There doesn't seem to be any hostility from Mary! She just has to get everything done in a very short amount of time and Judith Chalmers doesn't have much to add to the segment except commentary. It's low key and friendly, and Mary has a responsibility to get information out in a timely fashion. I love little retro Mary, she's adorable.
I plan on making this tonight. I have a copy of the Good Afternoon cookbook, it says if you can't use fresh tomatoes, substitute a 14oz tin chopped tomatoes.
how different TV is now, you can see all the bloopers which is good it shows normality, they are obviously stuck to a time frame for the TV most likely due to cost and editing etc, I like how they give the advise on cost per pound when discussing meat, veg etc, this was a normal thing way back then nowadays they daren't discuss the price differentials probably due to upsetting major supermarkets etc, and I don't feel there is hostility as is suggested by some people, I just think they are on an allotted time frame and judith is doing the commentary while Mary is the cook that's all any looks I ve seen maybe down to a code of some sort to do with TV and filming etc.
I've watched a bunch of these retro Mary Berry videos - I noticed in this one she seemed to have the sniffles. To those below who commented that she seemed out of sorts, maybe that was why; she may not have been feeling 100%.
we need an updated version of this for the 21st Century, with the cost of living very high at the moment. would be great to see more updated recipes presented to us. Now that we can get a much more wide variety of ingredients as the opposed to the bleak grey food reminiscent of depression served back in the day.
Mary Berry has improved somewhat she was new to cooking on tv. A bit awkward to watch at times it was as if Judith Charmers was in the way. Mary Berry however is now charming and I love her programmes her food is delicious.
I think this recipe works as a method with easy instructions and very little fuss. Simple and economical for the home cook. I also like how the stew turned out. Is it perfect? Experimental? Exciting? No. But is it Hearty? Yes! It probably looked good too. Do remember that this is a much older show: it isn’t color-saturated, sharp, high def video 😊
Yup. My dad is in his late 60s now, was in his 'prime' during the 1970s and won't entertain any thoughts from young people about life being better in those days. Despite being young in those days he maintains everything is better now. He has all sorts of stories such as my grandfather's car needing to be kept on a trickle charger overnight otherwise it wouldn't start in the morning, and my grandfather getting a new car every 3 years because the old ones rusted to nothing. Cars in those days also gave off a smell of fuel and hot oil when running, the very air next to them felt heavy and hot - noticed it myself on a 1980s Vauxhall as well. Also, doing his homework by candlelight and becoming physically sick of soup because it's all my grandmother could cook when the power was off yet again (all-electric household and she would hold a pan over the fire). Naff fashions (which were daft even by those standards), terrible social attitudes, racism and homophobia everywhere. He jokes that the reason for everyone being so thin in those days was because the food was terrible and nobody could afford to buy it anyway.
I'm in my mid fifties and I quite agree. Being a young child during that decade, I have many fond memories too of course, but cars would frequently breakdown, food was in general not exciting and money always seemed to be short. I wouldn't say that we were unhappy at all and in general people knew how to live within their means, but it was still very much a decade when a trip overseas (even to France) was seen by most as a luxury that few could afford and going to a restaurant was generally associated with a special event. Living standards are certainly better now, even though with poor governance and a lackluster global economy they are not at the levels they perhaps ought to be for this era.
A commenter on another video said that Mary Berry said she was always nervous doing this show. They are very rushed finishing the segment as well- I wonder if that's the explanation for her being brusque?
28 p a pound for tomatoes is very expensive! I remember that eggs were about 1 p each. So this is the price of 28 eggs. And bus fare was 2 p minimum. So 14 short bus trips.
Astonishing how expensive so many basic things were back then. She mentions the national average for tomatoes was 28p per pound That's the equivalent of £2.19 per pound in 2021 money. An astonishing £4.83 per Kilo.
Bear in mind that the UK was being absolutely hammered by inflation back then. The Queen even mentioned it during her Christmas Speech in 1975. Although as I write this in 2022, the UK's economy is once again going to the dogs and inflation is now as high as its been in literally 30 years (March 1992).
