Bricks, Ravioli, and Spaghetti bolognese with Fanny Cradock (1966) | BBC

From her "Adventurous Cooking" series.
6: Economy Dishes including Bricks, Ravioli, and Spaghetti bolognese
Designer, Gordon Toms
Producer. Victor Poole

[@maggiemay6625]

what i liked about fanny was she always was mindful of families who may have not been well off regarding kitchen equipment and food prices yeh she was ace a good childhood memory

[@hunkhk]

amazing - she did a great job with that ravioli - credit where credit is due. I feel like she gets a bad rap later in her career given she was a real pioneer

[@danielnesbitt9565]

The recipes she prepares on the Black and White TV shows have aged very well - indeed I am going to try her preparation of a leg of lamb cooked on a bed of finely sliced cabbage and onions. I wonder if she felt she had to ham it up more to impress those with colour TV with her use of vegetable dyes, flamboyant dresses etc. later on.

[@gh5363]

This is genuine public service broadcasting. She’s teaching us to cook. Unlike modern food shows which teach us nothing.

[@zeddeka]

???

[@lucyhurst2534]

😆😆😆 alright grandad/ grandma, go have a cup of tea and take one of your tablets.

[@independentpuppy7520]

Well most people don't know how to cook now. It's all done by Mc Donalds or Burger King.

[@williamf4544]

Yes you have a point - Many people watching these shows today dont even know how to boil and egg - and after watching they still dont know how to do anything basic

[@Slarti]

Except what she is doing is not cooking but rather violence to ingredients. If anyone cooked me a meal the way she prepares food, with no lover whatsoever, I would never eat their food again.

[@susandoig4192]

Fanny was a legend in cookery

[@mp2040]

She had an opinion and wasn’t afraid to say it. Unlike today where you are unable to say anything without someone taking offence. She was a pioneer of teaching people how to actually cook and always cared about the public and keeping recipes affordable for the people who didnt have a lot of money.

[@finnmcdermott3054]

the woke left would CANCEL FANNY!! She would have to be called Fanny/Dick/Them Craddock! Bring back Thatcher

[@maccoll3644]

Practical cookery instruction for good home-cooked meals. Excellent.

[@thankcrunchiefriday]

Thank you SO MUCH for uploading this! I thought the only one of these that had survived was the fish one... 😀

[@chrishopewynne2845]

Fanny Haddock Queen of the 60’s kitchen….her husband Johnny always got it in the neck when he got it wrong !!He became immortalised when after a donut making session said “I hope all your donuts taste like Fanny’s”!!

[@hayleydryden8358]

She always gives me a Christmas feeling 🎉

[@user-ff8el4hq4u]

I can't get enough Fanny!

[@justinwhite6787]

Marvelous! I've seen this one so many times. She had so many programs and yet they're so hard to find.

[@lindacharles6581]

Thank you so much for sharing these videos. I do find Fanny fascinating.

[@ivanahavitoff7308]

lovely fat splattered saucepan. and i bet as soon as cameras stopped rolling it was 'SIMON! HOW DARE YOU TAKE MY BRICKS OUT OF THE OVEN...'

[@cclewes7373]

That stare could cut through steel.

[@fraserkatie]

Watch " Fear of Fanny" here on youtube its a great drama starring Julia Davis as Fanny. Such a great account of her!

[@polkadolt]

Just watched that earlier this evening, loved it! X

[@CraigTulloch]

Fantastic Another new episode Great to see as I’d heard many had been lost over the years. Keep up the good work

[@Nunofurdambiznez]

EVERY single bit of that food looks absolutely FANTASTICALLY delicious!! She does such a marvelous job cooking and presenting!

[@Slarti]

Are you serious? It looks like shit, she slaughters the ingredients showing the food no love whatsoever and produces something not even fit for pigs as slops.

[@cioccolateriaveneziana]

This changes my view of Fanny Cradock - it's all correct and very professionally done. Only the runny ragù bolognese is wrong but the rest hasn't really aged.

