Fanny cradock and transgenderism

[Purplewithgreenspots]

How is she anything to do with the new gender politics? According to The Times, a celebration about her in Waltham forest will be ‘very queer’, including style, food, gender politics and aspiration. I thought she was just a cook but correct me if I’m wrong.

www.ebay.co.uk/bhp/fanny-cradock

You could flog them on ebay - they are having a resurgence.

Everything she makes looks really unappetising.

Dr Fanny Haddock

Melroses

Mincemeat omelette

Makes you gag, doesn't it? I'm so pleased I was able to bring Fanny's mincemeat creations to a wider audience.

Check out the choux pastry ones - and she stuffs a turkey in the first episode...

I do hope Mrs Beeton doesn’t get dragged into all this. I’ve never had any interest in Fanny but I swear by Mrs Beeton.

I’ve never had any interest in Fanny

Oops

It’ll be Delia Smith next 😱looks like anyone’s fair game these days.

She was quite odd-looking, with heavy, artificial-looking makeup and hair that had been processed to within an inch of its life

I think this was a pretty normal look back in the day. Everyone's hair was processed - shampoo and set was the order of the day.

She also said “I would no more put an egg in a refrigerator than I would put a baby.”

I have followed that advice ever since I heard it. She was right!

I thought that Fanny was great. She was bossy and took no nonsense.

I can imagine that, had she been alive today, she would chase non-binaries and transgender people out of the women's spaces, armed only with a whisk and a droll one-liner.

CRADOCK only has one D! I never knew!

She was quite odd-looking, with heavy, artificial-looking makeup and hair that had been processed to within an inch of its life

I think this was a pretty normal look back in the day. Everyone's hair was processed - shampoo and set was the order of the day

No it wasn't normal.

The mincemeat omelette looks vile- as do the pancakes.

Isn’t she just a gay icon, as said above, like Judy Garland?

Is that assistant Delia Smith? It looks very much like her.

I'm old enough to remember watching her quite clearly, and she was an odd bod, although thrift was important to her. I vaguely recall that she had a bigamous marriage, and possibly before Johnny, she had younger men on stage as her assistants for a short while. Polyamory and toy boys, and enough mascara to scare the horses, must tick some boxes!

Knew someone that worked with her. Heavy makeup was to cover up scarring from a fire. Apparently, she had some really horrible unhygienic habits too.

They're all on Youtube, but this is my favourite:

I could have quite happily lived the rest of my life in ignorance of that mincemeat omelette.

I'm just at how she rolled the Swiss roll. Mind you, I wouldn't want to argue with her either — if she wanted you to roll you'd jolly well roll!

And that's really not a "dusting" of icing sugar.

It was a surprise for me too, the one d. I do wonder if a d was dropped for effect.
My mum told me she was unhygienic, which is why I never had an interest. At least if Beeton had problems keeping clean, the books don’t say so.

You mean she was an unhygienic fanny?

I’d never heard of her, but now I love her. Her food looks repulsive, (and I love mince tarts), but I deeply admire her domineering manner - no namby-pamby coddling of the viewer. It’s Fanny’s way or the highway.

I have renounced the stomach-churning slop of the hilarious Sandra Lee and henceforth swear allegiance to Ms Haddock. Cooking in full evening wear. What a woman.

PositivelyPERF
I have just literally spat my tea over the keyboard over your comment re unhygienic fanny. Brilliant.

The BBC have put some of them on iPlayer. The Cheese and Wine episode is a joy to behold.
She used to do a lot of it live, which is a hell of a skill.
However it did lead to one episode where she was making a roast dinner and dropped the chicken on the floor. She picked it up, picked off any fluff and said ‘remember, you are alone in your own kitchen’ while plonking it back on the plate.