Looking for them hot school lunch recipies from the 60's and 70's

Re:Looking for them hot school lunch recipies from the 60's and 70's (Antilope)

Mon, 24 Dec 2012 19:41:09 GMT

Pizza Burger
In 1966, an Oregon school cafeteria manager won $ 500 for the 11th annual National Sandwich Contest for a Pizza Burger. The recipe was printed in newspapers all across the country. Here's the recipe:

6 oz bologna
3 oz cheddar cheese
1/2 lb ground beef
3/4 cup prepared spaghetti sauce
1 teaspoon parsley, chopped
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon leaf oregano
1/8 teaspoon sage
6 hamburger buns or English muffins
3 slices (1 oz each) cheddar cheese

Grind together bologna and 3 oz of cheese; set aside.Cook ground beef until lightly browned.
Stir in bologna mixture, spaghetti sauce, parsley, salt,oregano and sage only unitl blended.
Spread mixture on top and bottom halves of buns or muffins.
Cut each cheese slice into 4 strips. Place 2 strips crisscrosson each sandwich.
Bake in preheated 450 degree F oven 10 to 12 minutes, or until cheese melts.

Source: Reading PA Eagle newspaper, Aug 13, 1966 - from the Google Newspaper archive.

Re:Looking for them hot school lunch recipies from the 60's and 70's (BBQCanuk)

Sun, 09 Dec 2012 02:13:51 GMT

My high school years were 1970-74. My absolute favorite were call "hungry boys". A loaf of french bread loaded with anything and everything. They had a big yard measuring stick but cut it by the inch. Also grilled cheese (made with Velvita cheese of course). Our pizza versions were toast with ketchup and whatever else you could find to put on it. Also, anything with macaroni. I did a lot of babysitting so had money and the "cool" kids always went to Dairy Queen for burgers and banana splits.

Re:Looking for them hot school lunch recipies from the 60's and 70's (ann peeples)

Sat, 08 Dec 2012 08:21:35 GMT

Sounds like a dessert I could make! Thanks, fab!

Re:Looking for them hot school lunch recipies from the 60's and 70's (fabulousoyster)

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 22:36:59 GMT

Apple crisp. Thats what I remember, there was always apple crisp on the lunch menu. And it was cold.

5 apples peeled sliced, use the golden ones
Lay them in buttered pan.
Mix in a separate pan 1/2 cup butter, 1/2 cup flour, 1/2 cup oats, 1/2 cup brown sugar, 1/4 tsp salt, 1 tsp cinnamon.
Spoon that on top of the apples.
Bake uncovered about 35 minutes. I just drank milk with it.

Re:Looking for them hot school lunch recipies from the 60's and 70's (timlahr)

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 13:03:22 GMT

Hello,
I (and my borthers and sisters) have been trying to locate the EXACT recipe for Pizza Burgers that were served during lunch period at our Catholic school during the 60's. I would never have believed how complicated it could be ! I mean with only a few ingredients (buns...meat..cheese..tomato sauce..spices) how hard could it be. I immediately found many many Pizza Burger recipes and cut the list back to "school lunch program pizza burgers ". Still, it was a big list. I eventually found the USDA list of recommendations for school lunch programs and located their Pizza Burger recipe. What I soon found out was that these recipes were often changed by local public and private school cooks to suite there local tastes or for bugetery reasons. For instance SPAM is a locally produced meat substitute here and I have seen many Pizza Burger recipes with that ingredient. I did get ahold of 1 of the original cooks from the 60's and also the current cook at the school, but so far no recollection or copy of the original recipe found. We have tried several variations and one was pretty close. We are trying to think "bulk quantities" and "inexpensive" when we look at the ingredients. At the moment it is hamburger/Spam/Tomato paste..but the cheese could be grated cheddar or a cheese sauce or a combo of these. The spices and cooking method (baking and/or broiling) is important too as is the hamburger bun treatment..buttered and toasted first? If anyone has the authentic Pizza Burger recipe from a midwestern school (Minnesota here) from the 60's let me know. Tim

Re:Looking for them hot school lunch recipies from the 60's and 70's (MetroplexJim)

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 10:38:04 GMT

lleechef

MetroplexJim
I went to college in New Wilmington. The food there was excellent. We had steak (T bones) every Saturday night. And there was always a sundae bar. None of us lost weight in college!

