Does anybody have the recipe for school dinners chocolate pudding and pink custard from the 90s (UK)?
Pink custard Rumours are what kept the children talking in the playground. Actually they kept the staff talking too, but usually those rumours often concerned much baser facts. I think I have already mentioned squirrel and kangaroo meat being used for the meat pies. Other ‘facts’ were that cauliflower was really 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: Scab and puss custard, Snot and bogey pie, All mixed up with a dead dog’s eye Stir it up, mash it up, eat it up quick, All washed down with a cup of cold sick The stuff of more glorious legends as far as the school meal was concerned was pink custard. Lurid in colour, luscious in texture and loved almost universally, pink custard made a simple iced sponge into a proper pudding. In researching this recipe some have spoken of alchemy and others of food colouring and strawberry flavouring, but I have discovered the
