50s/60s/70s era fancy appetizers?
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My book club just read The God of the Woods, and we usually all bring something to share. I want to take inspiration for my item from the wealthy family’s annual, summer lakeside party (set in the Adirondacks, 1950s-1975). What would rich NY WASPs have had served during that time frame (beyond flowing cocktails)?
(I’m hosting, so I don’t need to worry about the food traveling well.) |
Anonymous
| Fondue? |
Anonymous
| OP again: I’ve mostly come across more midwestern and casual entertaining, eg, Relish trays, cheese balls, things in jello, the mini hotdogs in grape jelly…all very fun, but not the right vibe. |
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Come back and tell us spoilers! I can't read books about missing children :-/
Look up Dylan Hollis for ideas: https://www.youtube.com/c/bdylanhollis https://www.tumblr.com/blueskiesandstarrynights/688815467522113536/i-recently-watched-a-bunch-of-videos-from-b-dylan |
Anonymous
| WASPs don’t really eat, they only drink |
Anonymous
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Cheese and Ritz crackers. Maybe onion dip and celery sticks. Plus bowls of olives and mixed nuts if they went all out.
Are you SURE you want to use WASPS for inspiration when it comes to food? Or you could serve the sort of things that people THINK rich WASPS would have eaten — maybe something like profiteroles or beef Wellington or shrimp cocktails? |
Anonymous
Fondue 
Shrimp on the Barbie, how delightfully foreign and droll! |
Anonymous
| I assume you mean hors d'oeuvres, rather than an appetizer starter to a meal (for an appetizer, chilled tomato juice comes to mind -- it was probably the most commonly ordered fancy restaurant app). But party hors doeuvres: a block of cream cheese with Worcestershire poured over it served with Ritz crackers, or the same crackers with a cheeseball, a plate with olives and stuffed celery sticks (stuff with pimento cheese, or cream cheese, or peanut butter), Ruffles and French onion dip, chicken liver rumaki (yuck, if liver is gross to you, just use a water chestnut), pigs in a blanket, deviled eggs. |
Anonymous
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Shrimp cocktail
Cheese Fondue |
Anonymous
| Cream puff swans. I myself made these a lot in the 1980s so they must have existed in the 1970s. More dessert than cocktail snack but super fancy looking and not hard. |
Anonymous
| Date bread cut in little rounds with cream cheese. Or you can roll it and cut pinwheels. We were big on rolling things up back then. |
Anonymous
| Shrimp cocktail for sure. Pigs in a blanket. Meatballs with those cocktail sticks. |
Anonymous
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Warm spinach dip in a hollowed out pumpernickel loaf, with the bread cubes for dipping.
Cream cheese/ parmesan/ artichoke dip with triscuits. And hell yeah shrimp cocktail! |
Anonymous
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Oysters
Oysters Rockefeller |
Anonymous
| Bacon-wrapped scallops? With party picks with the primary-colored cellophane frills? |