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

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  • Опубликовано: 4 фев 2025

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  • @flashtheoriginal
    @flashtheoriginal Год назад +153

    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 Год назад +10

      and Johnny was always legless on the grog.

    • @andyrob3259
      @andyrob3259 2 месяца назад

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

    • @UnIimited_Power
      @UnIimited_Power 2 месяца назад +1

      @@andyrob3259 Okay, Gregg Wallace.

    • @grahamjeffries4566
      @grahamjeffries4566 Месяц назад

      Bit scary

    • @daleyseaton9426
      @daleyseaton9426 Месяц назад +1

      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 года назад +327

    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 года назад +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 года назад +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 года назад +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 года назад +4

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

    • @awnaur0no919
      @awnaur0no919 2 года назад +8

      tha germans call dat feeling of rootless nostalgia "sehnsucht"

  • @JG-nx3jg
    @JG-nx3jg 4 года назад +249

    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 года назад +13

      hahahaha

    • @giovanna722
      @giovanna722 3 года назад +11

      Lol !! Yep.

    • @Slothh4884
      @Slothh4884 3 года назад +8

      Literally what I’m going through right now

    • @padraicodomhnall2760
      @padraicodomhnall2760 3 года назад +19

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

    • @andromalius8890
      @andromalius8890 Год назад +8

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

  • @JoeBleasdaleReal
    @JoeBleasdaleReal 5 лет назад +262

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

    • @Joe_Bob6000
      @Joe_Bob6000 4 года назад +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 года назад +2

      🤢🤢🤢

    • @psychosoma5049
      @psychosoma5049 2 года назад +9

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

    • @ed_goblin
      @ed_goblin 2 года назад

      that's what brought me here

    • @rnw2739
      @rnw2739 8 месяцев назад +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.

  • @marclegarreta
    @marclegarreta 2 месяца назад +81

    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 2 месяца назад +8

      She is so witty to

    • @TheContuo
      @TheContuo 2 месяца назад

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

    • @andrewhubbard4044
      @andrewhubbard4044 Месяц назад +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 Месяц назад

      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.

  • @richardadkin7226
    @richardadkin7226 2 месяца назад +60

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

    • @AllanBurkinshaw-xo7gm
      @AllanBurkinshaw-xo7gm 2 месяца назад

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

  • @AlisonBryen
    @AlisonBryen 3 года назад +90

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

    • @katewolfspirit6722
      @katewolfspirit6722 Год назад +6

      Every fanny is a legend! 😉

    • @lolalouise9503
      @lolalouise9503 2 месяца назад +1

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

    • @AlisonBryen
      @AlisonBryen 2 месяца назад

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

  • @SusanPearce_H
    @SusanPearce_H 2 месяца назад +44

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

  • @rakadoni8403
    @rakadoni8403 4 года назад +155

    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 года назад +2

      😂

    • @MegaStig25
      @MegaStig25 4 года назад +22

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

    • @AlisonBryen
      @AlisonBryen 3 года назад +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 года назад +14

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

    • @sharonstevens4330
      @sharonstevens4330 2 года назад +5

      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @craig1538
    @craig1538 5 лет назад +71

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

    • @ophthodoc
      @ophthodoc 2 месяца назад

      😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @ophthodoc
      @ophthodoc 2 месяца назад

      OMG

    •  2 месяца назад

      😂😂😂😂

    • @wickedwitch4473
      @wickedwitch4473 2 месяца назад

      😅😅😅😅😅

    • @glamdolly30
      @glamdolly30 2 месяца назад +1

      Spoken like the real Jack Nicholson!

  • @kevinrobinson1056
    @kevinrobinson1056 2 месяца назад +14

    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 !!

  • @MissezPremiseHello
    @MissezPremiseHello 2 года назад +86

    "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 2 месяца назад +2

      I always loved the nicotine finger😆😆😆😆

    • @butchdugan
      @butchdugan 2 месяца назад +3

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

    • @herrflick1244
      @herrflick1244 2 месяца назад +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 Месяц назад +7

      Salmonella sleeves😂😂😂

  • @MEATYOKERRable
    @MEATYOKERRable Месяц назад +11

    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.

  • @cynthiatolman326
    @cynthiatolman326 2 года назад +37

    Going on 50 years and she's still brilliant.

