! they were fab! only alteration i made was I reduced the milk by half but made it up again with a chicken stock!!!! yummy!

I hate to admit it now but I used to nick rolls from the canteen each lunch (had a routine well worked out and never got caught!), so I could afford fags with my dinner money to sneak up the playing field with! They were always delicious on home made bread and I feel quite guilty for it now, being a reformed character!

#49
Your welcome glad you enjoyed; I'll try the Chicken stock next time.

Denise

oooo yeah em, the jam rolypoly ooooo and chocolate sponge with chocolate custard ( but the dinner ladies insisted it was called chocolate sauce ) :D

I loved chocolate pudding so much I broke my nose on a table leg running for second helpings. And still these sweets are a weakness of mine.

Has anybody managed to make cheese pie that tastes like the school one?.....had many a cheese pie/flan over the years.....nothing comes close to the school one.......i still crave it after all these years :)

I remember ice cream with hot butterscotch sauce, Mmmmmmmmmm (Drools)

So glad you mentioned butterscotch sauce and ice cream, my wife never believes me when I mention it in conversation. I had this at Westways at Crookes. Could not stand the semolina and rice pudding, always had a sweet tooth for the desserts.:bigsmile:

I remember that shepherds pie was my favourite. We had half moon shaped spam fritters with tomato sauce that was warm, like tomato soup. I hated it when school mash had lumps in though. I also hated it when it was new potatoes too. I only really liked school roast potatoes. When they occasionally gave us chips they were limp and soggy.

I remember when it was "meat" I have no idea what meat it was, probably lamb, but it was always fatty.

At secondary school after a few years they brought in a cafeteria type choice system. Basically this was the same old school dinners, but you could have a salad instead. There was a choice of pudding, stodge and custard, or cheese and biscuits or yogurt. I cant say I really enjoyed them, but I tried sandwiches and soon got sick of those so went back to dinners.

I remember that shepherds pie was my favourite. We had half moon shaped spam fritters with tomato sauce that was warm, like tomato soup. I hated it when school mash had lumps in though. I also hated it when it was new potatoes too. I only really liked school roast potatoes. When they occasionally gave us chips they were limp and soggy.

I remember when it was "meat" I have no idea what meat it was, probably lamb, but it was always fatty.

At secondary school after a few years they brought in a cafeteria type choice system. Basically this was the same old school dinners, but you could have a salad instead. There was a choice of pudding, stodge and custard, or cheese and biscuits or yogurt. I cant say I really enjoyed them, but I tried sandwiches and soon got sick of those so went back to dinners.




thanks for that den!!

nice.........

Can anyone remember the old school Cheese Croquettes and how deliciously delightful they were. Just wondered if anyone had the recipe for them, I had it some years ago but seem to have misplaced it.

Oh my god! Cheese, potatoes and breadcrumbs. The world was a brighter place in those days.

You try and tell kids today that we used to eat cheese, potatoes and breadcrumbs at school and they'd be choking on their wild mushroom and flame-grilled octopus paninis.

they were my absaloute favorite, them and cheese flan!!! Im sure the croquettes had rice in them aswell, Id love the recipe also if anyone can get the actual school dinners one!!x

Yuk, frogs spawn and slaver and chips

Link here! i made them - they were divine!

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now here!
http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?p=2025686#post2025686

they were my absaloute favorite, them and cheese flan!!! Im sure the croquettes had rice in them aswell, Id love the recipe also if anyone can get the actual school dinners one!!x

I have the cheese flan one.

For the pastry

8oz Plain flour
2oz lard, 2oz butter

(rub together to form breadcrumb texture, add a few spoons of water and mix to form dough)

For the flan bit

Small onion chopped
3 eggs
half pint of milk
loads of cheese (grated) preferably mature red cheddar.

Roll out pasty and line a flan dish, part bake (either prick pastry with fork or fill with baking parchment and hard peas)
Add onion to part baked pastry
Add cheese until nearly full
Combine egg and milk and add to dish
Decorate with tomatoes (optional)
Baked in hot oven (180) for about 30 minutes

Serve with chips and beans

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now here!
http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?p=2025686#post2025686

Thanks, I'll give them a go.x

My school used to do 'Cheese & Potato Pie'. It was mashed potato and grated cheese mixed together and put in a pie dish.
About 2 fork-fulls of it would fill you up and start coming out of your nose.
We still use it as a metaphor for when something sticks in your throat and makes you retch.

I went looking in the sops to buy Cheese Croquettes but couldnt find them anywhere I use to love Cheese Croquettes baked beans and chips when at school. I wish you could still buy them in the shop you see potatoe ones but not cheese.

I dont ever recall school dinners being 'Yummy'. Worst of all, I had this horrible teacher who took great pleasure volunteering for guard duty in the dinner hall each and every dinnertime and she wouldnt let you leave until you finished every last crumb off your plate. She was evil... I am surprised I dont have some sort of eating issues/disorder now.

Yeah! Cheese flan!!! It was made in a massive steel container and if you were dead lucky you'd get a corner bit with two sides of pastry on. Mmmmmm.

Oh my fave was that custard/Manchester tart with coconut in. Christ that was gooooood....:love:

We never had croquettes though - i first had them when I was a student - Tesco used to do them.

