1950's

[miffy63]

Can anyone help me with what food to serve at a 1950's themed party? I want to serve a buffet then people can help themselves as and when. Any authentic ideas would be welcome.

[skyep]

1950s salad- corned beef or sliced spam with lettuce, tomato, cucumber,
Extra's -
radish
beetroot
spring onions
Sweet -
Jelly & blamange
Sandwiches-
corned beef
spam
egg

[mccfluff]

first thing that comes to mind is coronation chicken, which i;m sure was devised for the queens coronation in 53, and can be used in loads of ways apart from that no other ideas i'm afraid but i'm sure the other abers will have loads of ideas for you

[SaxyJag]

Did they have 'things on sticks' in the 50s? You know, cheese and pineapple, and chipolata sausages?

You could have crisps, but they'd have to be salt'n'shake.

Potted beef? Fish paste? Tinned Salmon? Tinned peaches with evaporated milk? Hovis?

[shaneystar2]

I have just had a look through my book..
Post War Kitchen by Marguerite Pattern and there are things like
Coronation Chicken
Cheese Straws
Russian Salad
Sandwiches consist mainly of either egg,spam or corned beef or cucumber.
Sausage rolls
Stuffed eggs
Scotch eggs
Milk Jellies ..made with Carnation milk.
Tinned pineapple chunk and a cube of cheese on a cocktail stick.!
Not very inspiring !!

[Ethel]

Definitely cubes of cheddar and pineapple chunks on cocktail sticks and stuck into an orange. How amusing!

Pork pie
Slices of black pudding
Cup cakes
Victoria sponges and Swiss rolls

Have fun. Don't forget the Rennies before you go to bed.

[miffy63]

Thank you all so much. It's my sisters 50th and I want to create a 1950's theme for her party,we're all going to dress up and of course the food needs to be right!

[raysparx]

some of the things we ate in the 50s

Spam, Corned Beef, Hard boiled eggs, Ham, we also every Sunday had Shrimps,cockles,winkles

Bacon roly poly (Gross) Spotted dick, shiphams fish paste, Hovis bread, strawberry jelly, Gala pie, (lovely)

My mum used to make sausage pie and corn beef hash, cottage pie, liver and bacon


Corona lemonade,cream soda. Tizer (the appetizer)

Hope it goes well for you, Ray

there were only Plain Crisps then and the beers were mainly Light ale (pale ale) or stout otherwise Bitter and mild

[whitbybabe]

If you could get hold of a Fanny Craddock cookbook you would be spoilt for choice.