typical weekly menus in 1960

beemuzed

Anyone else remember when salmon always meant a tin of red salmon? I seem to remember it being served in vinegar? We only had it on special occasion. Sunday tea always had tinned fruit and evaporated milk, plenty of bread and butter and homemade scones and cakes. I also remember the FHB code (Family Hold Back) whenever there were guests!

ravylesley

Oh this thread has brought back so many memories for me and DH as we were both children of the 60's.My Father didnt have a definite structure to his meals but there were many meals that made a constant reappearance.There was always a roast on a Sunday accompanied by a hot pudding.Even in scorching hot weather we sweated through the Sunday lunch.Some meals I ate I loved and others I loathed like Cowheel and Beef Pie that had the texture of wallpaper paste and stuck your tongue to the top of your mouth and no amount of liquid would dislodge it.All veg was boiled to almost extinction and was only distinguishable by colour, cauliflower was grey and sprouts and cabbage were green you couldnt tell the difference because it was just an amorphous lump.On the whole meals were filling but not very exciting

Lesleyxx

Burlesque_Babe

My nanna used to (and probably still does) boil her cabbage all afternoon.......the smell was so bad........

SUESMITH_2

withabix wrote: »

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.

we used to have that too - totally delicious

mum used to make a fab meat and potato pie that we had with mushy peas and finely sliced cucumber and onion soaked in malt vinegar - i think that was a very lancashire thing as when i've dished it up here in yorkshire our friends have never had it.

do you remember ski yoghurts in the funny shaped pots (or i think they were funny shaped, it's a long time ago lol)

grreatsite2

Someone earlier mentioned tinned cream and that brought back memories. We visited my Nanna on celebration days and we always had tinned fruit and sterilised cream. I can still taste it now and wouldn't mind trying the cream again although I hated it when the syrup and cream mixed in together. Afterwards I can remember being so bored as the only thing on the tv was the local news. The only children's programme that seemed to be on specially was Disney Time!!! Now you're talking, I can imagine what my kids would say if I said we're going to sit down together and watch a programme of about 10 lots of 1 minute clips from Disney films! And do you remember those awful part live action and nature films they did?!
Talking of nanna, she was a lovely lady, absolutely honest as the day was long. She did struggle a bit with spending money though. I remember one year she was absolutely furious that she'd been given a subscription to the Radio Times, she thought it was a complete waste of money and just 'showing off'. She also had a small fridge in her kitchen which she kept turned off with the door slightly ajar. She kept things inside like it was an extra cupboard because she didn't want to use the electric. But we never went home without a bag stuffed full of any food she could spare, including pints of milk in glass bottles. Eh lad, those were the days!

emilyt

My mum wasn't the greatest of cooks.I was born in 1968 so a child of the 70's.
Sunday- Chicken cooked in a pressure cooker. Yuk . Came out as white as it went in. Served with tinned peas and tinned carrots and very well cooked mashed potatoes. Tinned pears and angel delight for afters.
Monday- Cornedbeef mash and baked beans. Nice biscuits for afters.
Tuesday-Heart but we were told it was beef mashed potatoes and well cooked cabbage. Rice pudding for afters.
Wednesday- Ribs cooked in the pressure cooker with carrots and lentils served with mash potatoes. Afters was a slice of neapolitan ice cream with two wafers.
Thursday-Soup from left over ribs. Custard creams for afters.
Friday- Chip shop day. Had a fizzy drink of orangeade so didn't have an afters.
Saturday-Bacon,eggs tinned tomatoes beans and fried bread. Afters was a bag of sweets i.e dolly mixtures
So glad i now make my own meals.
Brilliant thread by the way.

Superheavy

This thread has really brought back all the memories of my childhood, albeit and 80s childhood. Like some others have mentioned, my mum was in her 40s when I popped along, much younger than my brother and sister, and some of the dishes mentioned certainly were staples at our house. We hardly ever had takeaway meals, at least until I was in my late teens, and the roast used to last three days most weeks, with two seperate leftover meals on Monday and Tuesday.

Angel Delight was a big favourite, but only once a week (eaten straight out of the mixing jug, passed around between the family, and also a lot of heavy cakes like "Bara Brith", a fruit loaf, usually with a little marge on top. We'd have Fish and Chips once or twice in the summer, and if we went on holiday.

This has actually put me in mind of seeing if I can make a weekly meal list as it seems a smart thing to save money.

And as for the person who mentioned rice pudding....I love the skin...the best part of the whole thing!

grreatsite2

The pressure cooker!!!! Wow, I'd forgotten that. What a fearsome beast that was, rattling and hissing away. The interminable boiled potatoes were often cooked in there but so were the veggies meaning everything came out tasting similar and softer things were almost a pulp. I did use one myself though some years ago and for a very quick stew all cooked in one pot they're pretty good.

tallyhoh

kunekune wrote: »

How could I have forgotten corn beef hash (we called it Globbage)! Also sausage meat baked in a plait, and yes, some of those convenience foods Math mentioned. Not tinned potatoes, thank goodness, but tinned fray bentos steak pie, vesta chow mein and definitely angel delight!

Vesta Chow Mein----ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, I still love it!!

Olliebeak

Topher wrote: »

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

T

That's the one - thank goodness somebody has 'quoted me' on that! Was beginning to think I'd imagined it - phew!.:D