I've seen shows where people agonize about rolling up the Swiss roll. My jaw dropped when she just went *zip* and it was done. Never seen anything like that!!!
Every christmas the whole family gather around to watch this. It brings tears. Last year grandma almost died of an asthma attack seeing as she was laughing so much at couldn't breathe. A true Christmas classis.
Episode opens with Fanny hanging the producer's balls on the Christmas tree and saying "Hang on, I'll be with you in a minute!" Frightful, terrifying old boot - I LOVE her! She reminds me of my grannie, who would arrive every Christmas, exploding off the train in floor length mink coat, chandelier earrings swinging around her heavily powdered cheeks, grabbing every grandkid by the face and planting a big jammy lipstick kiss on us... Damn I miss the crazy old tart!
She was a prize bitch thats for sure. Her cooking had my parents in stitches until they got tired of the demeaning way she treated her husband and the assistant before he joined.
And remember these episode were done in one take with no cuts, hence the mistakes and fluffs left in. But she really doesn't loose concentration, a true pro.
American here, too. I love watching Fanny Cradock! She’s absolutely mesmerizing to watch. There are now a couple more episodes on UA-cam, but as I understand it, they didn’t save very many of them.
Nil production values. Just Fanny in full flight. What a diva! I can't help wondering what she would have done with all the modern technology and cosmopolitan ingredients that are now available?
Tom, thanks very much for posting this mate. It's my favourite episode of this series and it's been missing on UA-cam for ages. You genuinely made my day. I thought the omelette was quite nice too. Happy Christmas to you and yours.
She makes me laugh because she was strict ,yet used terms of endearment. Such as with poor old Sarah when she clicked her fingers, then said "Thank you my darling" Also "Now, have you got those little pancakes for me my darling. Thank you very much" Unless she meant it in a condescending way when she was being nice.
Sara is actually the princess orphan under the vengeful "care" of Fanny Cradock AKA Ms. Minchin. Sara lives in the attic along with the other maid - Becky.
I haven't been able to stop watching Fanny around the holidays since discovering her quite a few years ago. It's like watching a trainwreck. I've come across quite a few videos of her throughout the years. It was interesting to see that she was attractive in her earlier appearances, but as the years raged on she became a caricature of herself. Long live Fanny!
SHAKE!! SCOOP!!.... SCOOP!! SHAKE!!! That omelette looks bloody dreadful!! But I love and adore Fanny. Love these xmas episodes. Have seen them all so many times and enjoy them so.
Omg I'm addicted to fanny ..this show was before my time...but I .love how her xmas tree is never finished...love her clothes...voice....mannerisms.....how poor Sarah looks like a wet mop next to her...did she ever write an autobiography?
It’s hilarious! Mincemeat omelette and a gigantic mince pie that you need a chainsaw to cut! To be fair, the mincemeat Swiss roll is tasty; it’s better with a layer of rum crème fraiche along with the mincemeat as the filling.
thanks for posting this, when the BBC aired all these couple years ago I recorded them and lost them and since then they stopped airing them and food channel has only been showing a couple of her Christmas EPs and not all of them
I kinda wish she was more well-known in America. The British public didn't like her more aggressive attitude and snippy comments towards her staff, but I think she would've been right at home in the states. We love that shit. lol
It's such a shame her legacy these days rests solely on the Christmas series when in fact this is her last BBC series and very different to her earlier series. She was a great cook and some of the stuff that's shown up from the mud 60s on UA-cam shows this, people mock the Christmas series but check out the earlier stuff. She was superb and made genuinely lovely dishes
my eldest sister saw her at the ideal Home exhibition over 50 years ago, she said you could see Fanny through a sea of people with her thick blue eyeshadow, white face and bright red lips, it was like a totem pole popping up over the work counter lol
Everything Fanny cooked in this episode was awful... from the mincemeat pie to that horrendous vomlette. Nonetheless, she was very entertaining to watch.
I’m not convinced someone wasn’t have a laugh at our expense! This is hilarious! I think my Mum learnt to cook at the Fanny Craddock school of cookery!
Nothing will convince me that the mincemeat omelette was anything other than a joke. I'm sorry, but even the thought of it is "giving me the boke" as the Scots say.
I remember seeing the mincemeat tip to make one big pie in a ? (I used an 8" sponge tin) don't recall what she said. I used that method always after I saw it.
