I'm only 37 and remember Terry Wogan like it was yesterday, I think he'll always live on.. at least in our generation unless our Children are brought up to watch, look up or listen to people about these kind of legends ❤
My Mum and I always liked Terry Wogan, and my birthday was the same as Terry's, (3rd August) ...though of course he was a fair bit older than me!! R.I.P. Fanny & Johnny Craddock ...and Terry Wogan. R.I.P.
I met her, she wasn't just outspoken, she was someone who thought she was better than everyone else and she was physically violent towards me even though I was visibly pregnant. Not a nice person at all
I used to know Fanny Craddock. When I was a young child I went with my school to our local theatre to see one of her cookery demonstrations...but also, my stepdad was a car mechanic who rented a yard at a place called Blackheath, in SE.London, just down the road from Fanny & Johnny's house...and my stepdad always fixed Johnny's cars. They both used to invite my Mum & Dad to dinner, and I used to sit in their kitchen and eat the treats Fanny (Mrs.Craddock to me !) cooked or prepared for me, as the cocktails and fancy dinners were a "grown-up affair" !! I liked her but some people didnt like her sometimes seemingly abrupt manner. Johnny was a kind, funny man and quite different to Fanny, but looked upon by outsiders as a "henoecked husband" ...of course, at my young age, I probably missed the 'goings-on' between adults, so if they had marital problems, that all went over my head, but as I saw them, they were nice people, in a lovely house, and when we visited, we were always kindly treated and always _well-fed_ (which is what children notice!!) 😊
That’s so interesting. I’m reading a biography on her called Fear of Fanny. I wonder if they spoke to anyone connected to any of this or if others have had a similar experience… not far into the book yet! What year was she doing the cookery demos in theatres? Before TV? There are clips of TH-cam of her cookery in the Royal Albert Hall and what she made definitely wasn’t going to appeal to school children. I’m not sure it appealed to the adults!
@@Millennial_Manc Well, I was at Primary school, I think, when I went to see her at Catford... So I would've been nine or ten years old then... (I was born in 1953) Unless I've forgotten, which I might have and I saw her in my early years of Secondary school instead, but not more than eleven, I don't think... I have no recollection of what she prepared for us but to those children in the front row of the stalls, she prepared enough for each of them to have a taster of whatever it was she'd prepared on stage. If I can remember anything, it was that that was my _only_ visit to that theatre!! Every other trip to a theatre or to a cinema was to 'The Gaumont', (later changed to the 'Odeon') in Lewisham, and 'The Rex', (later changed to 'Studio 6', & 'Studio 7') in Lewisham, but on the opposite corner to the 'Gaumont' (/ 'Odeon') ...plus to the 'ABC' cinema in Catford.😏 🏴♥️🇬🇧🙂🖖
@@brigidsingleton1596 thank you - that is so interesting. She carried on her theatre shows well into the 60s then and presumably had some interest in teaching the next generation how to cook (or at least how to make everything blue and yellow with dye and put it through a piping bag!). We had a Gaumont in Manchester at the same time. I guess it was a chain. It never occurred to me you could have a chain of theatres like we do with cinemas now but I guess it makes sense for the time.
One thing to remember is that we still had rationing on some products up until 1954, following WW2, and good food was expensive, so having a "celebrity" cook who could show housewives (because it _was_ just women who did the cooking back then!) how to make healthy but cost-effective meals was really valuable. She was sassy rather than abusive in the way that Gordon Ramsay is.
I don't think you are strange, LIndsay, I think if that is what you enjoy then you should be free to choose and not be looked down upon because that is what makes you happy and clearly it is what works for your family, Sophia's adorable politeness is testament to that. I am 31 and work but I also love being in the home and taking care of it, my mum and grandma the same, they both worked shorter hours and would always be home first, preparing the dinner and keeping house, it was something they both pride themselves on, taking care of the family while the men in the house were the main providers and protectors, I guess it's why I have old fashioned values too but just because something is old fashioned, doesn't mean it's wrong. You keep doing what you are doing, it's clearly the glue that keeps your family so genuine and happy.
@@NormyTres I remember Fanny Craddock was giving a cooking demonstration with someone interviewing her. But she had a VERY bad cold and was sniffing with a dripping nose, then she asked the interviewer to test her recipe, the look on his face was absolutely priceless. 😂
Fanny was born in 1909 so a different era. She grew up through the first world war when some couldn't sign up to the armed forces because they were malnourished. She lived through the second world war. Rationing and again people were malnourished. It was important to provide a balanced diet and money was tight. These experiences stay with her, she created meals that didn't break the week's housekeeping money. The first TV cook I believe, very popular, funny and a double act with her husband.
Very good point about malnourishment at the time of WW1. That’s why the Spanish Flu was so bad… diet and living conditions were so poor that we can weather the same sorts of flu strains today.
@@Millennial_Manc It wasn't just poor living conditions that caused both Spanish Flu and TB to take so many lives, they were and are highly infectious diseases that do not discriminate between rich or poor. Cramped living doesn't help which is why having TB barred one from military service or an instant medical discharge if contracted whilst serving.
I agree with you. I'm a stay at home mum. I cook, clean, and make sure the kids are taken care of. I take them to all their activities, get them to Dr appointments etc. I'm also responsible for budgeting and making sure all the bills are paid. Anything to do with keeping a home running smoothly is what I enjoy doing. My husband goes to work, and that's all he has to worry about. Everything else is taken care of. I even mow the lawn and do the outside work and take the bins out that most people expect the husband to do. While doing all of that, I study from home. This might not be everyones cup of tea, but it works for us.
Ohh... 🤣🤣🤣 Nice to see Terry Wogan, he was a mainstay tv-host for decades, an excellent interviewer, hosted Eurovision + it's not the same without his voice. Strong nostalgia from this :) It *would* be controversial these days, but the clip must be 1980-something. I'm a bloke, my kitchen's the hub of my home + that's all good. Time-saving food/meals, so much stuff comes in mix/match parts - pre-sliced veg is super-lazy, people get nervous about using the oven, mixing, making dough - it's not so hard and 10 minitues or so once you get used to doing it. Learn to make a decent pasta (red) sauce 10 minutes, meat pre-marinade 10 minutes or realistically watching it in a pan (skillet), fry/grill - 10 minutes. That's roughly 30 minutes to make a hearty/family meal. If you're sensible and pre-plan leftovers, prep for next day - the kitchen's a pleasure. * Keith Flloyd was also a great(ly inebriated) tv-chef. * Bang on with the taking the Mick - we'll constantly give you a hard time, but we'll be kind if we like you + still continue to mock you 🤣 Brits are the nation to call if you need a sofa to sleep on/have a breakup ;)
I never really watched Fanny but I did watch *The Galloping Gourmet* cooking show. Back in the 1960's & 70's .. Unbelievably, to me anyway. Graham Kerr is still alive. in his 90's
I remember the original show, but Graham also had a cooking show in the 80s and early 90s when many of his recipes on the original GG show were made healthier. The reason was that his wife had a stroke and heart disease, and he had signs of heart disease and a drinking problem, so they adopted a healthier lifestyle.
