Adventurous Cooking with Fanny Cradock - Fish (Part 1 of 3)

First shown on BBC 1 on 24 April 1966, Fanny demonstrates ways of cooking with fish.

[@minecachair]

Love how Simon,having had his big moment shaking his mussels,then remained frozen to the spot for virtually the rest of the programme.She bullied her "assistants"unmercifully-can't see how anyone ever wanted the job.

[@christopherbutler1980]

"Now Go!"

[@evanstj5]

"There goes Simon shaking his mussels." Priceless.

[@sydhawdon9095]

That was hilarious. She was a one off.

[@multimill]

I have lost count of the amount of times I have cooked this dish of mussels and without fail people fight over the serving dish to eat every last breadcrumb. They are delicious, likewise the seafood pancakes. Thanks for putting this back online!

[@Notmehimorthem]

Moule Marinier cooked by a Dominatrix

[@vonhaek7067]

I'll die of boredom if I hear dear Fanny say " It's in the booklet!" again!! 😂

[@spinozareader]

How I do love my Fanny. Cookery bootcamp!

[@afm62]

I’m taken back in time about 50 years! My parents used to refer to ‘mousetrap’ cheese and my mother used to save and reuse her tinfoil too! Must be from wartime rationing.

[@kelalia]

well the last bit of rationing only ended in 1958...

[@M15Guys]

5.08 .... "There goes Simon, shaking mussels !"

[@kengeorgejones6855]

Thanks. She seems more restrained here than some other appearances I've seen.

[@zeddeka]

I get the impression that this series was done without so much of the time constraint that her other series (particularly her Christmas one in the 70s) had. It seems much more relaxed here.

[@david18ireland]

"just a few....drops of anchovy puree...." *WHACK* lmao

[@jasonflynn5481]

Simon is a stone cold fox

[@MOOSEDOWNUNDER]

The one and only. Halcyon days indeed.

[@Keefcooks]

Hey Mooseyboy!

[@tequilyps]

Mmmmmmm! That whole opening sequence of Fanny dumping in the mussels really gets my mouth watering😶😶😶

[@kevvywevvywoo]

In the UK mussells, cockles etc are known collectively as Shell Fish. This is why she is calling them fish. Shell fish.

[@MegaMissfitz]

I prefered you in Fanny Craddock mode myself but each to their own! Sweet dreams 😤😤😤

[@madabbafan]

Describing cheese as 'mousetrap' only other person I can remember saying that was my gran

[@independentpuppy7520]

Dear old Fanny.

[@elenafalconsseedlaboratory403]

Feathery Heeeerb! ❤

[@ritawing1064]

Wasn't the foil thick in those days?!

[@gaggymott9159]

Lidl's foil for barbecuing at £2.49 is the strongest ever, nowadays... I just stocked up on 15 rolls for the year!! 🤣

[@pegbutwin7189]

It used to be tin foil, which was way thicker than today’s aluminum foil

[@madabbafan]

@@pegbutwin7189 true but aluminium foil came in to replace tin in the mid 40s so it would have been aluminium here the name 'tin foil', however, was still used and is still used by older generations now.

[@itskimik]

​@@gaggymott9159and i thought i was the only one noticing 😱 it's so great!

[@RicTic66]

I've just watched an episode of Masterchef (the professionals) 2017. Cookery has moved on just a tad lol. Fanny was of her time I guess.

[@zeddeka]

Difficult to comprehend now how limited food in the UK was until relatively recently. In those days you could only get olive oil in chemists. It was used as a treatment for ear wax. I was astonished to learn that my home city, Newcastle, only got its first Italian restaurant in 1968. So many of the older generation grew up in an England that we would find fairly bewildering now.

[@patcola7335]

@@zeddeka Do you think the people of past generations were moaning and groaning about "oh why can't we have good food"? If the Lord is willing I would hope to get to England one day

[@psychosoma5049]

As a gay man I feel like I shouldn't enjoy Fanny

[@lnteIIigence]

Well in the US at least, the word Fanny refers to the butt. So it's fine 😝

[@patcola7335]

Why can't you just be a man ?

[@psychosoma5049]

@@patcola7335why can’t you just be a decent human?

[@kova1577]

@@lnteIIigence what? I thought it always meant 🐈. Maybe in the south it is like this.

[@kova1577]

@@psychosoma5049 why can’t you see that your sexuality means nothing? Nobody cares.

[@simonjones7727]

She had a great clothes sense That blouse is beautiful, and would have been very contemporary at the time. She would have looked amazing with short hair. Like an older Julie Driscoll.

[@carolineg1872]

Fanny's fish.

[@millionseller001]

"Hope all your doughnuts turn out like Fannys"...

[@lnteIIigence]

Better than fishy fannies! 😃

[@Myplop]

Fanny loves white sauce

[@ospreybird]

:-)

[@fabrizio483]

Mussel isn't a fish...

[@billydeeuk]

Fabrizio Your mum isn't a fish

[@david18ireland]

lmao @@billydeeuk

[@david18ireland]

mussels are molluscs. they have shells and are considered shell fish. so they are indeed fish

[@Brynwyn123]

Fish is a meaningless classification, there are fish (actual fish, scientifically) that are more closely related to reptiles or invertebrates than to other fish. The only reason they're grouped together is that there are so many bodyplans that work underwater.

[@zeddeka]

@TheRenaissanceman65 I think he's referring to how Fanny described them as fish early in the programme

[@alliemaria532]

It's fishy fanny

[@MrDavey2010]

So pretentious!

[@lnteIIigence]

I don't get why people say that. She tried to make things easy and more accessible and was friendly.

[@zeddeka]

You have to understand the era. Britain was really only just starting to move away from memories of rationing and for the first time, there was enough money for enough people to become more adventurous. Life had been incredibly drab and there was a huge appetite for something a bit different and "upwardly mobile".