Fanny Cradock Cooks for Christmas Part 1 - Your Christmas Bird 1975

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  • @flashtheoriginal
    @flashtheoriginal ปีที่แล้ว +149

    She was a television natural. Abrupt? Yes. Patronising? Absolutely. But totally engaging with the professionalism to fill the entire slot with her unscripted wisdom. Truly gifted.
    Thanks for sharing

    • @BusinessButlers
      @BusinessButlers ปีที่แล้ว +10

      and Johnny was always legless on the grog.

    • @andyrob3259
      @andyrob3259 หลายเดือนก่อน

      She looked like a drunken lush with a make up fetish.

    • @UnIimited_Power
      @UnIimited_Power หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@andyrob3259 Okay, Gregg Wallace.

    • @grahamjeffries4566
      @grahamjeffries4566 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Bit scary

    • @daleyseaton9426
      @daleyseaton9426 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

      She was an Edwardian living in the later part of the 20th century. I find her to be fascinating, she defied social norms of the times. Looking back she had a more positive contribution to helping Britain eat more rich foods following the second world war. Her work was informative and showed people how to cook who didn't know how to prepare these dishes.

  • @laurenc2976
    @laurenc2976 3 ปีที่แล้ว +322

    Completely random as I was born jn 1990 but I love watching these videos to see what it was like back then. It seemed to be a much simpler time and I can't help feeling nostalgic for an era I never knew and will never experience. The fact that she's talking about the preparation of Christmas food just makes it even warmer and I feel so cosy and at home whenever I watch these.

    • @AlisonBryen
      @AlisonBryen 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      I was born in 1984 and we watch this every year in Christmas Eve at my sisters house. The kids in our family love watching this too.

    • @kona702
      @kona702 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@AlisonBryen I was born in '84 too 😁😁 Time is flying tho isn't it?? It seems like the year 2000 was just a few years ago lol.

    • @AlisonBryen
      @AlisonBryen 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@kona702 It's frightening isn't it? I keep thinking the Millenium wasn't that long ago, but we're nearly a quarter of the way through the "new" century. I'm starting to get lines under my eyes and grey hair too 😩!

    • @kona702
      @kona702 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@AlisonBryen I'm getting some slight lines and my beard around my chin is turning gray 😫😫

    • @awnaur0no919
      @awnaur0no919 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      tha germans call dat feeling of rootless nostalgia "sehnsucht"

  • @JG-nx3jg
    @JG-nx3jg 4 ปีที่แล้ว +247

    When I'm feeling really snacky I come here. Within minutes the urge to eat is gone. For this I owe fanny immensely.

    • @greatwesternsky
      @greatwesternsky 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      hahahaha

    • @giovanna722
      @giovanna722 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Lol !! Yep.

    • @Slothh4884
      @Slothh4884 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Literally what I’m going through right now

    • @padraicodomhnall2760
      @padraicodomhnall2760 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Brilliant! I'm too scared to go near the kitchen at that point, for fear that she might be in there!

    • @andromalius8890
      @andromalius8890 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Try watching Kay’s cooking, you’ll never eat again

  • @marclegarreta
    @marclegarreta หลายเดือนก่อน +80

    I never understood the criticism of her skill. She’s a master! She gives the best bird carving lesson ever. Seriously! She made it look like child’s play.

    • @alisonmansfield9052
      @alisonmansfield9052 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      She is so witty to

    • @TheContuo
      @TheContuo หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes, I too like shards of bone evenly distributed through my chicken breasts via a set of garden secateurs.

