1960s food and drink?

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I'm hosting a 1960s themed Nye party. What kind of party food and drink should I serve?
Did they have twiglets in the 60s?😀

Devilled eggs
Cocktail sticks with cubes of cheddar and pineapple

Sausage rolls and sausages on sticks.

Things in aspic
“Russian salad”
Curried eggs with raisins
Spam

You’ve chosen the wrong decade.

Mateus Rose, Babycham, brown ale, cream sherry!

Pork pies

Interestingly enough I was Googling 'Mad Men' bar cart yesterday to see what essentials I should put in my new mid century cart! That's may yelled drinks but suggest you Google 60's cook books.
Have fun, wear a 'Joan' or 'Peggy' outfit!

Here is a fab selection!

vintagerecipecards.com/tag/marguerite-pattens-recipe-cards/

Yes, we definitely had Twiglets as I was addicted to them. Crisps started out just plain (with blue bag of salt) for a few years and then they introduced cheese and onion and beef flavours. Later more flavours were made.

Agree that it was a decade of awful Marguerite Patten food.

Cheese and pineapple on sticks ( yummy) vol-au-vents triangular egg sandwiches on white bread
Pork patties with jelly on the top
Sherry trifle
Can't beat a good 60s nosh up 😀😀

A massive platter of sliced tongue and haslet.
Sticks of celery in a pint mug.

Bear in mind American food of the 60s was very different to British. We weren’t long out of rationing.
Oxtail soup, tinned tongue sandwiches, liver and onions, cottage pie, bangers and mash, toad in the hole, and Rowntrees Fruit Pastilles were all popular.

As a unique delicacy, Staffordshire oatcakes with cheese and bacon were popular by then. You can cut them into vol-au-vent slices but they’re a bit greasy.

OMG I just remembered tinned Princes Corned Beef sandwiches. 😍 You slice it thin and put in white bread for authenticity.

I’m not of the 60s by the way but I was raised by my grandma whose cooking was very old fashioned.

A blancmange rabbit on a tray with green jelly grass around it.

Cheese and pineapple on sticks, in a half orange covered in foil.

Vol au Vents

Fairy cakes.

YES to twiglets.
Sausage rolls.
Vol au vents.
Sandwiches- egg and cress, fish or meat paste, dairylea cheese. Sandwich Spread from a jar.
Salad arranged flat on a platter not in a bowl.
Mousse made with jelly and whipped evaporated milk.

Shippams meat or fish paste sandwiches.

Angel Delight. Butterscotch or mint flavour.

I used to love haslet as a kid, we had tomatoes but in a zigzag fashion

That was to @Crabwoman

Bear in mind American food of the 60s was very different to British

Yes, there’s not much on that link that was present at any 1960s do that I attended.

Chicken and mushroom vol au vents
Tinned salmon mixed with mayonnaise on Ritz crackers
Primula cheese spread on Ritz crackers topped with a couple of prawns or chopped ham or a slice of Danish salami
Cold scrambled eggs on bridge rolls garnished with stuffed olives

It's all coming back to me with horrible clarity!

Coronation chicken
Tinned salmon
Fruit flan, with tinned fruit in jelly in a sponge flan case.

These photos are from my Nana cookbook from 1962 😬

OMG, that stuffed haddock looks terrifying! 😱

Liptauer cheese on Ritz crackers was an essential element of sherry parties in the 60s. It was cream cheese with various herbs & spices stirred in, there wasn't much Continental cheese available in the 60s.

I'd say that Coronation chicken had gone out of fashion during the 60s, but was revived by the Jubilee in the early 70s.

If you're going mad men 60s rather than hippy 60s, there was quite often a centre piece such as the rabbit that has already been mentioned, side of salmon or a nice big ham (studded with cloves and random pineapple on top), lots of things on sticks, extra kudos if they are little plastic swords and little flags to identify sandwiches. Chopped parsley scattered liberally.

Dessert was ALWAYS effing trifle at our house and lots of fancy little cakes, individually iced with lovely designs, my mum used to get 2 buses to go to a particular bakers to get them!

Paper plates and serviettes but good crystal and china cups and saucers for cups if tea for the tee total.