Funnily enough - my mum makes that “crème brûlée” recipe with the dark brown sugar and calls it “Barbados Cream” obviously after the sugar! Always wondered where the name came from
@TheRenaissanceman65 wrong. It's only in the last 15 years that "Coronation Street" have had a "P" indicating 'product placement ' at that start of the titles. Also they always had tins and branded containers turned around to obscure the brand logo .
"My immediate thought was...it will just look like ginger biscuits sandwiched together with cream." - this is where Victoria Wood got her material for Marjorie and Joan, right?
Yes. It was so funny. Especially Victoria Woods fake tan that ended abruptly below the shoulders, as Judith was on the famous package holiday programme wish you were here around this time too. 😂🥰
this woman was a judge on a baking show and shes slopping whipped cream over some biscuits calling it dessert. having said that. what a broadcaster. she didnt skip a beat the entire time.
I know what you are saying but Great British Bake Off is a competition. This was an afternoon show aimed at housewives, and in a time when being economical was of great priority. These days we have celebrity chef's for entertainment. Mary Berry was trained as a home economist, testing recipes and demonstrating how to use new appliances. These segments were more for demonstrating what could be done than for our entertainment.
Im American can someone help me understand why they keep saying "you can get this almost anywhere now" and keep referring to how expensive things are? Was there a recession at this time or was cream some sort of ration?
It was not rationed at time but expensive. In 1970s it was more common to have tinned evaporated milk. Real cream was treat. Fridges came later in uk than America. When my mother was a child evaporated milk would be more common than fresh cream. They would not have a fridge for keeping cream or milk.
It was post 1973 oil crisis and the economy was in a mess, household budgets were tight (like they are increasingly becoming now). Inflation adjusted, that 1 pint of double cream cost about £4 which would have been considered extravagant considering you could easily make a main meal for 4 costing less than that. The ethos of the show was to make your money go as far as possible and simple recipes that ordinary people could copy easily at home. Also large supermarket chains had not yet totally taken over grocery retail in the UK so many people still shopped at smaller local stores or town markets which is why she keeps saying you can get these almost anywhere now - i.e even the smaller local retailers now stock these.
To add to this, in 2023, inflation adjusted, that pint of double cream would’ve cost £4.50. I’ve just checked Sainsbury’s online, and 600ml, just over a pint, costs £2.30. The oil crisis of the mid seventies hit America very badly too. But we had the double whammy of strikes by energy workers. Not that I blame them, they were striking for a basic wage of £30 a week for men over 21 - about £1,240 a month in 2023. Extremely difficult to live on. So there were energy outages almost daily in some parts. In 1974 I was 5, and I can honestly say I don’t remember the power cuts. So Mary Berry and Judith Chalmers were performing a public service doing economical recipes that were quick and still tasted good.
The days when scald was a rarity seldom found outside the West Country. Interesting how double cream was regarded as a luxury 50 years ago yet all types are ubiquitous these days.
I remember cycling home from 6th form, through the slush of a cold, wet 1977 winter on my precious Xmas gift - a snazzy American-style Raleigh bicycle. I'd always make sure to pass Mrs Hardigan's bungalow on the way home. There, she would often wave me inside the cosy porch, where she would delicately wipe down my Chopper, leaving it shiny, warm and ready to ride. And there'd always be a portion of something hot and contemporary to keep this young lad from the chills; whether it was Toad in the Hole, Cottage Pie with Cheesy Mash or Mary Berry's Easy Fish Casserole. On a good day I'd also receive a dessert of juicy Upside-Down Tart, a moist slice of Delia Smith's Black Forest Gateau, or Chocolate Brownies depending on the day of the month. I never did get Spotted Dick but she always had me gagging for an Arctic Roll on New Year's Day. Happy days, though it all came to a halt in 1979 when Mum got suspicious after finding what looked like Cheese Fondue all over my bike saddle 😞. I miss you so much Mrs Hardigan 💔
Yes. This was before supermarkets and universal availability became the norm for British consumers. If you wanted something like clotted cream (a westcountry product) you could apply to producers to post it to you. It would not have been available in the small grocer’s where you got your groceries. Smoked kippers used to be posted all over the UK from Whitby, for example
what happened to many of these products? long life and canned and bottled cream that didn’t need a fridge? 1974. did these products disappear when we joined the EEC?
