Food 1967 style

I only tried chicken Maryland once. I thought it was hard work getting it all together at the same time.

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I was still getting liver, fried potato and soggy veg in the seventies.

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This website has some party good and dinner ideas
What a great idea for a party

My friend and I hd a joint 21st party in 1967. The party food was mainly sausages on sticks, cheese and pineapple and a cocktail pickled onion on sticks, and the piece de resistance was rollmops wrapped round a piece of bread - on a stick! We were art students so reckoned ourselves pretty cutting edge!

Ooh no that sound fab! Mine have gold rims. I think I bought 12 for under £20.

suzied did they have a tiny hole just above the stem from which bubbles rose? I still have 4/6 in the loft.

I bought some babycham glasses with the little bambi on from eBay for my 1960s party and we had cherries on sticks! We also has cheese straws, cheese and onion pie, avocado mousse, crisps , Black Forest gateau and trifle, 1960s dress code and music - it was fab!

Ladies I salute you! What a wealth of memories and suggestions. On a practical level, I was trying to find 1 fish,1 meat main that could share the same veg/accompaniments to save the Birthday Baggage too much work!
Will have great fun thinking my way around these:you are a great bunch!

I had , and still have, a fondue set as a wedding present from 1968. In the 70s I remember cheese cake being rather good to serve at your dinner party. Also avocado pears with prawn mayo or vinaigrette. I first had Chicken Kiev in the US at a dinner party there. Now it's almost common.

Has gran5up gone?
Too busy filling the freezer with all these delights!

Lit by a straw Chianti bottle in the middle of the table with a red candle in it and wax dripping down the side to give the right ambience

Everyone thinks of prawn cocktail, steak and chips followed by Black Forest gateau as the 1960s meal!

The alternative could be Gazpacho, Chicken Maryland or salmon in aspic followed by rum babas. With Chianti and/or Blue Nun or Bird's Eye Florida Orange juice.

I still can't tackle much at all with chopsticks!

Chicken Maryland. Yes!

Oh I've just remembered Chicken Maryland. I loved it!!

Fondu... either bits of meat and hot oil, or a rather nice Dutch cheese laced with (not necessarily Dutch) gin. You ate the latter with cubes of bread on your stick, dipped in the cheesy stuff. We all blistered our tongues...

Had my first Chinese in the 60s, in Cheltenham of all places. It was the kind you don't seem to see now, with Chow Mein - and a Special named for the restaurant, that always, wherever you were, came with a fried egg on top. I still don't know how to tackle a fried egg with chopsticks.

Vesta meals

I remember loving stuffed peppers. Rice, onions, herbs, beans, maybe mushrooms inside. However my mother was a very adventurous cook, so I am never sure if it was something recreated from going abroad, or a recipe from a women's magazine.

Melon and pineapple and things stuck on cocktail sticks!

I suppose Coronation Chicken is strictly speaking from 1953, but I made some for a gathering last year (industrial amounts) using Mary Berry's recipe and it seemed to go down a treat.

That's an idea for next month's celebrations - retro recipes from 1953!

Yes, Cheesy pineapple hedgehog is a must!! I still like cheese and pineapple on sticks.

I have just found my 'Home Guide to Freezing' from 1968. Recipes include Chain cooking:
With Minced Beef - chilli con carne, bolognaise sauce, steak maison
Chicken - chicken kievs, chicken curry, kromeskies (?) + others

Buffets include Tuna Mousse, rice salad, lasagne, apple strudel and lots of others

Hostess Menus for Special Dinner Parties include:

Chicken liver pate
Gazpacho
French Apple Tart (I still make this)
Vichyssoise
Glazed salmon trout
Prawn curry
Boeuf Bourguinon (I still make this)
Boeuf Stroganoff (and this)
Chicken paprika
Chicken with pineapple
Jugged Hare (never tried this!)
Rum Sponge - remember rum babas?
Orange Flummery

Ooh! babycham, I'd love a Babycham!

We had a 1960s party and had a buffet. Cheesy pineapple hedgehog was a hit! Don't forget the babycham and Blue Nun and the Chianti in a straw covered bottle.

Chicken Chasseur, Scampi and chips in a basket, Boeuf Bourguignon, Cheese fondue?

Most people like Coronation Chicken and it can be made in industrial amounts if needed!

For the meat eaters, wasn't that also the era of Coq au Vin? Which has the added bonus that it can be cooked the day before.