mick2me 3,033 Posted January 25, 2006 Report Share Posted January 25, 2006 What was your favorite, What did you hate? Buterscotch Tart with Pouring Cream YUM! Prunes an Custard YUK! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted January 25, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 25, 2006 Recipe: Butterscotch Tart This is a variation on a school-dinner favourite. Ingredients Serves: 4 110 Gram Rich shortcrust pastry (4 oz) 25 Gram Butter (1 oz) 50 Gram Demerara sugar (2 oz) 300 ml Milk ( 1/2 pint) 1 Tablespoon Cornflour Pinch Ground ginger 2 Tablespoon Double cream, lightly whipped Chopped walnuts, optional, to decorate Method Preheat the oven to 190 °C / 375 °F / Gas 5. Line a 15 cm (6 inch) flan ring with the pastry and bake blind for at least 15-20 minutes. Cool on a wire rack. Slowly melt the butter. Add the sugar and cook until dark brown and oily; this may take about 10 minutes. Carefully pour on three-quarters of the milk. Simmer slowly until the sugar has dissolved. In a cup, blend the cornflour with the remaining milk. Pour a little hot milk into the cup and mix well. Pour this back into the butterscotch milk and stir while it boils and thickens. Draw off the heat and stir in the ginger. Allow to cool. Add the cream. Pour Quote Link to post Share on other sites
pemberton 15 Posted January 25, 2006 Report Share Posted January 25, 2006 Tappioca pudding - looked like frogspawn! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Caz 25 Posted January 27, 2006 Report Share Posted January 27, 2006 spotted dick yuk!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chrissie 1 Posted January 28, 2006 Report Share Posted January 28, 2006 is that the pemberton i remember hmmm had many brothers and sisters, frog spawn included, carol comes to mind, nice family, hawthorne street or there abouts as i recall. Anyway school dinners bip like you i distract so often from the menu, could eat u den really. HMMMMMMMm well i remember lumpy mash or smash as i recall, and caramel tart, and i nearly forgot, tomatoes with mash potatoe, still haunts me now. The dinner tickets, were yellow that was if you were poor people like us off kingsmeadow road end, arky end were rich lol, you would queue up and yuk cant imagine den i would eat that crap now, could you, miss ya den and mick Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted January 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2006 Just reminded me. That black Jelly baby in the mashed spuds? What's This? A SLUG! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bip 88 Posted January 31, 2006 Report Share Posted January 31, 2006 spotted dick yuk!! . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paulus 541 Posted March 17, 2012 Report Share Posted March 17, 2012 Open tart with cornflakes filling, mixed with caramel or treacle I think, anyone have the same (served up at St Teresa'a RC Primary) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted March 17, 2012 Report Share Posted March 17, 2012 Mu hubby's aunt worked at a school doing the cooking for the dinners and I got the recipe from her for the butterscotch tart. But it needed butterscotch flavouring [tiny bottle]. I did this tart for years, but not since moving here and I dont' know it they still do the flavouring. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fynger 841 Posted March 17, 2012 Report Share Posted March 17, 2012 And that nasty time you discovered those chips weren't chips..they were Parsnips....ARRRRGH !!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted March 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2012 I love roasted parsnips Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Limey 242 Posted March 18, 2012 Report Share Posted March 18, 2012 Me too! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
piggy and babs 544 Posted March 18, 2012 Report Share Posted March 18, 2012 me too. as for school dinners did not have school dinners at school much when at ashwell st school but if i had to stay for any reason i never liked them. but when i went to senior school i nearly always had school dinners and remember liking most things hot pot type thing with scones on top was one of my favorite diners and cornflake tart for pud, i think the thing i liked about dinner at senior school was it all came to the table in seperate green serving dishes and handed round the table and if you did not like something you did not have to have it on your plate, made you feel more grown up .not just plonked on your plate and like it or lump it and made to feel you had to eat it wether you liked it or not. all tables had two girls from each year including one prefect the older girls were surposed to look after the younger ones and make sure they ot there fair sheares and were not bullied . the oldere girls also had to fetch the dishes on trays from the kitchen counter. and although every one knew who was on free meals in there own class you did not know who was in the other classes and they were never treated any differently. in our school money was put in envelopes and handed to your form teacher for your weeks or days dinneres and a check made daily at morning reg if you were late you had to go to see the school secetary. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted March 18, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2012 I was on free meals and had a Free Meal Ticket so the other kids knew we were on 'National Assistance' The only things I never liked for years was those things they forced me to eat at school. Brussels YUK! I remember being made to sit in the dining hall after the other kids had gone with a portion of Swede on my plate. I tried to squash it down with knife and fork to make it look like I ate some. Most things I hated as a kid I now love, Brussels Parsnips Mushrooms. But Swede, Cauliflower and Cabbage I will not touch even 45 years later. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
twroberts27 0 Posted March 18, 2012 Report Share Posted March 18, 2012 We used to walk in a crocodile from Church Hill School in Kimberley up High Street to a hall (on James St, I think) where meals were served for us and other schools. Worse thing was rice pudding with 'ricebergs' floating in it. You put in a blob of jam and wizzed it round until it was a pink, gloopy mess. I figured out that if I pocketed my dinner money rather han buying tickets on Monday morning I could afford a bag of chips and an ice-lolly each lunchtime. I was soon found out though. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted March 18, 2012 Report Share Posted March 18, 2012 Love the term "Ricebergs"! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted March 18, 2012 Report Share Posted March 18, 2012 Our gang used to slip out of school at dinner time and pop down Sneinton Dale to George's Chippy. We'd each buy a small loaf from the bakers and hollow out the middle. George would then fill that with chips and a drop of gravy - yummy. One member would, on a rota basis, keep conk outside and if Adolph (The head) came down the dale in his minibus looking for escapees George would hide us in his private back room until the danger had passed. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted March 18, 2012 Report Share Posted March 18, 2012 Butterscotch tart with custard was my favourite. School custard was made with sterilized milk and tasted wonderfully creamy. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Braddy 160 Posted March 18, 2012 Report Share Posted March 18, 2012 I had free meals with the x on the ticket to show you had free meals, but i didn't care i liked all the meals and puddings and going back for seconds for puddings Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted March 18, 2012 Report Share Posted March 18, 2012 That X on the free dinner tickets was really, really bad. It singled out less well-off kids and often led to selective bullying. I can see no reason for the X in the first place; why not just issue a standard ticket without charge, the paperwork shows who had the tickets for accounting purposes. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Braddy 160 Posted March 18, 2012 Report Share Posted March 18, 2012 yes x on the ticket was bad,as for bullying i hit first they didn't come back for seconds. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,602 Posted March 28, 2018 Report Share Posted March 28, 2018 Obviously she's not pouring out custard as that was given out by the slab Rog 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted March 28, 2018 Report Share Posted March 28, 2018 Must be a 1953 photo, they've all got Coronation mugs. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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