I remember this in school, semolina and jam, chocolate cake and custard etc. Don't know why everyone hated on school dinners, the cooks we had made the best stuff.
Looks pretty authentically what I got as a rare treat at school, although they may not have used proper butter. Thanks for this blast from the past Keef! What's next in the series - frogspawn, fly pie, jam & coconut sponge squares with pink custard, pineapple upsidedown cake, chocolate concrete with chocolate custard?
If i have corflake dusty bottom of bag and broken bits i crush it a bit and mix it into the box of spicey flour mix for coating chicken breast meat. It gives a nice bumpy texture almost like certain fried chicken. My kids love it
I don't remember cornflake tart either. I remember a lot of prunes, tapioca, jam sponge and custard, fruit salad out of a tin and ice cream in summer, but cool recipe and more comfort watching. Lovely!
As a side note, Primary school for me had food brought in. Only when I went to a large High School did they cook on premises. Average food for the 1st 4 years. Much better as 5th years, ( Seniors) we had a really nice dining area with good on premises cooks different from the rest of the school, I suppose they were saying, we deserved a bit better. We even had a different tie for 5th year, I still wear it once in a while. Thanks for the recipes, Keef. btw, Moorside High School, Swinton. Cheers.
Well actually I would normally shoot a video on the Tuesday but that was the hottest day ever. So I did it on Sunday instead which was acceptably cooler.
Glad to see that you regret not getting this from your Dinner Ladies. I think I had School Dinners 1sh/day from the age of about 8 till I left scobday School. Both the Junior School and the Secondary School had on-site kitchens and this was served often. I was 8 in 1952 so you may edit your description to include the 50s and 60s decades. I pity present day youngsters their School Dinners ours were wonderful. The only thing I didn't like was Onion Sauce and Parsley Sauce. And some milk pudding that was nicknamed 'Frog Spawn', cannot remember what it was but blobs of 'something'. Probably tasted fine, just looked yuk!
Frogspawn was sago if I remember correctly, I also remember not many of us liked it. 🥴 The schools that I went to had decent cooks so our meals were ok. I used to love beef stew with crispy dumplings, we got good food compared to what the schools provide nowadays we never ever got chips just mashed potatoes, but we got roast potatoes on our Christmas dinner that was a real treat. My mum cooked great meals so I was lucky to get two cooked meals per day, some kids only got the one at school so i supposed it made a big difference if they were nicely cooked.
@@cgat1955 Yes that's it was Sago cos I see Semolina mentioned in another post which I liked. We had a ditty: Semolina Pudding. - Meat and Potato Pie, - All mixed together, - with a dead dogs eye. 🙂 Which is strange because they are all things that were good and wholesome which school kids are missing nowadays. I should also say that my School Din's started just after Rationing finished, I'm getting on a bit. Keef has a way of bringing nostalgia to me.
@@jamesgoacher1606 I remember that ditty also, but loved semolina, they used to put raisins in ours it was gorgeous. Maybe they couldn’t make the rhyme up with sago so semolina took the hit 😂
@@cgat1955 I have a feeling Mr Keef Cooks is proding at your nostalgia too. Bread and Butter Pudding. I think he has done that as well. He has lots of good straightforward grub in his repatoire (spelling?).
I've finished school myself around 3 weeks ago, found your channel and have been binge watching it, I love it. I'll confess I've watched some videos several times, but it's helped me to start cooking my own meals to help my mum rest after 10-12 hour shifts as a NHS worker at a Hospital. I'll have to give this one a go, thank you for inspiring me. Many thanks, Matt Colin Cranham.
School dinner were really good some days the smell of food wafting down the main corridors you just knew that the scoop of proper lumpy mash covered with gravy was going to be heaven 🇬🇧👍🏼❤️
@@anitaquinley4860 the schools we went always had tasty dinners (except pink custard 🤢) I don’t remember ever seeing this but each school probably had mothers that said let’s try this today. I remember our mum making melted chocolate mixed with cornflakes and set in dairy cake liners and those soggy custard icing topped Jacobs cream cracker things. 🤢
You were deprived in school. I can't believe you're dinner ladies never made this. It's the most delicious, traditional, iconic school pudding there is! 🥰😋 (Pink blancmange and semolina pudding don't count. 😝)
As a young lad, I ate a lot of cornflakes and, after I became an adult, I experienced a lot of tarts, but I never thought of combining the two before. Two thumbs up.👍👍😁
Saw this in a bakers recently and thought it looked 'retro' but I don't remember it from school. I enjoyed school dinners - traditional British food with a few foreign dishes back in the 70s and early 80s
Hot weather gets my wife in the mood for baking. So for her pizza, she turns the oven to 500 degrees Eff for an hour to heat the oven ‘properly’. Or for her birthday in July, I might get tasked with baking her birthday sweet (a fave is Amaretto cheesecake, a mere 450 for only 25-30 minutes). Salute to you for baking in your hot weather.