"Wait until the butter makes a rude swearing noise..." "And may I say how much I admire the housewives of Britain and these APPALLING prison conditions and their courage in giving their families another super Christmas..." ROFL!
On a par with Florence Foster Jenkins. What memories that brings back! I wouldn't have wanted to be her sous-chef, clicking her fingers like that. But she knew how to make an omelette. And the knives - did you notice the blades, just like the ones gran used to use.
Not everyone agrees, but traditionally they say you shouldn't wash cast iron pans, certainly not with any sort of soap, because it will take off the "seasoning" that keeps food from sticking. Instead, if there is anything stuck, you should scrub it off with a bit of coarse salt and water, but generally just wipe the pan out with a clean cloth or paper towel. Then give it a *light* coating of oil before putting it away.
‘Now don’t get yourself worked up about making omelettes...’
*Proceeds to violently make an omelette. Snaps for Sarah*
I do love the "snaps"… Then the passive aggressive "thank you darling".. ( Poor Sarah must wear a Laura Ashley nightgown )..
TV is Pressure...
I've seen shows where people agonize about rolling up the Swiss roll. My jaw dropped when she just went *zip* and it was done. Never seen anything like that!!!
Glad it wasn't just me then!! That was turbo charged bakery 😂
Every christmas the whole family gather around to watch this. It brings tears. Last year grandma almost died of an asthma attack seeing as she was laughing so much at couldn't breathe. A true Christmas classis.
"I'm going to be noisy now, so I'm going to stop talking....... SHAKE SCOOP SCOOP SHAKE!!!" Brilliant!
🤣🤣🤣🤣 hilarious!!!🥰🤣
😂😂😂
This horrific but strangely compelling in the way all psychopaths are.
it's car crash telly but by Jove it's good. I can see where Kenny Everett got all his material.
agree
Zoe Amber it’s that lack of concern for others.
1:53 Sarah trying to figure out how she can stick her head in the gas oven along with the mincemeat crepes...
Its like watching a diabetic coma rushing towards you like a freight train
Poor old Sarah. She is now in a home for the bewildered. Bless her.
😆😆😆
Her poor sagging shoulders :)
I bet she had a meltdown when they killed her Misery.
No one:
Fanny: Dust it with icing sugar, darling.
Thickly.
It looked like it snowed heavily on the pan.
~~dust~~ shovel it on like your burying a coffin
Episode opens with Fanny hanging the producer's balls on the Christmas tree and saying "Hang on, I'll be with you in a minute!" Frightful, terrifying old boot - I LOVE her! She reminds me of my grannie, who would arrive every Christmas, exploding off the train in floor length mink coat, chandelier earrings swinging around her heavily powdered cheeks, grabbing every grandkid by the face and planting a big jammy lipstick kiss on us... Damn I miss the crazy old tart!
Shes frightening. Literally so scary.
@TheRenaissanceman65 That does not surprise me. If her dodgy cooking's anything to go by, rules to Fanny smply did not apply.
@@beardywally It's the love child of Old Man Steptoe and Joan Crawford.
@@beardywally Her energy is so hypertense, I wouldn't be able to be anywhere near her without going cuckoo.
She was a prize bitch thats for sure. Her cooking had my parents in stitches until they got tired of the demeaning way she treated her husband and the assistant before he joined.
And remember these episode were done in one take with no cuts, hence the mistakes and fluffs left in. But she really doesn't loose concentration, a true pro.
JOHN WATERS, PLEASEEEE PLEASEEEE MAKE A BIOPIC WITH THAT CHARACTER. IT WILL BE BETTER THAN DIVINE.
it's been done!!!
YES PLEEEEEEEEASE!
I had no idea one of the Cast Members of LA Cage Foux went on to have a cooking show.
There's already a biopic of her made by the BBC about ten years ago. It's called "Fear of Fanny"
@@zeddeka seems like the title of a gay man’s autobiography 😂
Fanny Cradock never met a bucket of powdered sugar she didn’t like.
LOL!
Swear she may aswell shovel it on.
If someone left a rolling pin in my Christmas stocking, I’d bean them with it...
The Joan Crawford of cookery😉
I always think of her as a cross between Margaret Thatcher and Bette Davis in "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?"
@@simonjones7727 yes!
OMG! Powder sugar on everything!!! As an American, I wish I knew about Fanny Cradock a lot sooner. Informative and entertaining at the same time. 😂
Julia Child, once referred to our Fanny Cradock’’s omelettes in one of her tele broadcasts.
