typical weekly menus in 1960

Olliebeak

grreatsite2 wrote: »

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.

I bought myself a pressure cooker as a christmas present to ME for Xmas 2006 and absolutely love it. My grandfather was given one in 1964 as a retirement present and my grandmother taught me to cook using it. I suppose that's why I've always been quite confident with them. That particular one was still being used in 1985 in my mum's home so it certainly didn't 'owe anybody anything'!

When I got married in 1972, I got a 2nd-hand one for £5 and THAT lasted for many years as well. I left it behind when I left my ex-OH. So now I'm the proud owner of a lovely shiny one.

sammy_kaye18

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Ok having lead a very sheltered/young/80s baby lifestyle - I had no idea what the hell Tripe was other than that it was in my dogs dog food.

Anyway I just googled it and.....

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Sounds horrible - Ive never tried it though (crumbs ive only just found out what it is!) so cant really comment but doesnt sound appetizing to me in the least but when needs must i guess.....

Think ill stick to my :spam: :rolleyes:

Icemaiden

Another one born in 64:D our meals were

Sunday, Roast beef, yorkshires, jacket spuds & 2 veg, gravy followed by apple pie & custard. This was eaten at 1.00pm prompt!

Mon, Flat pie, basically left over meat & spuds made into a plate pie.

Tues, Fish in breadcrumbs, garden peas and chips (fried in beef dripping):cool:

Weds, Bacon, egg, blackpudding, beans.

Thurs, Shepherds pie & veg

Fri, Used to go to my grandmas after school where we could eat anything we wanted, I usually had pickled onion sandwiches:p followed by sweets...Meanwhile at home my mum & dad always had steak followed by uummm

Sat, cornbeef salad with chips.

Sunday was the only day we had a pudding as my dad & two sisters were insulin dependent but there was always plenty of fresh fruit. Grandma used to make our bread, Grandad the homebrew and the milkman used to deliver six pints of milk per day. My mum did all the shopping in the village where we lived and the biggest store was called the 'Economic' a mini mini version of Mr T's.

noonesperfect

Was it just us or was wholemeal bread considered a bit upmarket in those days?
Things like hot cross buns were only available in the week before Easter and food was generally bought more seasonally.
We only had fizzy pop at Granny's house (which was 70 miles away, so it wasn't often!!) she too made scallops to die for (slice of potato type! not the squidgy white & orange, bleughhhhh!). Meals always finished with a cuppa (for adults anyway). Instant Whip (was that the fore-runner of Angel Delight?).
I'd forgotten about those things like yellowfish cooked in milk, a main meal made of bacon,tomatoes and toast, onion and bacon in a shortcrust pie (I still love it today!)
Crisps rarely entered the house and snacking between meals was strictly forbidden.
I think we've all learned to eat more now (or is it just me that's got greedier? :eek: ?).

floss2

withabix wrote: »

Nobody has mentioned rabbit stew....I remember the butchers in Lytham having a row of rabbits hung up on hooks outside the window even in the 70s and 80s, along with pheasants, mallards and other similar stuff, complete and fully recognisable of course...

Lannigan's the fishmongers still do that - pheasants & rabbits last week!

lilmisskitkat

sammy_kaye18 wrote: »

_pale_ _pale_ _pale_ _pale_ _pale_ _pale_ _pale_ _pale_
eeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww................................................

Ok having lead a very sheltered/young/80s baby lifestyle - I had no idea what the hell Tripe was other than that it was in my dogs dog food.

Anyway I just googled it and.....

EEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sounds horrible - Ive never tried it though (crumbs ive only just found out what it is!) so cant really comment but doesnt sound appetizing to me in the least but when needs must i guess.....

Think ill stick to my :spam: :rolleyes:

Ditto! Sheltered/young/80's baby lifestyle here too :rotfl:

Think i'll pass on the spam though I remember me and sis had Findus crispy pancakes for tea on a Saturday - love them!

Kate xxx

floss2

I'm a 1964-er....

breakfast was bacon & fried eggs & fried bread / scrambled eggs / boiled eggs / poached eggs on toast
or slices of white baker's bread with Lurpak & Lyle's golden syrup, treacle, homemade jam or honey
or Readybrek in the winter

school dinners (when Wagon Wheels were HUGE!)

tea would be at 6pm when dad got home and had "snoozed" in front of the Magic Roundabout
Monday - left over roast (usually curried or fried rice, sometimes shepherds / chicken pie
Tuesday - soup made with stock from roast
Wednesday - usually something like poached eggs & Heinz spaghetti (sometimes Noodle Doodle!) on toast (dad was generally late home on Wednesdays) & Angel Delight or Club biscuits or Penguins - came in proper paper wrappers & were always re-wrapped so that you could put the empty biscuit back on the plate & fool a brother!
Thursday - mince / liver (yuck) / stewed steak & mash & tinned carrots
Friday - fish
Saturday lunch - either cold tinned minced beef plate pie & salad or chips or bacon chips tomatoes fried bread eggs (mum sometimesworked on a Saturday so Dad fed us) followed by Jacobs crackers, cheese & grapes
Sunday - roast (beef / pork / lamb / chicken) followed by a proper pudding.

Tea on Saturday was always in front of Dr Who (behind the sofa) with bread & butter with cheese & apple pie or cake. Sunday was generally the same unless the ice-cream man had been & we went out with a bowl & had Ice-Magic with wafers.

We occasionally had Spam, corned beef or bacon grill. Milk came in 4 or 5 glass pint bottles on the doorstep - frozen in winter, warm & creamy in summer. Eggs came from the milkman too, bread from the bakers in the village, greengrocer's deliveries on a Saturday, "supermarket" smaller than a Tesco Metro with a bacon slicer where we'd leave the order so they would deliver it to us.

Birthday parties had fab food - cheesey footballs, crisps - in 2 flavours, sausages on sticks, striped jellies, slices of neapolitan ice-cream from a brick, egg & tomato sandwiches, Iced Gems.....and dandelion & burdock or cherryade from the pop man!

juliettet

Have lurked about OS for ages but couldn't resist this. I was born in 1960.
My Mum came from Leeds and I remember having yorkshire pudding & gravy before any roast on Sunday.

Monday was always Lincolnshire sausages and Sunday's leftover mashed potatoes fried (with sprouts in winter)

Tuesday was Market day so we had egg & bacon with a tin of tomatoes heated in the frying pan after cooking the bacon & egg Yuk!! this was followed by my Dad eating a bowl of cornflakes to "fill him up"

Wednesday was liver & onions and boiled to death veg

Thursday was stewing steak pie

Friday or Saturday was fried fish day depending on when the catch was landed (I lived in Grimsby)

Usually the other day was fishcakes or boiled ham and salad with Heinz potato salad out of a tin.

We preferred bought cakes the brighter the better and of course Angel Delight. The best laugh being we could only have Strawbery or Chocolate as my Mother thought the other flavours unnatural!!!

Burlesque_Babe

I grew up in Grimsby Juliettet (lived there 1970-88 and also worked on top town market 84-88)- which is why we had free 'yellow fish' as my Dad's uncle worked on the docks.

All this talk of old fashioned meals - I'm doing corned beef hash pie tonight and I'm really looking forward to it.

juliettet

Oh Keren29 I remember that market! we called it the new market as it was undercover. I also remember no one believing that I lived in Grimsby and never liked fish!

I am now vegetarian and find it hard to explain my former liking for bread dipped in bacon fat. I remember it as a treat.