Cheese Pie (skool dinnahs)

I've never eaten cheese pie - why I don't know, it sounds fecking marvellous, but my mother had some 1970's recipe cards, and one of the recipes was for cheese pie (in amongst all the prawn cocktail, steak diane and black forest gateau recipes). If I still have it at home I'll type it out tonight.

There's a recipe in Domestic Goddess I think.

I remember something similar in a pastry case like a quiche made with lotsa cheesy mash with melted cheese on top. Was it something like that?

Thank you, that is fab!

I've found this recipe:

Here is the cheese pie recipe, hope you enjoy (my mother in law used to work in the school kitchens):
8oz plain flour
2oz butter
2oz lard
1 small onion
2 eggs beaten into half pint milk
loads of cheese (mature red is best)
Method: rub the flour and fat to form breadcrumbs add a little water to make a dough, roll out and place in flan dish, blind bake for about 10 mins.
Remove from oven, add chopped onion and grate cheese until flan dish full (about half a pound) pour in egg and milk mix, cook in oven for about 30 mins at 160. Voila school cheesepie.

But surely something that tasted so good wouldn't be that simple?

Isn't it cheese and mashed potato?

There was no mashed potato in my skool cheese pie. You dirrrrty bastards ️

Ooh I remember cheese pie, mmmm. Does anyone remember cement pie (that's what we called it! ?) Which was a pudding that was a pastry base with semi-runny caramel or something on it. It was to die for - that and the old mandarin segments topped with syrup and cornflake mix, finished off with (what I guess was) confectioner's cream. Mmmmmmmmmmmmm.

I remember I used to be jealous of the kid with dairy intolerance who used to get special mashed potato, I ALWAYS wanted to try it. ?

ours had mash too - and sometimes bits of onion

mmm - cheese pie and brown sauce

now if someone can just find me the recipe for toffee tart and pink custard i'd be much obliged ?

Wasnt the toffee tart a pastry case with baked evaporated milk in it?

SLD, just read your post and that's what 'toffee tart' is. Oh yum. My H delivers catering goods to schools, I wonder if he can get his hands on some pink custard mix ?

Oh I love school cheese pie, I'm definitely going to make that. Cowboy Pie was another favourite a school too but that's easy to make.

Cheese pie, chips and beans the best school dinner ever.

Was it called toffee tart? Mmmmmmm! I really don't have a clue what was in it. It was so lovely I always used to have seconds.

My favourite day was Friday - fish and chips (with crispies - extra helpings of the batter bits that fell off the fish, mmmmmmmmm - do they serve these in chippies actually?) followed by cement pie or syrup cornflakes. Bliss.

My MIL calls it gypsy tart. I think that's the Dartford/Kent name for it.

One awful dinner lady made me eat my peas and I was sick all over my chelsea bun [:'(]

I remember a corned beef hash concoction that made me heave at the smell of it.

Yeah Gypsy tart thats what its called around here too. Its rather delish

I'm going to make cheese pie at the weekend, and have it with oven chips and beans. Yummmmmmmm.

When? [checks diary] I have a birthday barbecue in Chingford on Saturday and Sunday lunch in Kennington on Sunday - how about Sunday dinner? [smiles winningly]

You probably ought to check with your 'H' before you start making plans for Sunday dinner, SLD ???

Send me a map ?

You cowbag! ???

Acksherloi he's doing Special Ops training on the weekend so he'll be running around in combats on a boat for the majority of the weekend.

well they do in yorkshire. ? we call them scraps

i remember being somewhere where they refered to them as 'bits' and nearly falling off my chair with mirth...

I don't think he'd want school cheese pie Hole. Not at the weekend as well.

I can't remember cheese pie at school (should I claim compo for neglect ?). However my MIL makes the bestest cheese pie ever. She uses cheese and mash and the pastry is realy thin so as to avoid heartburn. She just doesn't make it often enough for my liking.

? norty chooken

I have never eaten a school dinner, they were never served in my school. Packed lunches for all. Have I missed out?

? Chook

I now want cheese pie. Sans onions of course.

? I didn't see that yesterday Chook!

Acksherloi I make him packed lunches which he takes to school with him in his Spiderman lunchbox, I don't want the LEA poisoning him with E-numbers!!

This is what it was like, i hated the stuff but h2b still makes it now.