Mrs Hughes Makes Carson Cook | Downton Abbey
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- Clip from Season 6, Episode 5 & 7
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I really believe Mrs. Hughes and Mrs. Patmore could rule the world.
🤣
Truly
Definitely. And they do it all from the Downton Kitchen, giggling the whole time.
He had this one coming. Frankly, I applaud his wife since I would have said something, pointedly, by this time if I were in Mrs. Hughes's shoes.
she handled it in a classy way, just showed him her point of view. No real pettiness that's how sweet she is
I'm not sure how safe and secure you would feel in the 1920's to sass your husband with all the gender stereotypes being rigidly set in place. Kinda scary, actually
“This plate’s cold, which is a pity…” Knew it was gonna get interesting after THAT comment!
This was totally fair lol. They both worked so hard all day it's ridiculous that he wanted Mrs. Hughes to do so much at home and then complain about it.
While nothing wrong with having ‘edible’ food (like that undercooked steak) but he’s an unreasonably expectant professional that wants things done to such a high standard that’s unreasonable for a woman who hadn’t cooked for years
@@KoiYakultGreenTea I love me some rare meat so I can't connect there haha but yes if I was Mrs. Hughes I would just say say no we'll eat at the big house everyday
@@tristantries9211 he found the plate cold; so it probably is tough from sitting there a while cos she's not as well timed as mrs Hughes, and it probably was pretty rare since he's complaining about it. I love my some medium rare steak but after its cold or its too tough its not nice XD
On a side note we're naming our first baby Carson coming in the fall and we definitely thought of Mr. Carson
@@tristantries9211 If he doesn't come out with a massively low voice and says 'hey daddy' i'm gonna throw hands
That look Elsie gives to Charlie at the end is a sweet way of saying, "He may be an old Curmudgeon, but he's MY old Curmudgeon." 💗
That's their relationship in a nutshell and that's why I love them so much.
@@creativehorsequeen Me too. They've been shipped since Season 1 Episode 1. Each time they sat either in his Butler's Pantry or the Housekeeper's Parlor sipping wine 🍷 or a cup of tea ☕ was just the sweetest thing. Their love bonded together through the years. When she had a breast cancer scare in Season 3, the scene with him signing and polishing the silver just melted my heart. 💗 "Dashing away with a smoothing iron, she stole my heart away."
"You mean....I'M going to cook?" Oh the indignity of it all! Poor Charlie! 😂 I love how kind Elsie was when he kept messing up, though. And her looking at the camera at the end! Charlie got a nice piece of humble pie... served on a cold plate!😁🤣
"You could and you couldn't, because I've had an idea." Hurrah! to Mrs. Patmore, she saved Mrs. Hughes' bacon, and burned Mr. Carson's Pride.
And Mr. Carson burnt the potatoes 🥔 😄
@@Digital111 He burnt the potatoes, under cooked the apple crumble, and generally made a Huge mess in the kitchen.
"It's been a while since she's played with her patty pans and she's got some catching up to do." The same goes to you Carson, the same goes to you.
@@m.layfette6249 So bloody and undercooked an cold meat is still OK somehow?
@@CelticRuneSingerit depends on the meat, certain types are better eaten when not fully cooked. Like venison, beef, Lamb and hog.
This episode was hilarious! Mr. Carson was complaining too much so she and Mrs. Patmore decided to teach him a lesson lol 😂
That loving look she gives him at the end.
Love how she calls him Mr. Carson in the last scene. She's not about to throw a 'Charlie' out there and disrupt the entire staff!
I absolutely loved this. I love how she handles him.
One of the best and hilarious moments of Downton Abbey well done Mrs Hughes and Carson learned a valuable lesson. 🤣🥰
Mrs Pattmore was hard to beat, great cook, down to earth, humble loving kind caring, everything you would love in a person ❤️💙❤️💙
1:54 miss patmores giggle here is so cute I can’t I love her ❤
Mrs. Hughes-Carson is so sweet! I loved whenever they allowed that character show her more mischief side.
I always loved the friendship between Mrs Patmore and Mrs Hughes ❤️ 🤣 They both never lost the kid in them!
My mother was a wonderful, creative cook. When other boys were playing baseball, I was getting her to teach me how to cook. This came in very handy when I was in high school and her health sometimes prevented her from cooking dinner. I could easily, and competently, step in. Mrs. Carson is right, it's very straightforward, if you've done it a time or two.
Everyone should know how to cook!
Wow good job! That’s impressive honestly.
