typical weekly menus in 1960

MeAllOver

This thread is really exciting. Whenever I make boiled eggs i remember what my Dad told me: His family used to get one egg a fortnight. Grandad (my Dad's Dad) would have the egg boiled and each of the 3 boys took it in turns to have the top of the egg. They really looked forward to this 6-weekly treat!

Cornishpixie_2

My trouble growing up was that my Mother couldn't cook. Believe me I was grateful for our tinned soup and pudding on a Sunday:rolleyes: I don't necessarily have set days for doing particular meals. I did suggest it and Hubby looked at me horrified too Institutionalised he said.:eek: May do it anyway without him knowing about the menu's ofcourse.;) May have to get more crafty and rotate slightly. It certainly makes meal planning and shoping a lot easier and more likely to cobble something together with left overs:D Good luck.

Ashropshirelady

Really enjoying reading this thread :T I was born in 1955.

We always had a roast on Sunday....either beef, pork or chicken with overcooked vegetables and lovely yorkshires, followed by an hm apple pie, crumble or steamed syrup sponge with custard. Tea was usually tinned fruit with evap milk and bread and butter.......shudder. There was me thinking I was the only one who had to suffer that.

Monday was always left over meat made into either a stew (which lasted until Tuesday which we had with hm chips), a pie or mixed with fried onions and creamed potato and made into pattie thingies and fried in butter.

The rest of the week we had a variety of things from braised steak with onion gravy, cottage pie, chicken casserole, cheese & onion pie, tinned salmon with creamed potatoes and parsley sauce and in summer we would have a basic salad.......ham, boiled eggs, tinned salmon with tinned vegetable salad.

Luckily my mother is an excellent pastry cook and makes wonderful cakes........although we didn't have puddings every day.

Vesta meals were a treat on a Friday night and occassionally we would have a Bird's Eye Chicken pie if my mother was short of time.

I remember machines in the street where you could get milk and orange juice in pyramid shaped cartons and also shops sold frozen orange in them.

I loved (and still do) hm trifle, chocolate sandwich for Cadbury's choc on top and coffee cake made with Camp coffee.

We had crumpets and toast on the open fire and for supper sometimes we would have Jacobs with cheese.......cheddar or stilton.

Veg was always fresh out of the garden, the meat delivered by a local butcher and I also remember a bread van coming round. Our food shopping was a written order which my father used to drop off at a shop in a larger village and collect on the way home from work.

Meals used to be huge.............but we never put on any weight.

recovering_spendaholic

I have only just found this thread and am working my way through it - it's great! I was a child of the late 60's/70's and so much of this thread has brought back things I have long forgotten!

We pretty much had the same thing every night, but occasionally (I guess because money was tight) we would have to have cornflakes with a banana chopped onto them for tea - I can't imagine what my kids would say if I offered cornflakes for tea! We had alot of liver, hearts, kidneys and stews - my Dad had been a chef in the Navy and so made lovely stuff for us, and made all our jams and pickles and chutneys. Every Sunday we had a roast dinner - exactly the same - roast lamb or beef, roast potatoes, mashed potatoes, cabbage, carrot and turnip mashed, cauliflower and hm mushy peas (which were soaked overnight in a net thingie), yorkshire pudding and gravy - I LOVED it - it was the best and biggest meal of the week. Monday we had all the veg fried up with a fried egg on and then on Tuesdays we had the leftover meat in either stew or shepherds pie. On Fridays we had fish and my Dad had a friend who had a fish shop and he always brought home a huge bag of "mock scampi" which we had breaded and fried. Dad got it for almost nothing - nowadays it would cost a fortune as it was monkfish - apparantly no-one wanted to buy it in those days!

There was a family near us who had 14 children and they did an advert on telly for "Chef square shaped soups, show how a good soup should be! - I can still remember the advert! I also remember Vesta meals and loved them - particularly the one with the crispy noodles and the beef curry with the sultanas in! We never had rice or pasta or foreign food of any kind other than Vesta.

We had a fridge - it was a huge thing which my Dad had got off one of the ships - it was too big for the kitchen and had to be kept in the outhouse! Alot of my friends didn't have fridges and I remember going to one girls for tea and getting jelly in a glass which we had to drink because it was too warm for the jelly to set!

All in all, I think we ate much more healthily then - we didn't have all the convenience foods and bought cakes were unheard of!

Does anyone remember Kayli lumps? They were like fizzy pillows - about 2" square - I loved them and they are probably the reason why all my back teeth are filled!

1sue23

nearlyrich wrote: »

Someone mentioned a parafin heater, we had them about the house too, strange but comforting smell and you had to learn to be careful as they could be knocked over easily.

It's a wonder we survived LOL.

I remember coming home from the seaside as a child walked into the hallway everything was black even when the lights were switched on ,the dog had knocked over the parafin heater in the kitchen the whole house was smoke damaged the poor dog rags could only be seen by his eyes and the budgie who was white was now grey soon after the heater was thrown away and a baxi fitted in its place.

1sue23

I remember rolled breast of lamb with sage and onion stuffing cooked until the skin was crispy and the roast potatoes were to die for ,served with garden peas and cabbage with mint sauce and gravy ,always followed by apple pie with cloves for flavour and custard ,another favorite memory was white sliced bread dipped in the frying pan after cooking bacon ,egg and tomatoes turned up the heat until bread was crispy .

System

I remember having brains once or twice. :lipsrseal I remember asking what it was, being told and eating it because i was told it was good for me.:o

oldMcDonald

Topher wrote: »

I've posted this elsewhere, but Recjits blue and other old fashioned stuff is still available here.
http://www.carbolicsoap.com/powders-c-249_259_264.html

T

Thank you for this link, what a wonderful site. Many memories flooded back looking through it.

sandieb

Judi wrote: »

I remember having brains once .......:o

So do I - don't know what happened to them!!!

recovering_spendaholic

Thanks for the carbolic soap link Topher - I love the smell of carbolic soap! We used to get it - the make was Lifebuoy I think.