I used to love the sterlised tinned cream, usually served with tinned fruit (in syrup), often after Sunday lunch😂 it was quite thick, and I can see my dad shaking the tin vigorously before opening😀
As a presenter, she has certainly improved with age! She's constantly tripping up on her words here and the whole dynamic seems very wooden and awkward - A far cry from the graceful and flowing delivery she developed later on.
I’m sorry, I just shouted, “WHAT!!” at my iPad when she said half-sherry-half-water! I know 3 day week and all, but that’s taking things a bit too far!
@@sean.furlong1989 Yeah funny isn't it how many rich and supposedly "fattening" foods people used to eat routinely back then and yet obesity was extremely rare and childhood obesity largely unheard of.... I Wonder why! lol
Julio, your ignorance demonstrates a glaring gap in your knowledge. In the UK a pint is an imperial measure of 20 fluid ounces; in the US a pint is 16 US fluid ounces. Although different quantities, they are both called pints.
Sa-uhrd cream ...when the english say soured that way people think its posh...when southern americans pronounce it that way they think we sound weird at best if not ignorant...
I love these old clips. Such a treasure.
pro tip : watch movies on Flixzone. Me and my gf have been using it for watching all kinds of movies recently.
@Kyrie Shiloh Yup, I've been using Flixzone} for since november myself =)
OMFG that intro! I haven't seen that in about 30 years. Just had a crazy childhood flash back.
Right?? That was at the beginning of some PBS shows back in the day. Love it 😍
Everything has to be so fussy today. Simple is also good.
Legend has it you can still buy those cream products from 1974 today!!
@TheRenaissanceman65 heheeh thanks for commenting!
Top totty from back in the day .!
Funnily enough - my mum makes that “crème brûlée” recipe with the dark brown sugar and calls it “Barbados Cream” obviously after the sugar! Always wondered where the name came from
Cream sent through the post....four days later?! Yep that's very 70s 🤣
It’s still possible! A colleague told us of a friend sending it to her within the last 5 years.
Thanks for uploading this!
The layered chocolate and cream dessert looks similar to a dessert popular now in the South called Chocolate Delight.
Reminds me a bit of a forerunner to tiramisu.
@@annoldham3018my thoughts exactly
Judith & Mary ♥️♥️♥️
Fashion in the 70s was on a whole other level. 💯
Star Belt!
Mary and Judy. Such beautiful gracious ladies from an era when womanhood was treasured.
What a silly comment - you want to go back and have women barefoot in the kitchen.
Not worrying about product placement in the seventies with brands like St Ivel, Eden Vale and Cadburys
@TheRenaissanceman65 wrong. It's only in the last 15 years that "Coronation Street" have had a "P" indicating 'product placement ' at that start of the titles. Also they always had tins and branded containers turned around to obscure the brand logo .
You could get cream left by the milkman in those days.
I am sure the milkman would have popped some cream wherever you would have wished! Nice Lady .
Ours did a lovely selection of Dunster farm yogurts.....
And the milkman could nip round the back and leave his cream there if you asked nicely
@@MrItsme73😂😂😂😂
Loved it!
"My immediate thought was...it will just look like ginger biscuits sandwiched together with cream." - this is where Victoria Wood got her material for Marjorie and Joan, right?
Yes. It was so funny. Especially Victoria Woods fake tan that ended abruptly below the shoulders, as Judith was on the famous package holiday programme wish you were here around this time too. 😂🥰
Judith looks so slim
My Sherry amour.. 🎶
I think they'd been at the sherry beforehand.....
