Tasting History with Max Miller makes foods from long ago. Medieval tavern meals, Wild West saloon meals, hardtack, 3rd class dining meals on the Titanic, WW 1 and WW 2 meals, ancient Roman and Greek foods, prisoner’s last meals, ancient exotic dishes like silphium, puls, black mead, and semlor. In a recent episode, he went and found the recipe for iconic square school pizza from the 80’s.

It turns out the recipe comes from the official government recipe book that can still be found on the Internet Archive: ‘Quantity Recipes for School Food Service‘. There are 2 versions: ‘Pizza with Cheese Topping’ (p189/Main Dishes D-30) and ‘Pizza with Ground Beef Topping’ (p191/Main Dishes D-31)

Here’s the recipe for the cheese version that most people remember:

And here’s his re-creation: