This was 1975 - getting on for half a century ago. Nobody had video recorders so you couldn't just watch it all again later. The booklet was really important because of that. You could write in to the BBC with a postal order or cheque and they'd send you one. A lot of other programmes had similar things. Also worth noting that Fanny was born in 1909. She's basically an Edwardian and lived through both the first and second world wars. This is a bit of history we're watching.
I was seventeen at Christmas 1975 & remember seeing these when they were first broadcast. Wonderful to see them again now I'm nearly 66. An amazing woman. Later to be a controversial one too. But here she is at her very best at a 70s Christmas when Queen were No1 with Bohemian Rhapsody for the fist time & we were looking forward to Morecambe & Wise on Christmas Day. Happy times.😊
Amazing woman? 😂 she was absolutely hideous as a person. This is what makes these so good and nostalgic she was terrifying. One of her many horrible traits
These videos are just priceless..Just imagine, before we had a comment section people actually put pen to paper, wrote a comment, bought a stamp and actually posted it.. Oh the good old days when the complainers had to put in a bit of effort..
She was a nasty woman! Mean and rude to everyone that is why she lost her show and they did not renew her contract after she humiliated Gwen who won the contest!
@@bostonteaparty3926gwen? The woman talking about her coffee pudding? I saw that video and did not see any attacks from fanny trying to humiliate the woman. I have seen chefs acting much worse and nobody seems to care.
"I've touched that bowl with the chocolate, haven't I - so don't write and tell me, 'cause I've seen it!"👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻Even in 1975 people wrote their opinions where it was never needed. If only Fanny presided over Facebook!!
I love the idea of 'Outraged of Hove' sitting down to write that letter, sticking a stamp on an envelope, and angrily striding to the post box to mail it! If only our gripes were as trivial today.
Indeed. There was a whole programme which went on for many years after 1975, "Points of View". People could write in and moan about or praise programmes they'd seen. Human nature doesn't change.
Points of view is still aired regularly by the BBC, the last series ended a few weeks ago, it's on Sundays around 1pm. No doubt a new series will start again soon with viewers writing in how awful this year's Christmas tv was with too many repeats and dire content , the usual complaints. My complaint is that for 2 years running this has not been repeated on BBC red button channel 601 like it used to be. No I am not the upset viewer of Tunbridge Wells😂
I'm happy to see that people's general opinion of one of my favorite chefs, Fanny Cradock... has changed, more people have found her and love her.. Years back, not too long ago.. There were very few videos of her on RUclips and the ones you would find had mostly negative comments..I always stood as a proud fan and follower of this great gourmand.
Here, here. Huge fan also and defend her at every opportunity. Have many of her cook books and love reading her comments. Her 80 volume magazine set is one of my most precious possessions ❤
I love her too. A few years back treated myself to a copy of her paperback on surviving Christmas (a steal second hand on Amazon). She was a monster, but like all monsters, including Frankenstein and the Gorgon, utterly mesmerising!
Thankyou so much for putting this on. It saves me trolling throu the tv cooking channels looking for it. Me and my daughter that’s now 12 watch these episodes every year as one of our Christmas Traditions x
I didn’t know if this woman until I saw the film on her life on RUclips - not surprisingly, the Brits like to tear everyone apart and focus in the shortcomings of people. She seems to have given a lot of people joy.
Fanny was the best. Like she said she wore an evening gown so it gave excitement and style to cooking for the working housewife back then especially. 🎉
So interesting hearing her talk about how things were done "back in her day", especially since people compare today to the 70s so often. I wonder what normal things for us will become unheard of
Easy to forget that Fanny Craddock was born in 1909. She was 66 here and born in the Edwardian era. She'd lived through both of the wars and the depression. She must have seen some huge changes.
Just watched a BBC movie about her called "Fear of Fanny". It's a really good movie, and Fanny is quite the fascination character. I'm from Virginia, USA, so I wasn't really aware of her until I was watching an episode of The French Chef with Julia Child, and Julia mentioned her. Fanny is very blunt, and to the point, but she's interesting to watch. I love how she always refers to "the booklet"....Wonder if any of those "booklets" are available online?
When you think this was all one take/ live televised instruction, Fanny Cradock paved the way along with peers Julia Child, Mary Berry and later, Delia Smith, each with a distinct personality. Cradock is the comical one hands down. She is like the aging starlet, with her smoky voice and pencilled eyebrows, her sleeves dragging through her sauces, cracking jokes like a nightclub header.
I do find it funny how many times she mentioned that everything is written in the booklet you could make it a drinking game take a shot every time she mentions it’s all mentioned in the booklet
@@benfisher1376True. Though Trifles always look a mess when they’re served. I think this version would taste nice though. Sponge, custard, chocolate and cream. Can’t go wrong really.
I love Fanny!!! The film about her , Fear of Fanny is worth a watch ( it’s on here! ) She sounds just like Auntie Beryl ( not our real auntie ) who lived down the bottom of our cul-de-sac. My sister and I would have to go and visit her just before Christmas for a glass of squash and a chat before she gave us a Christmas present that stank of fags😅 She had one of those blue 3 wheeled invalid cars and a snappy poodle that had to be shut away when visitors came😆
And still we miss them as there aren't any people like that anymore. All doilies with China ornaments on them, frilly curtains and onyx smokers sets, big lighters etc on the coffee table.
8:57 "I've touched that bowl with the chocolate, haven't I, so don't write and tell me cause I've seen it"...lmao! Fanny knew how to keep up with the letter-writers, didn’t she?
I thought that was the norm until the 90s at least. Seem to remember some early 90s cooking shows looking similarly basic except for Delia and then Jamie.
Disappointed that we weren't given the recipes for the pudding or the "brandy butter"; guess I'll have to try and find the booklet. I'm not going to spend a total of 14 hours steaming anything, but it would be nice to know how to regardless.
My mother in law gave me one of her cook books, wow, it tells you about how to be the perfect housewife, some of the things. Absolutely crazy. She scares me.
"Now, Sarah's going to take that over there... but she;s also coming over here... it's okay Sarah I can manage while you';re doing what I told you to do!" OHH FANNY
I am sure that Escoffier did not keep a recipe for English-style Christmas Pudding 'in the vaults'. And when she said that it contained ale I thought, yeh, even less likely.
I was thinking at various points, "that reminds me of Keith Floyd". The slight irreverence and comments like "don't tell the woman next door, it's great for a bit of one-up-manship..." Great stuff!
I read that she's Delia Smith, and Fanny does call her Delia right at the end when calls her over to decorate the trifle. I wonder why she used the name Sarah and if all her assistants had fake names.
Easy to forget that she was 66 here. She was literally an Edwardian. She was rapidly going out of fashion and her TV career would soon be over and a new generation of TV cooks took over.
@@zeddekaThe BBC wanted rid of her and set her up on the programme where they knew she would be very critical of the cookery competition winner so they could use it as an excuse to get rid of her. Fanny's main replacement was Delia Smith.
What is this booklet she keeps referring to? Was it something the BBC gave away at the time or is it what she called her cookbook? Either way it makes this show a bit useless to watch now as we are missing out on all of the essential information for these recipes.
You could write in to the BBC with a cheque or postal order for 50p and they'd post you out a copy of the booklet. There are some books available now where they have reprinted all the info from the booklets.
This was 1975 - getting on for half a century ago. Nobody had video recorders so you couldn't just watch it all again later. The booklet was really important because of that. You could write in to the BBC with a postal order or cheque and they'd send you one. A lot of other programmes had similar things. Also worth noting that Fanny was born in 1909. She's basically an Edwardian and lived through both the first and second world wars. This is a bit of history we're watching.
Today MOST “ AMERICAN WOMAN” DONT BODER TO COOK .. Just JUNK FOOD=CANCER Poor kids😢😡😢
I've never wanted a booklet so bad.
I'd love to get my hands on the booklet. I love these shows and watch them as a source of comfort and nostalgia. Helps tackle loneliness x
keepcalmandfannyon.blogspot.com/p/recipes.html
the recipes are all there on this website. The booklet is out there, used, but hard to find
Thanks so much for posting.
I want to watch everything this woman has ever done. I love her
LOL- you have GOT to be kidding!
She certainly didn't take any nonsense
Every Christmas the BBC should broadcast this!
It does crop up on BBC 4 every year I think.
Watching this has been a part of my Christmas tradition for at least the past 10 years. Love it 😂
I was seventeen at Christmas 1975 & remember seeing these when they were first broadcast. Wonderful to see them again now I'm nearly 66. An amazing woman. Later to be a controversial one too. But here she is at her very best at a 70s Christmas when Queen were No1 with Bohemian Rhapsody for the fist time & we were looking forward to Morecambe & Wise on Christmas Day. Happy times.😊
Amazing woman? 😂 she was absolutely hideous as a person. This is what makes these so good and nostalgic she was terrifying. One of her many horrible traits
Thank you for the memories 😊
@@ItsmellissaaaaNo one is perfect 😊
Wonder what happened to Sarah ?
These videos are just priceless..Just imagine, before we had a comment section people actually put pen to paper, wrote a comment, bought a stamp and actually posted it.. Oh the good old days when the complainers had to put in a bit of effort..
I'm in my 20s and still send letters and postcards 😅
Or you could be Mary Whitehouse
@@mirandakerman3573 not to complain I hope ..
@@magzsara9892 nope
"Poor darling, she's no nervous on television her hands are shaking."
It wasn't the cameras Fanny, it was never the cameras. 😅
She was a nasty woman! Mean and rude to everyone that is why she lost her show and they did not renew her contract after she humiliated Gwen who won the contest!
@@bostonteaparty3926gwen? The woman talking about her coffee pudding? I saw that video and did not see any attacks from fanny trying to humiliate the woman. I have seen chefs acting much worse and nobody seems to care.
@@gracianomaso3333 She was totally known as a very rude person. Don't think you know your history.
Just so everybody knows, all the instructions are in the booklet.
Is that the booklet that was only mentioned 56 times, and which was available to the viewer 48 years ago? 🤣
😂😂
which is really a small book!
Sarah personally delivers the booklet to you, even today nearly 50 years on, it was in her contract when she started working for Fanny.
@@UnIimited_Power "It's in your contract Sarah, which is really a small book!"
I love when she tells Sarah she can manage,so passive aggressive 😂
We would ask for nothing less
Why are you so sensitive 😊see a issue where their is none ,
"I've touched that bowl with the chocolate, haven't I - so don't write and tell me, 'cause I've seen it!"👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻Even in 1975 people wrote their opinions where it was never needed. If only Fanny presided over Facebook!!
I love the idea of 'Outraged of Hove' sitting down to write that letter, sticking a stamp on an envelope, and angrily striding to the post box to mail it! If only our gripes were as trivial today.
Indeed. There was a whole programme which went on for many years after 1975, "Points of View". People could write in and moan about or praise programmes they'd seen. Human nature doesn't change.
The Two Fat Ladies mention letters on many occasions. They’d always be sure to mention that their hands were washed! 😂 And they do mention Fanny. ❤
Points of view is still aired regularly by the BBC, the last series ended a few weeks ago, it's on Sundays around 1pm. No doubt a new series will start again soon with viewers writing in how awful this year's Christmas tv was with too many repeats and dire content , the usual complaints. My complaint is that for 2 years running this has not been repeated on BBC red button channel 601 like it used to be. No I am not the upset viewer of Tunbridge Wells😂
I'm happy to see that people's general opinion of one of my favorite chefs, Fanny Cradock... has changed, more people have found her and love her.. Years back, not too long ago.. There were very few videos of her on RUclips and the ones you would find had mostly negative comments..I always stood as a proud fan and follower of this great gourmand.
Here, here. Huge fan also and defend her at every opportunity. Have many of her cook books and love reading her comments. Her 80 volume magazine set is one of my most precious possessions ❤
I love her too. A few years back treated myself to a copy of her paperback on surviving Christmas (a steal second hand on Amazon). She was a monster, but like all monsters, including Frankenstein and the Gorgon, utterly mesmerising!
I would love to read her biography if anyone knows the name of the book ?
"... and you see a lovely piece on somebody's.... on your side of the hedge." 😁
…or by the side of the road
😂😂😂😂😂😂
I’d never try these but I love her humour reminds me of my grandmother very old school
Fanny craddock was born in 1909. We're basically watching an Edwardian cook. This is a bit of history.
Thankyou so much for putting this on. It saves me trolling throu the tv cooking channels looking for it. Me and my daughter that’s now 12 watch these episodes every year as one of our Christmas Traditions x
That’s so cool !
It’s a tradition of mine too! 🤣
@@yolandajones4990 she’s 15 now, how scary that lol
EmmaJane Watts time flies!
17 now
I watch her every year for Christmas 🎄
I didn’t know if this woman until I saw the film on her life on RUclips - not surprisingly, the Brits like to tear everyone apart and focus in the shortcomings of people. She seems to have given a lot of people joy.
Not this Brit, I think she is wonderful ❤
@@multimillAmen
"Don't write and tell me." I love her for this. Just met her tonight.
Fanny was the best. Like she said she wore an evening gown so it gave excitement and style to cooking for the working housewife back then especially. 🎉
11:49 “passing critical bird” 😂😂
‘It’s all in the booklet!’
Really more of a small book than a bookley ;)
Steam for 10 hours fucking hell gas bill nowadays would be crippling lol
One he'll of an expensive pudding!😂
*hell
My mom made a delicious one that took less than 4 hours. Of course, it was quite a bit smaller.
Along with the price of Lurpak nowadays 😂😂😂
Language not necessary, you are on the wrong channel.
"...vaults of Escoffier..."
I won´t forget about the rosettes all the way round the trifle. They´re fightfully important.
So interesting hearing her talk about how things were done "back in her day", especially since people compare today to the 70s so often. I wonder what normal things for us will become unheard of
Easy to forget that Fanny Craddock was born in 1909. She was 66 here and born in the Edwardian era. She'd lived through both of the wars and the depression. She must have seen some huge changes.
I adore this woman! No Flim-Flam XX
5:19 you can find Fanny's recipe for homemade Kryptonite in the little booklet
My Cholesterol has risen just watching this.
I love Fanny character 😊 a real no nonsense woman 😊as a child I remember my Dad saying overbearing woman & felt sorry for Fanny husband 😂😂😂😂😂
Here we are again and my daughter is 18 now. Where do the years go?
Just watched a BBC movie about her called "Fear of Fanny". It's a really good movie, and Fanny is quite the fascination character. I'm from Virginia, USA, so I wasn't really aware of her until I was watching an episode of The French Chef with Julia Child, and Julia mentioned her. Fanny is very blunt, and to the point, but she's interesting to watch. I love how she always refers to "the booklet"....Wonder if any of those "booklets" are available online?
Please upload any of these Fanny programs. She and Terry Wogan kept this F111 Pilot happy!
Thanks for posting this. So very very charming. God bless her and her crew.
When you think this was all one take/ live televised instruction, Fanny Cradock paved the way along with peers Julia Child, Mary Berry and later, Delia Smith, each with a distinct personality. Cradock is the comical one hands down. She is like the aging starlet, with her smoky voice and pencilled eyebrows, her sleeves dragging through her sauces, cracking jokes like a nightclub header.
A great character 😊
In order to work for Fanny on her show, she required her assistants to have their vocal chords removed.
Fanny treats her 'helper' with utter contempt!
Baby Jane Hudson...🤣
That's a really good one ! lol .... 😂
Yes!!!!
