Today’s recipe for Bunny on the Lawn isn’t so much a recipe, but an idea with a simple method, it was popular party food in the 60’s and 70’s

Retro Party Food for Children and Adults

Today’s recipe for Bunny on the Lawn isn’t so much a recipe, but an idea along with a simple method.

Beloved of old-fashioned children’s birthday parties, I made and served this on Easter Sunday, as a delectable retro desssert.

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Today’s recipe for School Dinners Chocolate Concrete (Chocolate Crunch), is a new “Old” recipe, beloved of school cooks

A Retro School Pudding

Today’s recipe for School Dinners Chocolate Concrete (Chocolate Crunch), is a new “Old” recipe.

Yes, it’s the old school dinners pudding favourite, served with pink custard, which is actually pink blancmange.

The recipe is from a friend’s mother, who used to be a school cook. 

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July in the UK has been a WASH OUT! Wet and windy with storms, so today I’m sharing some comforting Retro School Dinners Recipes.

School Jam Tart

Comfort food from the School Canteen

July in the UK has been a WASH OUT! Wet and windy with storms, so today I’m sharing some comforting Retro School Dinners Recipes.

From hearty puddings to pies and flans, I hope you will find some inspiration in the following recipes I’m sharing.

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Today’s recipe for Old-Fashioned Almond Rice Cakes is a fabulous recipe from a cookbook I have from 1911, called “Light Fare Recipes for Corn Flour and Raisley Cookery”

For Elevenses or a Vintage Afternoon Tea

Today’s recipe for Old-Fashioned Almond Rice Cakes is a fabulous recipe from a cookbook I have from 1911, called “Light Fare Recipes for Corn Flour and Raisley Cookery” It was published by Brown & Polson, who are still around and still sell cornflour, as well as blancmange too.

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My recipes for Jam & Coconut Sponge with Pink Custard is a real blast from the past, and was my favourite School Dinner’s pudding.

A Classic School Dinner Pudding

This is a REAL blast from the past, Jam & Coconut Sponge with Pink Custard was one of my favourite school dinner “afters” as we used to call pudding. And, my recipe shares a secret, for the pink custard, and how a friend who was a school cook used to make it.

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Sweet Easter Treats for Easter Week…..
Cake, Hot Cross Buns, Eggs & Floral Baking Gifts
After my HUGE March Tea Time Treats round-up posts here – Tea Time Treats Part one and Part Two, I am taking a bit of a holiday today, and thought that a really useful and helpful article might be to post all my Easter sweet treats in one place; I DO have more Easter baking to share this week, as well as some Good Friday fish articles too, but for now are some of my recent Spring-time and Easter recipes in a handy single post! 

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Old Fashioned Sweet Violet Syrup
for Easter & Mothering Sunday Cakes & Bakes

It’s violets all the way……..I seem to have hundreds of these beautiful, highly scented flowers in my garden this year – they are delightful and make me smile when I open the front door. And to think that just two weeks ago they were under a thick blanket of snow…..but here they are now, all smiley and happy; the air is heavy with their scent – an old fashioned fragrance redolent of lace edged handkerchiefs, old leather handbags belonging to elderly aunties, as well as sweet shops and Sunday afternoon tea.

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