typical weekly menus in 1960

Uniscots97

would love to be able to get OH something similar to a splicer bar. Any ideas? What about a maoam giant stripes?

craigywv

I loved pacers the square mint sweets

ciderwithrosie_2

rogueylawyer wrote: »

Maybe I'm showing my lesser years but I'm confused by the idea of mincing down roast meat. I've never used anything but raw minced meat. How do you mince cooked meat, doesn't it just flake?

My mum had one of those mincers that screwed on to the table and you fed the meat down through whilst turning the handle. She would make cottage/shepherd's pie or rissoles out of the Sunday roast. She'd put some onion through there and maybe some cold roast potatoes to pad out the meat. The last thing through was a piece of bread, it helped to clear out the mincer. Didn't seem to flake as it was forced out through the holes in the exit plate.

ciderwithrosie_2

Meals I remember having in the 60s were...

Sunday roast - Beef, chicken or lamb (didn't have pork very often)

Leftovers - shepherd's pie, bubble & squeak, chicken curry or chicken risotto (made with long grain rice as proper risotto rice was unheard of I reckon)

Egg & bacon flan (now known as quiche)

Smoked haddock

Liver and bacon

Tinned (pear shaped) ham, baked potatoes, peas and parsley sauce

Corned beef pasties

Steak and kidney stew with dumplings

Salads

Egg and chips

Stuffed marrow

As a treat we'd have a pint of shell on prawns and all sit round shelling them to eat with bread and butter

Can't recall having pudding every day - maybe just an apple or mashed banana in the week. Worst pudding was prunes and custard!!

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rogueylawyer wrote: »

Maybe I'm showing my lesser years but I'm confused by the idea of mincing down roast meat. I've never used anything but raw minced meat. How do you mince cooked meat, doesn't it just flake?

I mince my DDs lamb up yesterday in her food mixer, and no it doesn't flake it minces up beautifully.The grater attachment works perfectly.I have a kenwood chef food processor which does the same thing I also have a small 'delias cheat' Kenwood mini chopper which also does a smashing job of mincing up smaller quanties. I use it mainly for grating up cheese or carrots or breadcrumbs ,but also have used it for meat,They are about £15.00 and pay for themselves very quickly, as one of my arms doesn't work as well as it did so I haven't got a great deal of strength in it for grating manually

cyclingyorkie

ciderwithrosie wrote: »

My mum had one of those mincers that screwed on to the table and you fed the meat down through whilst turning the handle. She would make cottage/shepherd's pie or rissoles out of the Sunday roast. She'd put some onion through there and maybe some cold roast potatoes to pad out the meat. The last thing through was a piece of bread, it helped to clear out the mincer. Didn't seem to flake as it was forced out through the holes in the exit plate.

my mum's still got hers..... I think it's a Spong mincer...

mummygems

tudorfan22 wrote: »

My remembered things are, lurpak butter, my nan used to put it in the fridge so it was rock hard
My nan used to make tomato ketchup sandwiches – very glad I never have to eat them again! What a gross idea!
Anyone remember the slices of ham with the face in it or teddy bear or something…..
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Lol My mum still does this with the butter now!

Loads of people I know (I am 33) still eat or make ketchup sandwiches (I have never had one as it really doesnt appeal to me).

Billy Bear was the name of the ham and they still sell it now, and I've just noticed in MrS that they have a barbie/princess version of this too.

I was born in 79 but some of these things bring back memories from when I was a kid either from home or staying with my Grandparents.

On a special birthday we would go to HappyEater (the restaurant with the pac man type face) or Little Chef as a treat

joedenise

I've got an old-fashioned mincer but can't use it because there isn't enough space between the screw part which goes under the table/worktop and the bit which sits on the top - both my table and worktop are too thick to be able to use it!

Denise

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We had Fish & chips Friday, Saturday boiled bacon with white colmans sauce, mash and veg, roast on Sunday and bubble and squeak on Monday to use up leftover veg. I also remember Smash, Birds Trifle, Angel Delight (we had instant whip, it was cheaper), sandwich spread (that looked like sick), sorry to lower the tone, I apologise if im repeating, have not had time to read the thread.