Lo, that was a bit cruel, I am writing a letter to daddy😅
😂😂😂😂😂😂
I love how she says you can find everything in the booklet. Now you can find everything online.
Except for this booklet. It's nowhere to be found.
@@cioccolateriaveneziana There is a book that has everything that she's on about in it originally in the booklet
Johnny her husband once famously said at the end of a programme ‘I hope all your doughnuts taste like Fanny’s ‘ !
Not "taste," I believe it was, "And I hope all your doughnuts turn out like Fanny's!"
I do find it funny how many times she mentioned that everything is written in the booklet you could make it a drinking game take a shot every time she mentions it’s all mentioned in the booklet
This woman was so amazing. In so many ways. Much better than Martha.
She loved saying "booklet". It was probably really a "book". I will call it a "booklet", just for Fanny.
I would be shaking And Terrified standing next to you Dear 😄🤣😂
It all tastes gorgeous!
I'm just wondering where I can get the cook times? Is there a booklet that we might hear about at the end?
But Fanny, is it in the booklet?
We don't want you to see any labels, that would be a shame and a disgrace!" 😂😂😂🤣
It all looks awful, and I love it, love her
Why do you think it all looks awful?
It's really messy looking. Also who puts chocolate in a trifle?😐
@@benfisher1376Yes there are variations involving chocolate.
@@benfisher1376True. Though Trifles always look a mess when they’re served. I think this version would taste nice though. Sponge, custard, chocolate and cream. Can’t go wrong really.
@@lisab4207 And horrible Confectioner's custard that never sets - ghastly. Today you can buy liquid custard like that in pots. Revolting.
Hi again, Millie’s 19 now. Merry Christmas ❤
Was just looking for this comment! 😂
@@SailorMoonFan92 ha ha, merry Christmas x
IT'S NOT CHRISTMAS WITHOUT FANNY SWEATING IN THE KITCHEN
AND WHENEVER YOU HAVE FANNY
YOU NEED JONNIE
I love Fanny!!! The film about her , Fear of Fanny is worth a watch ( it’s on here! ) She sounds just like Auntie Beryl ( not our real auntie ) who lived down the bottom of our cul-de-sac. My sister and I would have to go and visit her just before Christmas for a glass of squash and a chat before she gave us a Christmas present that stank of fags😅 She had one of those blue 3 wheeled invalid cars and a snappy poodle that had to be shut away when visitors came😆
THOSE BITTER LITTLE WOMEN THAT LIVE FOREVER
And still we miss them as there aren't any people like that anymore. All doilies with China ornaments on them, frilly curtains and onyx smokers sets, big lighters etc on the coffee table.
Did anyone else notice the cue point which they didnt do a close up on
Haha yeah 12:17
Reminds me of the "Seeds of Doom" episode of Doctor Who
The Kitchen Dowager Dragoness ?
Poor Sarah her hands shaking 😅
8:57 "I've touched that bowl with the chocolate, haven't I, so don't write and tell me cause I've seen it"...lmao! Fanny knew how to keep up with the letter-writers, didn’t she?
I so want this booklet!
Ebay, it's often there but very expensive!!!
I still make homemade trifles to take me back to the seventies & go looking for ice cream Swiss roll.. so seventies
Im suprised she didnt wipe her hands on Sarah's shirt.
Why did they never build her a real kitchen set. She was on for years and the set always looks like an appliance store display.😂
I thought that was the norm until the 90s at least. Seem to remember some early 90s cooking shows looking similarly basic except for Delia and then Jamie.
A passing critical bird
Is the booklet still available?😂
Disappointed that we weren't given the recipes for the pudding or the "brandy butter"; guess I'll have to try and find the booklet. I'm not going to spend a total of 14 hours steaming anything, but it would be nice to know how to regardless.
With a few days in between, mind you
I am not going to give you a comment now, because my opinion is in the booklet (which is really a small book this year).
