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- Earthmaiden
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I'll happily have Black Forest gateau, prawn cocktail or Liebfraumilch but not the soggy ginger biscuits!
I've got an Australian Woman's Weekly cookery book from the 70's with a whole section on soggy biscuit puds but always thought them a terrible waste of good cream and biscuits.
(I married a man who had a lamp made from a Mateus Rose bottle - but don't tell anyone ).
I've got an Australian Woman's Weekly cookery book from the 70's with a whole section on soggy biscuit puds but always thought them a terrible waste of good cream and biscuits.
(I married a man who had a lamp made from a Mateus Rose bottle - but don't tell anyone ).
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Thank you for reminding me about prawn cocktail. I sometimes make large ones for supper, my own homemade sauce of course.
Did he stick the remains of his stamp collection on the lampshade?
Earthmaiden wrote:
(I married a man who had a lamp made from a Mateus Rose bottle - but don't tell anyone ).
Did he stick the remains of his stamp collection on the lampshade?
- Earthmaiden
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No - what a missed opportunity!
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We wuz posh
Candles in Ruffino straw covered chianti flasks
I saw a magnum chianti flask in Lidl a couple of years back, and didn’t get it, wish I had, would have been fun at a BBQ
I think a 70s dinner party was very contrived and rather technicolour, head more for the relaxed kitchen supper now
Candles in Ruffino straw covered chianti flasks
I saw a magnum chianti flask in Lidl a couple of years back, and didn’t get it, wish I had, would have been fun at a BBQ
I think a 70s dinner party was very contrived and rather technicolour, head more for the relaxed kitchen supper now
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Stokey Sue wrote:We wuz posh
Candles in Ruffino straw covered chianti flasks
I saw a magnum chianti flask in Lidl a couple of years back, and didn’t get it, wish I had, would have been fun at a BBQ
I think a 70s dinner party was very contrived and rather technicolour, head more for the relaxed kitchen supper now
We still have a mini-bottle kicking about that is supposed to get the dripping candles treatment. So far we have not got round to it, but I will dig it out.
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My party piece in the mid-70s was to bung some chicken legs/thighs in a Le Creuset and open a tin of Homepride 'Cook In' sauce, either red wine or white wine. My culinary contribution was to chop up some mushrooms and add them to the pot.
I also had a liking for a pudding which I'd found in the Hamlyn cookbook - it was a base of digestive biscuits, then a layer of melted marshmallows, then a layer of chocolate mousse, topped with cream. Much too sweet (and a faff now) but guests seemed to like it. We also had lots of Hirondelle wine (we couldn't afford Mateus Rose or Blue Nun).
I also had a liking for a pudding which I'd found in the Hamlyn cookbook - it was a base of digestive biscuits, then a layer of melted marshmallows, then a layer of chocolate mousse, topped with cream. Much too sweet (and a faff now) but guests seemed to like it. We also had lots of Hirondelle wine (we couldn't afford Mateus Rose or Blue Nun).
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ah yes, I remember Hirondelle wine too! The red left a kind of bright pink stain on the glass, goodness knows what it did to your stomach
And the candle-drip encrusted wine bottles too ....
And the candle-drip encrusted wine bottles too ....
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There was another wine I remember; I'm sure it was Carafino and dirt cheap.
We called it Parafino and drank loads when playing silly card games with friends.
We called it Parafino and drank loads when playing silly card games with friends.
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There was (I think) a Californian wine that was sold in carafes (was it Paul Masson?) - they always looked a bit like a HeWee to me!
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German party buffets in the '70s often sported "toadstools", i.e. boiled eggs, having bits at both ends removed, topped with half a tomato, which was dotted with mayonaise.
Then there were hedgehogs ... the venerable minced meat hedgehog and the newer cheese hedgehog.
Then there were hedgehogs ... the venerable minced meat hedgehog and the newer cheese hedgehog.
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Hirondelle is the French for "swallow". I think the person who named it at the UK bottlers was amusing themselves. Swallow was the best way to drink it, if you had to.
There was also a wine called "Nicolas" which was very similar.
Ones I can think of that always appeared at parties.
Hirondelle
Nicolas
Mateus Rose
Lutomer Riesling
Black Tower
Blue Nun
There was also a wine called "Nicolas" which was very similar.
Ones I can think of that always appeared at parties.
Hirondelle
Nicolas
Mateus Rose
Lutomer Riesling
Black Tower
Blue Nun
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If "Blue Nun" was German, then it is doubly amusing: in German "being blue" means being drunk, not sad. So it would be a rather merry nun.
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My parents always served Sainsbury’s Moroccan Red. They were dead sophisticated.
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Both Hirondelle and Nicolas were sold in France, standard supermarket wines
Nicolas is a perfectly respectable wine merchant, with several branches in London, it was just the litre bottles of vin ordinaire with the little plastic cap were well, basic
There was a Spanish one Don Carlos I think, Don something anyway, which I favoured
Lutomer Laski Riesling came from Yugoslavia and the red from the same stable was called Tiger's Milk, though not a lot of tigers in Slovenia that I remember
The rival to Blue Nun was a Moselle called Goldener Oktober, which floated a few wine bars
Nicolas is a perfectly respectable wine merchant, with several branches in London, it was just the litre bottles of vin ordinaire with the little plastic cap were well, basic
There was a Spanish one Don Carlos I think, Don something anyway, which I favoured
Lutomer Laski Riesling came from Yugoslavia and the red from the same stable was called Tiger's Milk, though not a lot of tigers in Slovenia that I remember
The rival to Blue Nun was a Moselle called Goldener Oktober, which floated a few wine bars
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The Goldener Oktober advert has reminded me of some wine glasses we had - they were the same shape as the ones in the ad but had a dark green stem. I think we bought them at Habitat, along with some crude stoneware plates (very fashionable at the time, and at places like Cranks).
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We have a favourite winemaker on the Mosel. He, like many, only sells locally, and to visitors. He has quite a few visitors since the family run a B&B. We stay there quite often
The current bulk winemaker in the Mosel is a company called "Moselland" which buys up all the surplus grapes from the growers...
The current bulk winemaker in the Mosel is a company called "Moselland" which buys up all the surplus grapes from the growers...
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Stokey Sue wrote:I saw a magnum chianti flask in Lidl a couple of years back, and didn’t get it, wish I had
the litre (or so) bottles of raffia'd chianti come in every so often so keep checking on the specials. i've had a couple in the past
Pampy wrote:There was (I think) a Californian wine that was sold in carafes (was it Paul Masson?) - they always looked a bit like a HeWee to me!
yes, it was and i still have one of the carafes - it's used as a live trap for voles, shrews and mice that the cats bring in. bated with peanut butter or chocolate (shrews seem to like chocolate), set the neck on something, at an angle big enough so the little feet can't get purchase on the inside of the carafe to get out and you can just pick it up and tip the occupant out.
shrews tend to be less easy to catch as they're better at jumping out - after eating the chocolate.
- Earthmaiden
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There's a parallel with adult life here. Starts off with trendy parties with fancy lamps and wine glasses and ends up catching voles with peanut butter .
- WWordsworth
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A friend in rural Derbyshire uses milk bottles as a humane mousetrap.
He sets it on a slant, as scullion said then baits it with cake and rubs the inside of the bottle neck with oil or butter to prevent escape.
He sets it on a slant, as scullion said then baits it with cake and rubs the inside of the bottle neck with oil or butter to prevent escape.
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