Can someone explain Fanny Craddock to me?

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Was she popular?
did people rate her recipes?

She seems to lack any warmth and to be very bossy.

Was that just the style in the 70s? Did it mean you were efficient?

Got to love a bit of Fanny😁. I hope that they resume putting it back on the food channel this year. I rather liked the pan pipes music at the start of the programme.

Yes.
Yes.
There weren't thousands of other TV chefs/internet chefs in the 1970s to compare her to. She was a pioneer.
P.S - incase you hadn't noticed, life was quite different 50 years ago.

I do agree with her that risotto/cheese sauce is just as nice if you add all the liquid at the beginning rather than adding it gradually.

she was ground breaking in the 1950s 'end of rationing, let's treat ourselves to a telly...' sort of way.

Rationing only ended in June 1954. Supermarkets were virtually unknown, nobody had a freezer and not everyone had a fridge. The range of ingredients we have today wasn't available. She couldn't do recipes using ingredients that her audience wouldn't be able to get hold of. (I remember whenever Delia used something slightly unusual, there'd be a run on the supermarkets the next day.)

New Tricks did a good episode, with Honor Blackman playing the 'Fanny' character.

I’ll never forget Delia tired and emotional telling the Norwich FC fans to “come one, wherereaaarrreeyoooooo leassbeee avenue.”

“I wasn’t drunk.”

No, of course not, love.

There's loads of clips on YouTube. She's fantastic!

The only time Johnny ever got the last word

I just watched her making ravioli. She is clearly phenomenally skilled at instructing on television.

I am fascinated by the misery of the people around her. They all look so oppressed!

Erm, I was born in 1955, and it is definitely not nearly 100 years ago! (I'm 69)

Fanny and Johnnie were married from 1977.

No one has mentioned that she cooked in couture gowns!

Fanny was a real showman!

I adore her and always watch her when she's on TV. Hers is the only cookery show I'd watch, I've no interest in the subject.

Fanny Craddock Cooks for Christmas was part of my childhood and watching now means the start of christmas for me.

She was terrifying yet mesmerising. The Food looks rank now though.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=fanny+cradock

50 & more years ago so some may need to adjust their minds :)

Have you seen the clip of her prepping a Christmas turkey? She does this weird massagey thing to loosen the skin before putting butter under the skin and it is the creepiest thing.....

It’s not on iPlayer anymore, but if you can track it down, do watch ‘Fear of Fanny’. Stars Julia Davis as Fanny and Mark Gatiss as her husband. Fantastic.

I shall be watching this.

Me, too. The whole thing is on YouTube!

Showed me how to cook an omelette!

I preferred the Galloping Gourmet.

I think Phillip Harben must have been on about that time, too.
Fanny seemed to smother everything in sauce or icing and arrange cherries and things on it so you couldn't really tell what it was!

I saw this clip earlier, it looked vile! I do miss those cookers though with the grill at eye level.

I loved the Galloping Gourmet too. A bit later I think, but pre Keith Floyd and Delia iirc.

There were married in 1977… bigamously!!! 😮😮😮

Not just bigamously, she was already bigamously married to husband number 3!