    • @andrewhubbard4044
      @andrewhubbard4044 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      Don't think it was her cooking skill in question she very outspoken apparently and upset.a lot of people which quicked her off TV sadly

    • @DeveusBelkan
      @DeveusBelkan 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Genuinely seems like people are only bashing her because of her appearance. I suppose her blunt demeanor is off-putting to those who are rude themselves with their passive-aggressive remarks -- we certainly wouldn't want someone to provide legitimate advice or criticism when necessary. It's just much better to sneer at them with subtlety as many people do today.
      Now if they want to remark on her skills, about the only criticism they might have of her in this video is the contamination of the honey jar. But we are all aware that back in the day, the majority of people didn't care about such things.
      Every other bit of it is useful advice with consideration of the limitations that people might face. As she said, getting proper poultry cutters is difficult, yet garden cutters do the same job. And perhaps it seems savage to the modern British or American cook, but cutters/shears/scissors are common tools in the kitchen in most other countries. To disregard them is probably what Fanny was alluding to with the husbands of the world, just a bit of ego insisting on doing something a difficult way that doesn't deliver the best result. I suppose it is just much better to spend half an hour doing the job of 3 minutes, risking the chance of cutting oneself for doing it poorly. And a severed thumb probably hurts a person a deal more than the catty remark she might press upon you for doing it the stupid way in the first place.

  • @JoeBleasdaleReal
    @JoeBleasdaleReal 5 ปีที่แล้ว +257

    "A cross between Mary Berry and Jeremy Clarkson." - Gyles Brandreth

    • @Joe_Bob6000
      @Joe_Bob6000 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      I was watching QI, and that exact quote is what led me to seek out Fanny. I'm a Canadian and love British panel shows, but was totally unaware of Fanny Cradock.

    • @JUSTIN-ry4dn
      @JUSTIN-ry4dn 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      🤢🤢🤢

    • @psychosoma5049
      @psychosoma5049 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      With the personality of a teaspoon, and the sophisticated allure of an airline salad….

    • @ed_goblin
      @ed_goblin 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      that's what brought me here

    • @rnw2739
      @rnw2739 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      What does he know? Began his career as the most stuck up snob there was, now tries to present himself as an amusing eccentric (trying to be like Kenneth Williams) has ditched that ridiculous fake voice and adopted an even faker one.

  • @AlisonBryen
    @AlisonBryen 3 ปีที่แล้ว +90

    The stock in the kettle ends me every single time. Fanny is a legend.

    • @katewolfspirit6722
      @katewolfspirit6722 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Every fanny is a legend! 😉

    • @lolalouise9503
      @lolalouise9503 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      My mum had the exact same kettle in the 1980s. 😂

    • @AlisonBryen
      @AlisonBryen หลายเดือนก่อน

      @lolalouise9503 We had a whistling kettle back in the day 😀

  • @richardadkin7226
    @richardadkin7226 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +56

    Find these old clips so comforting to watch. A gentler more peaceful time when Christmas was very special.

    • @AllanBurkinshaw-xo7gm
      @AllanBurkinshaw-xo7gm หลายเดือนก่อน

      As her husband John said, " No one can make Doughnuts like Fannies"

  • @kevinrobinson1056
    @kevinrobinson1056 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    I remember dear Fanny from my childhood my mother watching ... she wasn't scary she was informative and authoritative in all the best ways .. What a star !!

  • @MEATYOKERRable
    @MEATYOKERRable หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    When I discovered these videos 10 years ago... I never looked back. If you want to up your home cooking skills.... This lady will show you how.

  • @SusanPearce_H
    @SusanPearce_H หลายเดือนก่อน +42

    I cooked two birds like this, and I am proud that they both looked like Fanny's.

    • @hologram1954
      @hologram1954 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      That made me chuckle.🤣

    • @glamdolly30
      @glamdolly30 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      You can't beat a Fanny single entendre!

    • @deadlykitten.5908
      @deadlykitten.5908 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Bravo 👏

    • @fordtruxdad5155
      @fordtruxdad5155 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I don't want any turkey that looks like a fanny.

    • @HoLd_My_Beer_Thanks
      @HoLd_My_Beer_Thanks หลายเดือนก่อน

      😂

  • @sunnyshine2215
    @sunnyshine2215 4 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    I always watch this series every Christmas, it’s hilarious

    • @tonyukkola5341
      @tonyukkola5341 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Iove this can't stop laughing 😜😹

    • @nigeltaylor6358
      @nigeltaylor6358 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Me tooooo !!,

    • @AlisonBryen
      @AlisonBryen 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      We get get together at my sister's house every Christmas Eve and we watch this every time. It's become a Christmas tradition.

