I agree totally! I listened to every episode during my hospital stay of a year ago & their dear voices & demeanor lessened my anxiety greatly, even allowing me a bit of sleep each night.
I watch these ladies every day. They soothe my panic disorder and keep me calm. Rest in peace ladies. Thank you for coming into my life. I wish you were still here.
In his last book, Terry Pratchett wrote Death saying "You have left the world a better place than when you found it, and, if you ask me, no one could do better than that." I would say Clarissa and Jennifer certainly did well.
I'm old enough to remember when this series of cooking programs were first run. They had such great chemistry between them and that was the recipe for their success.
Am I crazy or didn't Jamie Oliver appear at the beginning of some of their shows? I am almost positive of that but it's been so long (before Naked Chef) I'm not sure. I've searched all over but there is no reference I can find of such and its bugging me!!😮
@@deborahpaulin1188I know that producer Patricia Llewellyn was responsible for bringing both shows (this and Naked Chef) to TV. That's the only connection I've been able to find so far. No mention of Jamie having been on their show, not that I can find anyways...
@@deborahpaulin1188 I believe Jamie Oliver's first show was put into the slot 2FL had after Jennifer's sudden, unfortunate death ending the show. To go from them to him shows how stark the chasm between old and new Britain emerging under New Labour was. I was a teenager then, I have continued to watch 2FL ever since, along with a couple of my friends and we have often noted how 2FL were the best, along with Keith Floyd. They were all cultured, sophisticated and knowledgeable from international travel and friends but had never thought of abandoning traditional British food. Thanks to Clarissa in particular I was introduced to Robert May and Hannah Glasse: so much more interesting than Mrs Beaton and the late Victorian obsession with everything Escoffier. RIP Jennifer and Clarissa.
This used to be a show my mom and I watched together all the time. She passed away in 2011. We weren't huge fans of a lot of the recipes but we just loved watching them and cooking!
I have looked up Clarissa's other cooking shows on UA-cam..... there's one where she finds a very old "King's Cookbook".....and she is just as entertaining as she is here. But I truly miss their comradeship and the memories they used to share. Part cooking show, part travelogue.....such brilliant television!
This episode gets me. You can start to see Jennifer's health start deteriorating at the start of the seasons. She seems slower, and takes her time getting up around over previous episodes. She died a few months later. Rest her soul...
The wrapping of bread in cabbage leaves is used in a non conventional oven in order to help prevent the bread from burning. If the cabbage burns the ash is not harmful and helps aid digestion. There are plenty of 18th century bread recipes requiring the wrapping in leaves.
Has to be Jersey cream. Growing up on an old fashioned farm my mother demanded having Jersey milk cows. She said their cream could not be beat. Now I didnt realize how well I had it.
These videos take me back when all my kids were young and I watched them with my mother absolutely brilliant. Mum has gone now all my kids left home and grew up. I just take myself back to that era and my anxiety disappears cos my mum and family are there
the large outercabbage leaves that people dont eat. mean you dont need a tin or bake sheet and no ash/bits or ick gets on the bread from the flames/fire.
Always love the ladies, miss them. No holds barred cooking, my doc would give me the look if she knew I sneak a recipe or two over the years. Also I love the country stove, they are in a lot of ways great to cook on. Thanks so much for sharing their show.
People please! If you don't like this programme, please watch SOMETHING ELSE. Go away and leave the rest of us in peace. A very simple concept - if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all.
I totally agree! I have watched every episode of 2Fladies and loved everyone, so after, watched multiple times!!! I learn from them and just thoroughly enjoy their adventures. To those people who give negative comments.... go watch something bland from the United States if this is too much culture for you here with Two Fat Ladies!! (we sure don't need you!),,,,,,,
It is sad to think that it was the last year of Jennifer: I guess she already had lung cancer, but not knowing it. She died the same year, 1999, after 1 month in hospital.