That was Westminster College (Go, Titans!), not the local HS. I was Westminster's Class of '69; when did you attend?

Re:Looking for them hot school lunch recipies from the 60's and 70's (Twinwillow)

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 21:29:42 GMT

We never had pizza at Lawrence HS on Long Island back in the late fifties. But, we did have a dish consisting of 3 pork sausages on top of creamy mashed potatoes. All covered with brown gravy. It was like a dish you'd get in a diner. I loved it! I'd kill for that dish today!

Re:Looking for them hot school lunch recipies from the 60's and 70's (Foodbme)

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 18:13:28 GMT

When I worked in Pensacola, FL, I used to go to Sacred Heart Hospital for lunch quite frequently. In Scottsdale AZ, I went to Scottsdale Healthcare Hospital on Shea Blvd. Food was terrific and priced right

Re:Looking for them hot school lunch recipies from the 60's and 70's (CCinNJ)

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 18:01:33 GMT

If some of the school experiences were like the local hospital cafeteria experience...they might have been great. Those ladies were fantastic...and the food was so good.

I had Grandparents who enjoyed the lunchtime company...so I was really blessed.

My school years started in 1974. They may have been the dark transitional days when they started to put out some faster food...but did not really have it down yet.

Re:Looking for them hot school lunch recipies from the 60's and 70's (the grillman)

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:37:41 GMT

I only really remember one dish that I really liked from the elementary school cafeteria in my Hannibal, MO, school days...Texas Hash. It was a rice-tomato-ground beef casserole that had some chopped onion and green peppers added as well. There may have been chili powder, garlic, and cumin.

I've tried to make it a few times, but haven't exactly hit the home run yet. For some reason, I've always liked casseroles with rice, and this one was great.

The school chili was always pretty good, and served with a peanut butter sandwich, another Hannibal tradition. Lots of kids would dunk the sandwich in the chili as they were eating it.

Re:Looking for them hot school lunch recipies from the 60's and 70's (lleechef)

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:22:42 GMT

MetroplexJim
I went to college in New Wilmington. The food there was excellent. We had steak (T bones) every Saturday night. And there was always a sundae bar. None of us lost weight in college!

Re:Looking for them hot school lunch recipies from the 60's and 70's (Foodbme)

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:19:43 GMT

Qualifications for a Lunch Lady at my school:
Must be over 70
Must have Blue Hair
Must bring own Apron from home.

Re:Looking for them hot school lunch recipies from the 60's and 70's (CCinNJ)

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:38:01 GMT

There was a lunch lady episode on Chopped (Food Network). I did not watch. I don't know what ingredients were in the baskets. I mean cream cheese & ham spread are often items found in baskets.

The lunch ladies here did not bake cookies. They smoked and played cards.

Re:Looking for them hot school lunch recipies from the 60's and 70's (MetroplexJim)

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 10:56:58 GMT

PIZZA! (ca. 1962 - 65, Wilmington Area HS, New Wilminton, PA: "Go Greyhounds"!)

Take a slice of Woner Bread, cover with tomato sauce, sprinkle with dried basil, dried oregano, and dried parmesian. Bake and serve.

Actually it came in frozen from Augustine's, but that was their basic recipe.

For those of us for whom pizza was a novelty (New Wilminton was then and still is 100% WASP: 90% Presbyterian, 10% Methodist) it was a treat.

Curiously, they are still in business: http://www.augustinespizza.com/ .

Re:Looking for them hot school lunch recipies from the 60's and 70's (CCinNJ)

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 09:43:39 GMT

Our nuns had happy hour. That was no help to us.

Maybe it was the fun memories of childhood...and that food was just part of the picture in your mind.

If a restaurant "School Lunch" opened what is on the menu?

The milk and orange drink warming in the hall. Check!