[@FreddieShreddieTV]

excellence in presenting, excellent persona

[@keithfalkingham8861]

Wasn't she just fabulous, she definitely knows her stuff, I wonder how hard it would of been in the 60s to get some of the ingredients.

[@rah62]

Just an FYI - it's "would have". There's no such phrase as "would of".

[@tjpj111]

Just an fyi. Grace costs nothing

[@Rotary_Phone]

@@rah62 GRAMMER NAZI ALLERT! GRAMMER NAZI ALLERT!! MAYDAY, MAYDAY!!!

[@xjesusxchristx]

I wouldn't really word it like that(the knows her stuff part)... Don't get me wrong, her food would be wonderful, and her knowledge ok(higher than a British home cook of the day) - I'm just being honest to your comment; but she's making a lot of claims about classic and all that, but the dough isn't even the right type(just to mention one glaringly incorrect thing). Another massive mistake is her claim about oil/buttering the pasta - unless it's say a butter sauce, you never ever do this, and never have - the sauce won't stick properly; the proper and traditional way is to mix the pasta with the sauce, leaving a tiny bit of the cooking water. It's an interpretation of Italian, sure - but it's not classic Italian, and shows a lot of her own incorrect notions regarding it. Definitely delicious, and accessible to a home cook of the time, though.

[@whatwhatyep]

​@@rah62FYI you didn't need the an before FYI. There's no such thing as "an FYI." Get your own house in order before offering others advice.

[@FunOnABun96]

Thank you so much I love her I kept reading that most of her show was lost this means the world to me i pray you find more!!!!

[@MrTomb789]

I've always liked Fanny...

[@MrDavey2010]

Amazing & so professional.

[@Rotary_Phone]

She's got a very "matter of fact", and blunt delivery. Interesting stuff. Just discovered these episodes last night.

[@zeddeka]

She was certainly unique. She was though very much of a different era - born in 1909, she was an Edwardian with some of the brusqueness that middle class British people had in those days.

[@daxhausentraveller8488]

When on your holidays to Dorset your dad would stop at Fanny’s house for tea and a chat . How surreal . Wish I had asked more questions when my dad was alive .

[@PS_testing321...]

This Fanny Cradock all the UK ladies are speaking has a couple of episodes up on YT. I died laughing when she attacked the Christmas Goode with two forks!

[@jamespassas9441]

Ah, so the bricks are a sort-of Tunisian Cornish pasty?

[@countkostaki]

01:32 Did she really say "...cooked, sieved BRAINS".....??

[@robolishious]

We have been trying to figure this one out too and this is the only thing we can hear 😂

[@tonyboloni64]

Cooked sieved bread

[@hearthandhollow9584]

Yes… yes she did

[@LeeAnthonyxxo]

My mum said when she was a girl in the 60s it was completely normal to eat brains in the UK.

[@zeddeka]

Quite common in traditional Italian cooking,

[@jaredini]

I'm sure she took those Pyrex bowls onto TVAM in 1985.

[@weerobot]

What a Pro...

[@jean-paul7251]

Did she say... cooked served brains??

[@nekomochi486]

Simon was a QT

[@independentpuppy7520]

Dear old Fanny.

[@fraserkatie]

Scary frying in hot cooking oil! You wouldnt be able to do that now in an open pan!

[@nope24601]

1:31 - Cooked sieved brains!?

[@sarahlouise7163]

i loathe modern-day cooking shows, Bake-Off, MasterChef. you name it, i hate it. ditto goes for every single TV chef you can think of. Jamie Oliver in particular has been grinding my gears for almost 30 years 😁 but THIS, this i would watch.

[@asa1973100]

Like wise

[@muncgrl53]

Pasta cooked totally different than the Italian way. I lived in Italy for 6 years and was shown how by an Italian.

[@zeddeka]

I wonder if she's doing a regional variant. Italian cooking has so many different regional ways of doing things, and they often disagree quite violently about things

[@muncgrl53]

@@zeddeka You are so right lol!