  • @rakadoni8403
    @rakadoni8403 4 ปีที่แล้ว +153

    I love the fact that she says "It's alright, I've sterilized them", about the garden secateurs, which means they've obviously been used in the garden 😂

    • @lucianf89
      @lucianf89 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      😂

    • @MegaStig25
      @MegaStig25 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      If I'm not talking I can rip a chicken to bits in three and a half minutes

    • @AlisonBryen
      @AlisonBryen 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      I know right! And let's nit forget that she doesn't wash her hands between preparing the turkey and dipping her hand in the honey and rubbing it all over the goose 😂😂😂😂

    • @billydeeuk
      @billydeeuk 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@AlisonBryen You know they used that on their toast the next day

    • @sharonstevens4330
      @sharonstevens4330 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @MissezPremiseHello
    @MissezPremiseHello 2 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    "Fear of Fanny:
    How to Stuff Your Bird,
    Complete With Salmonella Sleeves.
    Be Sure to Use Your Hands on/in Everything!!
    Garden Tools Optional."
    I love this Broad.
    It saddens me that hardly anyone showed up to her Funeral!

    • @paddingtonthomson8561
      @paddingtonthomson8561 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I always loved the nicotine finger😆😆😆😆

    • @butchdugan
      @butchdugan หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I would’ve gone to her funeral! I loved Fanny.

    • @herrflick1244
      @herrflick1244 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Absolutely love this lady, eccentric yes, but marvellous. Excellent cook, sometimes they went wrong, but who hasn't made a mistake cooking. Even experts do. Way ahead of her time and underrated. We need this back on at Christmas. She can show modern cooks a lot. Rip Fanny we miss you and Johnny, love and use her books, to this day.❤Gill.

    • @rexwall2000
      @rexwall2000 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Salmonella sleeves😂😂😂

  • @craig1538
    @craig1538 5 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    You can't beat a bit of Fanny at Christmas.

    • @ophthodoc
      @ophthodoc หลายเดือนก่อน

      😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @ophthodoc
      @ophthodoc หลายเดือนก่อน

      OMG

    •  หลายเดือนก่อน

      😂😂😂😂

    • @wickedwitch4473
      @wickedwitch4473 หลายเดือนก่อน

      😅😅😅😅😅

    • @glamdolly30
      @glamdolly30 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Spoken like the real Jack Nicholson!

  • @multimill
    @multimill 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    I just love how, once she finished stabbing the goose with those forks, she launches them on to the counter with such ferocity. That was her Christmas gift to the sound man. Tinnitus 😂 Just love the divine Mrs C. I remember my mum buying a capon for Sunday lunch and I have never heard anyone mention it since, until now.

  • @bduhe219
    @bduhe219 5 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    she's no nonsense, direct, and a kitchen boss. 😂 wonderful. I never have seen this before. marvelous.

    • @sunkat76
      @sunkat76 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      So was Mrs Lovett: that doesn't mean you should trust her cooking.......

    • @zakkfromskellten
      @zakkfromskellten 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@sunkat76 you’re an intellectual beyond your time

    • @sunkat76
      @sunkat76 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@zakkfromskellten tee hee xD

  • @MarthaMyDear6
    @MarthaMyDear6 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    It’s that time of year! The Fanny Cradock time of the year. I plan on finally make her White Christmas Cake and mincemeat if I get on it soon! Thanks so much for sharing with us all. ❤️🙏🎄 RIP Johnnie and Fanny!

    • @multimill
      @multimill 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It's the only Christmas cake I make now, it's gorgeous

  • @simonzinc-trumpetharris852
    @simonzinc-trumpetharris852 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +12

    Ahh, those were the days! There was nothing like a bit of Fanny of an afternoon.

    • @simonzinc-trumpetharris852
      @simonzinc-trumpetharris852 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

      Lubricating the dry bird? 😂

    • @SamanthaSorbo
      @SamanthaSorbo 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@simonzinc-trumpetharris852She did a little more than that 😂😂

    • @Greenwillow
      @Greenwillow 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@simonzinc-trumpetharris852😂😂😂

  • @andrewhubbard4044
    @andrewhubbard4044 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    Very knowledgeable master chef with a fantastic sense of humour she's funny god bless Fanny RIP

  • @willlovesgaz
    @willlovesgaz 6 ปีที่แล้ว +214

    lubricating a dry bird - always makes me giggle

    • @treasalynam8940
      @treasalynam8940 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      yes she was scared STIFF about lubricating her dry bird. It's a wonder she had to loosen any skin at all...if shes a dry bird, you would suspect she already HAS loose skin XD, but you just simply shove mushrooms right up in her.

