well there was the school dinners that you remember, in 1978, semolina with jam, sponge pudding and custard, maybe red sponge with icing, chocolate sponge with chocolate custard, BUT THIS IS THE DADDY OF THEM ALL

chips , beans, maybe tomatoes, and .........................CHEESE PIE............
now were not talkin your average cheese pie here, oh no, it looked like a flan, and the cheese was so strong, i can taste it now, beaver hill 1978, this was school dinner heaven , ive never tasted anything to this day as good or as nice, you normally had 2nds ,

Oh no, bad memories!
I was forced to eat cheese flan, and promptly threw up!

well there was the school dinners that you remember, in 1978, semolina with jam, sponge pudding and custard, maybe red sponge with icing, chocolate sponge with chocolate custard, BUT THIS IS THE DADDY OF THEM ALL

chips , beans, maybe tomatoes, and .........................CHEESE PIE............
now were not talkin your average cheese pie here, oh no, it looked like a flan, and the cheese was so strong, i can taste it now, beaver hill 1978, this was school dinner heaven , ive never tasted anything to this day as good or as nice, you normally had 2nds ,

mmmmmmmmmmmm Did we go to the same school??? :thumbsup:

dont forget Pink Custard :hihi::hihi:

well there was the school dinners that you remember, in 1978, semolina with jam, sponge pudding and custard, maybe red sponge with icing, chocolate sponge with chocolate custard, BUT THIS IS THE DADDY OF THEM ALL

chips , beans, maybe tomatoes, and .........................CHEESE PIE............
now were not talkin your average cheese pie here, oh no, it looked like a flan, and the cheese was so strong, i can taste it now, beaver hill 1978, this was school dinner heaven , ive never tasted anything to this day as good or as nice, you normally had 2nds ,


OMG - I could have written this post - i truly loved the cheese pie and often asked the dinner ladies if they could give my mum the recipe:hihi:

OMG this was my all time favourite aswell!! And if they served for pudding that cornflake pie thingy (pastry we a layer of jam then cornflakes covered in golden syrup) with lashings of custard!! Then I truly was a very happy bunny!!!!!!!!!!:love::love::love::love::love::love ::love:

Thanks for this thread all the memories have come rushing back!!!

youre very welcome, i know i have lots of sheffield memories , but this must be the best,

what about chocolate pudding and chocolate custard....mmmmmmmmmmm

Remember that pink custard ????????? what was all that about ????????

to sum my memories up they would be, and sorry for the length of it but if it brings a smile to your face then ive done a job,,, bendi busses, subsidised bus fares, the fiesta club, pond st cyril/nora/ the classic cinema/ guemont/ studio/5/6/7/ cockaynes, harringtons in castle market, sheffields illuminations, the egg box council offices, hole in the road, the wedding cake, lord mayors parade, radio hallam, help a hallam child, hallam tower hotel, grovesnor hotel, royal victoria hotel, s.u.t.tours, wigfalls, cavendish woodhouse, ray allen, pippys, violet mays, wopentek, josephines, maxamillions, roger sherwoods, blue bell , the marples, mucky duck, vallances, craisy, daisy, complete angler, mulberry tavern, classic cinema, houghenbraugh beer keller, gossips,

mmmm omg cheese flan was delicious!! and the cornflake thingys although i didnt like the bottom bit too much, just ate the cornflakes one thing I didn't like tho was the 'hash':gag:

well there was the school dinners that you remember, in 1978, semolina with jam, sponge pudding and custard, maybe red sponge with icing, chocolate sponge with chocolate custard, BUT THIS IS THE DADDY OF THEM ALL

chips , beans, maybe tomatoes, and .........................CHEESE PIE............
now were not talkin your average cheese pie here, oh no, it looked like a flan, and the cheese was so strong, i can taste it now, beaver hill 1978, this was school dinner heaven , ive never tasted anything to this day as good or as nice, you normally had 2nds ,

My wife was a school cook in the 70's and she remembers nearly 20 pounds of cheese was used in the cheese pies for 180 children.The days before cuts,no wonder it tasted strong

God how could anyone have liked schooldinners? I have a vivid memory of Miss Lomas forcing me to eat fish pie at Stannington Infant school, if I was American I'd sue them, for all the food problems I have had since

Mmmmm i remember the cheese flan too and theres an ex school cook as my moms neighbour!! asked her many times about the cheese flan but she said she hated it...probably due to having to cook it on so many occasions....the pastry i think was wholemeal too?? Does anyone remember having mashed potatoes..veggies and i forgot what meat..but then they poured lashings of tomato gravy over it..i expect looking back now it was tomato soup!! But at the time it was lovely...mmmmmmm....memories....

thanks for the memories craig, you sound like your about my age (almost 40 :help:)remember most of the clubs etc you mentioned but didnt actually go to any cos my dad was quite strict and didnt let me out much!!!!

My worse school dinner had to be luncheon meat fritters!!!!:(:(:(:(:(:gag:

Hated em so much, but in them days there wasnt a alternative, but sometimes dinner lady would do you a fried egg instead!!!

Just come across this thread. My wife has been going on about school dinner cheese pie/flan for weeks. Never tasted a flan like it. Surely someone must have a recipe or some idea how it was made. Cheese flan, chips and beans were my favourite!!

im 45 aldam, went to beaver hill in 78 , loved it, on the subject of cheese for this flan, you can buy 2 strong cheeses nowadays, ones called seriously strong and the others called tnt ,, theyre nowt compared to 1978 cheese flan,,,,,,,, who has the recipe,,,,,,,,,,,,,someone cooked it,,,, c, mon show yourself

I used to adore my school dinners. I was known to have "seconds" and "thirds" of cheese pie, absolutely gorgeous. Mmmm butterscotch tart with a swirl of cream, Manchester tart, a thick wedge of strawberry mousse, a "brick" of chocolate pudding with chocolate custard, chocolate "wagon wheels", lovely meat pies,creamy mash, cabbage, fried fish,cheesy croquettes, cooked ham, beetroot and the chips, oh god the chips!, you could smell them cooking and I would nearly faint with mouthwatering hunger, they were luscious.