Frozen crinkle cut french fries. Heat oil to 175 degrees. Put them in. Ok good take them out. They need to be pale and soggy.

Re:Looking for them hot school lunch recipies from the 60's and 70's (Tony Bad)

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 09:17:58 GMT

Foodbme

Correction:
They beat you with rulers.
They THREW Erasers at you!
Sister Mary Elizabeth could have pitched for the Yankees!
Deadly accurate from her desk to the last row!

I think they must have trained those nuns in eraser accuracy. They rarely missed.

Re:Looking for them hot school lunch recipies from the 60's and 70's (lleechef)

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 09:17:18 GMT

We had no cafeteria in our school. You either brought your lunch (I did) or went home.
I dunno, but that food doesn't sound so great to me. My sandwiches on homemade bread (meatloaf, hamloaf, roast beef, roast pork, chicken) were delicious! Throw in a couple of homemade cookies and you were ready for another afternoon of classes.

Re:Looking for them hot school lunch recipies from the 60's and 70's (Foodbme)

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 01:27:28 GMT

chefbuba

Poor Child, You don't know what deliciousness you missed!

Re:Looking for them hot school lunch recipies from the 60's and 70's (Foodbme)

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 01:25:28 GMT

CCinNJ

I went home for lunch!!!
Otherwise I would have prayed that the nuns were still allowed to beat kids with rulers and erasers...in the 70s.
Lock me in the closet during lunch...Sr. Helen!! Please!

Correction:
They beat you with rulers.
They THREW Erasers at you!
Sister Mary Elizabeth could have pitched for the Yankees!
Deadly accurate from her desk to the last row!

Re:Looking for them hot school lunch recipies from the 60's and 70's (CCinNJ)

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 01:13:13 GMT

I went home for lunch!!!

Otherwise I would have prayed that the nuns were still allowed to beat kids with rulers and erasers...in the 70s.

Lock me in the closet during lunch...Sr. Helen!! Please!

Re:Looking for them hot school lunch recipies from the 60's and 70's (chefbuba)

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 01:01:27 GMT

Re:Looking for them hot school lunch recipies from the 60's and 70's (Foodbme)

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:55:51 GMT

gostillerz

Try this forum. They have links to books you can download for free from the 30's and 40's, plus one from 62. Interesting reads. The one from 62 tells you how to start up a kitchen, and is very long. I think the recipes START at page 340 or something.
http://forums.cooking.com/showthread.php?t=10802

THIS IS A WONDERFUL LINK!!
It lead to this link:
http://www.archive.org/details/schoollunch00cronrich

I found a bunch of old recipes for stuff they served in my school back in the day!
I created a pdf of the whole book!
All the recipes are for 50 servings so you need to play with the units of measure and the quantities.
I made copies of several sandwich recipes. Do you remember these??????
Cream Cheese Celery and Deviled Ham Sandwich Spread
50 Servings
1/2 c. milk
2 c. celery, chopped
6 lb. cream cheese
1 c. deviled ham spread
Add milk to cream cheese to soften to spreading consistency.
Add celery and ham, and mix well.
Spread on bread.

Frankfurter Pickle Sandwich Filling
50 Servings
35 frankfurters, cooked
1/2 c. lemon juice
1 pt. pickle relish
1/2 c. mustard
21/2 c. mayonnaise
Grind cold frankfurters.
Add pickle relish, lemon juice, mustard and mayonnaise.
Mix thoroughly.
Can't wait to make them!!
AND the All-Time #1 Favorite:
Beef Macaroni Casserole
50 Servings
5 lbs. beef, ground
1/2 TBSP. salt
1/2 tsp. pepper
1/2 c. onion, chopped
1 #10 can tomatoes
1/2 c. green pepper
3 lbs. macaroni
2 c. cheese, grated
Brown beef on top of stove, add seasonings.
Cook macaroni in rapidly boiling salted water eight to ten minutes.
Drain.
Sauté onion and green pepper in fat.
Mix macaroni, hamburger, tomato and onion; spread in baking pans.
Sprinkle with grated cheese.
Bake at 350° F. for forty minutes.