    • @ParaiusPau
      @ParaiusPau 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@treasalynam8940 And to think she's called "Fanny"... you can't make this stuff up.

    • @treasalynam8940
      @treasalynam8940 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@ParaiusPau 🤣🤣🤣🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂😂

    • @treasalynam8940
      @treasalynam8940 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@ParaiusPau oh god I can't stop laughing😅🤣🤣😂🤣🤣😂😂 fanny and her dry bird🤣🤣🤣🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣😂

    • @soneil7745
      @soneil7745 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Her phrasing is unfortunate, but she is definitely right.

  • @rumpoh8039
    @rumpoh8039 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

    IT WOULDN'T BE CHRISTMAS
    IF WE WEREN'T CURLED UP ENJOYNG
    A NICE WARM WINTER FANNY EPISODE.

    • @clarkpatient7950
      @clarkpatient7950 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      WHY ARE WE SHOUTING

    • @theanalogkid6555
      @theanalogkid6555 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I can't think of a christmas without Fanny.

    • @daveberry2177
      @daveberry2177 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      i really love fanny

  • @TheRedHoodie
    @TheRedHoodie 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

    I’ve been looking for ways to lubricate my dry bird for ever so long. Thank you, Fanny!

    • @IJBLondon
      @IJBLondon 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      Oo er missus.

  • @faithoffaith
    @faithoffaith ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Her Christmas pudding recipe is absolutely divine. If you ever get the chance to I'd highly recommend you make it.

  • @laughinjackdaviscrawford5234
    @laughinjackdaviscrawford5234 5 ปีที่แล้ว +69

    "The maiden aunt that you have to have on Christmas day because she's lonely or some other old elderly person". icon!!!

    • @istvanpraha
      @istvanpraha 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I know! I love the way she speaks! She makes your normal person seem so boring!

    • @sunkat76
      @sunkat76 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      ....who also just happens to come armed with a kettle full of stock bones and some rusty secateurs for the carvery..

    • @dawnfinch8232
      @dawnfinch8232 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      She was great wasn't she I used to. love watching her with my mother

  • @cynthiatolman326
    @cynthiatolman326 2 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    Going on 50 years and she's still brilliant.

  • @Threebridgecastle
    @Threebridgecastle ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I absolutely love Fanny Cradock and her no-nonsense approach to everything. She made things look simple and attainable. You can update the presentation a bit but the basic recipes are good. The prep and cooking tips that she gave were amazing.

  • @johnyzero2000
    @johnyzero2000 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I've tried this method on a turkey and it works, Fanny knew what she was doing.

  • @shimmygirllinda9457
    @shimmygirllinda9457 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I love the feeling of nostalgia I get as I watch these shows, brilliant

  • @williamdowney8600
    @williamdowney8600 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Just love how she pours the stock from a kettle…. Talk about ‘down to earth’ - just love her, she is refreshingly gruff.

  • @XtreamBrands
    @XtreamBrands 26 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    Omg i just discovered her! I am instantly hooked!

  • @butterflyray1
    @butterflyray1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    Green mash potatoe the wonderful 70’s lol but the best part is stabbing the bird and while you do it think of someone you don’t like 🤣🤣🤣 There will never be another Fanny Cradock!

    • @Parrotting
      @Parrotting หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I was wondering what that was! 😂

  • @vanillaorchid
    @vanillaorchid หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Great stuff. She was a skilled chef.

  • @jhunter1573
    @jhunter1573 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Oh how time has passed 😪 remember this first time around 😁👍 brilliant watching it again 👍

  • @Lpstpaul
    @Lpstpaul 3 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    Double dipping into that honey jar while massaging a raw goose…classic.

