{"id":14005,"date":"2025-07-19T19:57:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T02:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=14005"},"modified":"2025-05-07T20:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T03:21:09","slug":"80s-school-pizza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=14005","title":{"rendered":"80’s School Pizza!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tasting History with Max Miller<\/a> 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. <\/p>\n\n\n

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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<\/a>‘. There are 2 versions: ‘Pizza with Cheese Topping’ (p189\/Main Dishes D-30) and ‘Pizza with Ground Beef Topping’ (p191\/Main Dishes D-31)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s the recipe for the cheese version that most people remember:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And here’s his re-creation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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