Concrete Ron deal done

[Concrete John]

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.

One thing I learned from my Mom is that you NEVER dis the dinner lady massive!  Expect a posse to be heading for the IOM right now to deliver their righteous wrath.

[Mazrim]

A dinner lady will hold your coat while you fight her.

[stubbsyandy]

defo mint custard

[Percy McCarthy]

Gary Shaw used to hoover up EVERYBODY'S leftovers at our school. If he wasn't so brilliant at football he could have been our Barry Austin.

Sorry to bring up something Villa-related.

[Mazrim]

Green custard? What blasphemy is this?
There is only one custard, yellow be thy name.

[Brend'Watkins]

I don't get this 'mint' custard theory either. 

I reckon a fat arsed dinner lady unknowingly knocked some peas into the mix and covered her clumsiness by inventing the concoction mint custard.

[UK Redsox]

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

We had the "green custard" as well. However, since I ate it and I'm also allergic to mint flavouring, I think that ours was a lime flavour

"Chocolate concrete" was known as Tarmac to us

[Risso]

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.

Pretty certain there were no eggs involved, as that would have given it a richer, Victoria sponge cake type consistency.  And as the name suggests, it certainly wasn't the fluffiest of desserts!

[Dave Cooper please]

Works for me Risso, one egg in a shit load of mixture, you need it to bind it otherwise it becomes all crumbly and totally unlike concrete.

[not3bad]

Green minty custard was the dressing of choice for our chocolate concrete also.

[damon loves JT]

mons veneris with nut custard is a favourite treat of mine

[LeeB]

mons veneris with nut custard is a favourite treat of mine

These southerners and their lah-de-dah ways.

[supertom]

What is the concrete stuff that I missed as a child? Might have to try making it.

As for green custard???

 

[Mazrim]

Our school was so posh it was called Beton de Chocolate with Creme Anglais.

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

What is the concrete stuff that I missed as a child? Might have to try making it.

As for green custard???

 

You must be far too young supertom - the concrete stuff was a regular on the no-choice school menu of yesteryear. You know, before they started doing all that nutrition shit and giving kids alternatives to "proper" food.
And yes, the custard we had with it was defintely green - and mintyish - I'm colourblind, but even I could see it was green!
We're Aston Villa, we glow in the dark (like green custard!)