typical weekly menus in 1960

Tibbie's_mum

SUESMITH wrote: »

oh this is a lovely thread.

my mum made the best potato scollops ever (sliced potato coated in home made batter) to go along with spam or corned beef fritters all cooked in lard.

angel delight yum and dream topping lovely!

we had one bottle of pop and squash a week so when that had gone it was cups of tea or water.

nescafe in tiny tins that we had as a special treat - made with milk and lots of sugar. hot vimto after school in winter, i still love this.

going to the shop for a cornet, a small brick of ice cream in a square cornet.

because my dad worked shifts we had sunday dinner on saturday lunchtime - sunday was tinned salmon (luxury), luncheon meat, pickles etc. and tea out of bone china cups so it went cold almost straight away.

we always had crisps with our salad and made a little pile of salt to dip our spring onions into,i thought everyone did this but i think it was only us

Oh, the memories come flooding back........the brick of ice cream and square cornet, and you weren't the only one dipping your spring onions into a pile of salt, this was something pass on to us by my grandmother but I'd forgotten all about it.

bountiful

I was born in 1954. I recall always having some sort of pudding and often homemade soups. There was always a sort of salad tea on Sunday with pickles and bread and butter and cake. A real treat was opening a tin of sliced peaches (goldfish my dad used to call them) and a tin of evaporated milk. Like lots of people have said, I never remember having any kind of snack like crisps or biscuits between meals. And portion sizes were very standardised - controlled by Mum. There was nearly always potato with every hot meal - I don't remember having rice or anything like that. Milk puddings, suet puddings, filling stuff I suppose. Sausages, Shepherds Pie. The puddings have the strongest memory for me - probably because they don't happen much nowadays. Even fruit snacking was restricted though...
Oh yes - the bowl of beef dripping on a Monday morning for breakfast - on toast - having to share out the meaty brown bit..... topped with a sprinkling of salt!

Lizzieanne

This thread has reminded me of so many things from my childhood.

I too was born in 1969 (although not until December) so I'm another 1970s child. Mum and Dad didn't cook 'set meals' on certain days of the week, but we did always have a roast on a Sunday. Before I was born, my Dad had travelled the world in the Royal Navy and so liked to experiment with foreign cuisine!

We had all the usuals - chip dinners, bacon roll, shepherd's pie, minced beef and onion pie (all home made, of course) but Mum would often knock together a stir fry or Dad would make a curry. My friends thought this was very 'exotic' !

I also remember my Mum's lovely spaghetti bolognaise - but I hated the awful parmesan cheese out of a tub that tasted of cardboard.

I remember dad buying Mum a huge non-stick wok as a present in 1977 - she passed it on to me ten years ago and I still use it to this day. It's still as solid as a rock and will probably see me out.

And did anyone else cry the day they discontinued lemon and lime Angel Delight?!

mama67

jackieb wrote: »

For pudding on a Sunday it was nearly always a slice of ice-cream and tinned strawberries. I always mixed them up and insisted it was yogurt.

I remeber doing that as well.

We used to have the following:

sunday - roast

tea - crumpets and or toast done on the coal fire, celery, cheese, tinned strawberries and either ice cream or evap milk.

monday - boiled bacon with a stemed pastry pudding like spotted !!!!!! ( the bacon was always started on the sunday to get the bacon water for the veggies)

tuesday - leftover roast with hm chips or stew and dumplings

wednesday - shepherds pie

thursday -

friday - fish and chips

saturday - either a fry up or bacon and onion pie ( bacon onion and sliced potato layered and baked)

tea - beans on toast or egg on toast depending on what lunch had been.

withabix

mama67 wrote: »

bacon and onion pie ( bacon onion and sliced potato layered and baked)

That's 'Bacon Hot Pot' that is!

My mum does an alternative version with a tin of tomatoes thrown in as well - very good it is too.

donnalou

I was born in 1976, My Dad was born in 1934. I seem to remember eating potatoes everyday for dinner. Dad wouldn't eat rice or pasta. Even now he still says 'Rice is meant for your afters not your dinner! bless him

Burlesque_Babe

My mum always seemed to be making bacon quiche (another night class dish I guess!) but I detested it. I hate egg white with a passion and it was always very eggy tasting. Bacon was fatty.......shudder.......

My mum did (and still does I guess) a mean rice pudding. I was never keen on Angel Delight. Pudding was sometimes those packet trifle mixes.

Gammon with a slice of pineapple on was the height of sophistication if I remember!

vanoonoo

Great thread

we didnt quite rotate week on week although I am starting to get that way now due to a fussy husband!

My father was from hungary - arrived here during the uprising in 1956, and as such mum learnt to cook some "cosmopolitan" things quite early in their marriage (I was born Jan 2nd 1970)

we used to have goulash, chicken paprika and lasagne as well as roast. we always called yorkshire puddings "popovers" for some reason.

I remember the square icecream cones and the icecream bricks, I used to live on those bricks through episode of tonsilitis.

My mums mum was a great cook and was in charge of looking after a local convent - I can remember granny cooking sausage and mash (me and my cousin used to pretend the ends of the sausage were policemen on our forks. she also did a brilliant meat pie and lovely roast chicken.

thank you for the memories, too, of cucumber in vinegar, spring onions with salt and celery every sunday (why indeed!?!)

Topher

Olliebeak wrote: »

I remember the Chef soups in a box! smaller than a box of matches! Think they started around the mid to late 60's

Was the advert ... "Chef's Square shaped soups show how a good soup can be?

T

studentgirl_2

I love this thread so so much!!

Makes me think I was born i the wrong era. I would have loved the challage and joys of being a home maker, making the most a a small budget and living life so simply