@@annoldham3018 🤔
My Sherry before.. 🎶
this woman was a judge on a baking show and shes slopping whipped cream over some biscuits calling it dessert.
having said that. what a broadcaster. she didnt skip a beat the entire time.
I know what you are saying but Great British Bake Off is a competition. This was an afternoon show aimed at housewives, and in a time when being economical was of great priority. These days we have celebrity chef's for entertainment. Mary Berry was trained as a home economist, testing recipes and demonstrating how to use new appliances. These segments were more for demonstrating what could be done than for our entertainment.
Im American can someone help me understand why they keep saying "you can get this almost anywhere now" and keep referring to how expensive things are? Was there a recession at this time or was cream some sort of ration?
It was not rationed at time but expensive. In 1970s it was more common to have tinned evaporated milk. Real cream was treat. Fridges came later in uk than America. When my mother was a child evaporated milk would be more common than fresh cream. They would not have a fridge for keeping cream or milk.
It was post 1973 oil crisis and the economy was in a mess, household budgets were tight (like they are increasingly becoming now). Inflation adjusted, that 1 pint of double cream cost about £4 which would have been considered extravagant considering you could easily make a main meal for 4 costing less than that. The ethos of the show was to make your money go as far as possible and simple recipes that ordinary people could copy easily at home. Also large supermarket chains had not yet totally taken over grocery retail in the UK so many people still shopped at smaller local stores or town markets which is why she keeps saying you can get these almost anywhere now - i.e even the smaller local retailers now stock these.
To add to this, in 2023, inflation adjusted, that pint of double cream would’ve cost £4.50. I’ve just checked Sainsbury’s online, and 600ml, just over a pint, costs £2.30. The oil crisis of the mid seventies hit America very badly too. But we had the double whammy of strikes by energy workers. Not that I blame them, they were striking for a basic wage of £30 a week for men over 21 - about £1,240 a month in 2023. Extremely difficult to live on. So there were energy outages almost daily in some parts. In 1974 I was 5, and I can honestly say I don’t remember the power cuts. So Mary Berry and Judith Chalmers were performing a public service doing economical recipes that were quick and still tasted good.
Omg Mary was a total 🦊!
And god bless, shes aged like wine rather than cream.
@@sweeney60is she still alive
Well it's more entertaining than loose women
Speaking of cream.....
The days when scald was a rarity seldom found outside the West Country.
Interesting how double cream was regarded as a luxury 50 years ago yet all types are ubiquitous these days.
I remember cycling home from 6th form, through the slush of a cold, wet 1977 winter on my precious Xmas gift - a snazzy American-style Raleigh bicycle. I'd always make sure to pass Mrs Hardigan's bungalow on the way home. There, she would often wave me inside the cosy porch, where she would delicately wipe down my Chopper, leaving it shiny, warm and ready to ride. And there'd always be a portion of something hot and contemporary to keep this young lad from the chills; whether it was Toad in the Hole, Cottage Pie with Cheesy Mash or Mary Berry's Easy Fish Casserole. On a good day I'd also receive a dessert of juicy Upside-Down Tart, a moist slice of Delia Smith's Black Forest Gateau, or Chocolate Brownies depending on the day of the month. I never did get Spotted Dick but she always had me gagging for an Arctic Roll on New Year's Day. Happy days, though it all came to a halt in 1979 when Mum got suspicious after finding what looked like Cheese Fondue all over my bike saddle 😞. I miss you so much Mrs Hardigan 💔
How long is an 'arrgh'? 3 minutes?
Haha. Hilarious. I love that posh speaking style.
About 03:15.
I was in a primary school that years. Who is that lady beside Mary.
Judith Chalmers. The doyenne of daytime TV. 🤩🥰
Hi Ann.. thanks so much, regards from Singapore, take care.
50p for pint of double cream!! And that was considered expensive
Sheer decadence Courtney, sheer decadence. 🥰
Inflation adjusted, that works out at around £4 in today's money!
@@soundseeker63£4.51 in 2023. In Sainsbury’s today, 600ml (near enough a pint) is £2.30, so 50p was expensive in 1974.
