need help with food from the 60s?

Question

ok iam putting on a 60s theme in our resurant at college and need help with the food i need a soup, 5 main meals, a vegitaien main meal, cold and hot sweets from the 60s and i don't know any thing i need help if anyone got a website or help i would appricat it i got the rest sorted just not the food lol so plzz help me

Answer 1

Did a Google search for you: recipes from the 60s
Here's what this link says, "60's Party Ideas, Decoration Tips, Music, Games & Recipes... How to throw a memorable party with a 1960's theme."
http://www.chiff.com/entertain/60s-party-ideas.htm

Answer 2

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need help with food from the 60s?
ok iam putting on a 60s theme in our resurant at college and need help with the food i need a soup, 5 main meals, a vegitaien main meal, cold and hot sweets from the 60s and i don't know any thing i need help if anyone got a website or help i would appricat it i got the rest sorted just not...

Answer 3

My mother learned to cook in the 60's and I grew up on it. Meatloaf, salmon loaf, swedish meatballs, fondue, simple green salad with cucumber slices and croutons and Dorothy Lynch dressing, sweet and sour pork chops, those little canapes on water crackers (bonus if you can find watercress), anything made with cream of anything soup, pot roast, wild rice mix, creamed spinach.

Let me know if you need more, I have all her cookbooks from the 60's.

Answer 4

pretty much anything home cooked now was home cooked in the 60's.. in the south.. oven broiled steak, or fried chicken, or fried catfish, mashed potatoes, tossed green salad, dinner rolls, mixed steamed vegetables with butter (or candied carrots or yams), and maybe apple pie for desert, or a chocolate cake. Loads of home made iced tea to drink.. (there was cocacola back then, but mostly ice tea/ water/ or milk)

Answer 5

why don't you find out his favorite foods from his childhood and replicate the recipes? Or use his ethnicity to inspire your menu - or something he likes ( a book , a hobby, a movie ) could inspire you - if he likes fishing serve fish, if he likes football serve tailgating food, if he loves the movie "the Godfather" serve italian food. ask him if there is any place he ever wanted to travel to and then make food from that region - he will love the time & thought you put into it and impress his friends by having such clever & wonderful kids!

Answer 6

This was the age of instant food, not to be confused with fast food. Adults ate instant gourmet foods because of their own fast, racy and so modern lives. Kennedy’s chic White House French chef used canned mushroom soup in his beef stroganoff. Instant gourmet food was not only edible, it was sophisticated.
I'll try to reach back and get you some good recipes that were popular then.
Pot pies were big and Swanson came out with frozen dinners in the early 60's.

Cheese Fondue

1 garlic clove, cut
1 tablespoon unsalted butter
2 cups grated Gruyere Cheese
1 teaspoon flour
1/3 cup dry white wine
Pepper, salt, or ground nutmeg
1 jigger kirsch
French Bread

Rub the saucepan interior with the garlic and butter. Toss the cheese with the flour. Place the saucepan over low heat, then add the cheese and wine. Mix well with a fork while the cheese melts. Add the seasonings, and at the moment of serving, the kirsch. The mixture should be light with a creamy consistency. Serve with chunks of French bread, with a section of crust on each chunk, for dipping.


TUNA CASSEROLE
Classic Sustar.

1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 package frozen peas
1 can tuna fish
cooked noodles-enough for as many people as you are going to serve.
Mix together. Serve. Eat. Do not throw mushrooms underneath dining room table, or else.


BEEF STEW
2 lb. beef stew meat
2 T fat
4 cups boiling water
1 t lemon juice
1 t Worcestershire sauce
1 or more cloves of garlic
1 chopped onion
2 bay leaves
2 t salt
1/2 t paprika
dash allspice
1/2 t pepper
1 t sugar
8 carrots
8 potatoes

Brown meat in hot fat; add water, lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce, onion, garlic, bay leaves and seasonings. Cover and simmer for 2 hours, stirring occasionally. Add sliced carrots and quartered potatoes. Cook 30 minutes. Top with dumplings 15 minutes before mealtime. Serves 8

DUMPLINGS:
1 1/2 c flour
2 t baking powder
1/2 t salt
1 T shortening
3/4 cup milk
Mix together flour, baking powder and salt. Cut in shortening and add milk. Mix and drop onto the simmering stew by heaping tablespoonfuls. Cover and steam 15 minutes.


PIGS IN BLANKETS

pork links or hot dogs or not dogs
can of pillsbury biscuits that you pop open - or make your own biscuits, but, as mom realized it is easier to buy the pillsbury dough and pillsbury is more authentic and traditional.
If using pork links, cook them first. Wrap the glutenous mass around the animal or soy of choice.
Bake according to the pillsbury dough boy's directions.


Main Dish Pie

1 package (8 rolls) refrigerated crescent rolls
1 pound ground beef
1 medium onion, chopped
1 can (12 ounces) beef or mushroom gravy
1 box (10 ounces) frozen Green Peas, thawed
1/2 cup shredded Swiss cheese
6 slices tomato

Preheat oven to 350 F.
Unroll dough and separate rolls. Spread to cover bottom of
ungreased 9-inch pie pan. Press together to form lower crust.
Bake 10 minutes.
Meanwhile, in large skillet, brown ground beef and onion; drain
excess fat. Stir in gravy and peas; cook until heated through.
Pour mixture into partially baked crust. Sprinkle with cheese.
Bake 10 to 15 minutes or until crust is brown and cheese is melted.

Arrange tomato slices over pie; bake 2 minutes more.



Pink Lady Pie

This pie might be refrigerated overnight...
2/3 c orange juice
48 large marshmallows
1 10 oz package frozen raspberries, thawed and drained
1 1/4 c heavy cream, whipped
1 9 inch vanilla cookie crust

Heat marshmallows and orange juice in top of double boiler and stir until smooth. Cool until starting to thicken. Add raspberries. Fold in whipped cream. Pour into shell and refrigerate. Serves 8, or two sloshed "pink ladies".


Some of the most popular foods back then came out of a box, like Chef Boy Ar Dee spaghetti, pizza in a box, even Hamburger Helper was around then.