If you were hosting a 70s style party what food and drink would you have?

[keiratwiceknightly]

So a drunken night resulted in this idea...

We've thought

Babycham/snowballs
Vodka martinis with an olive
Starter
Fondue
Cheese and pineapple hedgehog
Devils on horseback
Main
Coq au vin? A really yellow curry? What about vegetarian? Were there any of those in the 70s🤣??
Dessert
Black Forest gateau
Something else?

Any more ideas welcome.

Concorde white wine and Pernod and black for drinks. I just have to recall drinks that I got horribly sick on at teenage house parties in the early 80s and have never touched since.

You've forgotten the Asti Spumante. We weren't really the dinner party types, so it would have been Pomagne in our house. Christmas Day only. You could serve a liqueur out of one of those brown Spanish glass pouring pots people brought home as holiday souvenirs. I never knew what they were called, but they say 70s to me as much as anything.

Oh don't forget devilled eggs!

If you have a fruit bowl, eggwash the fruit and roll it in sugar as a centrepiece.

Werthers original was 90s. In the 70s we ate Keillers butterscotch. It tasted similar but was a rectangular block to hurt the roof of your mouth.

I used to make the gingernut log it was so easy-- great! Using cheap British VP wine in student days, Bristol Cream and brandy later on.
For a starter how about avocado halves stuffed with prawns or crab in Marie Rose sauce a cut above yer common-or-garden prawn cocktail and avocados were fast becoming the IN thing in the 70s.

For mains, steak fondue with thin cut chips/frites and a variety of sauces or dips like mustard and horseradish, bearnaise, spicy tomato, and garlic mayonnaise.
Or coq-au-vin, with the real-deal additions, braised shallots, sauteed button mushrooms and bacon lardons. www.raymondblanc.com/recipes/coq-au-vin/
A couple of stand-by desserts of mine were little pots of real chocolate and orange mousse (with Grand Marnier and decorated with orange peel shreds),
www.marieclaire.fr/cuisine/creme-chocolat-a-l-orange,1209982.asp
Or sliced oranges in caramel syrup,
I used to subscribe to the weekly part-work 'Cordon Bleu Cookery Course' (still have it). I was a chilld bride got married in the mid-70s and we embraced the dinner-party lifestyle. Fuck-all else to do.

Hirondelle wine!

I actually have my mother's Supercook Party Book in front of me (got it out of the cupboard specially!) published in 1973. There are all sorts of different 'party' scenarios including Buffet Parties, Wine & Cheese Parties, After-Theatre Party, Anniversary Party Teenage Party (!), Instant Party and Brunch Party. However, the menus for the Dinner Party are:-

1. Spinach Pate, Liver Stroganoff and Ginger Ice Cream
2. Leeks au Gratin, Parsley Stuffed Pork Fillets and Lemon Mousse
3. Cucumber Ring with Prawns and Apples, Kidneys in Wine Sauce and Black Cherry Tart
4. Smoked Buckling Pate, Lamb Chops in Pastry Cases and Caramel Topped Raspberries

Some of the dishes look really nice - My mother used to do a lovely Turkey Pie from this book with the Christmas leftovers.

Great thread - was going to suggest watching Abigail's Party :) You might get some tips from Del Boy & Rodney too.
Starters: melon, orange juice, prawn cocktail, soup
Main: steak diane, spag bol, soq au vin
Pudding: fruit salad with condensed milk, black forest gateau, lemon meringue pie
Drinks: cinzano, pernod

I've already warned the kids that I'll be sending them to sit in the car with an open bottle of coke and a packet of salt and vinegar :) :)

enlist a couple of middle-aged men to spend the evening openly letching and groping the younger women
And they must look like this

Or possibly this

You can do vegetarian btw, my aunt and uncle were vegetarians in the seventies. I only really saw them at Christmas, New Year and birthday parties and I genuinely never saw them eat anything other than nutroast or stuffed marrow (no idea what it was stuffed with though, sorry)

Dried out liver and onions with greyish coloured water logged boiled potatoes. That’s the sort of shite we ate in the 70’s

Ooo yes grapefruit with a cherry balanced in the centre (was that a starter? I remember it being a breakfast thing too)
Avocado half with prawn mayo piled in it with a wedge of lemon and brown bread
Mushroom soup out of a tin with pepper sprinkled over the top and croutons

Not sure about mains but yes something meaty and elaborately french sounding like Coq au Vin but if you have coq make sure it has frilly hats on the drumsticks

Mashed swede and carrots with butter
Something hideous in aspic

Fruit salad out of a tin and evaporated milk (OK lowkey dinner option there)

Still trying to work out what happens on the shag rug. (Misses the point)

I think there have to be bridge rolls.

@judashascomeintosomemoney

or this

maybe this?

Sherry, tongue and Werther's Originals. Most people in their 70's tend to like those things.

The OP means a 1970s party, not people in their 70s

devilled eggs
salmon mousse in the shape of the fish
jellies!
cocktail sausages.
artci roll
crispy pancakes
pinapple upside down cake
cheese straws
quiche lorrained
mushrrom quiche
swee t and sour pork
cold soufles
ratatouille
val e vents
dressed crab
scampi
stuffed peppers
stuffed aubergine
chicken in a bakset
banana split
rum baba

Baskets instead of plates. Everthing came with chios in a basket!

My uncle always made this hedgehog chocolate cake from the bero book. Every single family party.

So much of this stuff is 80s!

And deffo not dinner party! Coq u vin in a basket? I think not!

I am pinching so many of these ideas! My best friend and i are planning an 80s night on new year and so many of these foods have been mentioned in our messages! I already vienetta and vol au vents on 😁

Artic roll for dessert

Coq au vin

Martini and lemonade definitely

My mum makes a 1970s throwback lemon soufflé which is delicious!

crudites

mackerel pate Shippams bloater paste on wholemeal toast triangle

cheese souffle with cress
have the local Beefeater booked on stand by pending souffle collapse

lemon meringue pie fab lollies

washed down with Paul Masson rose Mackeson's stout