I love when Mrs Hughes teaches him a lesson
This was one of my favorite scenes of the whole series🤣🤣🤣🤣
One of my favorite aspects to the show is how Mrs. Hughes's and Mrs. Patmore's friendship developed over the years. That's one of the problems with the movies -- doing too much too quickly. The tone of the show was a slower pace.
I loved this part of Downton Abbey....really I love the whole Show ....
I adore them. Great plan that worked beautifully!
Eyy! Downton Abbey! I like this series so much
Lol I love this. I'd love to know if Carson learned his lesson
A favorite segment of mine! 😂
Classic takedown! Smart lady, Mrs. Patmore
100 years later, many husbands still can’t cook. At least there’s frozen pizza and takeout? Lol
100 years later and I do the cooking and the dishwasher (electric) does the rest....
@@stephenconway2468, I do a modicum of cooking by way of mainly frozen foods, or bean burritos, and wash my dishes by hand.
100 years later many wives can't cook either,
@@kachi2782 that’s probably true. But sometimes, it’s just the husband not liking the wife’s food.
@@cynthiachengmintz672 Then he should learn how to cook !
To be fair to Carson, that lamb DOES look like it's not fully cooked. Rare is one thing, but that piece he's holding looks alive! lol 😉 Mrs. Hughes does need some further practice in the kitchen. But, I agree, her husband's constant carping about the matter almost every night made him deserve a comeuppance. Go, Elsie.
No need to be "fair" to Carson, he was right about the quality of the cooking, he didn't lie, but the way he communicated it, well, he has to work on that 🙂
My mother is vegan and when she met my father who wasn't (i say was, because she fixed him), she mentioned it when they had dinner on a date. He asked her if she minded that he ate meat and she said that of course she minded but that she wasn't going to stop him from eating it or remind him of her veganism, as long as he didn't bring it up either and did not expect her to eat meat, cook it, buy it or do anything related to a dead animal. They had a deal and they dated and it got serious and they started living together. One day she asked him what he wanted for dinner on the coming saturday because he was having some important guest over to the house. He had never asked her to cook meat because he knew she would never but this day he seemed to forget about her principles and told her his guest really liked lamb and that it would be great to have it for dinner with potatoes and a nice salad and cooked vegetables.
She gave him a strange look, expecting him to understand what he had asked her to do, but he was so worried about this dinner that he didn't even notice the look or the enormity of what he had asked her.
The day arrived and my father arrived home a couple of hours before his guest because my mother told him that she needed his help. My mother was kindly slaving in the kitchen. He got a look around and told her that this seemed heavenly. He then asked her what she needed his help for and she handed him a knife and walked him to the field behind the house where they kept a horse and two goats and where the dogs lived. There was a 1 month old lamb eating grass with a female sheep. She told him that she didn't have the heart to separate the mother and the child and bought them both from a farm and that he had 3 hours to now kill the lamb, skin him, gut him, cut him, cook him, and serve him to his guest.
Not only did my father get the message but the lamb and his mother lived happily ever after in the garden for the rest of their respective lives and my mother added a calf a few month later and a some chicken and some rabbits and some other farm animals and made my father feed them every day. After a year my father had completely bonded with the animals and after that he could never eat a piece of meat.
She did something extraordinary, because she never tried to argue with my father's eating habits, she just made him change his mind naturally.
@@kachi2782 That's a sweet story. I don't think I would have went that Far to make a point, but it worked. Marriage is about change and compromise. It's the intertwining of the 2-Two that's the hard (and sometimes fun) part of life. 💞
@@kachi2782 And then everyone clapped. Why didn't your dad just buy lamb at the store?
It's a fucking sheep. It's food on feet. It's only very recently, like past 50 years recently (or even less in many places) that we can buy 'meat' with it being totally separated from the animal, neatly packaged in a plastic container. You went back to a butcher's in the 20's and ordered a chicken, you could probably hear it being killed in the backroom before you got your meat. Not to mention the massive livestock fields kept in cities as meat had to be transported live before refrigeration. Going back even further it would've been common for peasant families to keep a few hens and a pig and slaughter and butcher them themselves when the time came (still common in many third world nations too). My point being that they saw directly where the meat came from, and yet consumed the meat anyways. Why? It's a threefold answer.
Firstly, animals are not human beings. As much as vegans love to personify them, a sheep will never write a great novel or symphony, will never invent a new machine, and most importantly will never ponder the nature of their existence. In this last respect they are very lucky, spared the pain of knowing the finite nature of life. A cow being lead to the slaughter has no idea of the abstract human conceptions and infrastructure about to lead it to it's death.