Clarissa: I wonder how the Indian onion shortage is going? Jennifer: Are we having an Indian onion shortage? Clarissa: The Indians are having an onion shortage. There were riots in the streets. Jennifer: My dear think of all the bhajji’s. 😂😂😂😂😂
The black "Brazilian" pot comes from the town where I live: Vitória, in the State of Espirito Santo (The Victory of the Holy Spirit), in Brazil. Can't get better than that. The pot is used for the only true "moqueca", the fish stew that is made elsewhere and in other kinds of pots is just called "peixada" The pot is blackened with the dye from brackwater trees. The ladies make a Portuguese stew in it.
Two of the most endearing and charming personalities one could ever hope to be acquainted with. However I am puzzled that Jennifer didn't put nutmeg in her stroganoff I learned it is the Je Ne Sais Quoi of outstanding storganoff at Romanovs Restaurant a very long time ago in the early 70's I think.
its interetsing if you read clarissa's autobiography, she was of course sober through the filming of these episodes but, unexpectedly, it was jennifer who was doing all the drinking. According to clarissa. jennifer on one occaion at least managed to get through one whole bottle of vodka and was well into her second whilst still, if i recall correctly, driving her motorbike with clarissa in the sidecar. I am wondering what happened to the rest of that bottle she uses for the soup.
chrish12345 do you know/think it was to help with pain from cancer? I only ask as I have wondered how cancer had gotten so far within Ms. Jennifer feeling pain. God rest them both. --Arena.
Clarissa was the admitted alcoholic who didn't drink any more and Jennifer was the alcoholic who didn't admit it and drank like mad. That was why they stayed in separate hotels when they travelled for the show
I haven't read Ms. Dickson-Wright's memoir (nor am I familiar with any of the other tittle-tattle about the show), but the anecdotes that she tells in the course of the series itself are clearly embellished if not, in some cases, actually madey-uppy. It's a part of her great charm, but there's no reason to take anything she says at face value. On the other hand, it wouldn't surprise me at all to learn that the two ladies didn't always get along. Ms. Paterson was famously temperamental and difficult as a cook (and sometime columnist) for the Spectator; Ms. Dickson-Wright never shows any clear sign of liking anybody (although she expresses opinions about the appearance of the men she encounters with somewhat tedious predictability). Reformed alcoholics can be terrible bores about drink and nobody who watches the programs could be in any doubt that Ms. Paterson enjoyed a drink. In the fourth series there are a few moments where she is clearly somewhat befuddled (though I don't think one could say she was really any the worse for it) -- I do wonder whether, by that time, she wasn't mixing alcohol and pain meds. In any case they were both wonderful ladies who are cherished even now, after they're gone.
No way-like many of their creations they had to bake the right amount of time themselves so they had all these stories and the knowledge to bring. That’s why this series came out as good as it did.
I believe it was on PBS I watched these two dear ladies first. Haven't seen an episode in years. Didn't know many of the dishes they made, me being an American Southerner but, I always enjoyed watching them.
According to the cookbook, A Taste of Russia, the original Beef Stroganoff recipe derived from a basic French mustard for seasoning beef, combined with a dollop of Russian sour cream, and named after Count Stroganov by his chef. I looked this up once bc I too, wondered who and why the dish was named for. Love these ladies. All the English tv shows are classics.
JUST ENJOY THE SHOW AND STOP CRITICISING THEY WERE WONDERFUL WARM HUMAN BEINGS . tHERE IS A STORY BEHIND EVERY PERSON.., THERE IS A REASON WHY THEY ARE THE WAY THEY ARE,,,, THINK ABOUT THAT BEFORE YOU HAVE THE AUDACITY
and they didn't like each other at all. I miss them since they are both gone now but we all have their shows to enjoy. And that is a special gift they let behind.
That sounds like Verdi's Nabbuco..beautiful island of Jersey. My dad gave me an easy recipe for Jewish penicillin. I made it all the time until got sick of it. Lol. Feel like making it for the winter. I always love the music with 2 FAT LADIES..their cooking, stories, singing and humor. Beautiful church choir.
I love this program because she was cooking for the workers, foreigners at that! And a group that spoke a language that she picked up along her journey!