Re:Looking for them hot school lunch recipies from the 60's and 70's (Sybil60)

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 21:37:25 GMT

I think the recipes that most people on the this forum are looking for, are the recipes the public schools stopped serving about 25 years ago. I'm 51 and I totally remember the delicious lunchs serviced by the public schools in Yakima, Wa. Since budget cuts many years ago, all those delicious nutritous meals went right out the window and were replaced by some sort of high fat low nutrition fast food. Some of the lunches I remember to be the best was the spaghetti with the melted cheese on top served with an ice cream scooper, the turkey gravey on mashed potatoes around Thanksgiving, the square slices of pizza that were about 3/4 inch thick, the cheese zombies and tomatoe soup and the baked chicken that was coated with something like shake and bake and it was usually served with a scoop of rice and gravy, and last but not least the chocolate cake that was to die for. I would really like to know if the Yakima school district has those old recipes laying around in a book and if so, I would gladly purchase it.

Re:Looking for them hot school lunch recipies from the 60's and 70's (gostillerz)

Sat, 03 Sep 2011 14:55:18 GMT

Try this forum. They have links to books you can download for free from the 30's and 40's, plus one from 62. Interesting reads. The one from 62 tells you how to start up a kitchen, and is very long. I think the recipes START at page 340 or something.

http://forums.cooking.com/showthread.php?t=10802

Re:Looking for them hot school lunch recipies from the 60's and 70's (The Lunch Lady)

Fri, 02 Sep 2011 23:44:19 GMT

Hi there! I've answered your pizza question in post#18 and I wanted to also tell you that those breakfast pizzas. Well, they are from 'Tony's' too! You can get those at 'Gordon Food Service' (GFS) as well!! You can get them with a pizza type sauce too and I like those better than the regular lunch pizzas. The red sauce is spiced differently on the breakfast pizzas. The red sauce breakfast pizzas don't have any egg on them, just sausage and cheese. The ones you describe have the egg, sausage and cheese on them. I hope this fills your craving!

Re:Looking for them hot school lunch recipies from the 60's and 70's (The Lunch Lady)

Fri, 02 Sep 2011 23:36:19 GMT

Hi there! Maybe I can help you. I've worked in a high school kitchen for the past 5 years. Our pizza was rectangle shape and we served either just cheese, or pepperoni. They were 'Tony's' brand and we got them from 'Gordon's Food Service' (GFS). I'm in Ohio and 'Gordon's' (GFS) is similar to Sysco, etc. except the pubic Can go shopping at their locations. I hope this is what you are craving.

Re:Looking for them hot school lunch recipies from the 60's and 70's (chefbuba)

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 21:24:12 GMT

Turkey tetrazini is one of my all time favorite comfort foods.

Re:Looking for them hot school lunch recipies from the 60's and 70's (mar52)

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 15:23:08 GMT

Turkey Tetrazini was my favorite lunch meal in the elementary school cafeteria.

In high school the mashed potatoes and gravy for a nickel was my meal of choice after I discovered it. I probably already mentioned it on this thread or somewhere.

Re:Looking for them hot school lunch recipies from the 60's and 70's (claracamille)

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 13:57:10 GMT

Don't forget school lunches from the 1950's & those ladies in their white uniforms,hair nets & a colorful hankie tucked in their chest pocket. I always loved the spagetti, beef stew, beef & noodles. All of the baked goods were from scratch-cakes, cookies & don't forget the yeast rolls. At Thanksgiving & Christmas those ladies roasted whole turkeys, cooked homemade bread dressing, from scratch mashed potatoes.
In high school clearing the tables was a highly sought job by all the boys, especialy the football team. The guys got to stay late & eat as much as they wanted for free!!!

Re:Looking for them hot school lunch recipies from the 60's and 70's (AndreaB)

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 08:36:14 GMT

sconiers check out Sam's Club - ours has boxes of those rectangular pizzas that taste identical to rectangular pizza I had in school in the 80's (I hated them but bought some when we had children visit and they commented that they were "school pizza!"). Re the recipe, I don't know.