Never had this for school dinners lol we had chocolate sponge with peppermint custard or sponge with strawberry Jam on top with dessicated coconut on top with plain custard lol the only thing with cornflakes in it was cornflakes covered in chocolate (chocolate nests) 🤣🤣🤣. But this looks interesting
Interesting that I only now found out that "Tart" does not mean acidic or sour in baking. It means a thick base pastry to a pie. I had these for dessert in Manchester in the 1960's and 70's. Loaded with sugar. Hope the NHS told you to use a low sugar version?? I know the procedure you are talking about. I would only make this recipe now for my 20 year old son, way too much sugar for wife and I. Thanks though for the explanation.
I have Corn Flakes because I had relatives stay with me a couple of weeks and they ate them. I've been trying to use the flakes in different recipes. Thanks for the recipe.
Besides the sweet, my mom used to use corn flake crumbs as a coating for savory things like fried chicken, baked chops & the like. Good luck; I try to use up similarly leftover stuff.
Don't think our dinner ladies could be arsed going to all this trouble so we just got cornflake cakes instead. Had one every day. Chicken pie, chips, cornflake cake, glass of milk. Tops.
Thank you very much, this one I will definitely try. Especially, because in our house NO ONE eats Cornflakes. We only have them for crisping up fried chicken or slightly precooked cauliflower, you know, the classic way: seasoned flour, battered egg, smashed corn flakes, deep fry. You might enjoy your left-over cornflakes as little „pralinés“ mixed with molten chocolate an maybe some chopped cranberries …
Did you go to a posh school 😀only joking, not that I would remember anything so good, I was born in 55 so our school cooks would probably never even heard of it 😉
Hi Keef. This looks great. Your written recipe says that there is 100ml BACON in the pastry. You seem to have had a blond moment there. Thanks for all the lovely recipes you post week after week.😊
Grand video Keef. Never had it at our school but the puddings we did have were all very good. The usual things, sponges such as plain, chocolate, ginger, spotted dick, treacle, the lot. Lashings of custard. Thanks for the trip down memory Lane. Appreciated.
I’m 54 and I’ve never heard of this. When I was at primary and middle school most, if not all of the school dinners came from a centralised council run facility. I’m having a bit of a moment remembering the cheese pie. I suspect it was mostly potato but it was bloody lovely. Then I went to a fancy grammar school and the food was awful, apart from cherry cheesecake which I suspect they bought in. They had these awful “rissoles” that we called feet. All the meat content of your average shoe.
I'm 62 and went to a cof england school and we could watch our school cooks prepare our dinners during morning playtime and they would pass stuff out of the Window for us to try the best was when we got to lick the cake bowls and whisks the good old days how it would be frowned upon licking a bowl or whisk or eating raw ingredients these day I still do when I bake now
We didnt have it down south!(Dannn Saffff) We did have something called australian crunch that was served at the 2 schools i went to and i've never seem a recipie online! There are lots of things called that but the Somerset version didnt have any coconut in it or chocolate on the top. Bit like the Oriental liver we had at college it was in the days of cooks employed by the LEA and the LEA probably dreamt up the recipes that were on budget!
"right back to your schooldays".....keef not everyone was risen in the horror that is the british school system cuisine, where was the mint sauce? AND WHEEEERES THE LAMB SAUUUUUUUUUUCEEEEE!!!! luvlay luvlay luvlay.
@@Keefcooks It effect on me. Maybe if I had a handful of Cornflakes whilst doing it, it might have made a difference. Enjoying your site a lot. Grew up in Edgware and went to school in Watford. Had lots steem puddings with custard. Pies with soggy chips. They put baked beans on everything no matter what it was. Took me years to eat beans again 😋 Keep it up and I'll keep watching