Here's a portrait of Count Pavel Stroganoff, who served as a General in the Napoleonic Wars, and whose French chef invented Beef Stroganoff. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_Count_Pavel_Stroganoff_(1772-1817).jpg
I go to sleep every night to these dear ladies. There's something soothing and comforting about their voices that works wonders on my insomnia. 💗
I agree totally! I listened to every episode during my hospital stay of a year ago & their dear voices & demeanor lessened my anxiety greatly, even allowing me a bit of sleep each night.
I hear you
Yep, me too. Sometimes these ladies. Sometimes older Antique Roadshows (British only, of course)
Me too!!!
Hee hee good choice. I do the same with radio 4 recordings of the unbelievable truth
Jennifer and Clarissa - gone but not forgotten. RIP girls.
I watch these ladies every day. They soothe my panic disorder and keep me calm. Rest in peace ladies. Thank you for coming into my life. I wish you were still here.
In his last book, Terry Pratchett wrote Death saying "You have left the world a better place than when you found it, and, if you ask me, no one could do better than that." I would say Clarissa and Jennifer certainly did well.
"Anything is better than going to the gym"...Jennifer and I are kindred spirits. 😂
It's my favourite quote from the whole series. 😂😅
I'm old enough to remember when this series of cooking programs were first run. They had such great chemistry between them and that was the recipe for their success.
Me too
Am I crazy or didn't Jamie Oliver appear at the beginning of some of their shows? I am almost positive of that but it's been so long (before Naked Chef) I'm not sure. I've searched all over but there is no reference I can find of such and its bugging me!!😮
@@deborahpaulin1188I know that producer Patricia Llewellyn was responsible for bringing both shows (this and Naked Chef) to TV. That's the only connection I've been able to find so far. No mention of Jamie having been on their show, not that I can find anyways...
@@deborahpaulin1188the answer is there..... no
@@deborahpaulin1188 I believe Jamie Oliver's first show was put into the slot 2FL had after Jennifer's sudden, unfortunate death ending the show. To go from them to him shows how stark the chasm between old and new Britain emerging under New Labour was. I was a teenager then, I have continued to watch 2FL ever since, along with a couple of my friends and we have often noted how 2FL were the best, along with Keith Floyd. They were all cultured, sophisticated and knowledgeable from international travel and friends but had never thought of abandoning traditional British food. Thanks to Clarissa in particular I was introduced to Robert May and Hannah Glasse: so much more interesting than Mrs Beaton and the late Victorian obsession with everything Escoffier. RIP Jennifer and Clarissa.
This used to be a show my mom and I watched together all the time. She passed away in 2011. We weren't huge fans of a lot of the recipes but we just loved watching them and cooking!
I have looked up Clarissa's other cooking shows on UA-cam..... there's one where she finds a very old "King's Cookbook".....and she is just as entertaining as she is here. But I truly miss their comradeship and the memories they used to share. Part cooking show, part travelogue.....such brilliant television!
"it is the duty of the gentleman to give employment to the artisan". Great line.
I do so enjoy watching these two ladies, miss them dearly and they will live on in these videos and books. They make me happy.
Watched them from the first time they were televised. Way ahead of their time. Love their British ways and bravado. Never tire of them.
"... to which I'll add a drop of olive oil." Jennifer pours in at least half a cup! Hilarious! 7:00 -7:10
Classic!
If you watch, whenever she says “drop” of whatever it is, each drop is always a few ounces.
This episode gets me. You can start to see Jennifer's health start deteriorating at the start of the seasons. She seems slower, and takes her time getting up around over previous episodes. She died a few months later. Rest her soul...
At least she did what she loved doing until she died. How many of us will be able to do that?
Crazy, I had the thought she seemed off in this one but until I saw your comment I didn't know it was a later episode.
@@LaDayna04 they're probably running a restaurant in heaven!
Beautiful lady with a full life. One of a kind.
@@zarachastellaris9016 hopefully there are better delights awaiting people in heaven than restaurant management
"Anything is better than going to the gym".
Thank you for posting all of these shows. Takes me back to my 20's. I would have adred to have met Jennifer. One of a kind. Ravishing Creature!
Yes,there is comfort watching and hearing their voices. Bittersweet nostalgia. Friends I never met and keep me company.🌹
The wrapping of bread in cabbage leaves is used in a non conventional oven in order to help prevent the bread from burning. If the cabbage burns the ash is not harmful and helps aid digestion.
