A 1940s Christmas

Muppet81

Have a real love of things 1940s, the music, the fashions etc.

Have decided to have a 1940s Christmas Day this year.

Tree decorated with vintage decorations. Home made crackers. Holly for decoration. Hopefully it will snow and we can have a nice frosty walk in the morning.

We will of course dress appropriatly for the occasion

meal -
Mock Goose (Wartime recipe - potatoes, apple, sage and stock with a tiny bit of cheese) plus all the trimmings - roasties, stuffing, sprouts, carrots, apple sauce and gravy.
A wartime Christmas Pudding ( includes mashed potatoe and grated carrot) made one last year and it was very nice!
A fake Christmas cake - made it last year- an upturned cake tin covered in polyfilla and with a cake frill. Fir trees and little figure on top. Put a few home made mince pies under it
OH's homemade rhubarb wine

Later we will play old fashioned games such as Sorry (may not be quite 1940s but close)

Does anyone have any suggestions for other things we could do/ make to add to our 40s day. Has anyone else done the same?

Getting quite excited about the thought of a Christmas day turning our back on expensive consumerism.

PS We do not have children at home so it is only us and a couple of adult friends

Scorpio_girlie

Listen to the radio instead ofwarching the tv. Play cards.

That's all I can think of, sorry.

SG
x

whitesatin

Gp to midnight mass/carol singing.

Invite a few elderly residents from the locality/care home - talk to them in advance to find out what they did/remember.

If you do watch tv, get hold of some 40s movies, preferably Christmas ones.

Knitting_Nora

What a fab idea! *subscribes just to be nosey, and as an excuse to haunt the vintage sites for inspiration*

Looks like you're well set for lunch - but what about breakfast...oooo, and supper? Home-made bread and dripping?

As for decorations, paper chains and paper hats always seem to feature in photos from the era.

Good luck!

Nora

DirtyDick

At 8 o'clock, hurry everyone out into an Anderson Shelter in the back garden and stay there until dawn, while your neighbours throw fireworks at you.

emg

Sounds like really good fun!

fly_dragon_fly

I love this idea! sounds super fun! It's a era that makes me sad that we will never have tea dances and family and life style like they did. but anyway I listen to this whilst online which i can imagine will have xmas music playing! http://www.1940sukradio.co.uk/ x

Student12

This sounds fab! Please post picks of your vintage decorations when they are all up for us to see! Good luck!

spookybuffy

i know your asking for ideas but you mite find 1940 christmas stuff at "past time" the got a sale online at the mo.

Muppet81

DirtyDick wrote: »

At 8 o'clock, hurry everyone out into an Anderson Shelter in the back garden and stay there until dawn, while your neighbours throw fireworks at you.

LOL :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

There is realism and there is REALISM

Think we will just assume the bombers have had a rest that night

Muppet81

Knitting_Nora wrote: »

What a fab idea! *subscribes just to be nosey, and as an excuse to haunt the vintage sites for inspiration*

Looks like you're well set for lunch - but what about breakfast...oooo, and supper? Home-made bread and dripping?

As for decorations, paper chains and paper hats always seem to feature in photos from the era.

Good luck!

Nora

Good point! Had not thought through the rest of the day

Perhaps a boiled egg in the morning, courtesy of our own ex battery hens.

Will probably just do a sandwich later if hungry and at bedtime a mug of cocoa and a bit of cake (homemade of course from the rations)

Going to make paper chains from newspaper strips.