What would be your menu for a dinner party themed in the 1960s?!
What would be your choice with a 1960s theme?
Answers: I can immediately think of egg mayonnaise (ugh!) and prawn cocktail as being two starters popular at that time. I also remember chicken a la king and boeuf bourginion as a couple of main dishes and a black cherry trifle for sweet.
What would be your choice with a 1960s theme?
Prawn Cocktail
Steak and chips (fries) served with a choice of sauces.
Black Forest Gateau
All VERY 60's!
prawn cocktail
pidgeon.
knicer bocker glory
wine baked ham sandwitches,pickle and pepsi.
tripe and onions, bubble and sqeek, liver and bacon, stew, puddings would be something like , fruit cocktail, blermonge, jelly and custard, tapioca, spotted dick, good luck with it, hope you not get ill
sheeps head soup
pigs trotters
I remember eating the same things back then as I do now, except Fahija, pitta bread, kebabs etc hadn't been invented then.
Looking at my Great Aunt's old menus...
May 14, 1966: Dinner party for 10 people:
Start: Quiche Lorraine, Marinated mushrooms
Main: Beef Wellington & Wellington gravy, parsley buttered potatoes, Broiled tomatoes, Watermelon tarts (!).
Salad: Caesar Salad
Dessert:
Peaches in Brandy Sauce, cresence rolls
Chocolate Souffle with whipped cream and Cointreau
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Family dinner, June 24, 1971, 24 people
Cucumber rounds and deviled eggs
Strip Roast: Mushrooms, Bearnaise sauce,
Double baked potatoes
Salad: slice of lettuce & tomato & asparagus
Cheese torte with strawberries and glaze.
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Have fun
apricot chicken
sour cream with packet french onion soup as a dip
chicken and mushroom vol a vents
I automatically think of the invention of Swanson frozen dinners when I think of the 1960's. I would make a roast beef and mashed potatoes and peas and put them all in little individual foil trays instead of plates (LOL).
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Pimento cheese celery.
Pimeto cheese or chicken salad triangles. Ham biscuits. Cheetos, potato chips. Canned shoestring potatoes.
Yeast rolls, fried chicken, slaw, potato salad, pound cake, banana pudding, deviled eggs.
All except chicken can be made ahead of time and you can oven bake the chicken (instead of frying) or serve baked buffalo wings and still be in theme.
Pinto beans, potato salad, slaw, corn bread/yeast rolls
pan bread.
Other dishes:
Sliced tomatoes
Green beans and corn
Green beans and potatoes
Fried okra
Fried squash
Corn
Corn on cob
Pickled beets
Onions and cucumber vinegaritte
Potatoes cooked in skin in water until tender. Drain. Serve hot with butter.
Steak and gravy and creamed potatoes are well within this time period. Fried ham and red eye gravy.
Fruit preserves, honey, butter and biscuits/yeast rolls.
Peanut butter and crackers, yellow cheese and crackers.