  • @rumpoh8039
    @rumpoh8039 2 месяца назад +36

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

  • @simonzinc-trumpetharris852
    @simonzinc-trumpetharris852 Месяц назад +12

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

    • @simonzinc-trumpetharris852
      @simonzinc-trumpetharris852 Месяц назад +6

      Lubricating the dry bird? 😂

    • @SamanthaSorbo
      @SamanthaSorbo Месяц назад

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

    • @Greenwillow
      @Greenwillow Месяц назад

      @@simonzinc-trumpetharris852😂😂😂

  • @marclegarreta
    @marclegarreta 3 года назад +54

    A British national treasure! I cannot stop watching her.

    • @shalemarie
      @shalemarie 2 года назад +4

      Don’t u mean him

    • @LeodisTrainSpotter
      @LeodisTrainSpotter Год назад

      @@shalemarie Her, Jesus christ how stupid are you

    • @Itsmellissaaaa
      @Itsmellissaaaa Год назад +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 2 месяца назад

      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.

  • @sunnyshine2215
    @sunnyshine2215 4 года назад +75

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

    • @tonyukkola5341
      @tonyukkola5341 3 года назад +5

      Iove this can't stop laughing 😜😹

    • @nigeltaylor6358
      @nigeltaylor6358 3 года назад +4

      Me tooooo !!,

    • @AlisonBryen
      @AlisonBryen 3 года назад +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.

  • @bduhe219
    @bduhe219 5 лет назад +84

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

    • @sunkat76
      @sunkat76 5 лет назад +4

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

    • @zakkfromskellten
      @zakkfromskellten 4 года назад +5

      @@sunkat76 you’re an intellectual beyond your time

    • @sunkat76
      @sunkat76 4 года назад +1

      @@zakkfromskellten tee hee xD

  • @multimill
    @multimill 2 года назад +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.

  • @andrewhubbard4044
    @andrewhubbard4044 Месяц назад +6

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

  • @andrewc.2952
    @andrewc.2952 Месяц назад +7

    Gasp- she's fabulous 😍

  • @butterflyray1
    @butterflyray1 5 лет назад +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 2 месяца назад +1

      I was wondering what that was! 😂

  • @MarthaMyDear6
    @MarthaMyDear6 Год назад +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 месяца назад +2

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

  • @laughinjackdaviscrawford5234
    @laughinjackdaviscrawford5234 5 лет назад +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 лет назад +8

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

    • @sunkat76
      @sunkat76 5 лет назад +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 года назад +3

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

  • @johnyzero2000
    @johnyzero2000 Год назад +11

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

  • @willlovesgaz
    @willlovesgaz 6 лет назад +215

    lubricating a dry bird - always makes me giggle

    • @treasalynam8940
      @treasalynam8940 4 года назад +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 года назад +14

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

    • @treasalynam8940
      @treasalynam8940 4 года назад +5

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

    • @treasalynam8940
      @treasalynam8940 4 года назад +6

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

    • @soneil7745
      @soneil7745 4 года назад +5

      Her phrasing is unfortunate, but she is definitely right.

  • @TheRedHoodie
    @TheRedHoodie Месяц назад +8

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

  • @williamdowney8600
    @williamdowney8600 2 месяца назад +8

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

  • @Threebridgecastle
    @Threebridgecastle Год назад +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.

  • @vanillaorchid
    @vanillaorchid 2 месяца назад +5

    Great stuff. She was a skilled chef.

  • @TS-qq7vr
    @TS-qq7vr 5 лет назад +16

    I'm truly impressed how efficient she is.

  • @LaDivinaLover
    @LaDivinaLover Месяц назад +4

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

  • @XtreamBrands
    @XtreamBrands Месяц назад +4

    Omg i just discovered her! I am instantly hooked!

  • @faithoffaith
    @faithoffaith Год назад +27

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

  • @shimmygirllinda9457
    @shimmygirllinda9457 2 месяца назад +2

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

  • @namesdaisy9403
    @namesdaisy9403 Год назад +5

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

  • @sukitten1
    @sukitten1 7 лет назад +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

  • @kaysmith8992
    @kaysmith8992 Год назад +6

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

  • @olivia_15.49
    @olivia_15.49 4 года назад +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 года назад +8

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

    • @xXLunatikxXlul
      @xXLunatikxXlul Год назад +2

      @@cafeAmericano right? This was a child. 💀

  • @TodayFreedom
    @TodayFreedom 2 года назад +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 года назад

      Thats a dood

    • @awnaur0no919
      @awnaur0no919 2 года назад

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

    • @cliveswabs9365
      @cliveswabs9365 2 года назад

      @@awnaur0no919 Tranny Haddock

    • @mogx2586
      @mogx2586 Год назад +10

      Weirdly though that's exactly what she was.

