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Vegan old-school dinners

This is our family favourite collection of Old-School Dinners recipes where you'll find vegan versions of classic British school dinner recipes that many of us may remember from the '70s, '80s, and '90s.

Whether you loved or loathed school dinners, these recipes are sure to bring back memories. You'll find many of your favourites from Cheese and Potato Pie and Cheese Flan to sweet treats like Treacle Tart, Jam and Coconut Sponge and Chocolate Concrete Cake.

  • Close up image of Scottish fruit slice piled on to a tartan patterned tray with tartan cup in background.
    Scottish Fruit Slice
  • Vegan Easter Cornflake Cakes on a white plate with vegan mini eggs on top of each cake and a linen table runner with writing stating 'happy Easter', rabbit placemat image and peach tulips to side/featured image.
    Vegan Chocolate Cornflake Cakes
  • Vegan Meat and Potato Pie
  • Two white plates filled with jam and marmalade tarts with purple flower background, small serving plate to side with pink flower rim.
    Traditional British Jam Tarts
  • rice pudding in white bowl with blue rim and silver spoon in the pudding, blue background.
    Vegan Slow Cooker Rice Pudding
  • Featured image, tray with semolina pudding and mug of tea, nutmeg and zester to side, saucepan with semolina to back, jam pot to side and second bowl of pudding to side.
    British Semolina Pudding
  • Vegan Top Hat Treats [Chocolate Marshmallows]
  • Treacle scone close up, scone filled with strawberry jam and spoon with jam in front, red and white jam pot in background with small white butter dish.
    Old-Fashioned Scottish Treacle Scones
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    Traditional Steamed Jam Pudding or Golden Syrup Pudding [slow cooker & stove top recipe]
  • spotted dick pudding on a blue rimmed white serving plate with blue and white check table cloth, custard and cream jugs to side, Featured Image.
    Slow Cooker Steamed Spotted Dick Pudding
  • A white serving plate with a whole treacle tart sliced into 8 pieces, each slice with a raspberry garnish, British flag teapot with matching cup in background, red tea cloth background.
    Vegan Treacle Tart
  • Red patterned plate with four British vegan fairy cakes and kola sweeties, roses on white tablecloth, small dish of sweets, small red plate with one fairy cake, teapot to back, featured image.
    Vegan Fairy Cakes
  • A close up of vegan cheese flan on a black wire rack, with yellow oven mitt underneath, blue background.
    Vegan Old School Dinners Cheese Flan [Quiche]
  • Vegan pineapple tart on serving plate, with dessert knifes off to side, serving plates at side, serving spatula to side and a green fresh pineapple at top, featured image.
    Old-Fashioned Pineapple Custard Tart
  • cheese, onion and potato pie with a side salad, served on white plate and fork at front
    Vegan Cheese, Onion And Potato Pie (Old British School Dinners)
  • Vegan school dinners sponge pieces sitting on top of each other.
    Vegan School Dinners Jam and Coconut Sponge
  • Chocolate custard pudding served in small glass with vegan cream and raspberry and strawberry garnish, tea cup full of cream to side, and red polka dot bowl filled with strawberries, pink plate to side with shortbread biscuits, and second chocolate custard pudding in background, brown polka dot table cloth.
    Vegan Chocolate Custard Pudding
  • Chocolate concrete cake sliced into 12 pieces, sitting on baking paper.
    Vegan School Dinners Chocolate Concrete Cake
  • Vegan Eve's pudding served with custard, featured image.
    Vegan Eve's Pudding (Traditional British Recipe)
  • vegan empire biscuits on a white tea tray with a flowered pattern tea cup and plate.
    Vegan Empire Biscuits (Cookies)
  • Close up bowl of vegan mince and tatties mixed together.
    Vegan Scottish Mince And Tatties [Slow Cooker and Stove-Top]
  • Two squares of old school dinners chocolate sponge traybake on white plate with blue flower patterns, featured image.
    Vegan Old School Chocolate Sponge
  • steamed date and syrup pudding on serving plate with jug of custard to side and pink oven mitt to side featured image.
    Slow Cooker Date And Syrup Steamed Pudding
  • Featured image for vegan rice crispy cakes.
    Vegan Chocolate Rice Crispy Cakes [No-Bake]
  • A close up of fifteens on a cake tier, featured image.
    Vegan Irish Fifteens [Refrigerator Bake]
  • A circular vegan savoury mince round pie cooling on wire rack with blue and white check tea towel underneath.
    Vegan Scottish Mince Round [Savoury Pie]
  • Vegan Scottish Teviotdale pie
  • A biscuit tin filled with flapjack pieces, Scottish teatime small book to side, lilac teapot in background with vintage tea cup, saucer and spoon.
    Traditional Scottish Teatime Flapjacks
  • A red clay dish full of thick pasta noodles and Hungarian goulash stew on top with a sprinkle of parsley, small brown cup to side with paprika flakes and green plate with garlic bread slices, red and white check placemat, featured image.
    Vegan Hungarian Goulash
Photo of Jacq the admin wearing sunglasses, outside with trees in background and blue skies.

Welcome to my collection of traditional family favourite recipes. You will find old-fashioned recipes re-made with vegan-friendly every-day ingredients.

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Vegan Chocolate Pudding (Chocolate Mousse)

Takes literally minutes to prepare and no cooking required! Perfect for an easy festive pudding. It's fresh and light, just 4 ingredients, and rich in delicious chocolate flavour. No-one will be able to taste the tofu!

  • close up of chocolate pudding with chocolate pudding in background, and shortbread biscuits and strawberries in background.
    Tofu Chocolate Pudding

Soup recipe of the month!

  • Close up bowl of vegetable soup with yellow handled spoon and second bowl in background, slices of bread to side on a mat with fox image.
    Old-Fashioned Golden Vegetable Soup

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