Seventies Christmas

[Doone22]

I'm so into doing a seventies Christmas this year. Cheese and pineapple hedgehog obviously, prawn cocktails, advocaat. What would be on your seventies Christmas menu?

Yes. You are correct there. We always had a Capon. Turkey wasn't THE definitive Christmas Dinner back in the 70's.

Most people I knew had chicken/ Capon

I think it needs to be delivered by the milkman to be truly 70s

Baked alaska served flaming
Devilled eggs
Pigs in blankets (although they have never really gone out of style)

I was an adult before I realised that a snowball does not contain gin as well as advocaat and lemonade- as that is how my grandmother instructed me to make it when I was a child

My dad was usually given a turkey by his work so we'd have that on Christmas Day and roast pork for Boxing Day lunch, with high tea in the afternoon, gammon, hard boiled eggs, salmon & cucumber sandwiches, pork pie etc.

My Mum still makes me one every year. They are still fab!

Oh I forgot - some other things my parents would buy around Christmas time were silverskin onions, pickled red cabbage, cocktail gherkins and a jar of Roses lime marmalade.

Yes to pickled red cabbage. I have a jar of Garners every year still as a Christmas Eve/Boxing Day treat.

Not as odd as rise and shine which I actually liked mmm all those chemical and additives.😋

I've just been looking in Tesco online and added a flan base and some quick jel to my next shopping basket, feel stupidly excited about it 😊 They're still cheap as chips too😁

@GellerYeller
Christ, Sheffield stout! Haven’t thought about that for donkey’s years. That was the true taste of a 60s Yorkshire childhood to me. Whatever happened to Mathers black beer?!
And don’t forget dates in a wooden box with a wooden fork (none of your rubbishy plastic packaging, please), tangerines in different coloured foil wrapping, and a selection of nuts too hard to be cracked by the average human.

It will be marvellous, we used to have squirty cream but now we are tres posh and make whipped cream.

I would love to able to find tinned prawns or tinned shrimps again. I remember eating them in the late 1970s / early 1980s with a basic marie sauce made out of tomato ketchup and salad cream (not even mayo!) when I was a student, on brown bread, for dinner.

I still yearn for them.

Of you get the orange one, make sure you layer tinned mandarins on the base of the sponge in a nice pattern before you pour over tge quick jel

I seem to remember that one year my dad was given a jar of pickled walnuts made by someone he knew who had a walnut tree. They looked absolutely horrible, all browny black and looking like shrivelled brains. 😂

yes that's the way & don't forget the cherry in the middle ! 🤣

Is anyone else beginning to think they also want a retro Christmas???

Brandy snaps. Filled with cream and a cherry at either end.

Look what google showed me when I did a search

Do these look like real prawns? Why are they stripey?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/King-prawns-oil-Gr-1000/dp/B0173KFQTY/ref=lp_6860563031_1_10?pf_rd_p=60dd658f-031a-4280-aa87-1081ade212ef&pf_rd_r=CZ1BT4NTS8PKHADTVHVB&sbo=RZvfv%2F%2FHxDF%2BO5021pAnSA%3D%3D

If anyone finds small bottles of Babycham, let me know where.

DP bought me some last Christmas. I think he found them in Spar or the Co-Op.

Yes but of course no one had all of this stuff, as others have said all these little fancies and nibbles, you wouldnt have had all these choices (well we didnt, we were not well off at all).

So now you have to choose. You cant have it all you know!

I've never tasted baby cham but I did love the adverts for it in the 70s as a child.

We were also not well off, but we had lots of the stuff on here. My parents paid into some kind of Christmas fund monthly for things like tinned ham and salmon and other ‘treats’ I think.

Danish open sandwiches were very popular, topped with boiled ham, egg mayo or grated cheese. Pickled onions, piccalilli. Tiny sausage rolls with puff pastry, cream crackers with cheese and sherry trifle for afters!