70s food

[karensmith73]

Pls can you give me ideas for 70s party food

[templeman]

"Finger buffet" was posh nosh for a party in the 70s. Chinese and mexican foods were fast becoming popular so lots of spicy snacky items along with a variety of dips. A cheese fondue is very 70s. Tiny pizzas. Crisps, nuts and pringles. (thought we were posh when we had them) Don't forget some individual jellies topped with hundreds and thousands and some cup cakes.
Many more ideas if you google for '70s party food'

[brawburd]

The absolute necessity is a variety of stuff on cocktail sticks. Especially: cubes of cheese n wee pickled onions, cheese and tinned pineapple chunks, cocktail sausages.

[Gef]

Excellent brawburd, and the cocktail sticks were always stuck into half an upturned grapefruit which was sometimes covered in foil. Don't remember Pringles in the 70s though.

[templeman]

Sorry, errror, not Pringles which weren't launched in the UK until the early 90s. Don't know what I was thinking of.

[Headtime]

Twiglets were a staple. Cheese Footballs (if you can still get them) were mandatory. And Arctic Roll for desert.

[brawburd]

thats right Gef - a cheese n pickle hedgehog! :)

[Mortartube]

Prawn Vol-au-vents, iced gem biscuits, finger rolls with philadelphia cheese, also Carr's water biscuits with a pineapple ring on, the centre of the pineapple ring is filled with philadelpia cheese and has a cherry on top. Make these Fanny Craddock specials at the last minute or they'll go soggy.. Cubes of coconut ice in pink and white. Don't forget to get busy with the fizzy, with your Soda stream.

[j2buttonsw]

What about a fondue party?

[RCP]

Don't forget to wash it all down with a bottle of Blue Nun, or for non drinkers, Shloer (sp.?) grape juice. It's a pity you can't get a tin of Watney's Party Seven for the beer drinkers. For dessert you could do a blancmange made in a rabbit shaped mould for kids or a black forest gateau for adults.

[nykkieberry]

There's a retro cook book in tesco called Fab Foods (here's the link http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/174045192
9/qid=1059659235/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_0_2/202-4461574-6325400) Product Details: Paperback 256 pages (11 November, 2002) Publisher: Murdoch Books UK; ISBN: 1740451929 Category(ies): Food & Drink Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 297,280 It's on offer at Tesco for 1/2 price. It's brilliant! they also do a cool cocktails to compliment it - have fun!

[Janetex]

OOOh, this is starting to sound like my 1976 wedding. Slices were big, sweet and savoury, and anything on Mini Toasts, Angels & Devils on Horseback, Pate/Lemon/Salt/Tequila Mostly mixer drinks and cheap bubbly wine with ridiculous names. Dessert should be the Chocolate Fondue with fresh fruit, of course.

[Mortartube]

I forgot to mention Mateus Rose wine and if you can find it, go really downmarket with Pomagne (Do they still make Pomagne)?

[Toglet]

The ultimate "posh meal" in the 70s was Prawn Cocktail, then steak, then Black Forest Gateau. Black Tower or Blue Nun wine were essential, too!

[Hellion]

The sauce on the prawn cocktail has to be made from salad cream and tomato ketchup with a dash of worcester sauce! Ritz crackers with primula cheese squeezed on them and definitely vol au vents. It is a shame about Party Seven you always took two to Reading and Knebworth so you could stand on them and see over the crowd!

[Gef]

Anyone remember "Hirondelle" wine?

[bluedolphin]

How about a couple of bottles of Babycham? or was that at Xmas in the 60s...loved the tv commercials for it .

[Hahabonk]

Bovril crisps, doorstop sandwiches (always ham) with loads of marg, peanuts, pink wafer biscuits (for the kids), gari baldi biscuits, chunks of pork pie, luncheon meat, if in the East End.....jellied eels, cockels, shrimps, etc., maybe even pie 'n' mash and liquer (is that how u spell it?) or to really upset the arteries bread 'n' dripping, bit downmarket but kids love it, bottles of beer/pop that you can take back to the shop and get money to spend (in the same off licence/shop) on sweets such as pear drops and spacers and out of date bovril crisps.........