    • @katewolfspirit6722
      @katewolfspirit6722 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      C'mon, we've all done it....

    • @gtavmj-1852
      @gtavmj-1852 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      😂😂😂😂😂...

    • @johnd8538
      @johnd8538 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That honey was bin material 😂

    • @johnd8538
      @johnd8538 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I won't be coming to yours for dinner lol

    • @seanclothier3464
      @seanclothier3464 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Honey is antibacterial. Salmonella and other animal pathogens cannot survive in honey.

  • @LaDivinaLover
    @LaDivinaLover 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    That was the breeziest 14 minutes of a cooking program I’ve ever watched. Flew by. lol

  • @bagelking6364
    @bagelking6364 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Can't beat a bit of fanny at Christmas 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @sukitten1
    @sukitten1 7 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Before my time but by far the best TV chef ever. I love the superiority that she is able to project lol. Fantastic thanks for sharing the vid x

  • @markbishop1588
    @markbishop1588 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    At the end of one episode her husband(Johnny)urged viewers to try her pastry recipes.He actually said 'Goodnight,I do hope your doughnuts come out like Fanny's'.

    • @rosiebottom3870
      @rosiebottom3870 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      😅

    • @dd7521
      @dd7521 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      😂😂😂

    • @SonOfFurzehatt
      @SonOfFurzehatt ปีที่แล้ว +9

      That is how the story goes (at least, one version of it), but no footage of it has ever turned up. I suspect it is an urban myth.

    • @jdb47games
      @jdb47games ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I was born in 1964 and Fanny Craddock was often on telly when I was a child, but I only heard this story about 20 years ago, and no tape of it has ever surfaced, just as no tape of 'The bowler's Holding, the batsman's Willey' as ever been found. They are urban TV myths, like 'those' names in Captain Pugwash.

    • @martinmcdonald4207
      @martinmcdonald4207 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Classic.

  • @marclegarreta
    @marclegarreta 3 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    A British national treasure! I cannot stop watching her.

    • @shalemarie
      @shalemarie 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Don’t u mean him

    • @LeodisTrainSpotter
      @LeodisTrainSpotter ปีที่แล้ว

      @@shalemarie Her, Jesus christ how stupid are you

    • @Itsmellissaaaa
      @Itsmellissaaaa ปีที่แล้ว +8

      National treasure? Ugh think she is more remembered for the absolute snob, bigamist, mother who left her children…..she was a horrible person. Her own son called her evil.

    • @glamdolly30
      @glamdolly30 หลายเดือนก่อน

      British? She was half French, as she never tired of boasting. National treasure? She looked like she'd been dug up, I'll give you that.

  • @rafaelvigueria71
    @rafaelvigueria71 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I'm American and have stumbled onto this amazing woman😊 Her voice is beautiful😊

  • @andrewc.2952
    @andrewc.2952 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    Gasp- she's fabulous 😍

  • @dacket1128
    @dacket1128 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    What a surprise! Practical, campy, hugely entertaining. Kept thinking of the poor cuffs on her pretty dress. Never saw a chicken carved that way before but it looks much easier - and the mushroom method looks like a good one. Need to go find some more Fanny Craddock :)

    • @dacket1128
      @dacket1128 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Update: Tried to carve our Sunday roast chicken Fanny-style and made a mess of it. Oh well, better make another delicious chicken, what a bummer :)

  • @ShanePalmer-yo4og
    @ShanePalmer-yo4og 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    Fanny and Johnny used to stage cooking demonstrations at the Royal Albert Hall (and they were sell out events) back in the day. She's probably not the best cook ever, abrupt? Yes. Rude? Yes. But her recipes always worked and she did feel strongly that the average housewife had a budget to work with. So most recipes were cost effective...

  • @floodkevin4716
    @floodkevin4716 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    I'm american but I love her accent and this was very enjoyable right now!

  • @olivia_15.49
    @olivia_15.49 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    This woman holds a place in my heart. When I was six me and my brother used to watch her at my nans house. We loved it as well. I came back because im 13 now and she is just creepy😂

    • @cafeAmericano
      @cafeAmericano 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      omg. You old timer. Please tell me what was it like back in the great days of Pokemon

    • @xXLunatikxXlul
      @xXLunatikxXlul ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@cafeAmericano right? This was a child. 💀

  • @wickermandy6155
    @wickermandy6155 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    I love her Bette Davis commanding energy. Old school.