@@reactingtomyroots You should have a look at the Dog trainer ( I say that in the loosest sense of the word) Barbara Woodhouse , she was totally bonkers and today would be charged with animal cruelty . A British childhood treasure was Johnny Morris , his program Animal Magic was funny and much loved . Love your channel by the way ❤️
Fanny and Johnny Craddock were a very posh, old-school couple. I remember seeing her on TV in the late 1950s and 60s. Fanny seemed to treat Johnny with contempt as if he was a naughty boy, but that was for show.
The truth is Fanny was a snobby, bigamist bully, who abandoned her two sons and was not able to marry Johnnie - despite taking his name - for nearly four decades because her second husband refused to grant a divorce she wasn't at all nice.
@@Lily_The_Pink972 I'm old enough to remember watching her programmes, she was awful to the staff and even jonny didn't escape from it the nail in her coffin was the way she spoke to a amateur cook I think she was gwen..
@janolaful I remember seeing them on TV...Im 71. At that time women were to be seen and not heard, so in some respects she was a breath of fresh air. Maybe Johnny liked being dominated by her! They were both almost caricatures of their kind. She won't be the only TV cook to have been rude to assistants. I'm not condoning it, but she was a character. I didn't know anything about her back story.
As far as i know, she was not on television here in Australia, but I have heard of her. I find her abrasive rather then actually impolite. Nothing like Gordon Ramsay, who is really rather vulgar, not on Fanny's level intellectually, even if he is a better cook. Thank you for the video!
The BBC took on another young lady cook called Delia Smith, whose first series became very popular and she took over from Fannys old fashioned looking food. Delia became a cooking phenomena as did Nigella Lawson.
Fanny’s friend Barbra Cartland an English romantic novelist. Was Princes Diana’s step grandmother. Cartland was a fantastic motor car competition driver in the 20s.
Rationing carried on into the fifties and many of the more exotic ingredients weren't familiar . Fanny had a no nonsense attitude , she and Johnny were products of the austerity years and popular without resorting to full mouthed abuse . The interviewer is Terry Wogan who was a DJ initially who became a much loved TV interviewer and presenter .
She was at the time when we were just emerging from the aftermath of WW2, and rationing. I was born in 1954 and we still had milk rationing, so people didn' really know how to cook and put on a "spread", invite friends round for a meal and "have a bit of a do" such as dinner parties or the like. Today her meals would be considered kitsch or "cheap and tacky" but for the average British housewife they were full of imagination and glamour. She always wore evening gowns and jewellery and never appeared to spill anything on her clothing. Amazing!
Fanny Craddock wasn't rude as such, just forthright and didn't soft-soap or mince her words with people. The only time she was seen to have over-stepped the mark was when she was part of a cooking quiz show, (I don't remember the exact details), and she was really quite harsh about one of the contestants dish that they'd spent time and effort doing, to the point where they became visibly upset. Fanny Craddock's popularity took a dive after that, and she wasn't seen on TV for years afterwards.
I think the controversy tends to arise if choice is taken out of the equation. You guys were thoughtful enough to highlight that times/priorities and people change, work constraints differ, cultural differences in the west vs rest of world etc. I'm from an NHS family and so batch cooking and freezing everything was the norm. 1 day a week, typically Sunday, everything is food prepped, bulk cooked, cooled down, portioned up and then frozen. Do this for long enough and 1 day a week becomes 1 day every 3 or 4 weeks. That daily 1-2 hour food prep and cook is now an overnight defrost and heat up when it's time. Time better spent prioritising other things.
People must accept she is a person from her time, a time when women who got married did not on the whole work.....they stayed at home, looked after the house and children; and that was Fanny Craddock's TV audience who she helped with new food ideas. My mum was the same; she did not restart working outside the home until I (as the youngest child) was 12 and she was an excellent cook ; she worked at RAF Burtonwood during WWII as a cook feeding sick/injured US airforce crew at the hospital and yes we did sit around a table eating food she enjoyed making. So ultimately she taught me too what to do, so even as I'm rapidly approaching 60 I'm capable of feeding myself (, although im terrible at baking.... Its just not my thing if i want cake buy it from the shop as it will be edible). If you want to look at other 'strong' women in the UK from the 70/80's it easy ..... Look up Margaret Thatcher (like or dislike her politics you cant deny she was not taking any crap from anyone....just ask the Argentinian's and the Miners!), the former prime minister.
Goodness, that was a trip down memory lane.. Franny Craddock was VERY acerbic and sharp tongued, but it was great telly .. When she was cooking, SHE WAS IN CHARGE, and didn't suffer fools gladly. Her poor 'henpecked' husband Johnny usually was on the end of her sharp delivery. She was a definitely polarising, a Marmite Character, you either loved or loathed her. As a child, I thought she was rude but funny. Sending my heartiest best wishes to you Steve, to Lindsay ( did I get the spelling right?) And of course Princess Sophia, from Wales 😊🏴
Could definitely see the whole love/hate dynamic with her personality. You did spell Lindsay's name right :) Appreciate you watching and all the best to you and your family as well!
I'm 73 now but remember watching her cookery programmes leading up to Christmas when she would do the whole Christmas menu. It became part of the build up to Christmas. Great.
The classic quote from a TV cooking show was " I hope all your doughnuts turn out like Fanny's" !! ( remembering that FANNY means something very different in the UK) Terry Wogan was a well loved radio and TV broadcaster and is sadly missed.
I agree with you Lyndsey. I have always worked full time and professionally I have done well luckily. However what I have always loved the most is cooking and caring for my family. It fulfils me the most and it's annoying it's seen as a lesser thing now. I truly believe its the best most important job there is.
As you will see from the clip, she was a television cook in the days of black & white tv, back in the 50s/60's. She was very direct, so in those days it was not the norm for television presenters to speak that way. There were a lot of mothers who didn't go to work in those days.
Wasn't that a dish combining some kind of meat (I think duck) with blackberries? Of course fruit goes very well with strong gamey meats ; but she shat on it with contempt because it wasn't a cooking practice she grew up with -?
@@diarmuidkuhle8181The main point she was making was that you cannot serve your best and richest dishes one after the other: they have to fit together. A rich main course needs a simpler pudding course, one which is easier on the palate. Her objectionable manner completely obliterated her meaning.
