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has anyone tried www.cdkitchen.com for school dinner recipes?

Gypsy tart and cornflake tart are there. The only thing is some of the recipes are in massive proportions so you will have to do a bit of maths first to reduce the portions to family size rather than school size.

The gypsy tart I made the other day was wonderful.

Dianne xx

Yes, Julia, I'd forgotten the choccy pud, also we used to have a rusk type buiscit,(forgotten what they were called) with white custard. The biscuits were so brittle that if you didn't leave them to soak for a while, they shattered all over the table when you dug your spoon in.

Treacle sponge with custard, lucious!! I still make that now and again, only takes 6 mins in microwave.

Another stone!!!

Hello Annina, I was just remembering the conversation we had on here the other day about the same Derbyshire school dinners. I am abit further down the county than you was, nearer to the Nottinghamshire border. Someone also mentioned yesterday about chocolate pudding with pink custard. Well, we had that aswell

Julia in Derbyshire

Hi Julia, Hollingwood secondary Girls, between Brim and Stavely, I think it is a Barratt estate now.

I t occurred to me, reading these threads, that despite living on a diet of largely Carbohydrates ,proper chips, great slabs of bread and dripping, huge yorkshire puds to fill us up, that very few of us were fat.

Perhaps we moved around more then, remember all our childhood games like skipping that you rarely see kids doing now.

Annina, where did you go to school in Derbyshire.

Julia in Derbyshire

Another stone!!!!!

My uncle married a girl who came from Sunderland in the 1930s.One of the recipes she picked up from her mother was egg and bacon pie.

That is a double crusted pie into which you place one rasher(I use the vege ones quite successfully) and a beaten egg per person.
season it and bake it.

It makes a small amount of baacon and a couple of eggs go a long way and it has always been one of my favourites too.

I can't find a recipe for mince and dumplings but there is one for beef and dumplings and a seperate one for mince which follows on from the shepherds pie recipe.

15 floz milk
half ounce of butter
mustard
seasoning
cayenne

Mix the dry ingredients including cheese together.Warm up the butter in the milk(oddly,it didn't mention microwave).Mix that in.Mix in egg yolks.Beat the whites stiff.Fold them in.Into well greased dish.

Bake at 450F for 20 mins.

I gave it 30mins at 190.

They seem to be optimistic with their timings but they were trying to flog electric cookers.

I have to go downstairs and let a nurse in and put a sling in the dryer.The books are down there so when she comes I will pick them up.

They were written in a time of real austerity of course so they might be particularly relevant now.

The cheese pudding is all gone.

From memory that was
4oz breadcrumbs
2oz grated cheese
1egg plus one yolk but I used the white as well
15,

The little round icecream blocks with paper on them were Lyons ice cream and very nice too!. Anyone remember Chicory beans which were eaten instead of sweets?

Oh Julia.... get me one for my freezer too will you please? ;-0)
Going to settle down for the night now, so goodnight everyone.

Deanna X

Sharron , it would be great if you could put some recipes on, I am sure everyone would like to try them, could be very interesting....



Jean x

I suppose they didn't get cholestrol then or they would never have survived to breed us who would die immediately if we even had chips out of newspaper.

Oh Tina,

I remember real dripping for frying......and boy didn't the chips taste sooooooo good !!
Never had a good chip since.....but often thought about buying that dripping as I have seen it in butchers shops.....better not though ...Cholesterol would be bang out of order !!

chocolate crunch and pink custard at shcool yummmm!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have been a vegetarian for many years now but still manage to make a passable roly with vege suet and vege rashers.

The leek and onion pudding sounds like a good one.

Tell me about the leek and onion pudding.Was it a roly?

I could put some of the 1930s recipes on if anybody wants them.

The tomato one was the biggest surprise.It is so simple but well,you know that sort of zing that a tomato sandwich has?

It is like all zing and not much sandwich.

Sharron, how true you are in your last paragraph. I will try your cheese pudding, as we are more for savoury than sweet.
Deanna, I too like Neopolitan Ice Cream, and have just put it on my Morrison's list for next Friday.

Julia in Derbyshire

How about the ice-cream counter in Woolies.The little round piece of ice-cream that went on top of an Askey's cone.

Being in a superior area hem-hem,we not only had a peanut roaster in our branch but a cashew nut roaster too.Never tasted nuts like them since.

I have just made a cheese pudding from those old books.It is breadcrumbs,grated cheese,egg,milk,bit of butter,seasoning,mustard and cayenne and it is delicious.We seem to have lost the art of simplicity now and gained the art of waste.

Oh... I still love Neapolitan ice cream.... and no one buys me it! boo hoo. My husband loves vanilla, and my son loves... the fancy one... can't remember the name.... oh yes...
Carte d'Or.
Very nice, but nothing really special.
He does like Haagan Das too.

What are we like?
Half the world starving and we are sitting here chatting about luxuries.... disgusting aren't we?

Deanna X