Retro dinner party menu

[Bobje]

What would you have?

Planning on doing a dinner party with my sister to celebrate the fact that we’re both early 70s vintage 😁

We want the lot - prawn cocktail with luminous pink marie rose sauce.

Vol au vents!

Black forest gateau! (Or sherry trifle? Blancmange! 😆)

What’s best for mains?

Accompanied by Mateus rose or Liebfraumilch (“beloved lady’s milk! 😱) or a lovely beaujolais?

Help us relive our youth MN!

That's the image on the front cover of my copy (which is at home, found this one on the net).

Creme Caramel (from a packet) or pineapple upside down cake for dessert with Dream Topping

ooh banana splits for pudding forgot about them!

Or a knickerbocker glory in a proper sundae glass 🥰

It's not a dinner party unless your butter is painstakingly curled and balanced on a tiny stainless steel platter that's almost impossible to pick up from the table.

Vegetarians must only be offered stuffed pepper or broccoli cheese bake.

Party size Sara Lee chocolate gateau for dessert. Hours of family fun to gather round, wrestle the thing from acres of packaging and watch it defrost.

Proper cooks might assemble a tricksy-looking log from whipped cream and an entire packet of ginger nuts.

Coffee with mini jug of cream (or top of the Jersey milk), sugar cubes with tongs, or sweeteners. No fresh milk allowed.

After Eights to finish (best if wearing dangly earrings). Match Makers )more casual, or run out of cash).

@PostalPanic Proper cooks might assemble a tricksy-looking log from whipped cream and an entire packet of ginger nuts.

My mum used to make this! I'd entirely forgotten about it. I think that were awash with cream in the 1970s. I loath the stuff now.

Ooh yes knickerbocker glory! I'm sure that was in the my learn to cookbook along with baked alaska. I wish I still had that book.