I worked all the years my kids were growing (of necessity) but every other Sunday afternoon i would batch cook soups, casseroles, pasta dishes, fruit crumbles, cakes and cookies etc and freeze two week’s worth to last until the next cooking afternoon. It used to take me several hours, and does take effort, but you cant be lazy if you want to feed your family well. I often used those sessions to also get my kids cooking with me, so we were all doing something together and they were learning a life skill
I did the same as the kids got older they would just select home made meals from the freezer and I also taught my kids to cook. So when they got older they thought nothing about making a meal for everyone from scratch
Terry Wogan was a British personality you could do a very good reaction to. The episode he guessed hosted of 'Never Mind The Buzzcocks' was comedy gold and he is one of those few TV personalities who was on TV in the '70's and didn't end up ruining their reputation with some kind of criminal behaviour. He was also one of those figures who never seemed to upset anybody (apart maybe Kenny Everett who snapped Terry's microphone in half during an episode of 'Blankety Blank' but I suspect that Terry was really the one being annoyed in that case).
She faked her credentials, ditched her kids, had in the end a sad life. Love watching her though. She was axed from Telly because of how she tore down a lady in a cooking competition - she basically used the TV time to 'perform' to her audience, and judged it very wrong.
Loved Fanny got lots of recipes In the 60s& 70s we used to have dinner parties either Friday or Saturday nights using a lot of her recipes There were 8 of us we used take in turns what memories eating good food & having wonderful conversations around the table which usually was 8 pm to about 1am By the way the ladies involved all had a professions & had children Brings tears to my eyes thinking about it love from 💕🇬🇧
My grandma had a recipe from her show for what we now know was Tiffin. Unfortunately by the end of the show my grandma had forgotten what they were called and so they became known as Fanny Craddocks. The first thing we asked whenever we visited was "are there any Fanny Craddocks. Out would come the tin....... Allegedly at the end of one episode after the tank you and goodbye Johnny said the immortal words "and we hope all your doughnuts turn out like Fanny's" 😂😂😂
Everyone love her rudeness until she ridiculed a housewife who won a competition to meet her and discuss a dinner party menu, she made her cry and that pretty much ended her TV career.
This was a much more positive reaction than it would have been for Fanny Adams (and where the dreadful phrases come from that I will never use again🙈) thanks for this video! ❤
Glad you found the inimitable Ms Craddock guys. I think there's other clips of her brusque nature out there! And yes as somebody else commented here, the brilliant Terry Wogan interviewing her. Now, if you want a naughty laugh, Terry used to read out stories about 'Janet and John' his radio show. Worth a listen, they're laced with innuendo. Very funny 😅
Imagine a Julia Child who stood no nonsense from anyone. BTW, the interviewer is the one and only Sir Terry Wogan, one of Britain (and Ireland)'s most loved television personalities.
There was a programme called the big time in the eighties where members of the public were given the chance on a new career. Sheena Easton was one of the success stories. One of the episodes centred around an aspiring cook who wanted to open a restaurant and they got Craddock in to tutor her. She wasn't just rude,she was cruel, literally gagging at the idea of her favourite recipe the she'd won awards for. It ended Fanny Craddock. The public realise just how foul and toxic she was.
I remember it well, rather than just being there to give a bit of help and advice she completely took over and the poor lady's menu went out of the window and she was in floods of tears, I don't think Fanny ever appeared on TV again.
Hi guys, my dad used to work with her and her husband on her cookery show, filmed at the BBC - the talk show featured was called 'Wogan' with Terry Wogan, who has also passed away (another show my dad made at the BBC and Wogan was filmed at the BBC TV Theatre in Shepherd's Bush in west London, not far from the main BBC TV Centre, in neighbouring White City. Gary
Yes, very indeed so about Fanny Cradock that she's seems to be the female version &/or equivalent of Gordon Ramsay the Scottish Chef in a number of ways & that's a very good valid point that you both Steve & Lindsay had said about her of course. Yes Lindsay & Steve is that I also do love & being a very big fanatic of Gordon Ramsay especially from his TV-Shows all of, Hell's Kitchen, Kitchen Nightmares, The F-Word, of course.
Fanny was an 'acquired taste'!...and of course, lots of people made jokes regarding her name! The bit about the joint of pork at the start is she was showing how proper 'crackling' should be...the skin of the pork scored and rubbed with salt to make it really crispy...the best bit of a pork joint!!
There's a TV film about Fanny Craddock called Fear Of Fanny, it's about her private life and her TV shows. It's a interesting and amusing drama and worth watching, someone has uploaded it to TH-cam so you should be able to watch it
She was off tv by the time I was born, but I do remember my father calling me Fanny Craddock when I was cooking a meal. I thought he was being rude by calling me a Fanny 😂
Please do more on Fanny ❤ she's wonderfully unapologetic and what a matriarch should be. I really love the way you reacted to her and how Lindsey really resonated with her values. You have such a beautiful old soul Lindsey xx
Fanny had very strong opinions and called a spade a spade. She didn't suffer fools gladly and hated being patronized. It could come aross as rude but honestly it was just open and honest, sometimes brutaly honest.
Hi guys, I was too young for her. But although we are perceived reserved, we have always had outrageous characters. Terry Wogan the interviewer an irishman, as others have said was a national treasure. DJ, hosted Children & Need, hosted Eurovision (hilarious) and did his talk show. He got all the BIG A listers, from all over the world. Real Royalty and Hollywood Royalty. People who know Gordon Ramsay in real life say he is well mannered and calm in the kitchen, opposite to the tv persona. Look up chef Keith Floyd another absolute treasure, trust me you & Lindsay will enjoy.
She was so straight to the point, matter of face, no nonsence, very outspoken. Everyone felt so sorry for her husband, in how she spoke to him, god know how he put up with her! I bet he didn't give her a short wage packet! ... I liked her but she scared me!
You should watch, the beauty of football. My favourite video on TH-cam might give yous a idea of how passionate people here are for football. Love the videos ❤
**opinion** I think the most important thing about modern women is the freedom to choose. If you want to work, stay home, or a combination of both, that's fantastic... as long as it's their choice.
In the UK with the air fryer being so popular, kids just seem to feed themselves when they want to. The family evening dinner is quickly becoming a thing of the past. I think it is absolutely dreadful.
She started on TV in the 1950s - we were just coming out of rationing then so she couldn’t be extravagant. By the 80s she was pretty washed up. Her cookery was crude and used to irritate my mum - who could cook!! Her husband Johnny was barely sentient- though whether that was through drink or he was just dumb I don’t know. She always seemed totally intolerant. Mind you the genius Terry Wogan made everyone look good. Now HE is severely missed a truly hilarious guy.
