The foods that were considered very sophisticated in the late 60s - 70s were cheese and pineapple on sticks, cheese hedgehogs, (already described) anything at all with rice, curries, very basic, cheese straws, vol au vonts (can't spell it.) and Coq au Vin
My husband made chili con carne circa 1974 and one of the guests ended up in hospital, too much chili I guess.
The wine I remember being very popular was Liebe Frau Milche and Mattheus Rose.
Cooking rice meant putting the rice into a huge saucepan of boiling water.
Sorry about the bad spelling.
I used to bake every Friday and put the cakes into a cake tin. I can remember baking Ginger Sponge Parkin and raspberry buns.
I remember when a shop opened locally that sold a cake that could easily be passed off as home made and would fool even the mother-in-law.
With 3 sons I seemed to spend my whole life cooking.