There are plenty of 18th century bread recipes requiring the wrapping in leaves.
Thanks!
I grew up watching these shows... wonderful to be able to enjoy them again. Thank you for uploading!
I LOVE them so much, I LOVE everything they cook, I want to make it all! They are so witty and elegant in their speech, and funny.
When Jennifer said, let's pop them in, it might murder everybody. I SCREAMED , gosh i miss these ladies
I love them even more for feeding migrant workers mass quantities of beef tenderloin, oyster mushroom and best-quality chocolate! Bless them!
Yeah Portuguese immigrants in Portugal.........the left in this world!
Uhmmm... they are in Jersey, not Portugal.
@@nosensenonsensecommonsense6347 they're in Jersey not Portugal
@@nosensenonsensecommonsense6347 you really owned the libs there pal. You’d never know that conservatives have been gutting education for decades.
They’re not immigrants. They’re over for the harvest, then back to their own homes.
Has to be Jersey cream. Growing up on an old fashioned farm my mother demanded having Jersey milk cows. She said their cream could not be beat. Now I didnt realize how well I had it.
Jerseys make lovely, rich, cream & milk. But I'm left wondering what is pouring cream?
These videos take me back when all my kids were young and I watched them with my mother absolutely brilliant. Mum has gone now all my kids left home and grew up. I just take myself back to that era and my anxiety disappears cos my mum and family are there
You tube does have its moments. Love these girls
the large outercabbage leaves that people dont eat. mean you dont need a tin or bake sheet and no ash/bits or ick gets on the bread from the flames/fire.
fiona knapper
and the moisture from the leaves helps to keep the crust from cooking too quickly so it can continue to rise as it's baking.
I loved when they made Bubble and Squeak on one recipe. It really did!
Always love the ladies, miss them. No holds barred cooking, my doc would give me the look if she knew I sneak a recipe or two over the years. Also I love the country stove, they are in a lot of ways great to cook on. Thanks so much for sharing their show.
People please! If you don't like this programme, please watch SOMETHING ELSE. Go away and leave the rest of us in peace. A very simple concept - if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all.
I totally agree! I have watched every episode of 2Fladies and loved everyone, so after, watched multiple times!!! I learn from them and just thoroughly enjoy their adventures. To those people who give negative comments.... go watch something bland from the United States if this is too much culture for you here with Two Fat Ladies!! (we sure don't need you!),,,,,,,
Why would anyone say anything bad. They are my family
Why
Agree if person has something negative to say about these two ladies why do they watch it
You are the only one who said something negative on here
These ladies were so wonderful!!!! Miss them!
I just love these ladies I got their DVDs years ago and we still watch them plus so much fun their personalities miss you Jennifer
could not help laughing over some of Jennifer Paterson's comments... a bit deaf.... "we're sinking" haha
first time I saw this camerra view of the bike when they arrived! very cool !
Love these Ladies, so missed
Thank you for posting
caught by a 'hunky fisherman'.....dear ladies....
I can't get enough of this show. I love it! Makes me long dearly for Britian.
Such a joy, and such a clever pairing, I’m afraid the Hairy Bikers don’t come close to the magic of these two ladies 😕
This is the episode I remember the most because the scenery is so beautiful. What a gorgeous place.
Love the fireplaces !
It is sad to think that it was the last year of Jennifer: I guess she already had lung cancer, but not knowing it. She died the same year, 1999, after 1 month in hospital.
I love watching this show.
Sure miss these ladies. I never missed an episode.♥️
That chocolate pie looked great
I made it many years back, exactly as it appears in their cookbook, it's absolutely fantastic!
Pie - spelled P-Y-E
"The sardines are mandatory". Man. That pretty much sums up this whole program!
"Caught by a Hunky fisherman!"
I love this show! Thank you so much for uploading!
The fish stew dish really caught my attention. I enjoyed the way Clarissa layered the fish. Wow, wish I was there! Thanks Ladies, ed
Jennifer was just fabulous 🤣 I adore them both but Jennifer was something else 🥰
Lordy I love this so much
My all-time favorite cooking show. I’m so glad to find the Two Fat Ladies on UA-cam.