I was a child when she was on tv in 70s, she scared me. Good old Fanny and Johnny 😊 Me and my kids had dinner at the table every night before mobile phones and computers interfered. Google Barbara Cartland, book writer relative of Princess Diana's step mum. She was one of a kind !!
I like television (or TH-cam cooking) too as we have our own cookery personality ... Lindsay. You're fabulous at demonstrating cookery and a natural on the 'small screen' There was (is - he's s still alive!) another famous personality cook called Graham Kerr who had a TV series called "The Galloping Gourmet". He always had glass after glass of wine whilst rushing around cooking on the program (hence the name) and everybody watched it to see him get slowly more and more tiddly/drunk as he cooked (which was part of the entertainment)! Yeah, British TV certainly has had its oddball shows! More cooking videos please Lindsay BTW the vegan ranch dressing worked beautifully! 😋
I was 1 of 4 kids, as soon as we were all in school mum went back to work full time. Mum would prepare the evening meal components in the morning, prepping the veg etc and leaving then saucepans of water, then she would get home from work to then start cooking the meal, she was like wonder woman in the kitchen ❤
I grew up with Fanny & Johnny Craddock always being on TV. She was always like this - plain-spoken and Johnny was like her humble assistant on-screen. Comedians used to do voice-impressions of her, too!
Fanny-Gwen Troake incident: really only what Simon Cowell does all the time (ditto the tough Judge from Tony Hatch on on talent shows...we just weren't so accepting on such blunt honesty in 1976)🎩
I’m an American who discovered Fanny Cradock a few years ago, and have gone down the TH-cam rabbit hole watching her videos. I don’t think she’s rude. I just think that she didn’t waste any time trying to charm her audience. She was like, “This is who I am. This is what I do. I do it right. This is what you’re going do. And this is how you’re going to do it right.” I love that about her. I much prefer watching her than Julia Child. Fanny also is like a drag queen. I’m surprised more drag queens haven’t emulated her.
Fanny Craddock was a tv cook and her husband Jonny once said to camera “ if you watch next week you can make your yorkshire puddings look like Fanny’s “
Fanny did a cooking segment on Scottish Television making doughnuts and the presenter Bill Tennant said the immortal line " it you follow the recipe you'll have doughnuts just like Fanny's"
I would loved to have stayed home, with the children for their younger years, I hated going back to work, I think its a shame more people dont. I also loved to cook the evening meal, we all sat down together at a table to eat. Never had meals on our laps.
I think that was deliberate, though. She was aiming at those who didn't actually know how to cook so they could learn. It's a bit like when Delia Smith taught the nation how to boil an egg!
She was so stuck in her ways and had no time for modern cooking. Admittedly I agreed with her over nouvelle cuisine, but sadly she never embraced new ideas her cooking were stuck in the days of Escoffier. Her down fall came on the series the Big Time in 1976 where she was rude and condescending to the subject of the programme. Such was the negative public reaction the BBC termInated her contract and she never presented another cookery show for the BBC. Checkout the Career decline section on Danny's Wikipedia entry of the Wikipedia entry for The Big Time tv series.
Terry Wogan, the interviewer, was a national treasure. Sadly missed.
We were very proud of him in ireland too ,though Gay Byrne was the main man over here and indeed was a good friend of terrys.
I'm only 37 and remember Terry Wogan like it was yesterday, I think he'll always live on.. at least in our generation unless our Children are brought up to watch, look up or listen to people about these kind of legends ❤
I say "only" .. yes I'm getting on now 😂 as Fanny would probably say lol x
My Mum and I always liked Terry Wogan, and my birthday was the same as Terry's, (3rd August) ...though of course he was a fair bit older than me!!
R.I.P. Fanny & Johnny Craddock
...and Terry Wogan. R.I.P.
@@brigidsingleton1596 My Dad's Birthday is the 4th also.. xx
I think Fanny was just more outspoken rather than being rude. Bless our Fanny LOL
Drunk😉
I met her, she wasn't just outspoken, she was someone who thought she was better than everyone else and she was physically violent towards me even though I was visibly pregnant.
Not a nice person at all
@@Spiklething she made her victims shrivel inside
I love Fanny 🤭
She was incredibly rude. She would act like she was going to throw up when someone explains how they made their family recipe for chocolate cake.
I used to know Fanny Craddock. When I was a young child I went with my school to our local theatre to see one of her cookery demonstrations...but also, my stepdad was a car mechanic who rented a yard at a place called Blackheath, in SE.London, just down the road from Fanny & Johnny's house...and my stepdad always fixed Johnny's cars. They both used to invite my Mum & Dad to dinner, and I used to sit in their kitchen and eat the treats Fanny (Mrs.Craddock to me !) cooked or prepared for me, as the cocktails and fancy dinners were a "grown-up affair" !! I liked her but some people didnt like her sometimes seemingly abrupt manner. Johnny was a kind, funny man and quite different to Fanny, but looked upon by outsiders as a "henoecked husband" ...of course, at my young age, I probably missed the 'goings-on' between adults, so if they had marital problems, that all went over my head, but as I saw them, they were nice people, in a lovely house, and when we visited, we were always kindly treated and always _well-fed_ (which is what children notice!!) 😊
That’s so interesting. I’m reading a biography on her called Fear of Fanny. I wonder if they spoke to anyone connected to any of this or if others have had a similar experience… not far into the book yet! What year was she doing the cookery demos in theatres? Before TV? There are clips of TH-cam of her cookery in the Royal Albert Hall and what she made definitely wasn’t going to appeal to school children. I’m not sure it appealed to the adults!
@@Millennial_Manc
Well, I was at Primary school, I think, when I went to see her at Catford... So I would've been nine or ten years old then...
(I was born in 1953) Unless I've forgotten, which I might have and I saw her in my early years of Secondary school instead, but not more than eleven, I don't think... I have no recollection of what she prepared for us but to those children in the front row of the stalls, she prepared enough for each of them to have a taster of whatever it was she'd prepared on stage. If I can remember anything, it was that that was my _only_ visit to that theatre!!
Every other trip to a theatre or to a cinema was to 'The Gaumont', (later changed to the 'Odeon') in Lewisham, and 'The Rex', (later changed to 'Studio 6', & 'Studio 7') in Lewisham, but on the opposite corner to the 'Gaumont' (/ 'Odeon') ...plus to the 'ABC' cinema in Catford.😏 🏴♥️🇬🇧🙂🖖
@@brigidsingleton1596 thank you - that is so interesting. She carried on her theatre shows well into the 60s then and presumably had some interest in teaching the next generation how to cook (or at least how to make everything blue and yellow with dye and put it through a piping bag!). We had a Gaumont in Manchester at the same time. I guess it was a chain. It never occurred to me you could have a chain of theatres like we do with cinemas now but I guess it makes sense for the time.
