What party food do you wish would make a comeback?

[lovingllamaa]

AIBU to miss old school party food?
I would love to turn up at a party and for them to be serving cheese and pineapple on cocktail sticks.
Anything else anyone misses?

The prawn ring

Another one for vol au vents.

Yes to cheese and pineapple on sticks, must be stuck into half a tinfoil covered pineapple

And jelly and ice cream in little paper bowls

I know that as an adult I could make these for myself but it wouldn’t be the same

Silverskin onions and cheese on sticks, as well as the pineapple variation.

Devilled eggs and cheese & pineapple on sticks are standard buffet fare in our house! :) the 80s are alive and kicking

It’s got to be another vote for vol-au-vents for me.

Just before COVID hit us, I was hosting a get together and I went round Tesco, ASDA, Sainsbury’s and Iceland looking for the pre baked shells as I really couldn’t be bothered to bake them. The first three apparently stopped selling them all together and Iceland only does them at Christmas.

I ended up baking them.

Jelly and ice cream in cardboard!

a whole salmon in a special dish with cucumber. for kids, a huge bowl of sweets they can dip in to at will

Those massive jelly moulds which were a staple at every kids birthday. Not seen them in years

My gran used to whip up a jelly with carnation milk in (I think?) It was like strawberry mousse a la 70s naff and it was lush.

Mini Meringues with cream piped between them too

YY to cheese/pineapple/pickled onion/sausage hedgehogs! 🦔
Also butterfly cakes, yum.
I used to love a garlic dip my mum used to make, it was a packet of powder which you mixed with, I think, milk.
Sounds gross but it was ace, can still taste it.
Would have been mid eighties, before dips were a thing

Has to be alternate cheese/pineapple cheese/pickled onion. Vol-au-vonts filled with campbell's condensed mushroom soup. Garlic dip made from a packet powder whisked with milk. My mum's showstopper for a proper party was a whole side of salmon poached and then painstakingly layered with ultra-thin slices of cucumber to look like fish scales! I also remember before garlic bread (garlic bread^?) really took off, mum would make her own garlic butter and serve it in a dish beside warm baguettes - only the really brave/worldly guests would try it

Philly and cress bridge rolls.

TRIFLE!

Ha @HalloumiFries we crossed with the garlic dip there.
Would be so good with a halloumi fry right enough!

I feel a bit sad now. I can't remember the last time I went to a party. Certainly not in the last... 15 years.

I used to like viennetta at parties in the 80s.

There are plenty of sweets I miss - Texan bars, star bars, super mousse (like milky ways but better), mint cracknel...

@GuyFawkesDay My mum also made a 'mousse' from jelly and evaporated milk, if orange flavour she added a small tin of mandarins too. My mum also did gherkins wrapped in a slice of salami on a cocktail stick.

Chocolate crispy cakes. And those little waxed dishes of trifle with hundreds and thousands bleeding into the cream.Which was probably Dream Topping. Shop-bought birthday cake with toasted coconut around the sides. (Yuck,) And sausage rolls.

Mini pizzas and quiche

Guyfawkes, my Mum makes the jelly mousse! If you would like the recipe I can jot it down for you. It is evaporated milk.

a whole side of salmon poached and then painstakingly layered with ultra-thin slices of cucumber to look like fish scales!

Served on a mirror surrounded by chopped-up aspic jelly.

cheddars (cracker sized ones, not mini)
butterfly cakes - i make these still

Chicken vol au vents
Devilled eggs
Mini quiches
Celery filled with Primula cheese
Asparagus wrapped in ham
Whole salmon
Honey glazed sausages
Trifle

And for kids parties
Fish paste sandwiches
Triple coloured jelly
Egg mayonnaise sandwiches
Cream soda floats
Chocolate finger biscuits
Dandelion & burdock