To state my case frankly, humans are above animals.
Secondly, in history animals served a direct purpose. Pigs consumed all waste imaginable, as did chickens and goats. Many will graze off of plants inedible to humans, allowing us to get the most amount of calories out of our surroundings.
Thirdly, it tasted good and was/is essential to most diets. Yes, protein can be got in large amounts from other sources (and indeed meat would've been rare in history, with most commoners making up the protein/fat loss in things like eggs, beans, cheese etc), but essential vitamins such a the A and B complex vitamins are found the most in meat, which would've been essential to somebody living before vitamin supplements. To this day, this stands. Especially the fact that it tastes good. Try going to france and saying "hey, your whole 500+ years of cultural culinary tradition rooted around meat is really actually amoral and you should feel bad", or hell- go to Ethiopia and say that. That would be like saying that alcohol was suddenly illegal, or that one's native language had been replaced.
Food is not just fuel, it's cultural and very significant to the identity of nations. To enforce (very new and bourgeoise) western standards of morality on places like say, Ethiopia, who really loves their meat, is the definition of 'white man's burden'. You don't want to eat meat? Fine, but don't go guilt tripping everyone else into not doing so with facetious arguments and stories.
And another thing, do you know how privileged you sound? Not everyone can afford to make tofu vegan platters when the budget is 20$ a week for groceries. Sure, you could eat the diet of the Bata'an death march of rice and beans all day, everyday- but even child murderers get meal variation in prison. Most people are going to prefer, both for their health and for their sanity, to get some cheap eggs, cheese, bacon and sausages to supplement their diet so they don't pass out while working a 12 hour shift. Might be hard for you to understand on your Disney style petting zoo you live in.
Back then cooking was a 3 hour ordeal. I don't know why men have even seen it as lesser to be able to provide a decent meal. Anything to get out of working and doing things for others.
Not all men are like that.
@@l.a.3479 But many are, which is the point
Bubble and Squeak is freaking delicious with lamb steaks.
I looked it up. Looks good!
I love how she just slapped the bubble and squeak onto her plate looking disgusted. LOL!
Lmao! Love this show!
Well, done, Mrs. Hughes. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Mrs. Patmore to Mrs. Hughes rescue!
I had never heard of “bread sauce”. Mrs. Hughes told Mr. Carson: bread, onion, milk, butter……I would add poultry seasoning, salt, and lots of celery too. I love dressing!
I'd guess "bread sauce" is a fast version of white sauce, where, instead of using straight flour to make a rue (and make it thicken) you'd use bread.
@@jlang roux
Pure gold!!
Unpopular opinion: I never understood why Mrs. Hughes married Carson. He is so standoffish and snob and demanding! It's a good thing she gave him a lesson. The actor who plays him did such an amazing job portraying him.
I often find Mr Carson thinks higher of himself than Lord Grantham thinks of himself.
Mrs Hughes knew Carson well. She had seen him at his best and at his worst. When Carson accepted Mrs Hughes "warts and all" it goes without saying that Mrs Hughes accepted Carson with his "warts and all". And do you not recall Carson comforting Mary after Matthew's death? Hardly stand-offish and snobbish. No, Carson, like all of us, has his virtues and his faults. Mrs Hughes knew exactly whom she was marrying.
Well done, Elsie 😁
Love this!!
I mean, Carson is Carson. Surely neither Mrs. Hughes nor anyone else should be surprised lol
This always puzzled me. Carson did not eat this kind of food at the servant's table. Why did he act like he ate this way all the time?
Maybe because he served the upstairs dinner all the time he became acquainted with their food and strove to have the same at home
@@laurenhymos9366 That makes sense.
Well servents would often have the leftover and in many houses the higher ranked staff would often have fancier food. Also, I suspect Mrs patmore gave them ingredients for a non so easy meal on purpose.
They Robbed us Blind on crappy Netflix again and Removed Downton Abbey. So here I am getting my fix. 😂
I hate it when Netflix does that. It's probably a part of the reason their revenue is down. Anyway, I think DA is available on Amazon Prime.
It’s out on Amazon prime, if it hasn’t been taken away. Watched it there 2 months ago I think 😊
It's also on Peacock. I was so mad when they took it away because I was in the middle of a rewatch, had to find my episode on the less superior streaming app 😂
I don't quite understand his shock at having to cook. I understand the upper class not knowing, but why not middle and lower class. Before Carson married Mrs Hughes what did he do for dinner?
He lived in the big house that provided meals for the staff. He likely lived there or in another house for most or all of his adult life, so his meals were always catered to. And as a child, his mother or sisters would have done it.