One thing to remember is that we still had rationing on some products up until 1954, following WW2, and good food was expensive, so having a "celebrity" cook who could show housewives (because it _was_ just women who did the cooking back then!) how to make healthy but cost-effective meals was really valuable.
She was sassy rather than abusive in the way that Gordon Ramsay is.
I don't think you are strange, LIndsay, I think if that is what you enjoy then you should be free to choose and not be looked down upon because that is what makes you happy and clearly it is what works for your family, Sophia's adorable politeness is testament to that. I am 31 and work but I also love being in the home and taking care of it, my mum and grandma the same, they both worked shorter hours and would always be home first, preparing the dinner and keeping house, it was something they both pride themselves on, taking care of the family while the men in the house were the main providers and protectors, I guess it's why I have old fashioned values too but just because something is old fashioned, doesn't mean it's wrong. You keep doing what you are doing, it's clearly the glue that keeps your family so genuine and happy.
Thank you, Suzanne ❤️
I'm 73 and can just remember Fanny on TV. You're going back an awfully long way with this one.
I'm 60 and remember her well.
@@NormyTres I remember Fanny Craddock was giving a cooking demonstration with someone interviewing her. But she had a VERY bad cold and was sniffing with a dripping nose, then she asked the interviewer to test her recipe, the look on his face was absolutely priceless. 😂
Fanny was born in 1909 so a different era. She grew up through the first world war when some couldn't sign up to the armed forces because they were malnourished.
She lived through the second world war. Rationing and again people were malnourished. It was important to provide a balanced diet and money was tight.
These experiences stay with her, she created meals that didn't break the week's housekeeping money.
The first TV cook I believe, very popular, funny and a double act with her husband.
She also had her butter plated in real gold leaf when a journalist came round to interview her
Very good point about malnourishment at the time of WW1. That’s why the Spanish Flu was so bad… diet and living conditions were so poor that we can weather the same sorts of flu strains today.
@@Millennial_Manc It wasn't just poor living conditions that caused both Spanish Flu and TB to take so many lives, they were and are highly infectious diseases that do not discriminate between rich or poor. Cramped living doesn't help which is why having TB barred one from military service or an instant medical discharge if contracted whilst serving.
She was the same age as my late nan, so I can similarities to her attitude and manner.
@@slytheringingerwitch Yes me too, my Nan was born 1909
I agree with you. I'm a stay at home mum. I cook, clean, and make sure the kids are taken care of. I take them to all their activities, get them to Dr appointments etc. I'm also responsible for budgeting and making sure all the bills are paid. Anything to do with keeping a home running smoothly is what I enjoy doing. My husband goes to work, and that's all he has to worry about. Everything else is taken care of. I even mow the lawn and do the outside work and take the bins out that most people expect the husband to do. While doing all of that, I study from home. This might not be everyones cup of tea, but it works for us.
Ohh... 🤣🤣🤣
Nice to see Terry Wogan, he was a mainstay tv-host for decades, an excellent interviewer, hosted Eurovision + it's not the same without his voice. Strong nostalgia from this :)
It *would* be controversial these days, but the clip must be 1980-something. I'm a bloke, my kitchen's the hub of my home + that's all good.
Time-saving food/meals, so much stuff comes in mix/match parts - pre-sliced veg is super-lazy, people get nervous about using the oven, mixing, making dough - it's not so hard and 10 minitues or so once you get used to doing it. Learn to make a decent pasta (red) sauce 10 minutes, meat pre-marinade 10 minutes or realistically watching it in a pan (skillet), fry/grill - 10 minutes. That's roughly 30 minutes to make a hearty/family meal. If you're sensible and pre-plan leftovers, prep for next day - the kitchen's a pleasure.
* Keith Flloyd was also a great(ly inebriated) tv-chef.
* Bang on with the taking the Mick - we'll constantly give you a hard time, but we'll be kind if we like you + still continue to mock you 🤣 Brits are the nation to call if you need a sofa to sleep on/have a breakup ;)
I loved Wigan’s interview with Margaret Thatcher when she was Prime Minister. It’s on here and I recommend it. Excellent interviewer.
I never really watched Fanny but I did watch *The Galloping Gourmet* cooking show. Back in the 1960's & 70's .. Unbelievably, to me anyway. Graham Kerr is still alive. in his 90's
I remember the original show, but Graham also had a cooking show in the 80s and early 90s when many of his recipes on the original GG show were made healthier. The reason was that his wife had a stroke and heart disease, and he had signs of heart disease and a drinking problem, so they adopted a healthier lifestyle.
Now thats a lady! Classy, sassy and bold... She speaks facts!!
Nope. She was vile and thought she was above everyone. And no I'm not one that see's being abrupt and outspoken as rude.
She??
She was NO lady, that wasn't an act she was putting on, she was a monster and treated people who she deemed beneath her like 💩..
Haha I remember watching Fanny Craddock cooking on tv when I was a child in the 70s , she was one scary lady Lol
Yeah, I would imagine when you were a kid she would be pretty intimidating.
It didn't help that her make up was also the same as Lenny the Lion's. 🤡
@@DH.2016 Hahaha that’s another oldie program I remember
@@reactingtomyroots You should have a look at the Dog trainer ( I say that in the loosest sense of the word) Barbara Woodhouse , she was totally bonkers and today would be charged with animal cruelty . A British childhood treasure was Johnny Morris , his program Animal Magic was funny and much loved . Love your channel by the way ❤️
Lovely to see mr wogan sadly missed ❤
"I hope all your doughnuts look like Fannys!"
Hopefully not full of hot jam.😂
You might have to explain that, for a US audience.
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Hot cross buns was my recollection...
Fannies in the UK are lady gardens, (front bottoms)
Being pissed on telly is always funny.
We do love our fanny here 😂
Ooh, Matron
Fanny and Johnny Craddock were a very posh, old-school couple. I remember seeing her on TV in the late 1950s and 60s. Fanny seemed to treat Johnny with contempt as if he was a naughty boy, but that was for show.
The truth is Fanny was a snobby, bigamist bully, who abandoned her two sons and was not able to marry Johnnie - despite taking his name - for nearly four decades because her second husband refused to grant a divorce she wasn't at all nice.
@@janolaful That's me put straight! I had no idea. Fancy the Beeb condoning that!
@@Lily_The_Pink972 I'm old enough to remember watching her programmes, she was awful to the staff and even jonny didn't escape from it the nail in her coffin was the way she spoke to a amateur cook I think she was gwen..