Cream in the post ?
Yes. This was before supermarkets and universal availability became the norm for British consumers. If you wanted something like clotted cream (a westcountry product) you could apply to producers to post it to you. It would not have been available in the small grocer’s where you got your groceries.
Smoked kippers used to be posted all over the UK from Whitby, for example
A packet of Barbados dark brown sugar please. Is she slurring the word 'sherry'?
what happened to many of these products? long life and canned and bottled cream that didn’t need a fridge?
1974. did these products disappear when we joined the EEC?
I used to love the sterlised tinned cream, usually served with tinned fruit (in syrup), often after Sunday lunch😂 it was quite thick, and I can see my dad shaking the tin vigorously before opening😀
Depending on where you live you can look in the INTERNATIONAL FOODS aisles.
Nestlé make tinned cream 🤷🏻♂️
As a presenter, she has certainly improved with age! She's constantly tripping up on her words here and the whole dynamic seems very wooden and awkward - A far cry from the graceful and flowing delivery she developed later on.
How many times do they say "CREAM"? 😄😄😄
Is cooked cream riccotta?
Ricotta is very different to clotted cream
No. Ricotta is just curds warmed up a second time and pressed. Clotted cream means actually cooking the cream in an oven.
Single cream isn't for whipping. Single cream feels gutted!
Good video
I’m sorry, I just shouted, “WHAT!!” at my iPad when she said half-sherry-half-water! I know 3 day week and all, but that’s taking things a bit too far!
No one would it these days.
Everyone's concern is calories intake
Back when this video was filmed butter, lard, cream, suet and dripping were what people ate yet obesity was lower.
@@sean.furlong1989 Yeah funny isn't it how many rich and supposedly "fattening" foods people used to eat routinely back then and yet obesity was extremely rare and childhood obesity largely unheard of.... I Wonder why! lol
@@soundseeker63 Peope weren't constantly snacking then like we do today
@sean.furlong1989
There were no UPFs
SHe sounds so shaky and even her hands look shakey
She's trying to show all these recipes really quickly for the segment.
How much is 4 ounces? And a quarter of double? Don't know what she's on about.
4 ounces is 110ml or 110g. A quarter is a quarter of a pint, or 5 ounces.
@@nathanjustus6659 beautifully explained Nathan. Us British love our quarters and ounces.
Mary in her 30s
Mary Berry's cream pie
Do they have Cream in their knickers?
Love you Mary but damn, those first 2 desserts were dreadful...esp the ginger biscuit "loaf". Made me shudder.
and the cream/yoghurt/brown sugar creme brulee did look quite horrible too...
There's a tacky horrible buffet restaurant here that still does that for dessert.
That ginger biscuit loaf looked fowl! Ewww
@TheRenaissanceman65 that's where your wrong I am forcing them to watch this. I will let them go once they've watch at least 10 of these clips
@TheRenaissanceman65 it's a joke....
20 oz isn’t a pint... 16 ounces is a pint!
Julio Gonzalez
Things are different in the UK. 😊 I’m a native New Yorker but I lived in Manchester England for several years.
Its called an imperial pint.
Julio, your ignorance demonstrates a glaring gap in your knowledge. In the UK a pint is an imperial measure of 20 fluid ounces; in the US a pint is 16 US fluid ounces. Although different quantities, they are both called pints.
@@pussypostlethwaitsaeronaut8503 Julio was saying the same as you!
Is there a tension between these two ladies? I’ve only seen a few of these episodes, and they seem to despise one another.
what was the point in judith chalmers? basically being paid to get in the way and ask stupid questions
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She was a TV presenter for "Good Morning" show. These are the cooking segments.
My mum couldn't stand her but people said she looked like her. And she did!😂😂😂
To keep Mary on track and on time.
Sa-uhrd cream ...when the english say soured that way people think its posh...when southern americans pronounce it that way they think we sound weird at best if not ignorant...