American here, too. I love watching Fanny Cradock! She’s absolutely mesmerizing to watch. There are now a couple more episodes on UA-cam, but as I understand it, they didn’t save very many of them.
She's a machine .see the way she flings that Swiss roll over....boom!
i was like got damn she the gangsta of cooking no cap
Nil production values. Just Fanny in full flight. What a diva! I can't help wondering what she would have done with all the modern technology and cosmopolitan ingredients that are now available?
ignored them and carried on with her mincemeat omelette
I'm new to Fanny Craddock and I have to say I'm entranced by her eye makeup and eye brows!
Her hair and make-up styles never moved on from her youth. She's like Miss Haversham.
Sarah clearly overslept this morning
Sarah had been up all night plotting Fanny's downfall and keeping Esther Rantzen on speed dial...mwahahaha
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Obviously, cause she wore her pyjamas to work. That looks like a night dress.
She’s so rude to her
Someone who owns a copy of Fanny's Christmas Cooking Booklet owes it to the world to post the recipes online.
Please not the nearly raw sweet omelette 😱🤢
Yes! They are actually good!
Tom, thanks very much for posting this mate. It's my favourite episode of this series and it's been missing on UA-cam for ages. You genuinely made my day. I thought the omelette was quite nice too. Happy Christmas to you and yours.
Now where's that platter and that lazy Sarah? *SNAP* oh thank you my darling.....
Thanks! Glad you like them....
She makes me laugh because she was strict ,yet used terms of endearment. Such as with poor old Sarah when she clicked her fingers, then said "Thank you my darling" Also "Now, have you got those little pancakes for me my darling. Thank you very much" Unless she meant it in a condescending way when she was being nice.
I didn't get a condescending vibe, but it was strange to hear such flowery appreciation coming from her. Overdone, like her hair and makeup.
Sara is actually the princess orphan under the vengeful "care" of Fanny Cradock AKA Ms. Minchin.
Sara lives in the attic along with the other maid - Becky.
Omygoodness HAHAHAAHAGGAGAGAHAHAHA
I haven't been able to stop watching Fanny around the holidays since discovering her quite a few years ago. It's like watching a trainwreck. I've come across quite a few videos of her throughout the years. It was interesting to see that she was attractive in her earlier appearances, but as the years raged on she became a caricature of herself. Long live Fanny!
There is someone on TIKTOK who does parody videos .. overdubbing them. THEY ARE HYSTERICAL! You need to find them..
@@caelidhg6261 You can't parody a parody! Everyone who's tried to mimic Fanny didn't come close to her magnificence!
Yet Benny Hill often impersonated her anyway. (And Bob Todd, looped out of his gourd as often as not, as "Johnnie.")
She's got that sultry deep Suzanne Phleshette Ruth Roman smokers voice. I love it.
SHAKE!! SCOOP!!.... SCOOP!! SHAKE!!! That omelette looks bloody dreadful!! But I love and adore Fanny. Love these xmas episodes. Have seen them all so many times and enjoy them so.
Snokween1968 Nothing wrong with it!
The filling isn't very appetising, but her technique for making a classic omelette is absolutely spot on.
A mincemeat omlett with powdered sugar....one of Fanny 's all time classics,and absolutely ghastly!
@@andrewpalframan4666it’s fucking raw lol
@@lucyhurst2534yep!! 😂I was sat here thinking "Have I been making them wrong for all these years?!?"
All the 5 Christmas episodes are on BBC I Player. She was brilliant.... a bit mad, but i always enjoyed her programmes in the 1970's 😊
Sarah looks like she just got out of bed, I wonder what ever happened to her?
ask Johnny...
Totally lol
Like Fanny has said so many times, "Like everything else - It's in the booklet...".
My money's on Sarah...I suspect it was Sarah who had Esther Rantzen on speed dial about Fanny's treatment of Gwen Troake. Sarah got game.
I never knew Baby Jane Hudson had her own cooking show.
Lol.
🤣🤣🤣
But I do Blanche I do have my own cooking show!!!!
That mincemeat looks like the stuff u scrape off the bottom of ur shoe.
Omg I'm addicted to fanny ..this show was before my time...but I .love how her xmas tree is never finished...love her clothes...voice....mannerisms.....how poor Sarah looks like a wet mop next to her...did she ever write an autobiography?
