School Dinners
 

I made Liver and onions with mash and peas for dinner today
liver was done in the slow cooker it was great
but reminded me of school dinners
my fav was butterscotch tart or choc sponge with pink custard
i hated and still do hate prunes and custard
what do you remember of school dinners good and bad ?
and do you have any recipes ?

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I have never liked liver....in any shape or form.
I liked prunes and custard....not so fond of rhubarb and custard.
I liked any kind of cake and custard.....jam role poly and custard was my absolute favourite.
I can't think of many main courses....I liked spud pie and beetroot....and mince and dumplings.
In truth, if it had not been for free school dinners I think my brothers and I would have starved.

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Never had school dinners as I lived near enough to go home.

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I only remember the custard- nothing with it, just a steaming ladle full, poured into my bowl. I asked for more, and was told to stand in the corner for my insolence.

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I always had school dinners as I didn't live in Accrington but went to school there. Don't remember any meals from Peel Park but at the High School the thing I remember most was something everyone called 'Yaccum'.( Well that was how it was pronounced) It was served with some sort of pudding instead of custard and was thick and very sweet. I never did know what it was but it was certainly a favourite. Anyone recall it ?

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When everyone had been served you could line up for 'seconds'...and believe me I did.
There was one lovely dinner lady who used to give me a chunk of cake to take home.....all neatly wrapped in a paper towel.

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I couldn't stand tapioca pudding. It looked like frog spawn.

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I recall it was served at Accy high school in the 50s.
Ii was white, and made with thick Nestles milk - yummy.

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You must have been at the High school same time as me Margaret. remember Miss Scotney saying Grace in Latin?

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never stayed for em.

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I have looked at your profile.
I was 2 years above you.
I only had school dinners for the last 2 years - until then I went to my gran's in Accy.

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I loved school dinners. The meat crumble was really good served with gravy from a metal jug and I liked semolina with a blob of jam stirred round to make it pink! The custard always had a thick skin on it but I wasn't keen on the stodgy sponge pudding. Prunes and custard was nice too. We always had proper meals until they changed to a canteen system when I was about thirteen when, I thought, the meals deteriorated. I can remember my kids coming home complaining that the yoghurts were out of date or the fruit rotten in the middle. I think profit started to come before proper nutrition.

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Think you're right Westendlass. Now every thing seems to be something and chips. I do not every remember having chips at school.

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I've never had one!

Always had packed lunches. One day when I was about 5 I forgot my packed lunch and had to go and get a school dinner, I didn't know what to do and another little girl had to tell me when to get a plate and stuff and I was SO embarrassed-and I sat down to eat it and then my Father turned up with my packed lunch that he'd brought. All the dinnerladies were telling me I had to still eat the dinner but I threw a tantrum and wouldn't.

My Sister went to a different (private) school and is still so traumatised over the fact she was forced to eat prunes that we're not even allowed to mention them in front of her.

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Remember chocolate sponge and pink custard ?
made this yesterday yum yum:D

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I can feel tha heading for my waist......and that's only looking at it Mick!

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Stayed for school dinners for a few years, cost five bob a week, a shilling a day. Some were good some were just O.K.. I remember buying a bottle of B top sauce to help some of the dinners. Love the bakewell tart and custard, I remember they made large flats of meat pie with a lovely crust on top but when you flipped the crust it was loaded with onions underneath yuk. Still, can't complain we didn't starve.

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The only bit of school dinners I can remember were the Brussels sprouts, boiled for ages until a disgusting mush.
I've hated them ever since.
Oh, and semolina pudding just like lumpy wallpaper paste left in the bucket too long.
The rest must have been OK, at that age you enjoyed eating most things.

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OOOOOh that choc pud with pink sauce looks really rummy. That was one of my favourites at school.

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Loved them! I remember once in the 60's there was a shortage of spuds so they sent bread and butter instead???? :mad:

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Yes, I remember that too. We got great thick slices of bread..but it definitely wasn't butter on it..... It was Summer County marge.