    • @postscript67
      @postscript67 2 месяца назад +3

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

  • @bagelking6364
    @bagelking6364 Месяц назад +2

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

  • @wickermandy6155
    @wickermandy6155 5 месяцев назад +21

    I love her Bette Davis commanding energy. Old school.

    • @user-ks9hs7xl6r
      @user-ks9hs7xl6r 2 месяца назад +3

      Baby Jane.

    • @user-ks9hs7xl6r
      @user-ks9hs7xl6r 2 месяца назад +2

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

  • @jhunter1573
    @jhunter1573 4 года назад +17

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

  • @asitis56
    @asitis56 Год назад +3

    I love watching a bit of Fanny 😮

  • @AK-bx3ft
    @AK-bx3ft 2 месяца назад +3

    Fanny was a master craftswoman.

  • @floodkevin4716
    @floodkevin4716 Месяц назад +3

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

  • @dacket1128
    @dacket1128 2 месяца назад +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 2 месяца назад

      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 :)

  • @Philipwaltho
    @Philipwaltho Год назад +5

    I loved this cookery program ❤

  • @Rik77
    @Rik77 2 месяца назад +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.

  • @rafaelvigueria71
    @rafaelvigueria71 Месяц назад +5

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

  • @georgiawilby25
    @georgiawilby25 4 года назад +13

    She is so funny reminds me of my great gran 😂

  • @andromalius8890
    @andromalius8890 Год назад +12

    Love this pink number she’s wearing, iconic

  • @dunkster550
    @dunkster550 Год назад +13

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

  • @1984Watching
    @1984Watching Месяц назад +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!

  • @sampearce-ej6vj
    @sampearce-ej6vj 11 месяцев назад +5

    What a wonderful lady xox from nz

  • @mike62401
    @mike62401 2 месяца назад +4

    I love Fanny Cradock!

  • @montyf2165
    @montyf2165 Год назад +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.

  • @chicagolc7022
    @chicagolc7022 2 месяца назад +2

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

  • @Lpstpaul
    @Lpstpaul 3 года назад +70

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

    • @katewolfspirit6722
      @katewolfspirit6722 Год назад +5

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

    • @gtavmj-1852
      @gtavmj-1852 Год назад +2

      😂😂😂😂😂...

    • @johnd8538
      @johnd8538 Год назад +2

      That honey was bin material 😂

    • @johnd8538
      @johnd8538 Год назад +2

      I won't be coming to yours for dinner lol

    • @seanclothier3464
      @seanclothier3464 5 месяцев назад

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

  • @adamashman
    @adamashman 5 лет назад +9

    Love her accent hehe I could listen to her for days

  • @ShanePalmer-yo4og
    @ShanePalmer-yo4og Месяц назад +6

    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...

  • @coda_o7
    @coda_o7 Месяц назад +2

    what a character, love it!

  • @soneil7745
    @soneil7745 4 года назад +28

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

    • @scswp6945
      @scswp6945 4 года назад +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 года назад +3

      it sounds good

  • @TheMysterysingerx
    @TheMysterysingerx 2 месяца назад +2

    She really was amazing!

  • @maryannjordan8143
    @maryannjordan8143 Месяц назад +4

    Hooray for Fanny.

  • @alliemaria532
    @alliemaria532 Год назад +7

    Nothing better than fanny at Christmas she supplied the Johnny

  • @tauIrrydah
    @tauIrrydah Год назад +5

    I love her disdain for "Pa"

  • @butchdugan
    @butchdugan 2 месяца назад

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

  • @BoDray
    @BoDray Месяц назад +1

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

  • @pixie706
    @pixie706 Месяц назад +1

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

  • @magzsara9892
    @magzsara9892 6 лет назад +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...

  • @Jill4Today
    @Jill4Today Год назад +4

    Amazing Stuff!!! Gotta love her.

  • @sharronbutler1527
    @sharronbutler1527 2 месяца назад +5

    Best cookers ever

  • @istara
    @istara Год назад +5

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

  • @amw6778
    @amw6778 5 лет назад +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 лет назад +2

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

    • @MegaStig25
      @MegaStig25 4 года назад

      Did she invent bramble jelly as well?

