How to make cottage pie | Retro Recipe | Mary Berry | Good Afternoon | 1970s

Television cook Mary Berry shows the audience of 'Good Afternoon' how to may a simple and delicious Cottage pie.
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[@alwaysbrokendown]

Just love watching how polite and respectful people were 40 odd years ago were

[@nexis001]

the cook reminds me of my favourite secondary school
lunch time worker she always got me to speak PROPERLY lol (1986)

[@Bombabingbong66]

People still are, depends who you spend your time with.

[@MarkStevens8899]

Standards are slipping!!​@@Bombabingbong66

[@johnmc3862]

lol, the world didn’t revolve around TV. Berry is one of the poshest people to ever appear on TV. People were more polite in general but there’s rose tinted glasses also.

[@mohabatkhanmalak1161]

Cottage pie made with beef mince and shepherds pie made with lamb mince. The 'C' in cottage and the 'C' in cow is how I am going to remember. Thank you Mary!🪲

[@MG63]

I always remembered by knowing that shepherds looked after sheep, so the cottage pie must be beef mince. I think your reference is better tbh.

[@walkfarm1]

My gravy browning has a sell by date of 1993. I think I am keeping it as a historical artefact. I can’t bring myself to throw it away.

[@behrooz2u2]

I love the retro cooking!

[@rafiqadarr6217]

I always loved Shepherd’s Pie and Cottage Pie, they are the greatest comfort food!! I use vegetarian mince to make this and have whatever veg I feel like with it, carrots, green beans, broccoli, or whatever you prefer. Mary Berry very pretty, and a good cook.

[@webrarian]

Mary Berry is always about the cooking. Nigella is about the eating.

[@Wench64]

I grew up watching Delia smith, miss her, bring back butchers god bless them, had loads years ago, lucky if you have one left, bloody supermarkets

[@travisr82]

Moan , but everyone chose convenience and cost with supermarkets 😅

[@Paul2377]

My town isn't that large, yet it has 4 butchers! The quality of their meat is vastly superior to the supermarket and well worth the extra cost.

[@walkfarm1]

Do search out proper butchers. It is use them or lose them and their meat is so much better and sometimes cheaper. And I pay mine in cash.

[@AIJimmybad]

I think they were lovers for a short while.

[@adamp6320]

What a simple dish! Mary seemed a bit nervous relatively (a bit of stutter in the beginning), Judy was a bit calming here. And reminder her of the butter knobs on top :) Poor Mary getting her hand burned on the stove. That hand has been through enough!

[@ravenhill_the_cryptic_of_1968]

cottage pie is one of our favourites, shepherds pie as well.

[@catherine59226]

Delicious comfort food!

[@mia56]

The amount of salt used in those days , but loved the knife trick Mary well done

[@maudeboggins9834]

Wow. Ms. Berry was stunning. I had no idea.

[@waynejarrell1]

Not too much dried herbs! 😁

[@letsdiscussitoversometea8479]

Are farmhouse vegetables a standard part of cottage pie??
I'd much prefer to include them (peas, carrots, and green beans).
Complementing those with broccoli and cauliflower, and a thick tomato sauce.
I'm not too sure about the idea of adding fat however - nor butter...a nice vegetable fat instead of animal fat sounds healthier in more ways than one - particularly when heated to high temperatures.
Which part of the cow has the most meat - I'd prefer that to ground up bone!!

[@MG63]

Yes you can do that. Make it how you like. There are always variations to this kind of dish. I always used to add a tin of tomatoes in my mince, but these days I omit the tomatoes because I like it to taste more beefy. I only add tomatoes to mince when making a lasagna.

[@letsdiscussitoversometea8479]

@@MG63 tinned tomatoes?
That sounds familiar!
Think my mother used to add those to mince as well when I was younger.
A much, MUCH larger casserole dish would be needed though these days! 😋

[@MG63]

@@letsdiscussitoversometea8479 Absolutely. The casserole dish in this video would be my portion. 😆

[@rickallen6378]

I always wanted to eat Mary Berry's cottage pie.

[@gazetc]

😵

[@kumada84]

I prefer the shepherd's pie, personally.

[@AchtungEnglander]

Is this the WW2 quick version?

[@nexis001]

um not sure but it was made exactly like this in the 1970s

[@AchtungEnglander]

@@nexis001 its a running joke btw

[@JohnSmith-su3ze]

Where's Fanny Craddock?

[@MG63]

I remember her. Everyone said she was vile.

[@MG63]

@@JamesSmith-qs4hx She died years ago.

[@MG63]

@@JamesSmith-qs4hx Your point being.

[@JamesSmith-qs4hx]

@@MG63 What is your point?

[@jeshkam]

​@@JamesSmith-qs4hxAre you obsessed with black people?

[@simonsimon325]

Wouldn't fancy trying that no stock lark with the shite mince you get in the supermarket. It'd be tasteless.

[@jakecavendish3470]

I made this recipe and it was horrible

[@hopebgood]

So bored with these bloody Mary Berry vids. There was more to the 70's than Mary Berry. 🙄

[@beausexon7546]

Mary berry just has an awful, patronizing personality. Amy time Judith makes a suggestion or idea, Mary has zero tact and just sets out to make her ideas sound stupid.

[@user-ii8tc7zm2h]

What an awful recipe??? But great to see this clip. I used to watch this with my mum as a young child in the early 70s.