Why did Mr. and Mrs. Carson start eating at home, anyway? Did they cut the staff at Downton down to the point where they couldn't provide meals for the staff? Or was it their choice for married life?
If his house was anything like my nans growing up, the girls were in the kitchen cooking and cleaning and laying the table, while the boys where in the living room doing whatever they wanted. My grandad told me in the whole course of their marriage he was never allowed to set foot into the kitchen.
@@harringt100 I guess they want a separate life, next to work, just the two of them. They already spend most of their time at Downtown.
how adorable! lol
The plate is cold 🤣
"Bubble and Squeak." What a great name for veg.
I'm so glad my mother taught me how to cook.
She taught him a lesson
Way to go!
It's hiariously funny that he deserved this after complaining about the whole sotuation. My husband cooked a lot because he had a great deal of audacity.
"This plate's cold, which is a pity". My husband 1:1
3:07 lol 😂😴
This was preceded by a few moments of Mrs. Hughes looking disappointed in Mr. Carson. I was expecting that some subtle but obvious tongue-lashing was in order. Instead, a different and possibly more effective route was adopted. The full extent of what Mrs. Hughes had to go through dawned on Mr. Carson only when circumstances compelled him to do Mrs. Hughes's part, and not by expressions of exasperation.
just eat at that mansion..
I like Mr. Carson but he had this coming.
Carson was such a snob all too often for my liking. He definitely had this coming & then some.
Played with her patty pans😂
Who exactly is Billy?
🙂💚
Ajaja un hombre haciendo los deberes de la mujer jajs nise quejo el señor carson jaja gran leccion.
It would be fair f they both cook together, or she cooks and he cleans up.
Odd that Mrs Hughes should call him Mr Carson instead of Charlie now that they are married. The household agreed to keep calling her Mrs Hughes since it would be too confusing to have two Carsons in the house.
Good to see there was women's power
Even back then.
lol
I don't like any lamb, cos its hard to make it
My mother is vegan and when she met my father who wasn't (i say was, because she fixed him), she mentioned it when they had dinner on a date. He asked her if she minded that he ate meat and she said that of course she minded but that she wasn't going to stop him from eating it or remind him of her veganism, as long as he didn't bring it up either and did not expect her to eat meat, cook it, buy it or do anything related to a dead animal. They had a deal and they dated and it got serious and they started living together. One day she asked him what he wanted for dinner on the coming saturday because he was having some important guest over to the house. He had never asked her to cook meat because he knew she would never but this day he seemed to forget about her principles and told her his guest really liked lamb and that it would be great to have it for dinner with potatoes and a nice salad and cooked vegetables.
She gave him a strange look, expecting him to understand what he had asked her to do, but he was so worried about this dinner that he didn't even notice the look or the enormity of what he had asked her.
The day arrived and my father arrived home a couple of hours before his guest because my mother told him that she needed his help. My mother was kindly slaving in the kitchen. He got a look around and told her that this seemed heavenly. He then asked her what she needed his help for and she handed him a knife and walked him to the field behind the house where they kept a horse and two goats and where the dogs lived. There was a 1 month old lamb eating grass with a female sheep. She told him that she didn't have the heart to separate the mother and the child and bought them both from a farm and that he had 3 hours to now kill the lamb, skin him, gut him, cut him, cook him, and serve him to his guest.
Not only did my father get the message but the lamb and his mother lived happily ever after in the garden for the rest of their respective lives and my mother added a calf a few month later and a some chicken and some rabbits and some other farm animals and made my father feed them every day. After a year my father had completely bonded with the animals and after that he could never eat a piece of meat.
She did something extraordinary, because she never tried to argue with my father's eating habits, she just made him change his mind naturally.
It's too bad she decided to passively-aggressively "teach" him her way on a very important night for him. She should have just been straight forward and reminded him that she does not handle meat at all. It sounds like her plan all along was to "fix him", as if he needed fixing. My guy drinks alcohol and I do not. I have not intention of "fixing him". It doesn't bother me that he does, and if he wants to stop, he will. I will play no games to make him see things my way.
@@karendouglass9796 You seem to be very indulgent with my father, forgetting that he is the one who asked a vegan to cook lamb ! That night might have been important to him, but not as important as my mother's principles and she never stopped my father from getting lamb for dinner, she actually gave him the tools to do it Three hours is more than enough to slaughter a lamb and cook it and my father is not handicapped so nothing stopped him.