    • @user-ks9hs7xl6r
      @user-ks9hs7xl6r หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Baby Jane.

    • @user-ks9hs7xl6r
      @user-ks9hs7xl6r หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Bette should have earned another Oscar for that. She was briliant and so scarey.

  • @TS-qq7vr
    @TS-qq7vr 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I'm truly impressed how efficient she is.

  • @Rik77
    @Rik77 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Unlike others I have zero nostalgia for the 70s (no jobs, crap wage etc), but I love watching this Christmas series, I can’t explain why, it’s just very compelling. Stock in the kettle, hands everywhere, the craving, the green piped potato and wtf is a capon? What’s not to love.

  • @1984Watching
    @1984Watching 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    I like her a lot!😁 For 1975 she was very spicy tongue ( think of someoe that you’ve never really liked but you’re too well bred to tell what them what you think of them so you take it out on the goose and stab it all over!”) 😂 Making cooking therapeutic!🤣✌️ Makes it that much more funny that she comes across as a posh like person!

  • @TodayFreedom
    @TodayFreedom 2 ปีที่แล้ว +69

    “Don’t think I’m a women’s lib type- I’m not such a clot” 😂 God I love classic Cradock.

    • @cliveswabs9365
      @cliveswabs9365 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thats a dood

    • @awnaur0no919
      @awnaur0no919 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@cliveswabs9365 nah she just british lol 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 still a bad bitch doe 💯💯💯

    • @cliveswabs9365
      @cliveswabs9365 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@awnaur0no919 Tranny Haddock

    • @mogx2586
      @mogx2586 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Weirdly though that's exactly what she was.

    • @postscript67
      @postscript67 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@mogx2586 No, she was an independent and resourceful woman who succeeded through her own efforts without taking refuge in preachy ideology.

  • @kaysmith8992
    @kaysmith8992 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I grew up watching the Two Fat Ladies and this video gives me a similar vibe. Very gently entertaining and useful tips.

  • @montyf2165
    @montyf2165 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Nice to see a couple of Parkinson Cowans in use. She was a champion of cooking by gas and worked for gas boards at exhibitions.

  • @zeddeka
    @zeddeka 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Fanny was born in 1909, so very much a piece of history here. It shows sometimes in her pronunciation of words such as "item". Very old fashioned, more upper class English way of pronouncing it.

  • @namesdaisy9403
    @namesdaisy9403 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thanks for these videos, I had never heard of this woman. I just watched Fear of Fanny, also on TH-cam.

  • @alliemaria532
    @alliemaria532 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Nothing better than fanny at Christmas she supplied the Johnny

  • @soneil7745
    @soneil7745 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    I actually did the chicken with mushrooms under the skin- it's really good!

    • @scswp6945
      @scswp6945 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Yes, it does actually work. The mushrooms are like squeezed sponges and release moisture in to the breast meat.
      Interesting though that when she’s carving the bird at the end, the peas on the platter (just inside the piped potatoes) look as if they’ve been boiled to death. They’re completely drained of colour!

    • @ed_goblin
      @ed_goblin 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      it sounds good

  • @navigator100group2
    @navigator100group2 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I remember her showing off her kitchen. very impressive design as the cabinets were elevated on legs so which facilitated mopping the floor

  • @AK-bx3ft
    @AK-bx3ft หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Fanny was a master craftswoman.

  • @chicagolc7022
    @chicagolc7022 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Beastly job, this. lol. This is British, so…I have no choice, but to love it. 🥰

  • @KiJiHoon
    @KiJiHoon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +108

    I think even Gordon Ramsay would be scared of her

    • @StuartFuckingLittle
      @StuartFuckingLittle 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Him*

    • @suzisue287
      @suzisue287 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@StuartFuckingLittle no its a woman

    • @StuartFuckingLittle
      @StuartFuckingLittle 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@suzisue287 I was joking..