It has, I think, more to do with the fact lean meat and fatty meat cook differently, and if you don't trim it, it ends up making unpleasant bits of yucky texture in among the lean meat.
did anyone , even then really learn anything from that? beef,lard, tomatoes onions and a bloody stock cube? no wine, tomato puree, no herbs no vegetables... this show often mentions the price of the ingredients so it is cooking on a budget show....but surely there were more interesting and cheap vegetables available that would have made it more colourful ,tasty and economical
It was so expensive to just have a very basic diet then. I know because I was a very young wife in those days. We had very few fancy ingredients to work with not like today. But it made us good economical cooks and I could go back to it if I had to. I am glad I don’t have too!
Hi Linda. :-) I was married in 1974. I remember how ingredients were very basic back then. This was just a few years after those ghastly Vesta curries and chow mien! Nonetheless, we felt very sophisticated making spaghetti Bolognese, lasagne, home-made pizza, curry, etc. I think we can feel very proud that we could make meals from scratch. No ready-made meals in sight!
As Richard seemed so confident, I did some research. It seems that the rustic origins of á la bourguignonne may indeed not have included wine but referred to the garnish of small onions, mushrooms and lardons. When Escoffier made it all posh in the early 20th century he added wine. Mind you, who would argue with Escoffier?
I doubt one could buy tomato puree easily in Britain in 1975. I can remember being unable to buy garlic and green peppers in villages in the early 1980s. But sometimes simple is good. Also bacon dripping isn't the same as lard.
Heat kills everything. People nowadays are too squeamish about germs, that's why they get sick more often. We need to be exposed to things in order to build a strong immune system.
That has to be the most unappetizing beef stew I've seen in my life. Good grief... so much wrong with that on even the technical and ingredient level. E.g. one only adds the flour after the meat has been browned (in two batches, softening the onion with the second batch); 'singer' is the proper term for adding the flour after the batches of beef have been combined. Also: no tomatoes, this is just making a terrible version of goulash. And for 's sake cut the larger new potatoes into chunks so the whole thing cooks evenly!! -those smaller new potatoes are just going to be mush.
Dear lord, catch yourself on. I've seen and eaten as many a number of non-goulash stews that have tomatoes in it as those that don't. As it seems as have other people who've commented. Even at a quick glance of a Mary Berry cookbook I have at home, there's a recipe for beef stew without tomatoes and another one with! Did you want a medal for not having had a stew with tomatoes before? Also, it may shock you but people do alter techniques when cooking at home that may deviate from your gold standard because they have found it adds something they like or for some other reason. You may be surprised to know Mary Berry is giving tips for easy, quick to prepare meals. She's not teaching people from the television to become trained chefs. Also... why must she have cut the potatoes? The potatoes aren't *that* large, and if you absolutely must cut those potatoes to ensure they're evenly cooked without them turning to mush - well I think that says much more about your cooking skills than hers. I mean... after all, it's not as if Mary Berry is a well known cook at all... and no one certainly died after having eaten that stew.
EgoShredder It is now the consensus that homo sapiens are supposed to eat fat on our meat. It's the fat and fruit that grew our brains this size. Fat won't kill you, sugar will.
Yes you are correct and I just eat natural forms of fat in my food which is good for you............in moderation! Luckily I do not have a sweet tooth and have good will power, e.g. when I go to the fridge I break off one, sometimes two piece of chocolate and walk away. I only buy high quality chocolate and avoid the mass produced cheap crap, which is drowning in slimy fat and sugar.
EgoShredder Fat doesnt make you fat. It's sugar that tells your body to make insulin which makes the body to store fat. Sugars (carbs) make you fat, not fats
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There doesn't seem to be any hostility from Mary! She just has to get everything done in a very short amount of time and Judith Chalmers doesn't have much to add to the segment except commentary. It's low key and friendly, and Mary has a responsibility to get information out in a timely fashion. I love little retro Mary, she's adorable.
I am so obsessed with watching these shows...there is just something so loveable and warm about them
Totally adorable!
