Concrete Ron deal done

[Percy McCarthy]

You've trumped me with that one Willy. I surrender.

[Concrete John]

My Mom is a retired school meals cook and still has the recipe for chocolate concrete and makes it if I ask.  My other half tried it once and it came out awful - best left to highly trained dinner ladies!

Any chance of posting it JM?

Haven't got it electronically!  I'll see if I can scan it and then PM you to mail it.

[pauliewalnuts]

Classic H&V, the meandering onto recipes for chocolate concrete.

The only way it could have been more H&V would have been if it had happened in the GM ITK thread.

[Brend'Watkins]

Yes,  we may not have got our man but we do get the authentic 'dinner lady' recipe for chocolate concrete.  It will be some sort of consolation when we let in another goal from a corner.

[WA Villan]

My Mom is a retired school meals cook and still has the recipe for chocolate concrete and makes it if I ask.  My other half tried it once and it came out awful - best left to highly trained dinner ladies!

Any chance of posting it JM?

Haven't got it electronically!  I'll see if I can scan it and then PM you to mail it.

Got quite dewey eyed with all this talk of Chocolate concrete. If you succeed with the scan would appreciate a copy. Cheers.

[stubbsyandy]

My Mom is a retired school meals cook and still has the recipe for chocolate concrete and makes it if I ask.  My other half tried it once and it came out awful - best left to highly trained dinner ladies!

Any chance of posting it JM?

Haven't got it electronically!  I'll see if I can scan it and then PM you to mail it.

That would be great...got the missus waiting in the kitchen!

[TopDeck113]

I'm sure the combo at my primary school was chocolate concrete with GREEN (mint?) custard

[Pat McMahon]

I'm sure the combo at my primary school was chocolate concrete with GREEN (mint?) custard

Well said - I was about to type the same. It was definitely green mint custard at all the schools I went to.

I cant wait to see the recipe - not for the taste but to see what the magic ingredient was that made it harder than granite.

[peter w]

What i loved at school - even better than the chocolate concrete was when the dinner lady  asked if Iwanted custard I'd reply yes. Just as she started to pour I'd quickly move the bowl. Narked her right off - especially as i did it more than once. i was a right bastard then as well.

[Risso]

Chocolate concrete was definitely normally served with pink custard.  As far as I know it was nothing more than flour, cocoa powder, sugar and butter mixed together and cooked.  It therefore required no cooking ability whatsoever, and could be made for hundreds of kids with hardly any effort at all at a cost of mere pennies.

[DB]

Chocolate concrete was definitely normally served with pink custard.  As far as I know it was nothing more than flour, cocoa powder, sugar and butter mixed together and cooked.  It therefore required no cooking ability whatsoever, and could be made for hundreds of kids with hardly any effort at all at a cost of mere pennies.

Now you're talking! Our school used have different combo's of concrete and custard. The jackpot was chocolate concrete with chocy custard, lovely. I used to love school dinners.

Sorry, what were we talking about...?

[glasses]

Chocolate concrete was definitely normally served with pink custard.  As far as I know it was nothing more than flour, cocoa powder, sugar and butter mixed together and cooked.  It therefore required no cooking ability whatsoever, and could be made for hundreds of kids with hardly any effort at all at a cost of mere pennies.

You are right Riss. My mum was a dinner lady at one point too and has the recipe. It is the quite large quantity of sugar that gives the texture I think. My sister knows the recipe too, I'll try and find it out, but I'm pretty certain those are the ingredients.

[TopDeck113]

Chocolate concrete was definitely normally served with pink custard.  As far as I know it was nothing more than flour, cocoa powder, sugar and butter mixed together and cooked.  It therefore required no cooking ability whatsoever, and could be made for hundreds of kids with hardly any effort at all at a cost of mere pennies.

Forever the accountant! 

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

We used to have green (minty???) custard. No one else liked it and I generally had the whole jug to myself!
You could also put the choc concrete in your pocket and save it for later!

[Dave Cooper please]

Chocolate concrete is dead easy to make.

It's just butter, eggs, sugar, self raising flour and lots of cocoa powder.

Melt the butter, add the flour, sugar and cocoa powder, mix it up, add the eggs, mix it again, stick it in the oven for 40 minutes.

Experiment with amounts and temperatures for added fun.

Must be left for at least an hour after cooking to allow it to set properly.