School Dinner Recipes: Classic School Dinner Recipes from the 1960's, 1970's and 1980's
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School Dinner Recipes: Classic School Dinner Recipes from the 1960's, 1970's and 1980's
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Spread the dough with the jam. Dampen the edges with water or milk. Roll the dough into a log shape and place in a lightly buttered baking tin. Bake for 30 to 40 minutes until risen and golden. Serve with lashings of custard and extra warmed jam if so desired. brains and that anything green and mushy had to be made from snot or bogeys. So many rumours in fact that every playground had their own version of the following rhyme:
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But the main reason for avoiding school dinners is the choice. Battered Spam fritters appear on the menu at least once a week, served with chips and globby tinned spaghetti. I’ve watched the cook open the oblong Spam can, give it a thump and a pink solid lump drops onto the chopping board. She cuts it into slices, dips each piece in batter then deep fries them until crisp, just before the queues speed in. 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... This is a really cheap recipe to make and uses only 4 ingredients. In fact, you've probably got them in already. You will need plain flour, granulated sugar, melted butter and cocoa powder. Although many retro favourites such as turkey Twizzlers and turkey dinosaurs became popular during this time, ‘the 80s were not the prime time for health and wellbeing’ states Xander. According to the nationwide study, commissioned by Vue cinemas, eight per cent of study participants ranked turkey dinosaurs as one of the nation’s top 40 nostalgic foods. Step One: Add the flour, sugar and cocoa powder into a bowl and mix together until uniform in colour.
Cooked from scratch on the premises, these dinners were planned to give children a hot, nutritious meal in the middle of the day. In the 1950s and 1960s many a child lived in poverty and a hot meal was often not possible. School milk had also been introduced to improve the poor diet of many children. Everyone knows you can't eat this sort of thing without custard and this part of the recipe could be up for debate. 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. Everyone else had school dinners. Dinner money was collected every Monday for the week, a shilling a day in the late 1950s rising to 1s 6d in the mid 1960s. Free school meals were available to those in need.
Mix together the cornflour and sugar, add some of the milk a tablespoon at a time until a paste has formed. Warm the remaining milk in a saucepan and add the paste. Bring to the boil, continuously stirring. We say balls to Balls (Ed Balls of course!) and have unfortunately misplaced his new book telling kids what they must eat. Instead, what we have here is aimed more at us 'older children' who want to try and relive the good old days of school dinners. By that we certainly don't mean the stuff of recent years which has been a tad too close to fast food for our liking, but such intricate delicacies as ' Pink Custard', Manchester Tart and the like.
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