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Our aim is to gather together as many of these classic school dinners as possible, all under one roof, to make us the most complete source of school dinner recipes aviailable. Chocolate Concrete was a delicious school dinner pudding popular in the 70s and 80s. This nostalgic and retro dessert consists of thin and crunchy chocolate shortbread that is sprinkled with sugar and served with a big dollop of pink, chocolate or mint custard. Step Two: Pour in the melted butter and mix until it looks like breadcrumbs. You can use your fingers to do this.
The pink custard you buy in the tins is not the same as the one we had at school. School pink custard was actually made with pink blancmange. You might think that's weird because blancmange sets in the fridge, but actually so does custard when you think about it! But it’s a fair bet that the hot dogs, beefburgers and spam pizza, all at a reasonable 16p, did a brisk business on that particular day. There is also another version called Chocolate Concrete Cake. This recipe calls for self-raising flour as opposed to the plain flour traditionally used in Chocolate Concrete and also uses an egg. Both the self-raising flour and the egg will make the mixture rise into a much more sponge-like texture. Pink Custard Colin Spencer author of British Food: An Extraordinary Thousand Years of History, referring to meal-time terminology says in an interview As well as the traditional mince, dumplings, chips and veg for 25p, we see ploughman’s lunch for 35p, or cheese and egg salad for 25p. Not bad...In fact, if the kitchen had cooked too much food, there would be queues of Oliver Twist-style waifs demanding “seconds” - especially if that most coveted of foodstuffs was on the menu - chips.
Chat! Sign up to School Recipes and you have instant access to our Discussion Forums where you can post questions, answers and general chat to your heart's content. I haven't made the crunch version yet but I imagine the golden syrup alters the texture making it slightly different to chocolate concrete. If you'd like the recipe for the crunch, do let me know. Chocolate Concrete Cake Me nan has it in sandwiches with a cup of tea.’ Spam was a London wartime favourite when food was scarce. I must ask for more stories when we have sit down lunch in my cookery room.But in most working households this has been replaced with less elaborate arrangements now called midday dinner/lunch.’
Step One: Add the flour, sugar and cocoa powder into a bowl and mix together until uniform in colour. The balance is truly present during this era; vegetables, potatoes and plenty of protein for a growing child," reports nutritionist Xander Pipe on 40s school meals. Add a Comment. Comment on what we've already got. If you think there's a better way of doing it, or adding your own twist, comment on our existing recipes. My meals during the school day have become grabbed snatches of food from the store cupboard and there’s rarely time for a sit down school dinner. Now that I’m living alone, funds are getting short and I’m paying for the ingredients I use in my demonstrations.When Margaret Thatcher came to power, free school dinners came to an end for thousands of families across the UK, leading to a drastic drop in the quality and nutritional value of lunches. This meant that dinners consisted of cheaper options such as potato smiley faces, chocolate cake and custard-filled desserts, with little greenery on their plates. Place the sausage meat into a large bowl. If you are using sausages split the skins and ease out the sausage meat into a bowl. Season well with salt and pepper; add the mustard powder and tomato puree. Add in the diced red peppers, cooled onion and mushrooms. Using your hands mix together well and place lengthways in the middle of the pastry rectangle.
Whilst the plainly cooked main courses may have filled many with dread, the vast majority remember the puddings with great affection. Chocolate sponge pudding with chocolate custard, for example – nectar of the gods… Unions such as the NUT have won the battle that allows teachers to have time off at lunchtime. But a free lunch saves me 50 pence a day, and the dinner ladies are kind and serve teachers the best food on a special table with a cloth and vase of flowers. My practical room cannot be left unsupervised if bread, quiches and cakes are still cooking, I must stay there until they are done, and my chance of a decent lunch will be lost.If you lived within walking distance of your school, and your mother or a neighbour was willing to make you lunch, you could go home rather than stay school dinners, returning in time for afternoon lessons. Free school meals are currently available to around 16% of children whose family income is below the current threshold for qualification. However, estimates have put the number of children missing out on school dinners due to cost at a staggering 400,000 - this means that they are not benefiting from a nutritional meal purely based on the cost. Rumours are what kept the children talking in the playground. Actually they kept the staff talking too, but usually those rumours often concerned much baser facts. I think I have already mentioned squirrel and kangaroo meat being used for the meat pies. Other 'facts' were that cauliflower was really
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