My father smokes, my mother doesn't, she has never tried to make hi8m lose this habit, because that is his life and if he wants to die of cancer that is his choice, but when it comes to animals she wasn't going to compromise when this meant killing one. If my father had tried to slaughter the lamb, it is clear that my mother would have taken all the animals and walked out of the house.
Drinking is something that really doesn't bother anyone except the drinker himself, because it doesn't cause the death or discomfort of others (unless of your guy as you name him, drives after drinking or can't control himself and slaps you around) but other than that this is really only between him and his liver, blood pressure and general health. But eating meat has a deadly consequence on animals and that is the one thing my mother would not condole. She couldn't stop from eating meat and never tried, but no animal was ever going to get hurt under her watch. What she did was extremely unselfish and completely selfless. She had nothing to win out of changing my father's habit and everything to lose, like losing an otherwise terrific man. My mother is financially independent and actually earns more than my father and always had, so she was never co-dependent financially and didn't need my father, she just wanted him.
She just made him understand where meat comes from and made him face his choices honestly.
That's not passive aggressive, that's intelligent. Passive aggressive would be to tell him every time he had meat in his plate something like "How does your cadaver taste" or "aren't you the self-indulgent petting your dog while eating a cow, pretending to like animals", or "Need a refill in rotten blood and decaying flesh" when he went to the supermarket. She never did. My father bought meat and cooked it and ate it and my mother sat across from him at the table for years not even giving him a bad look, let alone a bad word, all she did was buy an extra fridge and freezer for my father to store his meat in it which she never opened.
But he crossed the line when he asked her to cook it for his guest. She just reminded him of the agreement they made a few years prior to that.
Whether people who eat meat need fixing or not is of course up for debate. Some people have no issue with it, and some people do. So is life.
Have a good day.
@@karendouglass9796 Another thing, studies show that drinkers have far more risk of dying earlier from health issues and that alcohol is actually damaging to the body and the brain. If you care for your guy, shouldn't you warn him against it and try to help him remain healthy so you can can a long and happy healthy life together or are you just not concerned at all with his well being ?
My mother puts a few pamphlets now and then on the table about the risks of tobacco because she truly cares about him and loves him, and doesn't want him to get sick or die prematurely. And of course because of the kids and pets he is not allowed to smoke inside the house except for his office and mancave where nobody is allowed because this is HIS world and private place, common areas however are non smoking areas, which my father understands and respects entirely.
So do you think that allowing your man to drink is a evidence of respect for him or lack of care and neglect ?
Or are you simply never going to get between your guy and his habits no matter what, and if so why ? Respect, submission, fear, co-dependency ...
Don't answer me, i couldn't care less, but answer yourself.
@@kachi2782 Not only passive-aggressive, but manipulative as well. I don't leave hints or pamphlets, I speak to him directly if there is a problem or issue. Drinking alcohol and being an alcoholic, as you are speaking of, are two very different things. Anything in excess is dangerous
@@karendouglass9796 Leaving hints or pamphlets because my mother cares about her husband's health or well being is being manipulative to you ?
My mother is not western so she doesn't go for the direct approach, this is not in her culture, she believes in providing whatever information needed and let the others make up their mind. To her, speaking directly to him would be aggressive because it would demand a direct answer, which in itself is a form of confrontation, but by leaving pamphlets and non directly hinting at things, she allows the others the possibility to ignore the issue, which is a wonderful way to avoid confrontation while still getting your message across.
I don't expect you to understand this far eastern way of doing things.
Maybe your culture and hers are different, that's all.
She is half Japanese on one side, half Scandinavian, half British on the other (places famed for their non-confrontational cultures), she will never go for the direct approach, this is just not how she was raised.
Drinking alcohol and being an alcoholic are two different things, indeed but you are the one who pointed out that your guy drinks, and i assume that if this was so casual then it wouldn't have caught your attention.
Maybe try to be a tad more explicit in your argumentation.
My father smokes, it is an issue to my mother (as she cares for him immensely) because he smokes a lot, and is addicted just like any person who drinks and can't stop for a month, so don't fool yourself your guy is just as addicted to his drink as my father is to his cigarettes. The only thing being that cigarettes won't alter his behaviour and won't put anyone at direct risk, only passively which is why he is not allowed to smoke in the common areas of the house. What do you do from preventing your guy to become a hazard to others and himself ?
That is rather a lot of fanciful food for servants
That's the point, he wants the food he is used to (even if they were servants they would often eat much better than normal people are would often finish the leftover from upstairs. So he was expecting this kind of food made by a professional)
This story line was so "woke", I love it!
Women are never happy.
The entire scene is about a man who is never happy..