I had to rewind her rolling the Swiss roll because I literally blinked and missed it! 😂 gotta love the old crow.
Ever heard of insulin resistance Fanny flaps?
It’s hilarious! Mincemeat omelette and a gigantic mince pie that you need a chainsaw to cut!
To be fair, the mincemeat Swiss roll is tasty; it’s better with a layer of rum crème fraiche along with the mincemeat as the filling.
Fanny never disappoints.
Ooh err, you naughty girl Caroline...:)
@@frogstamper (Sid James laugh)....
As a gay dude I kind of disagree 😃
@@lnteIIigence haha 😂😂😂 love it❤
For the first five seconds I thought she was in drag.
Wait ... she's not???
thanks for posting this, when the BBC aired all these couple years ago I recorded them and lost them and since then they stopped airing them and food channel has only been showing a couple of her Christmas EPs and not all of them
marklola12 they’re on iplayer now
Poor Sarah, she looks like she showed up in her nightgown...
Looks like Fanny's dragged her out of bed 🤣
Positively demented...brilliant stuff! xD I watch them every christmas
You go for an action movie (Legend) and end up watching Fanny Cradock baking mincemeat...
The comments on here have made my day!!!🤣🤣🤣
those Marlene Dietrich eye brows are hypnotic
Did she put one decoration on the tree per installment?
I kinda wish she was more well-known in America. The British public didn't like her more aggressive attitude and snippy comments towards her staff, but I think she would've been right at home in the states. We love that shit. lol
Julia child mentions her a few times if you watch her shows.
She was a national institution in the UK for a long time through the 50s, 60s and 70s
She was beloved in the uk, and since when do yanks like anything other than simpering and fawning?
The food looks awful especially that omelette 🤢
3:09 "As I told you to bake"...poor Sarah...
LOL!! 10:02 is worse though!
Her nails look a bit nicotine stained! Adds to her charm lol
She's puffed a Pall Mall or two
Minus the mincemeat and the icing sugar, it was watching Dear old Viper tongued Fanny that I learned to make a top notch omelette.
Certainly the woman was ghastly but even julia child prized her omelets.
The highlight of this series was the "mincemeat omelette"..."and don't get yourselves worked up about making omelettes".
Did you see how smitten she looked after she rolled up that swiss roll?
Yuck - no wonder the world thinks our British food is terrible!
It's such a shame her legacy these days rests solely on the Christmas series when in fact this is her last BBC series and very different to her earlier series. She was a great cook and some of the stuff that's shown up from the mud 60s on UA-cam shows this, people mock the Christmas series but check out the earlier stuff. She was superb and made genuinely lovely dishes
Mincemeat omelette.... WHY GOD WHY!?!?!?!?!?
Who doesn't love Fanny?!
the mince meat omelette looks soo tasty.....😨
Louise Harper 😂😂😂😂😂 and the powdered sugar gave it that final yummm.
Especially, how Fanny insured the omelette remained, ‘Wet!’ Yum, yum salmonella in my Christmas stocking!
Fanny rolled it like nothing
I had a glimpse of her magic when I was a young child, before I went to primary school. She was great fun.
Definitely a must watch Christmas event 😂❤️
Christmas in 70s Britain: add mincemeat
Beats anything I've seen on Masterchef ! (for comedic effect)
She seems so angry. Then there's that poor assistant.
Did she just snap her fingers at that poor girl 😂😂😂😂🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️
She did. She was a hideous person she really was. She wasn’t a nice person at all her own son called her evil
Mmmm. Mincemeat tacos.
Who is this drag queen?...OH WTF IT'S FANNY!!
my eldest sister saw her at the ideal Home exhibition over 50 years ago, she said you could see Fanny through a sea of people with her thick blue eyeshadow, white face and bright red lips, it was like a totem pole popping up over the work counter lol
There is nothing like Fanny Cradok, especially when she rolls up that mincemeat.
i loved this so much that i had to go on ebay to get the booklet!!!
Poor Fanny !! She must have had her third face-lift by this point. The forehead is so high and what can I say about the brows !!
Whatever happened to Baby Jane? She got salmonella from eating raw eggs and type to diabetes from consuming 10 kilos of powdered sugar 🤢
Everything Fanny cooked in this episode was awful... from the mincemeat pie to that horrendous vomlette. Nonetheless, she was very entertaining to watch.
this is what it would be like if jane from whatever happened to baby jane had a cooking show and blanche was her cooking assistant.