I whish they were still alive, and cooked for me.
Me too!
I wish that they could’ve made more episodes- I’ve watched these many times, and I’m always entertained! Love these ladies!
I subbed because of your 2 fat ladies episodes. Thanks ,I miss this show.
Clarissa: I wonder how the Indian onion shortage is going?
Jennifer: Are we having an Indian onion shortage?
Clarissa: The Indians are having an onion shortage. There were riots in the streets.
Jennifer: My dear think of all the bhajji’s.
😂😂😂😂😂
They were both awesome. I enjoyed watching them on television.
I have Loved Clarissa and Jennifer "The Two Fat Ladies" for as long as I can Remember
The black "Brazilian" pot comes from the town where I live: Vitória, in the State of Espirito Santo (The Victory of the Holy Spirit), in Brazil. Can't get better than that. The pot is used for the only true "moqueca", the fish stew that is made elsewhere and in other kinds of pots is just called "peixada" The pot is blackened with the dye from brackwater trees. The ladies make a Portuguese stew in it.
Two of the most endearing and charming personalities one could ever hope to be acquainted with. However I am puzzled that Jennifer didn't put nutmeg in her stroganoff I learned it is the Je Ne Sais Quoi of outstanding storganoff at Romanovs Restaurant a very long time ago in the early 70's I think.
Wonderful show I enjoy watching it over and over
RIP Fat Ladies
(Jennifer and Clarissa)
Jessica
its interetsing if you read clarissa's autobiography, she was of course sober through the filming of these episodes but, unexpectedly, it was jennifer who was doing all the drinking. According to clarissa. jennifer on one occaion at least managed to get through one whole bottle of vodka and was well into her second whilst still, if i recall correctly, driving her motorbike with clarissa in the sidecar. I am wondering what happened to the rest of that bottle she uses for the soup.
chrish12345
do you know/think it was to help with pain from cancer? I only ask as I have wondered how cancer had gotten so far within Ms. Jennifer feeling pain. God rest them both. --Arena.
Interesting idea, could be true but I don't know
Clarissa was the admitted alcoholic who didn't drink any more and Jennifer was the alcoholic who didn't admit it and drank like mad. That was why they stayed in separate hotels when they travelled for the show
We love them and their banter dearly but look at the size of that whiskey on the rocks in Jennifer's hand at the end. 28:17 Poor Clarissa. Vey.
I haven't read Ms. Dickson-Wright's memoir (nor am I familiar with any of the other tittle-tattle about the show), but the anecdotes that she tells in the course of the series itself are clearly embellished if not, in some cases, actually madey-uppy. It's a part of her great charm, but there's no reason to take anything she says at face value. On the other hand, it wouldn't surprise me at all to learn that the two ladies didn't always get along. Ms. Paterson was famously temperamental and difficult as a cook (and sometime columnist) for the Spectator; Ms. Dickson-Wright never shows any clear sign of liking anybody (although she expresses opinions about the appearance of the men she encounters with somewhat tedious predictability). Reformed alcoholics can be terrible bores about drink and nobody who watches the programs could be in any doubt that Ms. Paterson enjoyed a drink. In the fourth series there are a few moments where she is clearly somewhat befuddled (though I don't think one could say she was really any the worse for it) -- I do wonder whether, by that time, she wasn't mixing alcohol and pain meds. In any case they were both wonderful ladies who are cherished even now, after they're gone.
I can't sleep without them.
"Against every adversary, the British will barbeque." Love these ladies...
They were discovered too late. We should have had them on our screens for decades. These girls were one offs
I have many happy memories of watching them
I agree. We were robbed. This show was so expertly produced as well. It was magic.
@@ophthodoc you just dont get tv like this anymore. I smile from start to finish
No way-like many of their creations they had to bake the right amount of time themselves so they had all these stories and the knowledge to bring. That’s why this series came out as good as it did.
@@The3Storms fair point well made barrberrra (the royale family,chrisrmas episode) rip
Thank you for posting! I have been watched these episodes all almost 1/2 a dozen times. Much encouragement during the pandemic
You are making the work of god by uploading this videos. Thank you!
