Here is the menu plan for 1991 in my mother's Christmas book, again with nothing added and nothing taken away.
"23/12/91
Dinner - sausages (garlic ginger & coriander. Mashed potatoes overwhipped - like wallpaper glue. Fried onion, pineapple rumtopf.)
Xmas Eve
Salt duck & melon. Kedgeree; Fresh fruit/ice cream.
Xmas Day
Sm. sal. tr. Goose, roast potatoes, green beans, sprouts, carrots, stuffing, gravy, sausages (from good butchers), bacn rolls, purple broccoli.
Fly away Xmas pudding & brandy butter. Aunt C & Pen. John, Julien, Ali, William.
Soup and sandwiches.
Boxing Day. Lunch party. Cod turkey, beef, ham, game pie, profiteroles, treacle pud, potato salad with mayonnaise, green bean salad (2lb bought in Bromley High St Xmas Eve), rice salad, green salad (little gem & iceberg), tomato salad, xmas cake made by Jules. Veggie rice salad too. Pen & Aunt C bought ham & stilton.
Supper - turkey soup & left overs.
27th Left overs
28th. Off to Austria.
Turkey for Boxing Day was cooked on Xmas Eve.
Xmas Day. Peel spuds. Put in goose. Sauce?
Left overs of all meats. Profiteroles made with wholemeal flour. Not as nice as white flour. Treacle pud ... & was too big."
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