1960's/70's cocktail party snacks? Any suggestions?

otterspasm

Hi all,
Just before Christmas we are having some friends and their small children round for mulled wine with 60's/70's snacks. I decided to do this after reading some mouth-watering Margueritte Pattern canape recipes in the back of a cocktail book. Things like bacon wrapped around dates/cheese cubes/pineapple/olives etc, baked in the oven and served hot or cold on cocktail sticks etc.

Its got me excited about serving this kind of thing and I'm wondering if anyone can suggest more snacks for me?

I'd be very grateful

Thanks in advance,
Tess

catznine

That sounds great fun! You have to have a cheese and pineapple hedgehog (half a melon covered in tin foil, with the cheese and pineapple and cheese and pickled white onions on sticks poked into the melon or use half a grapefruit).

I remember mini quiches being popular - just make up normal quiche recipe but bake in little jam tart type patty tins.

We also used to make little boats out of 2" lengths of celery filled with cream cheese sprinkled with paprika - the sails can be made using processed cheese slices and cocktail sticks.

ChocClare

In the sixties and early seventies, our firm favourites were:

- celery cut into 1 inch slices and filled with piped cream cheese, sprinkled with paprika
- dates stuffed with brazil nuts
- cubes of cheese with cocktail onions or pineapple
- cocktail sausages brushed with honey glaze (served hot)
- angels/devils on horseback
- cocktail sized vol au vents filled with chicken or prawns or ham in sauce
- ritz crackers with cream cheese piped on top
- hard-boiled quails eggs cut in half; the yoke taken out and mashed with mayonnaise and mustard and then piped back in

I'll think of some others in a minute. My mum was quite cosmopolitan for her day so we also had brie (if we'd brought some back from France - you couldn't buy it in England :eek: ) and things with garlic mayonnaise in! Shock horror!

tandraig

cheese straws (cheese pastry twirled a bit then baked)
vol o vents (with chicken and mushroom or prawn in marie rose sauce filling)
devilled eggs - hard boiled eggs with yolks scooped out and mixed with if i remember right some worster sauce and finely chopped chives. (that may have been my family version)
pigs in blankets (sausages wrapped in bread then covered in melted butter and baked - cook the sausages first as i cant remember how many half raw sausages i forced down!
i also remember halving tomatoes and filling them with the pulp mixed with grated cheese - might be nice using cherry tomatoes and filling them with brie or stilton?
and dont forget the black forest gataux! a staple of the 70s dinner party!

I think its permissable to update the recipes a bit - to allow for todays fat phobia and salt phobia!

purpleivy

vol au vents
Cheese straws

otterspasm

WOW! Thats fab guys!

I had forgotten about celery sticks with cream cheese on. I'll definitely be giving those a bash.

And Black forest gateux!!! Genius.

Love the devilled eggs/vol-au-vents/mini quiches too.

You have given me a whole buffet worth of ideas. Thanks so much. I'm very excited now....oh dear thats a bit sad :-) :-)

Cheers
Tess

charlies-aunt

Cheese footballs - twiglets - remember the infamous nibbles at "Abigails Party"?

Cheese Fondues

Individual trifles in fancy paper cases -or- sherry trifle -topped off with Dream Topping

Vol-au-vents

Tinned truit smothered in Quick-Jel artistically arranged on top of a 'shop bought' sponge flan case

Prawns in aspic

..went to a wedding in the 60's - quite a 'posh' do and can remember seeing plates of crustless sandwich triangles with little flags on --we thought it was the height of sophistication! :rotfl:

and don't forget the black forest gateau! a 1960's staple !

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tandraig

so happy to be of help - even if it makes me feel so old now - having been there the first time round!!!

tandraig

oh my gawd - how could i forget!!! the hieght of sophistication!!! little chocolate cases with a brandied cherry and cream on top!

easy to make
just get some of those tiny paper cases and melt chocolate and pour on top of upturned case or brush it thickly inside them - leave to set - then fill with some maraschino cherries and sprinkle brandy over - then top with whipped cream. you can sprinkle some broken up cadbury flake over too!
er - i am sure i have seen these little chocolate cases ready made somewhere - just cant remember where!

rosekitten

and dont forget the Martini and the punch bowl

Kiwisaver_2

A popular one with us used to be Ritz crackers with Primula cheese spread and decorated on top with a bit of tomato or cucumber.

Olives - particularly the green ones stuffed with pimento.

Some other party fare that always made an appearance, especially at childrens parties:

Angel Delight - You could get creative and make little mini-pots or shots of individual serves.

Iced gems - if anyine remembers those, weeny little biscuits with multi-coloured icing piped on top.

Cadbury's chocolate fingers

Arctic Roll or Black Forest gateau

Twiglets

Fondue is very 70s