Love these old videos! Everyone saying about the dripping but touching the raw meat and not washing your hands got me 😂
I plan on making this tonight. I have a copy of the Good Afternoon cookbook, it says if you can't use fresh tomatoes, substitute a 14oz tin chopped tomatoes.
Update: This recipe came out very nice! Served with carrots and mashed potato. Didn't add the dill. Would add some crusty bread next time.
@@davegoes yum!!😋
how different TV is now, you can see all the bloopers which is good it shows normality, they are obviously stuck to a time frame for the TV most likely due to cost and editing etc, I like how they give the advise on cost per pound when discussing meat, veg etc, this was a normal thing way back then nowadays they daren't discuss the price differentials probably due to upsetting major supermarkets etc, and I don't feel there is hostility as is suggested by some people, I just think they are on an allotted time frame and judith is doing the commentary while Mary is the cook that's all any looks I ve seen maybe down to a code of some sort to do with TV and filming etc.
“I shan’t leave them in for very many moments” 1960s English
I've watched a bunch of these retro Mary Berry videos - I noticed in this one she seemed to have the sniffles. To those below who commented that she seemed out of sorts, maybe that was why; she may not have been feeling 100%.
Make sure to throw everything on top of your stirring spoon in the skillet!
I was utterly confused why she or the host didn't stir that sooner....
Wish I had a dollar for every time Judith says "Mmmmm" :-D
Mary is not f**king around in this segment.....she's on it like Sonic!
I was born in 1975 and up to now I thought I was the most disappointing thing to pop out of the oven that year.
Ditto
we need an updated version of this for the 21st Century, with the cost of living very high at the moment. would be great to see more updated recipes presented to us. Now that we can get a much more wide variety of ingredients as the opposed to the bleak grey food reminiscent of depression served back in the day.
Mary clearly wasn't feeling well here.
Mary seems a bit annoyed lol..
Mary Berry has improved somewhat she was new to cooking on tv. A bit awkward to watch at times it was as if Judith Charmers was in the way. Mary Berry however is now charming and I love her programmes her food is delicious.
I think this recipe works as a method with easy instructions and very little fuss. Simple and economical for the home cook. I also like how the stew turned out. Is it perfect? Experimental? Exciting? No. But is it Hearty? Yes! It probably looked good too. Do remember that this is a much older show: it isn’t color-saturated, sharp, high def video 😊
The video quality is actually pretty good for the 70s. It's been very well preserved.
Even at the time, those of us who were 70s young people knew how awful, in every way, that decade was.
Yup. My dad is in his late 60s now, was in his 'prime' during the 1970s and won't entertain any thoughts from young people about life being better in those days. Despite being young in those days he maintains everything is better now.
He has all sorts of stories such as my grandfather's car needing to be kept on a trickle charger overnight otherwise it wouldn't start in the morning, and my grandfather getting a new car every 3 years because the old ones rusted to nothing. Cars in those days also gave off a smell of fuel and hot oil when running, the very air next to them felt heavy and hot - noticed it myself on a 1980s Vauxhall as well.
Also, doing his homework by candlelight and becoming physically sick of soup because it's all my grandmother could cook when the power was off yet again (all-electric household and she would hold a pan over the fire). Naff fashions (which were daft even by those standards), terrible social attitudes, racism and homophobia everywhere.
He jokes that the reason for everyone being so thin in those days was because the food was terrible and nobody could afford to buy it anyway.
I'm in my mid fifties and I quite agree. Being a young child during that decade, I have many fond memories too of course, but cars would frequently breakdown, food was in general not exciting and money always seemed to be short. I wouldn't say that we were unhappy at all and in general people knew how to live within their means, but it was still very much a decade when a trip overseas (even to France) was seen by most as a luxury that few could afford and going to a restaurant was generally associated with a special event. Living standards are certainly better now, even though with poor governance and a lackluster global economy they are not at the levels they perhaps ought to be for this era.
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I like the casual way she cooks. Rustic and gloppy
That's one way to put it
You mean the way she half-assed shook flour on, maybe, half the meat and crowded them into a pan that wasn't quite up to temp? Gloppyesque!