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From what I remember of school dinners they were awful,the dinner ladies use to leave the kitchen doors open and the smell is very enticing.
But don't be fooled the food was over cooked to the point of leaving little to no nutritional value....the puddings were ok though.....if you liked semolina ;)

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Our school dinners were cooked off the premises and were delivered around 11.30 in large steel containers by cream Bedford vans with the Lancashire red rose logo on the side.
These lunches were also provided to the needy as 'Meals on Wheels'.

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Them skoo dinners were cooked in large quantities in the rear of the old St James's Sko in Paradice St.

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Yes, they were. I remember once going to the dental clinic on Cannon St and seeing the vans lined up ready to be filled with rice pudding and steaming gravy.

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Back on the school dinners kick again
Going to make mince beef pie with mash and peas for dinner
Some ingrediance I did not think would be in this school recipe include celery and marmite
Are you a marmite fan?

Afters will be home made treacle tart with home made custard

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No. I don't like either of those ingredients.
I make a mean minced beef and onion pie.......my recipe does not include either of those things...it does have mustard and tomato ketchup in it though...and fresh or dried parsley....and I use red onions.

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Love Marmite:D

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dinner time mince meat & onion pie mash & peas yum;)

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Mick, that looks fit for a king......bet there was none left.

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No use showing the pictures after you've eaten it!
No point in popping round now.

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Gordon he just wants us all to slavver over our keyboards:)

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Are you sure your name is Mick, not Jamie.

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deffo not I cant stand him.
I prefer the hairy bikers which I have met and have a signed book of there's
when it comes to cooking and eating the wife only likes very plain food
even pepper is a no no to her
so home made curry etc is down to me:D

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I used to like the two fat ladies . ;)

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Never heard of the Hairy Bikers Mick, the name does not impress me, but Jamie's no slouch when it comes to cooking up a treat.

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The Hairy Bikers

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It's the stinky Devil's food. Blurghhhh.

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These lads are from Tyneside.
They have been responsible for stimulating communities to set up lunch clubs for the elderly and disabled.
Their cooking is stick to the ribs stuff.
And they have even branched out into healthy styles of eating and cooking.

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I just watched their show for the first time a couple of days ago. Loved it!

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tea yesterday
cauliflower cheese with a crumb topping and oven roasted cherry tomato's
really good and filling.
oh and some left for sat after the pub :D

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we never got that for a school dinner Mick.
It looks delicious......good home cooked grub.

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next offering was this fish pie
very good and tasty when first made but was absolutely horrible when re-heated:)

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A Catholic school , so it was a meatless Friday . So it was fish and chips with a tomato sauce called "Haza" . Great . :)

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Although we had cheese & onion pie at school this recipe belongs to the Hairy Bikers:)
its very tasty having parmesan cheese in the crust :)
this will be my Saturday dinner with chips and peas

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Yeah,who was it that looked at a cuppa tea and thought this isn't meaty enough :D

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Hated fish pie. It was always stinky and strong flavoured.
If that was on the menu I starved...well sometimes just had a plate of carrot and the pud.
Don't know what it was about the menu, but it was never a goodudding(like jam sponge and custard or roll poly) when fish pie was on the menu...it was usually sago or jelly and custard.
Not something substantial that would stop your back and your belly from flopping together.

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You aught to taste my wifes fish pie, Margaret.You'll want seconds I guarantee! !

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Never Jim, I cannot stomach fish other than in batter.....and I hate 'fishy' fish.....it has to be meaty fish.
Salmon makes me violently ill.....no give my portion to the cat.

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Some memories of mine were scarey dinner ladies.who took more home than they give the kids...A dollop of mash served with an ice cream scoop..Never any chips...Frog spawn sago...The poor kids on free dinners had to wear a big badge......

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school fish pie, mushy peas that were as hard as the marbles you played with and mashed poatoes that always contained lumps that tasted underdone. the only plus side were the sweets. jam rolly poly. spotted dick and the school custard. school dinners must have been the first part of the national corriculum as they sounded as bad in accy as they were in the north east.