Hi

Just put "school dinners cheese flan" in the search bar and found a thread on the UKTV food website giving the recipe for cheese flan. Can't work out how to link it into this post tho. Will keep trying.

Try typing this in until I have worked it out.

http://uktv.co.uk/food/thread/threadid/36801

As a bonus you even get the recipes for cornflake tart and artificial cream.

Good luck!

almost forgot , what happened to the snacks at breaktimes, dundee buiscits, teacakes, the crisps which i think were called puffs, theye were hollow and came in very strong flavours, and the mini bottles of milk with a tiny straw

mmmm cheese pie chips and beans, the only day I stayed for dinner at school.

the good all days bring back cheese flam chips and beans and far afters lemon meringue pie

School cheese pie, with the bits of onion in, was indeed legendary, although any of you who frequented GG's may remember Irene's cheese flan/pie, that was pretty good to.

The pink custard was probably invented in order to 'tame' the flap-jack. Because if you were stupid enough to have school flap-jack without some sort of bonding agent, IE the pink custard, as soon as you even approached it with a spoon it would shatter into a thousand pieces and disperse itself all over your mates.

On the subject on 'things-of-old'. How many of you sat on the last bus out of Pond Street, 11:30 I think, watching that pink neon sign up on the gallery outside 'The Cinecenta' spiralling round and round, waiting for the inspectors whistle to signal the start of the bus race.

Oh Happy Days

Chris

Sago! not the minute sago balls you get in tins now, but the real McCoy they served us at skoyal in the fifties, yer proper frog spawn, delicious! but the best sago ever is what they served in the Siemans Canteen, English Steel Corporation, Brightside Lane, in the early sixties the balls were as big as marbles it was superb, wish I could taste the like now.

to sum my memories up they would be, and sorry for the length of it but if it brings a smile to your face then ive done a job,,, bendi busses, subsidised bus fares, the fiesta club, pond st cyril/nora/ the classic cinema/ guemont/ studio/5/6/7/ cockaynes, harringtons in castle market, sheffields illuminations, the egg box council offices, hole in the road, the wedding cake, lord mayors parade, radio hallam, help a hallam child, hallam tower hotel, grovesnor hotel, royal victoria hotel, s.u.t.tours, wigfalls, cavendish woodhouse, ray allen, pippys, violet mays, wopentek, josephines, maxamillions, roger sherwoods, blue bell , the marples, mucky duck, vallances, craisy, daisy, complete angler, mulberry tavern, classic cinema, houghenbraugh beer keller, gossips,


Craig - do I know you:hihi: Your memories are very similar to mine:D

yummy yummy cheeeeeeeeeeeeeese pie chips and beans. also for pudding it was like a hard choc wagon wheel thing wi custard. the dinner lady that made it left my primary school the year we did and low and behold i walked into westfield on my 1st day and there she was. and so was the CHEESE PIE.

well there was the school dinners that you remember, in 1978, semolina with jam, sponge pudding and custard, maybe red sponge with icing, chocolate sponge with chocolate custard, BUT THIS IS THE DADDY OF THEM ALL

chips , beans, maybe tomatoes, and .........................CHEESE PIE............
now were not talkin your average cheese pie here, oh no, it looked like a flan, and the cheese was so strong, i can taste it now, beaver hill 1978, this was school dinner heaven , ive never tasted anything to this day as good or as nice, you normally had 2nds ,

hiya i have the recipe HA HA do you want it .....mmmmmmmm

There is a book called School Dinners, I bought it recently on Amazon. It has all the favourites in, especially cheese pie.

There is a book called School Dinners, I bought it recently on Amazon. It has all the favourites in, especially cheese pie.
bought the book myself from w.h.smiths all the school dinner recipes are in.

i was looking at some wallpaper paste the other day and that reminded me of school semolina

Wow chips and beans for school dinners. When I was eating junior school dinners in the 1960's it was always fresh vege, carrots, peas, cabbage and a million and one ways with boiled potatoes. My favourite dinners were meat and potato pie and stew and dumplings. My favourite pudding jam sponge and custard. Mmmmmmmm.

i,m sure the cheese pie at westways had bits if bacon in it as well. gorgeous!

Went to Brook, loved the cheese pie, my favourite. Have never had anything like it since I left, nothing comes close. Is there a dinner lady out there who can give us the recipe???

But didn't you feel cheated on those days you had soup before a main course which meant NO PUDDING!! .

But oh-Treacle sponge and custard..If "seconds" was called on TS&C you would kill to get to those steel trays first...

Seconds were always called on carrots though at Morley Street and only good old John Guite would put his hand up...I remember his plate just being a curved orange dome.He will never need glasses that lad!

I loved school dinners both at primary and secondary-I remember always being hungry.

My first experience of kidney...In thse days the dinner ladies were very keen on kids eating all that was in front of them and I was spotted putting it on someone else's plate..It's the only time my ma ever went to school to argue my case..

However,I could never understand those who went home for dinner or brought sandwiches..

But didn't you feel cheated on those days you had soup before a main course which meant NO PUDDING!! .

Soup for school dinner!!!!! NO PUDDING. OMG. When I was eating school dinners it was a case of lots of lovely stodge to fill up growing kids. In those days school dinners were obligatory as we weren't allowed out of the school grounds and we were so in awe of the strict teachers that most of us stayed put.