    • @lucianf89
      @lucianf89 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      La Hive 😂

    • @giovanna722
      @giovanna722 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      It would be so easy for her to play any cold, aggressive female character in any movie requiring one, if she were an actress. I can't imagine working in the same space with her.

  • @matthewringland9054
    @matthewringland9054 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    In this anodyne World we all need to be a bit more 'Fanny'. A national horror and treasure at the same time.

  • @andromalius8890
    @andromalius8890 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Love this pink number she’s wearing, iconic

  • @tauIrrydah
    @tauIrrydah ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I love her disdain for "Pa"

  • @Philipwaltho
    @Philipwaltho ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I loved this cookery program ❤

  • @asitis56
    @asitis56 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love watching a bit of Fanny 😮

  • @lolalouise9503
    @lolalouise9503 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    She looks like a man in drag, does old fanny Cradock. 😂
    God love her. ❤

  • @CaptainScarlet67
    @CaptainScarlet67 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    One of my Aunties from long ago also used to paint her eye brows half way up up her forehead - made her look like one of the undead too.

  • @coda_o7
    @coda_o7 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    what a character, love it!

  • @TheMysterysingerx
    @TheMysterysingerx หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    She really was amazing!

  • @dunkster550
    @dunkster550 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Can’t beat old skool Christmas cooking, why do you think granny’s meals were always the best 😂

  • @amw6778
    @amw6778 5 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    ... a wonderful (although just a tad frightening) woman!... did you know she was credited with inventing the classic 'Prawn Cocktail' starter?.. that's pretty amazing

    • @sunkat76
      @sunkat76 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Aaah hence her disapproval of Gwen Troake using a seafood cocktail as her starter.

    • @MegaStig25
      @MegaStig25 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Did she invent bramble jelly as well?

    • @JG-nx3jg
      @JG-nx3jg 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Haha now you mention it, prawn cocktail is totally something fanny would have devised.

  • @mikehudson8884
    @mikehudson8884 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    It would have been wonderful to have Miss Cradock as one's home economics teacher at school.

  • @magzsara9892
    @magzsara9892 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Given some of the fights that get underway at Christmas some old lonely aunts are better off at home.......... Love this old time cooking and to this day no one makes a mess in the kitchen.... quite like i do.. Happy Christmas for 2018...

  • @maryannjordan8143
    @maryannjordan8143 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Hooray for Fanny.

  • @butchdugan
    @butchdugan หลายเดือนก่อน

    I know I must’ve commented on these episodes over the years. I’m still here and teaching these techniques from Fanny!!

  • @mogsyman
    @mogsyman หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    May all your doughnuts look like Fannies. If you remember that’s little TV moment you’re getting quite old now!

    • @glamdolly30
      @glamdolly30 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thank you, you're the only one who posted that famous quote correctly!

  • @acrossthenorthernsea
    @acrossthenorthernsea หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    An annual watch tradition!

  • @mike62401
    @mike62401 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I love Fanny Cradock!

  • @georgiawilby25
    @georgiawilby25 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    She is so funny reminds me of my great gran 😂

  • @vaughangarrick
    @vaughangarrick หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Ok that looks like an amazing recipe...'m definitely trying it

  • @chumbucketjones9761
    @chumbucketjones9761 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    She's got high heels on, too.

  • @irenestephenson8624
    @irenestephenson8624 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    It looks Raw ! I love her trifles though the house wife wants to come back now .

  • @sharronbutler1527
    @sharronbutler1527 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Best cookers ever

  • @sampearce-ej6vj
    @sampearce-ej6vj 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    What a wonderful lady xox from nz

  • @gaggymott9159
    @gaggymott9159 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    NO DRIPPING IN THE PAN! Oh dear me, NO!!! 😂😂😂

  • @rumpoh8039
    @rumpoh8039 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I CUT OFF MY FINGERS WITH THE SECATEURS FANNY......
    ''WELL SERVES YOU RIGHT YOU CLOT''

  • @BoDray
    @BoDray 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    She is just pure chaos.... I love her 💞

  • @pixie706
    @pixie706 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I'd love to see her on today's Master chef . 😊

  • @DDLEE76
    @DDLEE76 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Preparing poultry while wearing puffball sleeves, stock in the kettle, secateurs, shoving your hand in the honey jar after handling the raw bird 😁Wonderful 😆

    • @mrgreengenes04
      @mrgreengenes04 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Have you seen the sleeves on the dress she wore in part two?