@janolaful I remember seeing them on TV...Im 71. At that time women were to be seen and not heard, so in some respects she was a breath of fresh air. Maybe Johnny liked being dominated by her! They were both almost caricatures of their kind. She won't be the only TV cook to have been rude to assistants. I'm not condoning it, but she was a character. I didn't know anything about her back story.
@@Lily_The_Pink972The Beeb have condoned (or at least covered up) a lot worse since!
A cook follows established recipes,a Chef is trained in techniques and creates recipes 🎩
Ah, okay! Thanks for clarification :)
As far as i know, she was not on television here in Australia, but I have heard of her. I find her abrasive rather then actually impolite. Nothing like Gordon Ramsay, who is really rather vulgar, not on Fanny's level intellectually, even if he is a better cook. Thank you for the video!
The BBC took on another young lady cook called Delia Smith, whose first series became very popular and she took over from Fannys old fashioned looking food. Delia became a cooking phenomena as did Nigella Lawson.
Hated Delia absolutely adored Nigella, the dominatrix of food porn🤤
You MUST watch Keith Floyd on Fish, another old school cook. bloody funny too.
That and Floyd on France
Always well pickled🥴🍷🍷🍷
Floyd did like to cook with wine. Sometimes he even put it in the food.
Fanny’s friend Barbra Cartland an English romantic novelist. Was Princes Diana’s step grandmother. Cartland was a fantastic motor car competition driver in the 20s.
Rationing carried on into the fifties and many of the more exotic ingredients weren't familiar . Fanny had a no nonsense attitude , she and Johnny were products of the austerity years and popular without resorting to full mouthed abuse . The interviewer is Terry Wogan who was a DJ initially who became a much loved TV interviewer and presenter .
She was at the time when we were just emerging from the aftermath of WW2, and rationing. I was born in 1954 and we still had milk rationing, so people didn' really know how to cook and put on a "spread", invite friends round for a meal and "have a bit of a do" such as dinner parties or the like.
Today her meals would be considered kitsch or "cheap and tacky" but for the average British housewife they were full of imagination and glamour.
She always wore evening gowns and jewellery and never appeared to spill anything on her clothing. Amazing!
Fanny Craddock wasn't rude as such, just forthright and didn't soft-soap or mince her words with people. The only time she was seen to have over-stepped the mark was when she was part of a cooking quiz show, (I don't remember the exact details), and she was really quite harsh about one of the contestants dish that they'd spent time and effort doing, to the point where they became visibly upset. Fanny Craddock's popularity took a dive after that, and she wasn't seen on TV for years afterwards.
My mum always says a quote of hers was ‘last week i made a stew, i put everything it, poor johnnie’ lol
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I think the controversy tends to arise if choice is taken out of the equation. You guys were thoughtful enough to highlight that times/priorities and people change, work constraints differ, cultural differences in the west vs rest of world etc.
I'm from an NHS family and so batch cooking and freezing everything was the norm. 1 day a week, typically Sunday, everything is food prepped, bulk cooked, cooled down, portioned up and then frozen. Do this for long enough and 1 day a week becomes 1 day every 3 or 4 weeks.
That daily 1-2 hour food prep and cook is now an overnight defrost and heat up when it's time. Time better spent prioritising other things.
People must accept she is a person from her time, a time when women who got married did not on the whole work.....they stayed at home, looked after the house and children; and that was Fanny Craddock's TV audience who she helped with new food ideas.
My mum was the same; she did not restart working outside the home until I (as the youngest child) was 12 and she was an excellent cook ; she worked at RAF Burtonwood during WWII as a cook feeding sick/injured US airforce crew at the hospital and yes we did sit around a table eating food she enjoyed making. So ultimately she taught me too what to do, so even as I'm rapidly approaching 60 I'm capable of feeding myself (, although im terrible at baking.... Its just not my thing if i want cake buy it from the shop as it will be edible).
If you want to look at other 'strong' women in the UK from the 70/80's it easy ..... Look up Margaret Thatcher (like or dislike her politics you cant deny she was not taking any crap from anyone....just ask the Argentinian's and the Miners!), the former prime minister.
The woman was a nightmare, nasty person, and definitely not missed.
@@martinwebb1681still got to convince me it was actually a woman😂
I recommend you do a review of Fanny's Craddocks Christmas shows from the 1970s, they're hilarious 😅
Goodness, that was a trip down memory lane..
Franny Craddock was VERY acerbic and sharp tongued, but it was great telly ..
When she was cooking, SHE WAS IN CHARGE, and didn't suffer fools gladly.
Her poor 'henpecked' husband Johnny usually was on the end of her sharp delivery.
She was a definitely polarising, a Marmite Character, you either loved or loathed her.
As a child, I thought she was rude but funny.
Sending my heartiest best wishes to you Steve, to Lindsay ( did I get the spelling right?) And of course Princess Sophia, from Wales 😊🏴
Could definitely see the whole love/hate dynamic with her personality. You did spell Lindsay's name right :) Appreciate you watching and all the best to you and your family as well!
National treasures, miss them both, god bless them ❤️
I'm 73 now but remember watching her cookery programmes leading up to Christmas when she would do the whole Christmas menu. It became part of the build up to Christmas. Great.
She was also the very first TV Celebrity Chef, at least as far as I'm aware (at least in the UK).
The classic quote from a TV cooking show was " I hope all your doughnuts turn out like Fanny's" !! ( remembering that FANNY means something very different in the UK)
Terry Wogan was a well loved radio and TV broadcaster and is sadly missed.
I agree with you Lyndsey. I have always worked full time and professionally I have done well luckily. However what I have always loved the most is cooking and caring for my family. It fulfils me the most and it's annoying it's seen as a lesser thing now. I truly believe its the best most important job there is.
I always felt sorry for her husband Johnny. she would boss him about and tell him off constantly.
I'm sure he loved it ❤
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Going a cookery show in ballgowns...a different era🎩
As you will see from the clip, she was a television cook in the days of black & white tv, back in the 50s/60's. She was very direct, so in those days it was not the norm for television presenters to speak that way. There were a lot of mothers who didn't go to work in those days.
She and Johnny filled the Albert Hall regularly night after night with their live cookery shows. Ramsay is direct!
Her bluntness finally caught her up when she was insensitive to a contest winning member of public🎩
Wasn't that a dish combining some kind of meat (I think duck) with blackberries? Of course fruit goes very well with strong gamey meats ; but she shat on it with contempt because it wasn't a cooking practice she grew up with -?
@@diarmuidkuhle8181 It finished her career.
