Secret recipe of old school dinner favourites 'chocolate blobs' is revealed in Milton Keynes

'Chocolate blobs' or 'chocolate crunch' was a frequent treat on the menu at Ousedale school in Newport Pagnell and possibly other schools too.

This week, on the Newport Pagnell Chit Chat Facebook page, a former pupil started a huge debate by asking if anyone remembered the chocolately treat from their schooldays of several decades ago.

"They were legendary and I've never found a recipe to make them half as good!" she said.

More than 100 other former pupils were quick to recall their favourite pud, remembering how they would rush to get to the canteen before the blobs were all snapped up.

"They were sooo good - and the sausage rolls, flapjacks and doughnuts," said one.

A former pupil then remembered her mum calling the school and asking for the recipe. She dug out the piece of paper her mum had written it on.

But the only problem was, the recipe was for 96 blobs!

It reads: 1.5lb marge (melted) , 1.5lb icing sugar, 1.5lb cocoa, 3lb cornflakes 3lb syrup. All the ingedients are mixed together, shaped into rounds or blobs, and left to set

Several Newport Pagnell residents rushed to make them - and have already declared them delicious.

"At this rate, the Co-op in town will run out of cornflakes!" said one.