I'm fascinated with all the powdered sugar......and wet omelettes. I can't do wet omelettes. I like my eggs cooked through.
I used to be like that. I like my eggs to be yellow not burnt and they're much more tender that way.
The way she does it is the classic technique for making an omelette.
HER EYEBROWS GAVE ME NIGHTMARES!!!!!!!!
RIP mrs craddock
It looks good to eat.l met fanny many years ago.l found her lovely to meet.
why she painted the eyebrows way above her long lost real ones
onraj9mm, lmao I thought I was the only one who noticed that...I was searching for a comment on her brows 😂😂
Marlene Dietrich did the same!
It was the 70s!
@@jflan92 So did Marcel Marceau
Who else is here from Janey Godley's reaction vid???
"Watch the chiffon sleves near an open flame, ya mad crazy woman!!!!!"
Maaybee it was real silk and she was just deranged in the taste department.
I’m not convinced someone wasn’t have a laugh at our expense! This is hilarious! I think my Mum learnt to cook at the Fanny Craddock school of cookery!
Nothing will convince me that the mincemeat omelette was anything other than a joke. I'm sorry, but even the thought of it is "giving me the boke" as the Scots say.
There weren't any cooking programmes on tv in those days, British food was pretty grim
the only cordon bleu cook who doesn't know sugar burns like tar on your dishes......😭
How aggressive and manic I can see where Julia Davis got her inspiration!
Hot Damn
Never cleaned her hands off after spreading the egg whites with her fingers! LOL
If you so ever happen to watch death in Venice you will remember this at certain point at the beginning of the film.
I remember seeing the mincemeat tip to make one big pie in a ? (I used an 8" sponge tin) don't recall what she said. I used that method always after I saw it.
She used a flan ring.
why does she put icing sugar over everything??!??
to camouflage her cock ups!
She's Fanny Cradock - she can do whatever she wants!
Debt Free Living . It's cocaine.
ALL IN THE BOOKLET!
"Wait until the butter makes a rude swearing noise..." "And may I say how much I admire the housewives of Britain and these APPALLING prison conditions and their courage in giving their families another super Christmas..." ROFL!
@TheRenaissanceman65 catbyte 06 probably meant "prison-like conditions" but couldn't be arsed to correct it! ;-)
Britain was going through a recession at that time..
present conditions.
@TheRenaissanceman65 reference to the Labour government and the 3 day week probably.
Incredible inflation, industrial unrest. It led to the winter of discontent and the rise of Mrs. Thatcher.
i used to love a bit of fanny.
On a par with Florence Foster Jenkins. What memories that brings back! I wouldn't have wanted to be her sous-chef, clicking her fingers like that. But she knew how to make an omelette. And the knives - did you notice the blades, just like the ones gran used to use.
the swiss roll sponge cracked...
You weren't listening to Mrs Cradock. It never cracks. She said so therefore it IS so. You forgot yourself there for a moment 🤣
Fanny for PM - Britain Needs You!
Chillmax .... ha ha ha...!!!!
1:31 Fanny's mincemeat Enchiladas
Oh my god it's a drag queen.
Why is Fanny's slave in her nightgown?
@TheRenaissanceman65 ok Johnny
@TheRenaissanceman65 The name of her poor henpecked husband.
Baby Jane Hudson cooks, who knew
Her eyebrows though.
7:39 Never washed?? She just put butter in a dirty pan.
Not everyone agrees, but traditionally they say you shouldn't wash cast iron pans, certainly not with any sort of soap, because it will take off the "seasoning" that keeps food from sticking. Instead, if there is anything stuck, you should scrub it off with a bit of coarse salt and water, but generally just wipe the pan out with a clean cloth or paper towel. Then give it a *light* coating of oil before putting it away.
For some reason I feel as though I have met the Kathryn Kuhlman of British cooks...
Fanny and Kathryn would be an interesting combination. I’d watch that show.
Dear Sarah never gets to talk.
MerleOberon . She keeps her in a dungeon.
Poor dear Sarah.
Threat of the getting the hose again.... 😂
Why is Sarah wearing her nightie?
Maxi dress.
Slap the pastry on the counter,,slap the mincemeat down hard slosh it hard in the pan , it’s all in the booklet.