Tilney St Lawrence school lunch in the 1960s

Great idea! Thank you. I have just gone to Facebook and done exactly that. Fingers crossed...

Your school could have a FB group

Go onto Facebook and type in the area where you went to school and ask anyone who might have gone to the school to comment, you might get all of your old school mates to look you up, they might know the recipe.

Could it have been a German recipe with ascetic acid added?

I'm sure that this particular recipe for "salad cream" must have been on the menu at other primary schools in the 1960s.

Perhaps you can remember something similar from your own school in that era?

Can nobody out there help on this, please?

Many thanks,

DP

Thank you HildajenniJ for your response - I'm most grateful. That recipe sounds really tasty and I will definitely try it.

However, the ingredients required suggest to me that in the austerity-affected early 1960s a rural primary school cook would be unlikely to have "luxuries" like fresh cream at her disposal. Also, as I mentioned earlier, the mystery goo that I'm pining for tasted and smelled nothing like salad cream. It definitely had a very sharp, astringent taste and smell that I find hard to describe more half a century later, but which I know I would recognise instantly if I was ever to encounter it again.

Sadly I do not know whether the cook concerned (Mrs Griib) is still alive, but she was about the same age as my mother (95) and Mum is still with us (and still living in Tilney) so you never know...

Anyone from Tilney school of 1950s or 60s vintage reading this??

I see that nobody has responded. Home made salad cream is easy to make. James Martin has a good recipe. My mother used to make something similar in the '50's and '60's
www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/salad_cream_31658/amp