60's themed party - RECIPES PLS!!

baloo

Hi there - as title says, I'm hosting a Murder Mystery Party that is set in the late 60's.
Money's a bit tight as the mo so I'm trying to think of cheapish canapes etc to serve that will fit into the 1960's theme.
So far I have come up with;
CHEESE & PINEAPPLE HEDGEHOG (cheap suggestions for the tin foil wrapped body would be great)
DEVILLED EGGS - complete with piped centres
RITZ CRACKERS - minus the Primula (you can take things too far!!!)
VOL-AU-VENTS - filling suggestions???
STUFFED CHERRY TOMATOES
COCKTAIL SAUSAGES ON STICKS

I was thinking cheesey football crisps (if I can find them) and of course a BLACK FOREST GATEAUX to finish.

Anymore suggestions pls?? I'm quite handy in the kitchen and have all Friday & Saturday to prepare so time isn't an issue.

The do's this Saturday so get your thinking caps on!!

:beer:

Bronnie

Fondue.......cheesy ones or sweet ones were very sophisticated.

Funny I saw a fondue set in the charity shop for £2 yesterday!

angeltreats

Vol au vents - I remember them (in the 80s) as always being filled with mushroom or chicken & ham and white sauce.

You could do some sort of mini prawn cocktails?

Take yourself off to the nearest charity shop, they always have old Good Housekeeping cookbooks from the 60s and 70s. Look for one with a chapter about canapes

Billie-jo

Have a 1950's cookery book and on Canapes it says -

cut various shapes of toast, bread or use crispbreads and spread with butter then add some of the following items:-
Cream cheese (use a piping bag with a star nozzle)
Savoury butter ( as above)
sliced hard boiled eggs
liver sausage - I would opt for chorizo or garlic sausage etc
Small sardines
Sliced and skinned tomatoes
Stuffed olives

I have had vol au vents in the past filled with cream cheese and very small chopped celery; creamed mushrooms; prawns and sauce; scrambled egg with smoked salmon; diced chicken in white sauce; grated cheese and onion and also shredded lettuce - onion -tomatoes.

gilly1964

baloo wrote: »

Hi there - as title says, I'm hosting a Murder Mystery Party that is set in the late 60's.
Money's a bit tight as the mo so I'm trying to think of cheapish canapes etc to serve that will fit into the 1960's theme.
So far I have come up with;
CHEESE & PINEAPPLE HEDGEHOG (cheap suggestions for the tin foil wrapped body would be great)
DEVILLED EGGS - complete with piped centres
RITZ CRACKERS - minus the Primula (you can take things too far!!!)
VOL-AU-VENTS - filling suggestions???
STUFFED CHERRY TOMATOES
COCKTAIL SAUSAGES ON STICKS

I was thinking cheesey football crisps (if I can find them) and of course a BLACK FOREST GATEAUX to finish.

Anymore suggestions pls?? I'm quite handy in the kitchen and have all Friday & Saturday to prepare so time isn't an issue.

The do's this Saturday so get your thinking caps on!!

:beer:

For your hedgehog - giant jacket potato covered in foil

HTH

baloo

Oooo thanks to all replies so far. I was thinking of cheese fondue but perhaps updating it to the camembert-in-a-box idea - less ingredients and so easy!!
Love the idea of the bread cut into shapes - perhaps I could do that with brown bread & top with prawn cocktail?
Keep 'em coming!!:j

lisa26_2

gilly1964 wrote: »

For your hedgehog - giant jacket potato covered in foil

HTH

Or half an orange/grapefruit.

shellsuit

I use half a large lettuce wrapped in foil for the cheese and pineapple 'hedgehog'.

Butterfly_Brain

• Cheese straws
• Pinwheel sandwiches
• vol au vents - chicken in white sauce, tuna and mayo, prawns in seafood sauce sprinkled with paprika, mushrooms in a white sauce,
• quiche
• sausage rolls
• tuna stuffed tomatoes
• salad
• trifle

angeltreats

Funny how much our taste in food has changed over the years I read a really good book by Simon Hopkinson recently about food that was fashionable in the past, and how we can update it. I made his lovely smooth ganache-covered black forest gateau in college when everyone else was covering theirs in piped cream and cake crumbs :rotfl:

Anyway it might be worth looking for in your local library, there's lots of ideas in there that you could adapt for canapes and small things to eat.

Did people in the sixties have bowls of crisps and nuts, or was that later?

morganlefay

I'm sorry to say that there weren't any cherry toms then (I was there and CAN remember it so obviously wasn't having as much fun as I thought i was !) For the body of the hedgehog thing we used to use half a cole slaw cabbage - bigger than a spud, and nice and hard - covered in foil. We used to do things on that dark german rye (?) bread. Comes in packets of very thin slices, because most bread - based things go soggy but it seems not to. I'd put philly with a gherkin or slices of tomato - I do recall liver pate being v popular, and you then cut little circular shapes with your mince pie cutter (the smallest) and decorate with a sliver of tomato or gherkin, or a tiny sprig of parsley etc Actually the fact is that compared with today our canape things then were VERY DULL. Even big bowls of crisps or peanuts seemed pretty nice then. Have fun !

PS But the music was VERY good, as shown by the fact that much of it still being played - hoorah.