I think I've got these greatest x preponderance,
OMG!
Thank you so much @meganoikz
This lady is hysterically funny and forthright!
I'd never heard of her.
Who came first Cradock Or Child?
Watch Sarah at 4:53. Talk about shade!
Will this be in the booklet????
Silicone spatulas have made bowl scraping so much easier.
"I scrubbed my hands before I started" ... !
With the cost of electrify these days the pudding would be a terrifying cost to make 😂
My mother in law gave me one of her cook books, wow, it tells you about how to be the perfect housewife, some of the things. Absolutely crazy. She scares me.
10 Hours to steam that Xmas pudding!!!! Wow! Cannot do that these days with the cost of gas/ electric in 2024.
I take it in Fanny’s day presentation wasn’t the key. Just slap it all in a bowl and serve!!
Back then, food looked about as good going in as it did coming out.
"Now, Sarah's going to take that over there... but she;s also coming over here... it's okay Sarah I can manage while you';re doing what I told you to do!" OHH FANNY
I'm crying with laughter at this comment, thanks 😂😂
@ 4.53 did Fanny’s assistant throw some shade there? 😂
Hahaha!! Yeah!! Just looked. Proper shade and tut
I hope all my puddings end up looking like Fanny's.
Look how thick the tin foil was in thoses days,,it thin as paper now.
Let's hope all your Christmas puddings turn out like Fanny's.
She was a wonder, really, wasn't she? Terrifying, but a wonder.
‘Just one more dollop’! Mmmm, my mouth is watering.
He would have been wonderful on Ru Paul’s drag race.
I am sure that Escoffier did not keep a recipe for English-style Christmas Pudding 'in the vaults'. And when she said that it contained ale I thought, yeh, even less likely.
I have some of her booklets but unfortunately not the Christmas one.
That woman was a star
A hot mess is more like it!
@@bostonteaparty3926 Yes, but entertaining with it.
I was thinking at various points, "that reminds me of Keith Floyd". The slight irreverence and comments like "don't tell the woman next door, it's great for a bit of one-up-manship..." Great stuff!
I’ve just fallen in love with Fanny
Her and villa were cut from the same clothe 😍
6:38 pours Quosh and Babycham over the sponge
"...Christmas byoofay..."
And I have a copy of the booklet in pdf
Poor thing!
I wonder what happened to Sarah, I know Fanny died several years ago, she was very eccentric and was our equivalent of America's Julia Childs
Was Sarah a relative?
That's something to think about, she may have been.
I read that she's Delia Smith, and Fanny does call her Delia right at the end when calls her over to decorate the trifle. I wonder why she used the name Sarah and if all her assistants had fake names.
If only she had a booklet or something so that I could read or follow along with her. 😢
So apparently she was the sterner UK equivalent of Julia Child?
Does't the food look dated? Even for 1975. I bet it was delicious though.
Easy to forget that she was 66 here. She was literally an Edwardian. She was rapidly going out of fashion and her TV career would soon be over and a new generation of TV cooks took over.
@@zeddekaThe BBC wanted rid of her and set her up on the programme where they knew she would be very critical of the cookery competition winner so they could use it as an excuse to get rid of her. Fanny's main replacement was Delia Smith.
People today still scoff at the mention of Prawn cocktails and their ilk but I love them.
can you imagine Fanny & keith floyd together lol
Magic!
BBC could afford Lurpak back in the day.
What is this booklet she keeps referring to? Was it something the BBC gave away at the time or is it what she called her cookbook? Either way it makes this show a bit useless to watch now as we are missing out on all of the essential information for these recipes.
Yes it was
I think it cost 50p at the time.
When the programme came out in 1975 you would have been able to get one.
You may find one on Ebay. I bought one about 4 years ago from there.
You could write in to the BBC with a cheque or postal order for 50p and they'd post you out a copy of the booklet. There are some books available now where they have reprinted all the info from the booklets.
#TermSarah! 😉 👍
If only she had written all this down somewhere.