New Year 2014 in retro style
How you want sometimes to return to the past, especially if in this past your youth or youth of your loved ones - grandmothers, grandfathers, parents. It is impossible to return time, but it is easy to create an environment corresponding to certain years. Try to meet the New Year 2014 in retro style - imagine that the time machine exists in reality and that it is in your hands!
Choose "station", that is time!
Where will you go on this wonderful device? Which century is closest to you? Start with a short trip - go back to the twentieth century. True, here you also need to make a choice. The beginning of the century? The twenties and thirties? The Forties? Fifties? The sixties and eighties? We will not go deeply into history with you, list the difficulties of each period, it is better to dwell immediately on peaceful, relatively successful decades of the end of the century - for example, to recreate the situation of the New Year's holiday of the 70s will be quite simple.
The menu of the festive table
If you really want to meet the New Year in retro style and are ready to make certain "sacrifices" - to give up some culinary delights, then you will succeed. No shrimp, crab sticks, original varieties of cheese, mushrooms, avocado, sliced from several types of sausage and ham and other products - the menu should be modest. From sausage products you can take the "Doctor" sausage, ham with a layer of fat, one kind of smoked sausage - that's all that could be on the table( and that provided that you could get these products "by acquaintance", or you had luckto be in the store at the moment when they were "thrown out" on the counter).
The festive table in the style of 60-80s will be very modest. What should it be? Must be a salad "Olivier" - mayonnaise and peas, which, incidentally, were considered a delicacy: they could not be bought at the store, so the landladies kept "precious" jars for the holiday. In second place on the popularity of "Herring under the fur coat" - a salad that does not require scarce food, except for the same mayonnaise.
Think meat dishes: chicken, cutlets, cabbage rolls, chops, chilli - all this can be. Garnish was usually cooked potatoes, and to her pickled cucumbers, tomatoes, mushrooms. Good housewives made preparations for the new year from the summer - you could buy canned vegetables in the store, but they were not nearly as tasty as homemade ones.
We suspect that you still want to supplement the menu with some "food": then imagine that you are not the last person in the society and were able to get black or red caviar, olives and sprats for the holiday - these products could be on the table, butnot all.
We choose drinks
It seems that it's so simple - not at all. Since you have decided to celebrate the New Year "in an old fashion" - keep yourself in the hands of the alcoholic beverage department: pass by the elite spirits - they are not at your table. What can you take? A bottle of champagne is a must;otherwise be guided by your own taste, but remember that cognac and relatively expensive wines( only a few people even heard of real expensive collection drinks) could be afforded only by people with very good incomes or "links" in the sphere of trade.
Be sure to put on the table a bottle of sweet mineral water that tastes like "Duchess" or "Pinocchio" lemonade. Today you can find drinks with the same names - they will be similar and to taste. Naturally, you will not put them in plastic bottles - those then simply were not;only in glass! Juices in boxes will replace decanters with compote, cooked from natural fruits and berries. Usually housewives for the sake of this holiday opened three-liter cans of compotes, prudently prepared in the summer.
"Sweet" table
Set a vase with apples, oranges and tangerines. Kiwi, bananas, greiprut, pomelo, pineapples do not buy: they were simply not in the vegetable departments. Of course, could not be on the table in the winter fresh strawberries or other berries - they were also not on sale. And since the freezing chambers of the old refrigerators did not differ in size, there were not any of them in the billets of the house.
Do not buy a retro cake on your table: try to bake something yourself. Again, look at the recipes of old cookbooks: Napoleon, sponge cakes, yeast dough cakes, cookies - any homemade cakes were a hundred times tastier than purchased cakes.
Decoration of the room
Once you have decided to celebrate the New Year 2014 in retro style and want to fully simulate your chosen years, then pay attention to the design of the room - nothing should "fall out" of time! If the tree is artificial, then it should be small and modest - magnificent "beauties" made of artificial material were simply not there.
Remove all modern technology from the room or disguise it. Black and white TVs in the 70s, of course, were already at everyone;but the colored ones were considered a luxury. If suddenly you or your friends in the dacha in the attic are getting dusty old record player and phonograph records to him or a rare tape recorder with reels - it's time to get them!
The final touch is your New Year's costume
Look at what clothes were in fashion - dress in the style of those years. Women are advised to pay attention to hair and makeup - they are very different from modern.
You have prepared the same table that could have been in any house in the 70s;thought over the situation - now you have to enter the image yourself: for this night you are people of that era! Remembering old times, do not forget to make new wishes. And may they all be performed in the coming year!