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