They had only a few minutes to do this
WHY would you pour the potatoes directly into the stew before serving it?
She seems angry at that woman in this episode LOL
I thought the very same🤔
A commenter on another video said that Mary Berry said she was always nervous doing this show. They are very rushed finishing the segment as well- I wonder if that's the explanation for her being brusque?
apparently mary berry is a total bitch in real life
She is no such thing. What a disgusting lie. I have met Mary Berry, and you ought to be slapped for such an ignorant claim.
Middle class British people were like this 45 years ago. No offence is meant.
Life before tinned tomatoes ...
They had tinned tomatoes.
She talks more about the cost of stuff than about the quality of the ingridients, greatful those times are over
Not a sign of a bit of garlic...
"You say to-MAY-to, and I say to-MAH-to..."
A bit of color, yes. Otherwise it looks like prison stew😝
Dill??? Lol
There we are
Crowding the pan like that...😕
She literally never cooked a sausage in Terrahawks.
carpet match the drapes suzie q?
28p a lb for toms in 1975 which works out at around £2.03 in today's money
28 p a pound for tomatoes is very expensive! I remember that eggs were about 1 p each. So this is the price of 28 eggs. And bus fare was 2 p minimum. So 14 short bus trips.
Faff free. Before Mary was famous.
You can see why Kieth Floyd was so popular, when you view this horrendous version!!!
Good lord, the woman who doesn't do anything is awfully judgemental. Mary is wonderful.
👍👍👍
Astonishing how expensive so many basic things were back then. She mentions the national average for tomatoes was 28p per pound That's the equivalent of £2.19 per pound in 2021 money. An astonishing £4.83 per Kilo.
That was one of the benefit of joining the eu, it lowered food prices.
Bear in mind that the UK was being absolutely hammered by inflation back then. The Queen even mentioned it during her Christmas Speech in 1975.
Although as I write this in 2022, the UK's economy is once again going to the dogs and inflation is now as high as its been in literally 30 years (March 1992).
We're not far off that again now...
'Trim the fat and fry in dripping'.
Sensible..
It has, I think, more to do with the fact lean meat and fatty meat cook differently, and if you don't trim it, it ends up making unpleasant bits of yucky texture in among the lean meat.
beth12svist 👌 exactly
What a dog's dinner.
Do you hate your dog?! ;)
@@adamp6320 LOL
CHINESE ingredients? In 1975? Good grief, in an era where everyone was mega racist that's staggering.
Thank god for tinned tomatoes
Could the food look anymore bland and beige? Probably tasted very bland too.
She seems so stuffy. Not personable or pleasant seeming at all
that look at 00:49 ahaha
That looks awful
cuts the fat off the already lean beef then fries it in bacon fat lol
Mary seems a bit offish
did anyone , even then really learn anything from that? beef,lard, tomatoes onions and a bloody stock cube? no wine, tomato puree, no herbs no vegetables... this show often mentions the price of the ingredients so it is cooking on a budget show....but surely there were more interesting and cheap vegetables available that would have made it more colourful ,tasty and economical
excuse me...- beefbourguignon you dont put wine...I thinnk you are ill-informed, and Im being polite
It was so expensive to just have a very basic diet then. I know because I was a very young wife in those days. We had very few fancy ingredients to work with not like today. But it made us good economical cooks and I could go back to it if I had to. I am glad I don’t have too!
Hi Linda. :-) I was married in 1974. I remember how ingredients were very basic back then. This was just a few years after those ghastly Vesta curries and chow mien! Nonetheless, we felt very sophisticated making spaghetti Bolognese, lasagne, home-made pizza, curry, etc. I think we can feel very proud that we could make meals from scratch. No ready-made meals in sight!
As Richard seemed so confident, I did some research. It seems that the rustic origins of á la bourguignonne may indeed not have included wine but referred to the garnish of small onions, mushrooms and lardons. When Escoffier made it all posh in the early 20th century he added wine. Mind you, who would argue with Escoffier?
