What old fashioned fruit is a dried plum?

Prune Click to see the answer

Junket is a dessert made from which product?

Milk

What was chicken kiev flavoured with?

Garlic

Which retro food has a boiled egg coated in sausage meat?

Scotch Egg

Tripe is which part of an animal?

Stomach

Which vegetable is like a large courgette?

Marrow

Gruel is a watered down version of which food?

Porridge Click to see the answer

What is beef wrapped in to make a Wellington?

Pastry

What would you find in the center of an Arctic roll?

Ice cream

Parkin is an old fashioned cake with which flavour?

Ginger

What colors of sponge were used in a Battenburg cake?

Yellow and Pink

What was mixed with cream and fruit to make a pavlova?

Meringue

In the 70s, how were you often served your food in a pub?

In a basket

What was the only flavour of crisps available until 1962?

Ready salted

What is rolled inside a Swiss Roll?

Jam

Kippers are a smoked version of which fish?

Herring Click to see the answer

You will need one to keep that grass short?

Lawn Mower

Rissole is an old fashioned name for which dish?

Croquette

What is the name for unsweetened condensed milk?

Evaporated Milk

Which company made Crispy Pancakes?

Findus

What type of meringue pie was a 70s classic?

Lemon

Suet is which type of cooking ingredient?

Fat

What was the name of the 1960s instant mashed potato?

Smash

What kind of meat was used in a Lancashire hotpot?

Lamb

Rollmops are which type of food?

Fish

Tapioca was generally served for which course?

Dessert

What kind of cake is used in an arctic roll?

Sponge

What type of grain would you use to make kedgeree?

Rice

What are the 'toads' in toad in the hole?

Sausages

Pig's trotters were meat from which part of the animal?

Foot

Mateus Rose wine came from which country?

Portugal

Smash was an instant version of which vegetable?

Potato

Lard is fat from which animal?

Pig

Brawn is meat from which part of the animal?

Head

Bakewell tart was flavoured with which nuts?

Almonds

Eve's Pudding was traditionally made with which fruit?

Apple

What is a small sardine called?

Pilchard

What makes the spots in a spotted dick pudding?

Currants

Kedgeree orginated in which country?

India

Blue Nun was a sweet white wine from which country?

Germany

What type of sauce was usually put in a can of pilchards?

Tomato

What type of watery, soft cheese was served with pineapple in the 70s?

Cottage cheese Click to see the answer

Which large white bird was a popular centerpiece for a feast in Tudor times?

Swan

What was the name of the instant whip flavoured with Butterscotch or Strawberry?

Angel Delight

What covers the filling in a cobbler dish?

Scone

What did you add to the packet powder to make Angel Delight?

Milk

What was the name of the 70s party food of filled pastry cases?

Vol au Vents

What color of custard was a staple of 70s school dinners?

Pink Click to see the answer

Haslet is another name for which type of dish?

Meatloaf

What was the name of the pink tinned meat popular in the 1960s?

Spam

Faggots were most similar to which modern dish?

Meatballs

Gammon was typically served in the 1970s with a ring of which fruit on top?

Pineapple

What sort of alcohol was the 70s dessert of a baba flavoured with?

Rum

Parties in the 1970s often featured cheese and which fruit on a cocktail stick?

Pineapple

Cheese and pineapple on sticks was often arranged to look like which animal?

Hedgehog

Tapioca comes from which sort of root?

Cassava

What is the name for the sweeteened version of evaporated milk?

Condensed Milk Click to see the answer

What was the name of the Heinz sauce everyone put on salads in the 60s?

Salad Cream

What type of dried foodstuff became popular in World War 2?

Egg

Tongue, sold in slices as a cold meat, was usually from which animal?

Ox

What type of vegetable served in cheese sauce was a 1970s favorite?

Cauliflower

What color was the Mateus wine in the distinctive bottle?

Rose

Fritters were often made in the post-war era using which type of tinned meat?

Spam

Which liquid was usually used to make blancmange?

Milk

Cornish stargazy pie was made with which protein?

Fish

What comes before roly poly in the name of the old fashioned pudding?

Jam

What did most people eat at Christmas before turkeys were introduced to the UK?

Goose

Coronation Chicken dates from which decade?

1950s

What color was the Marie Rose sauce which often accompanied a 70s prawn cocktail?

Pink

Pease pudding is made with what?

Lentils

Vesta was the first brand of which food product in the UK?

Ready meals

Tripe was typically cooked with which vegetable?

Onions

The medieval peasant dish of pottage was which type of meal?

Stew

Kedgeree is made by combining which type of protein with rice?

Fish

Cooking fat known as dripping usually came from which animal?

Cow

Sales of liver have decreased by how much in the last 40 years?

92%

Manchet was which type of food in the Middle Ages?

Bread Click to see the answer

Which fish is jellied in the classic London east End dish?

Eels

A baked dish named after which US state was ice cream covered in meringue?

Alaska

A whole roast pig was usually served with which fruit in its mouth?

Apple

The dish like a Cornish pasty known as a 'Clanger' was from which English county?

Bedfordshire

Black Bun is an old fashioned fruit cake from which part of the UK?

Scotland

What vegetable is used in bubble and squeak with potato?

Cabbage Click to see the answer

Which type of other meat was usually served with liver?

Bacon

What German cake was at its height of popularity in the 1970s?

Black Forest Gateau

Potted shrimps were cooked and covered with a layer of what to preserve them?

Butter

Queen Elizabeth I passed a law that everyone had to eat what on three days per week?

Fish

Which unfashionable fish was known as a 'silver darling'?

Herring

Which organ used to be devilled and served on toast at breakfast?

Kidney

Brawn is meat from an animal's head cooked and pressed with what in a pot?

Jelly

What type of sauce was served with traditional pie and mash in London?

Parsley

What fruit is usually used in a creamy dessert called a posset?

Lemon

Black pudding is made from which part of an animal?

Blood

What is the name for the savoury meat jelly of the 1960s and 70s?

Aspic

Which kind of fruit was typically used in an 1960s upside down cake?

Pineapple

Mulligatawny soup has its origins in which country?

India

What spice is added to mayonnaise to make the sauce for Coronation Chicken?

Curry powder

Old fashioned clotted cream is associated with which part of the UK?

South West

What type of gravy was usually served with liver and bacon?

Onion

Stroganoff made with which type of meat was popular in the 1950s and 1960s?

Beef

The dish of Scouse was usually served in which city?

Liverpool