OMFG!!!!! IT'S THAT TIME OF YEAR! TIME FOR DL ICON FANNY CRADOCK!!!!

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Your Christmas Bird 1975

Christmas Pudding

The moment her career was dead to me.

She tells you everything is in the book. Why bother watching?

Her Christmas pudding looks like a big, round, shiny mound of shit.

I’m on Christmas part 1,1975 - Christmas Birds. She’s pinching a skinny turkey

Now she’s stabbing a goose like a serial killer. She has a fork in each hand and is stabbing away like like a Manson murderer.

LUUUUUUUUUUV HER !!!!!!!!!!

Her petit fours and cakes look delicious.

Why watch her, r5??? For the glamour, of course!

Glamour!

yum-ooooooooooo !!!!!

Fanny and Johnnie were....

My spirit animal.

Every year I watch all the extant YouTube videos and hope someone has posted some new ones.

Someone did a Julia and Julia blog with Fanny Craddock.

Most, if not all of Fanny's recipes are collected here.

A woman of importance...

But can she sing? I THINK NOT.

"This is a programme about fish."

She’s every eldergay rolled into one

A pensive Fanny...

So excited that I've set myself at Gasmark 5!

Fanny and Johnnie doing *casual*...

A loving couple...

R23 - SJP sought her inspiration from Cradock.

She's entirely new to me. Tremendous!

A vast selection...

Apparently she was a gold-plated bitch to work with. (shocking, I know.) Got canned by BBC for insulting the cooking of the housewife who won one of their cooking competitions.

Fanny was Joan Crawford-level thrilled to welcome a TV crew into her house to observe one of her gracious meals. For the occasion, she made a seafood platter that included prawns.

It was undercooked and she was mortified to have the camera zoom in on the dinner as it attempted to crawl away from the platter.

sex-oooo !!!!!!!

I love Fanny! I'm spending the rest of the evening streaming her! Thank you, OP!

I miss Sandra Lee, who was the modern American equivalent - but Aunt Sandy was drunker and more fun. Craddock has this marvelous dominatrix vibe that must leave Gordon Ramsey speechless with envy. Imagine that old bitch abusing the contestants on "Hell's Kitchen" for a momemt!

She was so filthy, never washed her hands after touching raw meats.

Discovering Fanny was one of the things I am grateful to DL for.

Loved the biopic with Mark Gatiss playing her husband.

On the petits fours episode she discloses her secret of using a MAKEUP BRUSH ("sterilized, of course") to spread the oil on baking pans. This to make "the kind of patisserie you had in Paris and only WISH you could find in England."

And the Christmas bird episode includes the tip of not slicing the turkey too thinly so it doesn't "taste of the knife."

I worship Fanny.

THERE'S A FANNY CRADDOCK BIOPIC? WITH BITCH WRITER MARK GATISS INVOLVED???

TELL ME, TELL ME EVERYTHING!!!

Fear of Fanny (2006), starring Julia Davis, R35.

"May all your doughnuts turn out like Fanny's."

I'd eat her out.

I suppose this could be a Caption This photo...

Oh, Fanny.

She sparkled only in the early "big show" demonstrations, such as the Albert Hall absurdity. Mostly her harried, bitchy misery showed in every frame.

I don't doubt she had rotting bodies buried all over, slammed a rolling pin up Johnnie's ass when drunk (living over 30 years with him out of wedlock and marrying bigamously twice in her life), did her son a favor by abandoning him, killed kittens by walking on them, and poisoned hundred.

RULE OF LIFE 334: Mad eyebrows tell a mad brain, and as they become more deranged the brain is going with them.

You forgot her easily lifted skirt, r40.

Anyone named Fanny is always a delight!

She was no Fanny Farmer!

The way Fanny squeezes dough with her truck driver hands is making me SO HORNY RIGHT NOW!!!

R21) I don’t give two shits about ms. Cradock, but that cocktail table though. Me likee.

YES!!!!!! "Fear of Fanny" is on Youtube, complete and for free!!

Thank you kindly, R36, and I will see the rest of you bitches in an hour and nineteen minutes!

Here it comes!

Mmmmmm....

Can you imagine what she'd have been like as one of the GBBO judges?

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Her former assistant claimed she used buckets of her own pee—or "Madam's Tonic"—to fertilize her vegetable garden.

Benny Hill as "Fannee Claddock"

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Christmas has come early ! She's too fabulous . I especially like when she wears evening gowns when shes cooking.

I love how she wipes her hands instead of washing them.

Surely she and Mary Berry must have crossed paths more than once.

R55 you will see that in a lot of old cooking shows. I just watched a segment of Julia Child where she is seasoning some ground beef and after mixing she says "let's check on the seasoning" and pops some in her mouth. Jacques Pepin often handles pots and pans after handling meat, it doesn't bother me over much, but some of the Youtube comments are funny.

bump

Was Fanny a Drag Queen?

Only in spirit, R59.

bump-ooooooooooo

In R34 her makeup inspiration seems to be Pierrot by way of Klaus Nomi. Brava!

I thought surely this was a man in drag, but apparently she gave birth twice.

Extraordinary.