    • @DDLEE76
      @DDLEE76 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @mrgreengenes04 I have now! Nice and long! 😆

    • @elspethcraigie6269
      @elspethcraigie6269 หลายเดือนก่อน

      We were all a bit more resistant to germs then. Half our problems today are down to over cleaning and anti bacterial everything. Children now have no immunity to anything as they are not allowed to be.

    • @firesha-x
      @firesha-x หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@mrgreengenes04'She???' 😂

    • @zeddeka
      @zeddeka หลายเดือนก่อน

      The honey is only a problem if you use it for something else. Perfectly good method if you're then going to get rid of the left over honey

  • @BenStimpsonAuthor
    @BenStimpsonAuthor 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Just remember, it's all in the booklet!

    • @elspethcraigie6269
      @elspethcraigie6269 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I remember the days when you sent away for the booklet!!! Anticipation until it arrived !

    • @BenStimpsonAuthor
      @BenStimpsonAuthor หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@elspethcraigie6269 My Mum and Dad said their parents often sent away for the booklet too. they were a little young and grew up on Dehlia really buyt do remember seeing Fanny on tele. compared to some of these contemporary cooks, Fanny was actually pretty spot on

  • @martinmcdonald4207
    @martinmcdonald4207 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Fanny showing us how to `lubricate a dry bird`. Splendid stuffing indeed. Merry Christmas all.

  • @richmorris2870
    @richmorris2870 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    She's used an electric kettle.... Got to love her 😅

  • @Dazzletoad
    @Dazzletoad ปีที่แล้ว +6

    When women didn't need to cry and whine, and instead were strong and assertive, and humorous, as well as being tremendously skilled.
    I love it :D

    • @reginaryerson6293
      @reginaryerson6293 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Love those better qualities you lay out! They likely grew up with similar role models. Anyway you may be surprised how many men cry and whine, when not around other men. Meantime, as a woman, I have no time to whine. An occasional cry, though, helps.

    • @Dazzletoad
      @Dazzletoad ปีที่แล้ว

      @@reginaryerson6293 🤭

  • @istara
    @istara ปีที่แล้ว +5

    That is one hell of a knife! Slicing through bone like butter

    • @andrewhubbard4044
      @andrewhubbard4044 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Sadly on all British streets now

  • @adamashman
    @adamashman 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Love her accent hehe I could listen to her for days

  • @beatlebrian4404
    @beatlebrian4404 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Yes Fanny and let's not forget her husband Johnny, who always recommended a wine to go with the meal, I remember once watching the show and Fanny was making doughnuts, when she finished as always she handed over to Johnny, who came out with this " I hope all your doughnuts, will turn out like Fanny's !

    • @netram28
      @netram28 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Americans might not get that joke. In the UK the slang term "fanny" refers to a woman's "front hole." In the US, "fanny" refers to the rear-end of anyone, male or female.

    • @beatlebrian4404
      @beatlebrian4404 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@netram28 I think most Americans, don't get "Fanny" in the first place!

  • @Jill4Today
    @Jill4Today ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Amazing Stuff!!! Gotta love her.

  • @user-mq3mo5ss4f
    @user-mq3mo5ss4f หลายเดือนก่อน

    I was 3 when this was shown on tv , to young to remember at the time...ive watched a few episodes with shock 😂 ..all in good spirit and was intrigued to see a young Delia smith ...helping along the way

  • @ppmppm7010
    @ppmppm7010 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Anyone remember around the horne on the wireless Sunday dinner some used to do a scit of Fannie and Johnny 🤣🤣🤣 good old days

  • @AlistairKiwi
    @AlistairKiwi หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I was 11 when this show was made and, in New Zealand, we were used to seeing British people such as Fanny Cradock or Barbara Woodhouse on television. However, our Xmas was in summer. So, cold ham was preferred to those stodgy British foods.