@@diarmuidkuhle8181The main point she was making was that you cannot serve your best and richest dishes one after the other: they have to fit together. A rich main course needs a simpler pudding course, one which is easier on the palate. Her objectionable manner completely obliterated her meaning.
I worked all the years my kids were growing (of necessity) but every other Sunday afternoon i would batch cook soups, casseroles, pasta dishes, fruit crumbles, cakes and cookies etc and freeze two week’s worth to last until the next cooking afternoon. It used to take me several hours, and does take effort, but you cant be lazy if you want to feed your family well. I often used those sessions to also get my kids cooking with me, so we were all doing something together and they were learning a life skill
I did the same as the kids got older they would just select home made meals from the freezer and I also taught my kids to cook. So when they got older they thought nothing about making a meal for everyone from scratch
fanny just had no filter she said wat she thought simple as that
Terry Wogan was a British personality you could do a very good reaction to. The episode he guessed hosted of 'Never Mind The Buzzcocks' was comedy gold and he is one of those few TV personalities who was on TV in the '70's and didn't end up ruining their reputation with some kind of criminal behaviour. He was also one of those figures who never seemed to upset anybody (apart maybe Kenny Everett who snapped Terry's microphone in half during an episode of 'Blankety Blank' but I suspect that Terry was really the one being annoyed in that case).
She faked her credentials, ditched her kids, had in the end a sad life. Love watching her though. She was axed from Telly because of how she tore down a lady in a cooking competition - she basically used the TV time to 'perform' to her audience, and judged it very wrong.
Probably a bit set up to get rid of her and make room for Delia
Loved Fanny got lots of recipes In the 60s& 70s we used to have dinner parties either Friday or Saturday nights using a lot of her recipes There were 8 of us we used take in turns what memories eating good food & having wonderful conversations around the table which usually was 8 pm to about 1am By the way the ladies involved all had a professions & had children Brings tears to my eyes thinking about it love from 💕🇬🇧
My grandma had a recipe from her show for what we now know was Tiffin. Unfortunately by the end of the show my grandma had forgotten what they were called and so they became known as Fanny Craddocks. The first thing we asked whenever we visited was "are there any Fanny Craddocks. Out would come the tin.......
Allegedly at the end of one episode after the tank you and goodbye Johnny said the immortal words "and we hope all your doughnuts turn out like Fanny's" 😂😂😂
Should we point out to our American friends that a Fanny here isn't round the back like it is there, it's round the front? 🤭🤭🤣
I miss Terry Wogan, I stopped watching the eurovision song contest when he stopped doing it. Fanny, what a star ❤❤
Everyone love her rudeness until she ridiculed a housewife who won a competition to meet her and discuss a dinner party menu, she made her cry and that pretty much ended her TV career.
This was a much more positive reaction than it would have been for Fanny Adams (and where the dreadful phrases come from that I will never use again🙈) thanks for this video! ❤
Glad you found the inimitable Ms Craddock guys. I think there's other clips of her brusque nature out there! And yes as somebody else commented here, the brilliant Terry Wogan interviewing her. Now, if you want a naughty laugh, Terry used to read out stories about 'Janet and John' his radio show. Worth a listen, they're laced with innuendo. Very funny 😅
You really need to Google a few pics of Barbara Cartland, to get the ‘a bit overdone’ quip.
Indeed. "A bit overdone" is not being rude, it's an understatement, in Barbara Cartland's case! 😅
Imagine a Julia Child who stood no nonsense from anyone. BTW, the interviewer is the one and only Sir Terry Wogan, one of Britain (and Ireland)'s most loved television personalities.
There was a programme called the big time in the eighties where members of the public were given the chance on a new career.
Sheena Easton was one of the success stories.
One of the episodes centred around an aspiring cook who wanted to open a restaurant and they got Craddock in to tutor her.
She wasn't just rude,she was cruel, literally gagging at the idea of her favourite recipe the she'd won awards for.
It ended Fanny Craddock.
The public realise just how foul and toxic she was.
I remember the programme well. It was one of Esther Ranzen ideas.
I remember it well, rather than just being there to give a bit of help and advice she completely took over and the poor lady's menu went out of the window and she was in floods of tears, I don't think Fanny ever appeared on TV again.
Hi guys, my dad used to work with her and her husband on her cookery show, filmed at the BBC - the talk show featured was called 'Wogan' with Terry Wogan, who has also passed away (another show my dad made at the BBC and Wogan was filmed at the BBC TV Theatre in Shepherd's Bush in west London, not far from the main BBC TV Centre, in neighbouring White City. Gary
The BBC decided that it was fine to be rude to paid people but the public were off limits. There clips on yt of her.
Yes, very indeed so about Fanny Cradock that she's seems to be the female version &/or equivalent of Gordon Ramsay the Scottish Chef in a number of ways & that's a very good valid point that you both Steve & Lindsay had said about her of course.
Yes Lindsay & Steve is that I also do love & being a very big fanatic of Gordon Ramsay especially from his TV-Shows all of, Hell's Kitchen, Kitchen Nightmares, The F-Word, of course.
She was very popular when her shows were being broadcast and broadcast lots of Christmas cooking ideas which can still be found on TH-cam 😊😊😊
Terry Wogan, what a man ! Now there's someone worth checking out. A national treasure, sadly missed.
Fanny was an 'acquired taste'!...and of course, lots of people made jokes regarding her name! The bit about the joint of pork at the start is she was showing how proper 'crackling' should be...the skin of the pork scored and rubbed with salt to make it really crispy...the best bit of a pork joint!!
Fanny is certainly an acquired taste 😂
@@101steel4..if things with a fanny are more than a bit off, then the craddock will strongly taste like haddock..
Loved Fanny Craddock and her husband Johnny. She wasn't rude, she just says it how it is, and that's the best way to be.
She's a National Treasure
Another person/video of more recent times, would be best bits of Miriam Margolyes on Graham Norton show.
“Fear of Fanny” was an excellent TV drama about her, though quite sad too
There's a TV film about Fanny Craddock called Fear Of Fanny, it's about her private life and her TV shows. It's a interesting and amusing drama and worth watching, someone has uploaded it to TH-cam so you should be able to watch it
She was off tv by the time I was born, but I do remember my father calling me Fanny Craddock when I was cooking a meal. I thought he was being rude by calling me a Fanny 😂
Please do more on Fanny ❤ she's wonderfully unapologetic and what a matriarch should be. I really love the way you reacted to her and how Lindsey really resonated with her values. You have such a beautiful old soul Lindsey xx
Fanny had very strong opinions and called a spade a spade. She didn't suffer fools gladly and hated being patronized. It could come aross as rude but honestly it was just open and honest, sometimes brutaly honest.