This was all only at primary mind, secondary school dinners were spew apart from the sandwiches and those 3 inch thick pizzas.

What about chocolate sponge & chocolate custard, so thick you could have laid bricks with it :love:

The only good thing at my school's cafeteria was mashed potatoes with gravy.:love: The gravy was very salty and colored bright yellow. Neon yellow. Day-Glo yellow. I add a few drops of yellow food coloring to my chicken gravy, just to get the nostalgia flowing.

What about chocolate sponge & chocolate custard, so thick you could have laid bricks with it :love:

We used to have chocolate sponge with pink custard:love::love:I want some now:(

eugh cheese flan!! i use to hate that.
And the choice between chips or salad..now what a stupid question to ask an 8 year old.

I use to love this butterscotch pudding they had, it was sooo sickly but so yummy.

Oh and i remember the boys use to fight over the skin on the top of the custard, was I the only one who thought it was weird?

Oh and i remember the boys use to fight over the skin on the top of the custard, was I the only one who thought it was weird?

The skin was nasty, it was soo thick and always really dark.
And yes the boys at our school used to fight over it, I don`t think the girls were hard enough to eat it:D

We used to have chocolate sponge with pink custard:love::love:I want some now:(

that pink custard that had a blancmange flavour, but was actually hot cusard?


Aaahhhaaaahaaahahahhahmmmmmmmmm :love:

The world was a brighter place in those days.

Bright orange, if I remember correctly:D

them and cheese flan!!!

Oh my God school cheese flan!:love:

And flapjack and custard:love:

The mashed potatoes were horrible, they always had big black lumps in them!

that pink custard that had a blancmange flavour, but was actually hot cusard?


Aaahhhaaaahaaahahahhahmmmmmmmmm :love:

Yeah mmmmmmmmm!!
I`m sure I`ve seen pink custard at one of the supermarkets:suspect:
I need to get some and make some chocolate sponge, the kids today don`t know what they`re missing!:D

The mashed potatoes were horrible, they always had big black lumps in them!

they were lumps of fag ash :hihi:

they were lumps of fag ash :hihi:

:suspect:

Oh yummy, definately going to have to try to get that hint of nicotine into one of my homemade meals one of these days :love:

:hihi::hihi::hihi:

At our primary school, we used to have this thing that was just angel delight on a shortbread base.....honestly, I used to love it!!! Have to try making it one day!!

I had a fish finger with a worm in it once

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I thought at first some of you folk were joking when you said you liked the school dinners. Then, I read that you were offered scrumptious morsels like cheese croquettes, ice cream with butterscotch sauce, and angel delight. In my day (now doesn't that date me?) at High Storrs GS for boys, we sat at long tables, 14 to a table, with the table prefects at the head of the table dishing out the food. Table prefects were coveted positions because on the rare occasion that something tasty showed up (roast potatoes with grated cheese stands out) they could help themselves to an extra portion. I speak from experience. But, prunes with watery custard, sago pudding, grissly stew and peas that we used to call "bullets" and flick at one another, were some of the staples. One day my pals and I decided to seek respite from this unappetizing fare and we were spotted wandering around the streets eating fish and chips. Well, of course, the headmaster called us into his office and gave us each six of the best for tarnishing the image of the school. After all, shouldn't the punishment fit the crime?

Has anyone mentioned this one...Spam Fritters, I feel sick just thinking about them.

Anyone remember the potato shortage, every school dinner we were given a bag of crisps instead of potato??? Still don't know were the potato's came from to make crisps.

Yes I remember at hillsborough middle having cheese pie, tinned tomatoes and crisps that invariably went soggy, what the hell were they thinking?

Given to me many years ago by a dinner lady @ Westfield School


CHEESE CROQUETTE’S
2Pints Milk 12oz Pudding Rice
2oz Flour 2oz Onion Chopped small
11b 10oz Cheese 2 Eggs Beaten
For best results use 11b 5oz mature red chedder/5oz normal red cheddar.
Method

Cook rice in 2 pt milk until soft or absorbed all milk.
Grate cheese and onion, mix with rice and allow to cool.Then chill in fridge for a few hrs or over night it’s easier to shape then.
On a floured surface shape rice mix into shape ( 20 portions )
Dip in egg then breadcrumbs
Deep fry in moderate hot oil until golden brown.

SCHOOL CHEESE FLAN

Bake a pastry case blind ( lined with greaseproof and topped with dried pasta or dried peas) Not blindfolded !.
FILLING

3qrt 1b Cheese 1 third Pint of Milk 2 Eggs
Half Tsp Mustard ( powdered mustard ) Onion ( grated )

Method

Just mix all ingredients together then add to pastry case
Bake middle shelf Gas 6 or 200C / 400F

Infant School Recipe For Flan

As above leaving out the Onion and Mustard, add the grated cheese to flan base and then pour mixture on top.

Denise

I liked lancashire hotpot and also cheese pie with little cubed chips,then one of my favourite for puddings was chocolate custard with vanilla ice-cream in the center..:love:

There used to be a saying when I was at school it went like this.
Say what you will,
School dinners make you ill,
A friend of mine he died of shepherds pie,
All school din dins come from pig binsthats no lie.

where did you folk go to school? sounds like you were dining at the Ritz! But thks for the recipes. I'll try them....to see what I'd been missing. Bon apetit. :)

Cheese Flan