typical weekly menus in 1960

Elliebee_2

What? After the faggots, you mean?..............:snow_grin

kippers

My mum would give me veg and gravy with cheese instead of meat sometimes (not sure if it was cheese that needed eating up or she couldn't afford anymore meat...i'll have to ask her). It sounds horrid but i can taste it now and it was nice.

emilyt

:rotfl:

MrsE wrote: »

I was born in Dec 67, so similar cooking.

My mum also wasn't a great cook, most of her veg came from a tin:eek:

We had a roast on Sunday & then the usual stuff through the week. Stuffed marrow, stuffed hearts, stuffed tomatoes, pork chops, lamb chops, egg & chips, sausages, fish fingers.
Didn't really have pudding, tinned fruit & tip top or brick icecream if we were.

Sunday was sometimes a cooked breakfast.

I also remember vesta curry & chinese food:eek:
Angel delight.
There used to be orange juice in a powder mix too:eek:
And a drink in a tin that went fizzy when you added water to it.

I forgot about the orange juice in a powder mix. I used to think it was fresh too.LOL :rotfl: Well i was only about 8 at the time. When i think about it now it did have a distinct chemical taste to it :eek:

flowerofthewest

The powder in a tin that turned into a fizzy drink was Cremola, I used to love this
Can't get it any more unfortunately.

FrenchMaid_2

lol, I am from Germany and my grandma is from Bohemia, so our meal plan was like this:

Sunday:
Meat, Semmelknoedel ( dumpling made from stale breadrolls with flour and yeast), red cabbage or veg, gravy
Monday:
Rest of dumplings roasted with a salad (huge allotment, always had some sort of salad)
Tuesday:
One pot soup, usually some sort of bone used to make stock, then loads of veg depending on season, potatoes - never was a huge fan as a kid, but now I love one pot chunky veg soups
Wednesday:
Slaughter house dish - Uncle was a butcher and they butchered pigs on a Wednesday so by lunch time we had all sorts of stuff like blood sausage and white sausage and would eat it usually with Sauerkraut
Thursday:
Brown Lentils (slightly soured) with Frankfurter and homemade local Spaetzle (sort of pasta)
Friday:
Fish (catholic family)
Saturday:
Soup usually pea soup (with old bread roasted into croutons) this was one of my favourite meals of the week!

2boysmum

Elliebee wrote: »

My apologies if anyone else has already mentioned these, but.........

Jubbly's - they were an orange drink in a three dimensional triangular carton (for which I'm sure there's a name, although it escapes me). You could either snip off the corner of the carton and drink the liquid, or freeze them and use as an ice lolly. Del Boy's 'lubbly Jubbly' phrase comes from the advertising slogan.

Junket - this was made by mixing milk with a flavoured rennet which came in a little bottle. When it was set it was a sort of creamy curd on the top and flavoured liquid underneath. Sounds horrible now, but I loved it as a kid in the 1950's

Lol!! I've got some jubbly's in the freezer right now. DH loves them, i think we bought a box of them from Farmfoods.

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

Kiwisaver wrote: »

Still working my way through this thread and loving it, we always had the leftover Yorkies with Golden Syrup for afters. Still to this day, if I can, I save one for later and will sneak a spoonful of syrup and devour.

I thought of some other teatime treats; malt loaf spread with thick butter. Yum! I so wish I could get that now.

Toasted teacakes with butter, sorry more drool and yum![/quote

I just love yorkshire pud with golden syrup and cream.Strangely enough it was my grandaughter suggested it.I'd never had it before that.
I do love malt loaf all sticky with loads of butter.I could eat a whole one myself.
And don't get me started on toasted teacakes,Just gorgeous.

Olliebeak

Another 'powdered fruit juice drink' was Kellogg's Rise and Shine - they did orange, pineapple and grapefruit versions of it. A packet of powder mixed with water to give a pint of so-called 'fresh-tasting' juice.

Raksha

I was born in 1960. What memories this brings back.

How about the smell of Fairy washing powder as the water finally drained from the upright washing machine down the drain?

Foods - my Mum went all exotic and used to treat herself to a Vesta Paella or Beef Risotto (Dad wouldn't eat that muck!) Angel Delight had milk in it, therefore must be good for you. Oh, and those frozen Peach Melba mousse - lush!

What about high tea round at an Aunties, in our case, in the East End of London, - tinned ham or salmon and salad, with vinegar in a glass jar with a stopper, pickled onions, bread and butter and a cup of tea. Followed by tinned peaches and sterilsed cream from a tin (comfort food to this day).

The smell of Nana's scullery (faintly of gas and damp dishclothes).....

Happyroly

Tonight's Victorian Farm (excellent programme) reminded me of my first cooking experiences as a "wife" in the 60's. We lived with OH's Gran who used a coalfired range for cooking and heating. I can still recall the taste of my smoke-flavoured braising steak.
I can't remember my weekly menus but did have Sunday roasts on a 3 week rotation - pork, beef, lamb. Chicken was too expensive to have regularly.