Hated being patronised? It had it off to fine art! Hypocritical old bag😂
Hi guys, I was too young for her. But although we are perceived reserved, we have always had outrageous characters. Terry Wogan the interviewer an irishman, as others have said was a national treasure. DJ, hosted Children & Need, hosted Eurovision (hilarious) and did his talk show. He got all the BIG A listers, from all over the world. Real Royalty and Hollywood Royalty. People who know Gordon Ramsay in real life say he is well mannered and calm in the kitchen, opposite to the tv persona. Look up chef Keith Floyd another absolute treasure, trust me you & Lindsay will enjoy.
She was so straight to the point, matter of face, no nonsence, very outspoken. Everyone felt so sorry for her husband, in how she spoke to him, god know how he put up with her! I bet he didn't give her a short wage packet! ... I liked her but she scared me!
Johnny's favourite for me was may all your doughnuts be like fanny's
Gwen Troake and Fanny Craddock would be a good one to react to.
That's the "1976 tv career fall down" I was referring to!🎩
You should watch, the beauty of football. My favourite video on TH-cam might give yous a idea of how passionate people here are for football. Love the videos ❤
**opinion**
I think the most important thing about modern women is the freedom to choose. If you want to work, stay home, or a combination of both, that's fantastic... as long as it's their choice.
In the UK with the air fryer being so popular, kids just seem to feed themselves when they want to. The family evening dinner is quickly becoming a thing of the past. I think it is absolutely dreadful.
For classic UK television look no further than ‘Fawlty Towers’
And 'Rising Damp' with Leonard Rossiter. Another classic.
Don't remember her at all .Terry Wogan of course as i am irish and he was irish we were very proud of him
My father objected to her cooking and baking with all her rings and bracelets on - he ran a bakery and a hotel BTW.
Me and my partner say “what would Terry do” in various situations in tribute to Sir Terry Wogan who had a style and charm unmatched.
She started on TV in the 1950s - we were just coming out of rationing then so she couldn’t be extravagant. By the 80s she was pretty washed up. Her cookery was crude and used to irritate my mum - who could cook!! Her husband Johnny was barely sentient- though whether that was through drink or he was just dumb I don’t know. She always seemed totally intolerant.
Mind you the genius Terry Wogan made everyone look good. Now HE is severely missed a truly hilarious guy.
You’re telling me you don’t use blue food colouring in your mashed potatoes?
I was a child when she was on tv in 70s, she scared me. Good old Fanny and Johnny 😊 Me and my kids had dinner at the table every night before mobile phones and computers interfered. Google Barbara Cartland, book writer relative of Princess Diana's step mum. She was one of a kind !!
I like television (or TH-cam cooking) too as we have our own cookery personality ... Lindsay. You're fabulous at demonstrating cookery and a natural on the 'small screen' There was (is - he's s still alive!) another famous personality cook called Graham Kerr who had a TV series called "The Galloping Gourmet". He always had glass after glass of wine whilst rushing around cooking on the program (hence the name) and everybody watched it to see him get slowly more and more tiddly/drunk as he cooked (which was part of the entertainment)! Yeah, British TV certainly has had its oddball shows! More cooking videos please Lindsay BTW the vegan ranch dressing worked beautifully! 😋
As it’s now coming up to Christmas, you guys should really watch the ‘Fanny Cradock cooks for Christmas’ episodes for a truly Fanny Christmas 😂
We do love a bit of fanny 😁😎🥸
I was 1 of 4 kids, as soon as we were all in school mum went back to work full time. Mum would prepare the evening meal components in the morning, prepping the veg etc and leaving then saucepans of water, then she would get home from work to then start cooking the meal, she was like wonder woman in the kitchen ❤
I grew up with Fanny & Johnny Craddock always being on TV. She was always like this - plain-spoken and Johnny was like her humble assistant on-screen. Comedians used to do voice-impressions of her, too!
Born in Britain 1981 , never heard of her which surprised me
Fanny-Gwen Troake incident: really only what Simon Cowell does all the time (ditto the tough Judge from Tony Hatch on on talent shows...we just weren't so accepting on such blunt honesty in 1976)🎩
Fanny was broadcasting to a post-World War II audience which had experienced rationing - the final rationing came off in 1953.
She was always very entertaining.
She/him was a nasty sod 😂
funniest moment was her husband Johnny saying after she just cooked doughnuts. "may all your doughnuts turn out like Fanny's"☺🤣🤣
Having her on with Terry Wogan was a great idea, he always brings out the best in quirky people like her. He's very sadly missed.
I’m an American who discovered Fanny Cradock a few years ago, and have gone down the TH-cam rabbit hole watching her videos. I don’t think she’s rude. I just think that she didn’t waste any time trying to charm her audience. She was like, “This is who I am. This is what I do. I do it right. This is what you’re going do. And this is how you’re going to do it right.” I love that about her. I much prefer watching her than Julia Child. Fanny also is like a drag queen. I’m surprised more drag queens haven’t emulated her.
Fanny Craddock was a tv cook and her husband Jonny once said to camera “ if you watch next week you can make your yorkshire puddings look like Fanny’s “
Have you ever watched Miriam Margolyes ?? now thats rude, but so funny, she is often on the Graham Norton Show.
Fanny did a cooking segment on Scottish Television making doughnuts and the presenter Bill Tennant said the immortal line " it you follow the recipe you'll have doughnuts just like Fanny's"
Hi Steve and Lindsay. The problem with TV cooking with modern TVs is they melt 😂🤣
Cook,not Chef...there is a difference 🎩
I'm British, but kinda young (26). I've heard of her but never actually seen anything she's done til now
I would loved to have stayed home, with the children for their younger years, I hated going back to work, I think its a shame more people dont. I also loved to cook the evening meal, we all sat down together at a table to eat.
Never had meals on our laps.
“You can have those bits too..now go away!” 😂
She was sooooo condescending to her viewing public... as if audience had no idea how to cook..
She really talked down to everyone.
I think that was deliberate, though. She was aiming at those who didn't actually know how to cook so they could learn. It's a bit like when Delia Smith taught the nation how to boil an egg!
She was so stuck in her ways and had no time for modern cooking. Admittedly I agreed with her over nouvelle cuisine, but sadly she never embraced new ideas her cooking were stuck in the days of Escoffier. Her down fall came on the series the Big Time in 1976 where she was rude and condescending to the subject of the programme. Such was the negative public reaction the BBC termInated her contract and she never presented another cookery show for the BBC. Checkout the Career decline section on Danny's Wikipedia entry of the Wikipedia entry for The Big Time tv series.
Keith Floyd is great. An American who saw him was shocked, said he would not be allowed on American TV!