Growing up in London this was always on in the 90s two fat ladies too posh outspoken woman real cooks and such icons miss you darlings
I love her basket!
I believe it was on PBS I watched these two dear ladies first. Haven't seen an episode in years. Didn't know many of the dishes they made, me being an American Southerner but, I always enjoyed watching them.
10 times better then that over exposed Jamie Oliver.
I'm thrilled to have found these lovely ladies on UA-cam! I missed them!
According to the cookbook, A Taste of Russia, the original Beef Stroganoff recipe derived from a basic French mustard for seasoning beef, combined with a dollop of Russian sour cream, and named after Count Stroganov by his chef.
I looked this up once bc I too, wondered who and why the dish was named for. Love these ladies. All the English tv shows are classics.
Thank You 👌
The two best cooks British TV ever had. I hope you lady's are cooking up a storm in heaven ✝️❤️
I love it so much
JUST ENJOY THE SHOW AND STOP CRITICISING THEY WERE WONDERFUL WARM HUMAN BEINGS . tHERE IS A STORY BEHIND EVERY PERSON.., THERE IS A REASON WHY THEY ARE THE WAY THEY ARE,,,, THINK ABOUT THAT BEFORE YOU HAVE THE AUDACITY
and they didn't like each other at all. I miss them since they are both gone now but we all have their shows to enjoy. And that is a special gift they let behind.
Thats bullshit!
Pippin Baker Amen to that....I just relax and watch these ladies....always makes me smile n laugh
they appear to harmonise well with each other . they are sadly missed!
well said mysticmeg and VERY true!
I first, "Meet", these fine ladies on the Food Network, back in the late 1990's. They are still a delight!
That sounds like Verdi's Nabbuco..beautiful island of Jersey. My dad gave me an easy recipe for Jewish penicillin. I made it all the time until got sick of it. Lol. Feel like making it for the winter.
I always love the music with 2 FAT LADIES..their cooking, stories, singing and humor. Beautiful church choir.
I'll always watch this. Thank you 😊
The two fat ladies are brilliant & will be missed very much 🤗
"Against any adversary the British will barbeque." Clarrisa could definitely hold her own with Jennifer. Simply adore them...
I love this program because she was cooking for the workers, foreigners at that! And a group that spoke a language that she picked up along her journey!
1:20 Pleasing Portuguese potato-picker punum. :P
So, this is the place that New Jersey is named after??
"I'm nearly at the end, Clarissa."
"Are you?"
If only they knew how many Pumpkin Pie-making USA fans they had. :)
Wonderful
Love the cooking. Thank you
God bless
Loved this show as a kid! Love British food!
Long live their civil and humane political incorrectness!
An observation on Jersey farming practices. Shouldn’t their rows be at right angles to the slope to prevent massive erosion?
Love them
Here's a portrait of Count Pavel Stroganoff, who served as a General in the Napoleonic Wars, and whose French chef invented Beef Stroganoff. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_Count_Pavel_Stroganoff_(1772-1817).jpg
Food porn ;) Great stuff.
Love Clarissa such a kind heart and soul
Rip ❤
One of my favorites ¡,
@17:00 "picking up 'veg' on the side of the road..." 😂😂 just like in big city street corners.
Food is jealously guarded by corporations here.
But we do have roadside tiny libraries where you can donate and borrow books.
Elaine McMurren not here in NYC/NJ
I'm in the north of England in the countryside and people do leave honesty boxes with fresh vegetables
In California small towns too.
So relaxing 💛
got to the end... and I would happiey watch it agaiin.
23:53 "Butter it LAVISHLY" ❤️❤️❤️
Love them❤️😍👏🏼
I do like it when I have done enough vigorous work outside to have a good appetite for some solid food.
vodka soup w no chicken (meat) in it? and half the show before someone noticed Abalone. there is a lot to like about this show.
Nevermind! I've got permission!
I LOVE these babes! 🌹🌹
The British patriots are the absolute best!
Please see Time Team.
We Americans also love our home. See Townsend!
XO-
'I'm nearly at the end Clarissa'
Di Smith Well that was morbid, considering.
you caught that? I teared up a bit