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 this always. 🙁

I stopped buying these and Roses about ten years ago. They are a chocolate abomination in my mind now. Hideous sweets.

My mum used to buy a box of chocolates every week or so in the run up to Christmas, all the usual suspects plus a box of Weekend chocolates, Newberry Fruits (for my nan), Turkish Delight in the box for my brother and a large bar of Cadbury's chocolate with whole nuts in for my dad.

Regarding Cherry B and Babycham, I was in Iceland store on Saturday with a friend and you could probably hear the gasps of delight followed by laughter as we went down memory lane as they had them in cartons of four. I can't remember the price but I did mention I had a set of six boxed Babycham glasses at home that I could serve the Babycham in if I bought a pack.

Oh, the memories ... 😆

Tinsel! Thin stringy tinsel it was all we had in the 70's , there was none of this thick gorgeous tinsel you get now .

Prawns were definitely a thing for highdays and holidays in the 1970s.

Bird’s Trifle

Cheesy footballs
Bird's Trifle
Viennetta + Swiss Roll
Those little cheese biscuits in various shapes
Vol-u-vents filled with prawn flavoured Primula cheese with a prawn on top
Bowls of ready salted + cheese & onion + prawn cocktail crisps
Choc mint Angel Delight
Home made cheese straws - basically a long thin shit cheese biscuit that crumbles when you breathe on it
Blue Nun wine
Snowballs made with lemonade
Pyramid of satsumas

It's called a cake frill.

You can still get cake frills. I got mine on Amazon for a couple of quid a few years ago. It seems they are even cheaper now:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Doric-Christmas-Cake-Frill/dp/B002TMAQ38/ref=asc_df_B002TMAQ38?mcid=e62c09a95b1237f2853c77c4dbf0f32a&hvocijid=8638894214157735134-B002TMAQ38-&hvexpln=74&tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=696285193871&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=8638894214157735134&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9216109&hvtargid=pla-2281435176858&psc=1&gad_source=1

Love a seventies Christmas ! Will be ordering the cake frills

The Christmas cake decorations were fabulous l can remember they were always robins , Santa's , reindeers , snowmen and Holly leaves ❤️

I think it was discontinued. Mum served it to a family friend and ended up buying them a bottle every year after as a gift.

I’ve also remembered mum pulling a coffee percolator out of a cupboard annually, that was very noisy, for coffee with brown sugar cubes, and cream. Never served any other time of year!
You could get silver filigree trays the exact size of an After Eights box.
In the 80s my aunt used to serve Tico, which was considered a revolutionary sherry as it was served from the fridge, mixed with lemonade for the kids 😂

I got a load of eBay last year - mind you, they’re not cheap anymore as classed as vintage!

Omg you lucky thing l think l am going to copy you and get some too 😊

Stone’s ginger wine.
Making a scotch and American
Lacy tights, a velvet dress and patent leather shoes for Christmas Day
Beryl the Peril annual
Lily of the Valley tiny doll in a plastic case shaped like a heart
Crossfire
Mastermind game

I want a Tunis cake, the more lurid the decorations, the better. I miss Tunis cake.

can you even buy blue nun still?

cant believe i nearly forgot the brandy snaps!

I am getting this , lf it had a longer date on it I'd have bought it already 😂😋

Yes and a proper traditional fairy on top, not a star, angel or anything else

Neopolitan chocolates were so good!! I had forgotten these and definitely need to bring back brandy snaps!!!

Thanks for all your posts ladies, you've made my day x

And no 24 was double doors with the Nativity scene behind them.

That looks EXACTLY how it used to look. Awesome!

Always ❤️