[@Rotary_Phone]

Times must've been real tough in the UK in the 60s, and 70s. I notice she's talks a lot about how her suggestions won't be that expensive, and whatnot. Also recall watching a series of cooking shows from the 70s with a lovely woman (Forget her name, but she was blond, attractive) and she would always talk about using the cheap ingredients, and how to make something good with less. I know a lot of British rock stars were leaving the UK in the 70s because of the outrageous taxes. Seems like we're going back to having to those days today (In the USA at least). The poor get welfare, the rich are too rich to care, and the middle class get the shaft like always.

[@rulofreak2711]

Maybe you talk about Mary Berry, yes this two ladies was amazing, give you facts and very usefulls tips more that any modern chefs in their programs nowadays...

[@stevebirch7175]

Was it Katie Stewart?

[@zeddeka]

With the 70s show you're talking about, Britain was hit by massive inflation then and things became hugely expensive. But then again, so was America. If you see American commercials, particularly from the mid and late 70s, you'll see a lot of focus on money saving too, for exactly the same reasons.

[@londonlady227]

​@@zeddeka And the power cuts, cooking on a camp stove.

[@Knappa22]

Cooked sieved *BRAINS?!!*

[@londonlady227]

Yes, that's very Italian

[@Rotary_Phone]

Who's that kid Simon, her assistant? Is that he son or something?

[@fraserkatie]

Yes hes her son! Both her sons Simon and Peter were her poor assistants on the programme and there was a female called Sally too.

[@londonlady227]

​@@fraserkatieyes, the one in the night dress and she rolled her eyes as Fanny...during a Xmas show.

[@londonlady227]

She had two sons, Christopher and Peter.

[@jeffcarty3292]

A hired assistant, of course. Peter and Christopher were her children. Only hater-idiots tell you different.

[@jaredini]

Brik a l'oeuf. A Tunisian Jewish dish.

[@Slarti]

It's as though she hated food, she seemed to f'up everything she did.

[@londonlady227]

Yes, cooked veal brains. Fanny was fond of offal in her dishes.

[@fraserkatie]

Simon is very displeased! Haha imagine helping her to that! And thats her son!

[@snowflakemelter1172]

An Italian would call in the Mafia if they were served this fake pasta 😂

[@mmyselfandi3048]

such a shame that Rancid and her agenda was able to destroy Craddock's career.i can't stand boiled pastry and never understand why people pay so much for it, but on this show, it looks ok.

[@madabbafan]

The bolognase sauce was a little runny for my taste.

[@faithoffaith]

You can always boil it down. It just needs an extra 5-10 minutes

[@sarahlouise7163]

i just always feel like she's about to throw a massive wobbly. hardly conducive to learning anything.

[@lynnmartin906]

Way too many ingredients for pasta. Where are the eggs😮omg oil? The sauce won’t stick. No no😮

[@davidanderson8704]

yum yum , greasy pasta and thinned out liver and vomit sauce. chef's kiss!

[@handsoffmycactus2958]

It’s absolutely grinding my gears how she’s calling the pasta dough “PASTE” 🙄😡 she did it about pastry too. Pastry, pasta, bread and cake mixture are DIFFERENT things Fanny. If you’re up there reading.

[@drewmurray2783]

Using the French term - she was a classic cook. I suspect you'll never get "up there" to apologise! 😉 Only teasing!

[@TheSpinDoctor]

She is correct, if a bit old-fashioned:“pastry” was originally “cooked goods that are made from paste” and “pasta” is just Italian for “paste”, likewise the French «pâte» - so when she talks about “Choux paste” in other episodes she’s translating directly «pâte à choux» [which itself is a corruption of “paste of the hot type”] rather than “choux pastry” (strictly, cooked items made out of it). It IS very old-fashioned but correct. I agree it sounds jarring because we’ve become so used to the term not being used in English anymore.

[@jamespassas9441]

Eeeew, that sauce looks a bit runny for my taste!

[@jf9488]

Was Simon gay?

[@Mandeley100]

If he wasn't before he went to work for Fanny, he sure as hell was by the time he left!!!

[@williamf4544]

How very very dare you !

[@homerth1555]

Brains????