New BBC2 Back in time for dinner

meritaten

I don't remember oven chips in the seventies - and mum used the chip pan until we all left home and she stopped making chips!
I haven't seen the 'seventies' episode yet - that should be interesting. loads more processed 'food' came onto the market.

moneyistooshorttomention

I'm waiting for the last episode personally. Think that's 2000-2010 then? As, as far as I can see, healthy food is currently the only type of food that is fashionable and I'm waiting to see if they're on the superfoods/many different types of grain/sourdough bread/etc or no in that decade.

Guess they might have them having a Paleo day or two included in that as well.

honeythewitch

Actually, watching it again on repeat, there was plenty of room for more lard and barely any in the pan so it was Rochelle's own fault.
The voice-over at the start said that she "shares" the cooking with her husband.
I think I can guess who does the lion's "share"

Pollycat

Lizling wrote: »

I think she did know that the oil needed to cover them. That's why they wanted to add more lard, but couldn't because the instructions said under no circumstances to more than half fill it with fat or it'd be a fire risk. Looked like a situation engineered to go wrong.

I'm a few years younger than her but the only time I've ever seen a deep fat fryer used at home was on one occasion when mum tried it for the first time and didn't do any better. Burnt to dark brown on the outside and crunchy on the inside! We went back to oven chips after that. I've never used one myself.

I don't think that chip pan was anywhere near half full so it was no surprise that the chips weren't cooked.

I used to fill my chip pan half full with lard, then add the chips.
The key thing was to never, ever walk away and leave the pan.
If you had to go away, you moved the pan off the heat.
Hardly rocket science.

I used a chip pan probably 3 times a week for at least 20 years without incident.
Then, when I moved house I bought a deep fat fryer and used that for quite a few years until I started to do my own wedges in the oven using olive oil.

Quite nice to see the decorations in the 1970's.
I really coveted those 'pots with faces' for picked onions, celery etc. :rotfl:

Pollycat

Just seen the cottage pie with tinned mince & Smash. :eek:

That must be the sloppiest, most unappetising food I've ever seen in my life!

honeythewitch

Pollycat wrote: »

Just seen the cottage pie with tinned mince & Smash. :eek:

That must be the sloppiest, most unappetising food I've ever seen in my life!

She put too much water in the mash I think. The trick was to always have a spare packet to "fix" it with.

Goldiegirl

7roland8 wrote: »

Gosh we never saw teabags in 60s.


Our 'innovation' was a red clear plastic caddy on the wall and you could press a button to get one spoon full out at a time - now that was modern!!

From Tea Infusion Association:
It was Tetley in 1953 that drove the introduction of tea bags in Britain, but other companies soon caught up.
In the early 1960s, tea bags made up less than 3 per cent of the British market, but this has been growing steadily ever since.
By 2007 tea bags made up a phenomenal 96 per cent of the British market.

My nan had one of those - I used to see it on the wall in the kitchen, and had no idea what it was for!

Islandmaid wrote: »

a weird game which envolved putting a tennis ball down the leg of one of your mum,s pair of tights, standing with your back to a wall and swinging the ball against the wall either side of your head and between your legs to ryhmes we made up -

We did that tennis ball and tights thing as well

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

Redicut rug, now there is a blast from the past! Mind you I think that they are still going but very expensive now. We were poor so it was rag rugs in our house:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I remember getting a touch tapestry set and it was a horse's head, I loved that and I also loved Plasticraft the art of putting an object in a mould and pouring over some sort of resin. I would love to do both again.

I think my mum and dad's hobby before I was born was Redicut rugs - we had them all over the house. They even made my nans staircase carpet using Redicut!



I used to do Plasticraft. I entombed all sorts of weird things in plastic!

Goldiegirl

I saw the second half of the 1970's show on BBC2 this morning.


It became apparent that, by the mid 1970's times were changing, but my parents were very slow to change, as my dad didn't have very adventurous tastes in food. We were still eating the same old things in the late 1970's that we always had eaten.


I think a lot of people in my family were plain eaters.


One of my cousins married a girl who was considered to be middle class as she liked to wear Abigails Party dresses and host dinner parties with 'funny food'


When there were family get togethers at their house, all the aunts used to look very suspiciously at the 'mucked around with food' such as cole slaw!:rotfl:


It wasn't until 1979 when I met my now husband that I really started eating the different foods that had become available. I remember we were invited to his friends house for dinner and we were given chilli con carne with rice. I'd never seen anything like it!:rotfl: I ate it to be polite, but it was really difficult to force down!! But nowdays chilli con carne is a staple of my meal plans, and one of my favourite dishes


I think my mother in law was quick to adapt to the new convenience foods that were coming out. I remember having things like the boil in the bag cod in sauces when I had meals at her house. She also had brown plates very similar to those in the show

thriftwizard

Over the last couple of years I've had quite a lot of fun introducing my kids (18 upwards, then) to some of the "novel" foreign dishes we were introduced to in the 70s. Some, of course, like Bolognese & pizza, we've been eating all along. And as a household we've always eaten curry, as my parents lived in India from 1950-57, and my mother's family had a long history out there. Other 70s favourites had kind of got lost along the way. But with the help of Mary Berry's Farmhouse Cookery book from Yorkshire TV, found in a charity shop, I was able to re-create Chicken Chasseur, Beef Stroganoff, Goulash and all sorts of other favourites. Turns out they are all really easy to make with leftovers, too, once you've got a handle on the flavours, and they've all become regular special-request dishes.

So the 70s weren't all about health or convenience foods; we did a lot of experimenting too. I don't think the series has brought that out particularly well - and I do think it could have made some very good TV!

Callie22

Pollycat wrote: »

Quite nice to see the decorations in the 1970's. I really coveted those 'pots with faces' for picked onions, celery etc. :rotfl:

I liked that too! It brought back memories of my gran, who always had a 'pickled onion face' jar in the kitchen filled with sliced onions and malt vinegar. They were so tasty on cheese sandwiches. I'm sure mum's still got the jar somewhere ...