Retro Christmas Food

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I went to M&S earlier and picked up a pack of mushroom vol au vents . They do reminded me of Christmas parties from my childhood.
I thought it would be fun to do a retro Christmas buffet this year . What things do you remember having for n Christmas buffets as a child ?

Got to be the cheese and pineapple hedgehog! With sausages on sticks too.

Cocktail sticks with cheese, pineapple, a pickle and a cocktail sausage.
Ritz crackers with cream cheese
Quiche

Those (delicious) Neapolitan chocolates

Cheesy footballs, Twiglets, Cheeselets, Bombay mix

Nuts with a nutcracker

Turkish Delight in paper with lots of powdered sugar

Orange and lemon slices

Dates and marzipan fruits

These all sound delicious. I'm making a list 😊

Yes to marzipan fruits or those fruit shaped jelly sweets.

Cheese and silverskin pickled onion on a stick.

Devils on horseback.

Devilled eggs.

Gala pie.

Vol au vents.

Cheese balls and twiglets.

Black forest gateau.

hard boiled eggs halved, covered in.mayonnaise and sprinkled with paprika

A Sara Lee cake

Romantica. Best ever cake.

We did this a few years ago, we got all our friends to bring a dish from their childhood Christmas, there was:
Black Forest gateau
pawn vol au vents
sausage cheese & pineapple hedgehog
Trifle
sausage rolls
open sandwiches

My auntie used to fill a bought sponge flan case with tinned fruit and jelly. Always loved that.

I know it's not really buffet foot but I'm still saying vienetta!

My childhood was abroad in a hot country. 1 grandmother would always make a cold, savoury rice salad. The rice was always either under done and almost crunchy or so overcooked it was mushy. She'd add raw peppers, which I can't stand, tinned pineapple and glace cherries!

Possible other ingrediants but those are the ones that stick in my mind.

Figs and dates that you pick from the box with a plastic fork.

Tinned salmon sandwiches on white bread

Mr Kipling iced fondants

Marshmallow tea cakes

Coconut snowballs

Does anyone remember pots of salmon paste? In sandwiches with cucumber.

How about celery cut in half and filled with primula cream cheese, I loved it back in the day.

Starters -
prawn cocktail
half a grapefruit with crystalline sugar on
melon with cherry

greet guests with a sherry or orange juice (add sherry to shopping list)

You can still get them, also crab paste and sardine & tomato. Yum! on crusty bread 😀

@evilharpy - My auntie used to fill a bought sponge flan case with tinned fruit and jelly. Always loved that.
Oh my gosh, I'd forgotten about that! Served with single cream so the sponge went mushy.

You've got to have a black forest gateau and a Walls Vienetta!

I hope you’re checking it twice! 😉

We still eat most of these!

Did anyone's parents make food look like something else?

Mine used to do like yule log but it was beef mince covered in mashed potato.

Nuts in their shells, plus nutcrackers
Prawn cocktail starter
Advocaat snowballs
Jelly fruits

Cheese and pineapple on sticks on a half graoefruit

twigkets (when they were nice)

cocktail sausages on sticks

Mine used to do like yule log but it was beef mince covered in mashed potato.

I take it that's a no lol.

It was served as a main, it wasn't for desert.

Babycham in a proper Babycham glass!