GaryJamesActor

On a whim I decided to recreate one of #FannyCradock ‘s infamous Christmas recipes from her 1975 BBC TV series ‘Fanny Cradock Cooks for Christmas’. The series fascinates me, not just because the studio kitchen, cooker and pans look so grubby and dirty (including her dirty fingernails) but the recipes are so utterly repulsive. Her mincemeat omelette is a quick and easy cook, so I decided to whip out my pan and try it so you don’t have to. Enjoy!

https://youtu.be/JQQkjT-MHP4

Fanny Cradock Christmas Omelette Recreated and Taste Tested!

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Dec 29, 2022 at 6:39pmWeb
Show threadMarch PayneDec 29, 2022
@GaryJamesActor Quite amazing! Thank you for trying this so I don't make the mistake and do it myself. This is the one recipe that has always fascinated me from the Christmas cooking programmes, I think because I always wondered how she ever came up with the idea for it to begin with.
Show threadGaryJamesActorDec 29, 2022
@march_payne you’re welcome. It was fun and mercifully quick. Most of her recipes are too stomach churning to even contemplate making. And what she did with sprouts was a crime against humanity 🤢
Show threadChris HearnDec 29, 2022
@GaryJamesActor It's a festive staple for us to watch that series (along with Delia Smith's Christmas from 1990), but just the thought of that abomination of an omelette is enough to make me feel icky.
Show threadGaryJamesActorDec 29, 2022
@cjhearn ha ha - I watch them frequently with ever increasing levels of incredulity. I remember them first time they were on and I recall discussions then as to how awful her stuff was. Certainly nobody I knew would ever have made anything she murdered 🤣🤣
Show threadRichardDec 29, 2022
@GaryJamesActor Brave man! Lovely to see you on my telly. Clio says hi!
Show threadGaryJamesActorDec 29, 2022
@LifeInPieces Big cuddle for little Clio. Give her a kiss from me xx
Show threadRichardDec 29, 2022
@GaryJamesActor Much purring x
Show threadGaryJamesActorDec 29, 2022
@LifeInPieces she’s so very beautiful. 😻😿
Show threadRichardDec 29, 2022
@GaryJamesActor ❤️
Show threadGavin CritchleyDec 30, 2022
@GaryJamesActor This was excellent. Please do more revolting recipes from Fanny’s library. She sounds like she has a fascinating back story too.
Show threadGaryJamesActorDec 30, 2022
@gavincritchley It would be fun to recreate her revolting concoctions and then end it like Nigella by serving it to friends at a convivial dinner table. Of course it wouldn’t be quite as luscious as hers - instead of smooth jazz background music perhaps a brass band, or maybe The Portsmouth Sinfonia? And there would have to be a bucket for people to eject the food safely - I predict there’d be no time to make it to the downstairs cloakroom 🤢
Show threadGavin CritchleyDec 30, 2022
@GaryJamesActor I will be a willing victim.