I doubt one could buy tomato puree easily in Britain in 1975. I can remember being unable to buy garlic and green peppers in villages in the early 1980s. But sometimes simple is good. Also bacon dripping isn't the same as lard.
Health n safety wasnt heard of back then n dripping gawd healthy eh 🤣
They've obviously never heard of food safety. Never washed her hands once after handling all that beef
Heat kills everything. People nowadays are too squeamish about germs, that's why they get sick more often. We need to be exposed to things in order to build a strong immune system.
Fabrizio Exactly and then they'll go and have a steak tar tar.
people being overhygenic is what is unhealthy the immune system needs to come in contact with bacteria or it will never grow
They all survived.
Not very healthy in 1975 frying the meal in dripping!!!
😎🌹🇺🇸.
That has to be the most unappetizing beef stew I've seen in my life. Good grief... so much wrong with that on even the technical and ingredient level. E.g. one only adds the flour after the meat has been browned (in two batches, softening the onion with the second batch); 'singer' is the proper term for adding the flour after the batches of beef have been combined. Also: no tomatoes, this is just making a terrible version of goulash.
And for 's sake cut the larger new potatoes into chunks so the whole thing cooks evenly!! -those smaller new potatoes are just going to be mush.
Jan Verschueren Yes, please shout back to 70s England and tell them to straighten the hell up. What in the world were you expecting lol
@TheRenaissanceman65
I've never used tomatoes in stew and have never seen them as an ingredient in stews before but I bet this was still nice
Dear lord, catch yourself on.
I've seen and eaten as many a number of non-goulash stews that have tomatoes in it as those that don't. As it seems as have other people who've commented. Even at a quick glance of a Mary Berry cookbook I have at home, there's a recipe for beef stew without tomatoes and another one with! Did you want a medal for not having had a stew with tomatoes before?
Also, it may shock you but people do alter techniques when cooking at home that may deviate from your gold standard because they have found it adds something they like or for some other reason. You may be surprised to know Mary Berry is giving tips for easy, quick to prepare meals. She's not teaching people from the television to become trained chefs.
Also... why must she have cut the potatoes? The potatoes aren't *that* large, and if you absolutely must cut those potatoes to ensure they're evenly cooked without them turning to mush - well I think that says much more about your cooking skills than hers.
I mean... after all, it's not as if Mary Berry is a well known cook at all... and no one certainly died after having eaten that stew.
@@jgill551the stew and the potatoes are already cooked, so…
I always remove as much fat from meat as is possible; better in the bin than on my hips! :-D
EgoShredder It is now the consensus that homo sapiens are supposed to eat fat on our meat. It's the fat and fruit that grew our brains this size. Fat won't kill you, sugar will.
Yes you are correct and I just eat natural forms of fat in my food which is good for you............in moderation! Luckily I do not have a sweet tooth and have good will power, e.g. when I go to the fridge I break off one, sometimes two piece of chocolate and walk away. I only buy high quality chocolate and avoid the mass produced cheap crap, which is drowning in slimy fat and sugar.
EgoShredder Fat doesnt make you fat. It's sugar that tells your body to make insulin which makes the body to store fat. Sugars (carbs) make you fat, not fats
I agree and like I already said I do not avoid fat, but I avoid bad forms of it and do not have an excess of it.
EgoShredder ...I fired off my comment before reading yours, but as you say we are in agreement. Trans fats are the poisonous fats....ugh
Masakra
That looks disgusting and Mary looks like Greg Norman in drag.
No fresh herbs or spices. This is very bland, 70s food.
Judith Chalmers is a complete waste of time. She has nothing to this scene whatsoever. Best let Mary get on with it Judith!
Mhhm
Korny!!!🌽🌽😂
OMG, awful, but very funny!!!!!
Disaster
Mary must have been menstruating.
What a disaster
It probably tastes delish! It just needs some colour, a bit of parsley or some carrots.
Negative energy here you can see it deep down she's bitter.
She’s not bitter. She’s incredibly nervous!
Must be the menopause
The amount of salt she put in that casserole dish 🤦🏽♀️ almost a handful 😂😂