    • @JG-nx3jg
      @JG-nx3jg 4 года назад +1

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

  • @navigator100group2
    @navigator100group2 2 года назад +5

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

  • @user-mq3mo5ss4f
    @user-mq3mo5ss4f Месяц назад

    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

  • @irenestephenson8624
    @irenestephenson8624 2 года назад +6

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

  • @zeddeka
    @zeddeka 2 года назад +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.

  • @GNeuman
    @GNeuman 2 месяца назад

    You can't beat a bit of Fanny. ❤❤❤

  • @leannestevens1711
    @leannestevens1711 4 года назад +3

    I love watching her, I bet she was a lovely woman, barr for being in the kitchen. I watch her every Christmas.

  • @richmorris2870
    @richmorris2870 5 месяцев назад +3

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

  • @vaughangarrick
    @vaughangarrick 2 месяца назад +2

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

  • @martinmcdonald4207
    @martinmcdonald4207 Год назад +6

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

  • @markbishop1588
    @markbishop1588 Год назад +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 Год назад +4

      😅

    • @dd7521
      @dd7521 Год назад +3

      😂😂😂

    • @SonOfFurzehatt
      @SonOfFurzehatt Год назад +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 Год назад +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 Год назад +1

      Classic.

  • @mogsyman
    @mogsyman 2 месяца назад +5

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

    • @glamdolly30
      @glamdolly30 2 месяца назад +1

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

  • @DanJones-gw7fb
    @DanJones-gw7fb Месяц назад

    I love a bit of Fanny at Christmas time

  • @ifignoranceisbliss
    @ifignoranceisbliss Месяц назад +1

    Bow down to greatness!

  • @mikehudson8884
    @mikehudson8884 Месяц назад +2

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

  • @DDLEE76
    @DDLEE76 Год назад +25

    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 3 месяца назад +2

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

    • @DDLEE76
      @DDLEE76 3 месяца назад +1

      @mrgreengenes04 I have now! Nice and long! 😆

    • @elspethcraigie6269
      @elspethcraigie6269 2 месяца назад

      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 2 месяца назад +1

      ​@@mrgreengenes04'She???' 😂

    • @zeddeka
      @zeddeka Месяц назад

      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

  • @beatlebrian4404
    @beatlebrian4404 2 года назад +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 года назад +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 года назад +2

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

  • @davidcondon4211
    @davidcondon4211 5 лет назад +16

    I'd love to see the guests on Christmas Day and I hacking at the turkey with a secateurs!

  • @dawnfinch8232
    @dawnfinch8232 2 года назад +4

    Showing my age now remember watching this with my mother 🤣

    • @Zoe-dr5ps
      @Zoe-dr5ps 2 года назад +1

      Love your name Dawn, so pretty.

    • @dawnfinch8232
      @dawnfinch8232 2 года назад

      @@Zoe-dr5ps ❤️❤️

    • @Zoe-dr5ps
      @Zoe-dr5ps 2 года назад

      @@dawnfinch8232 ❤️❤️

  • @georgewilson4095
    @georgewilson4095 4 года назад +4

    Fanny certainly knows how to stuff a bird!

  • @gtavmj-1852
    @gtavmj-1852 Год назад +14

    The CROSS CONTAMINATION of RAW GOOSE getting in the honey was a REAL doozy... lol.. the hands just kept going in the pot😂😂😂

    • @marleneclough3173
      @marleneclough3173 2 месяца назад

      I grew up pre refrigerators and rubber gloves we ate well all meats and veg were organic veg often home grown meats came from local farms. We were very healthy indeed

    • @zeddeka
      @zeddeka Месяц назад

      It's only a problem if you're going to use the honey for something else. If you're disposing of the remaining honey afterwards, which I think she certainly would have, it's the best method to use.

  • @C-Rex1
    @C-Rex1 Год назад +9

    The way she stuffed that turkey really got under my skin.

    • @dariowiter3078
      @dariowiter3078 3 месяца назад

      😆😆😆😆😆 😝😝😝😝😝 😄😄😄😄😄

  • @ppmppm7010
    @ppmppm7010 2 года назад +3

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

  • @DCFunBud
    @DCFunBud 6 лет назад +26

    Where has Fanny Cradock been all my life?

    • @monicdavis6150
      @monicdavis6150 5 лет назад +6

      DCFunBud
      😂😂😂Same thing I said! You just can’t look away!

    • @lizzy9975
      @lizzy9975 4 года назад +5

      @TheRenaissanceman65 That's a real shame. Very sad actually.

  • @matthewringland9054
    @matthewringland9054 Год назад +11

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