This clip is taken from one of her strangely hostile Christmas cooking specials. To see her at her best, look up Franny Cradock Cooks for Christmas on youtube. Highlights include manhandling every type of edible bird and making a questionable mincemeat omelet covered in powdered sugar.
You have probably seen jokes referencing these specials without knowing it, especially her patronizing manner toward her silent assistant Sarah. It is essential viewing.
Fanny was a television personality, writer, and also starred in commercial films promoting gas cookery at home. She left televsion after disparaging a home cook’s contribution in a competition show.
Wait maybe she’s on to something…I’m convinced swiss rolls can smell fear.
KeyEcho5594
I have been so afraid to make a Swiss roll! Maybe I will keep this “fuck it” technique in the back of my mind.
FreeTheDimple
r/whybrows
Was also very sure this was a dragqueen for about a minute. Apparently not.
creepy_chronich
For all the bakers here who are afraid of this, freeze your cake unrolled. Take it out the next day, and put on your filling, let it thaw for about 15 min, and then roll it. I work in a bakery where we make a ton of these.
Traditional_Most_460
scary???
Magari22
This woman is a queen. I love her no nonsense attitude. No fuss just GO FOR IT 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
2ingredientexplosion
Are they wearing someone else’s face as a mask?
lemon_icing
I am fascinated by her ruthlessness.
BrotherNatureNOLA
But it doesn’t look nice.
OiKay
I think the funniest reaction I ever saw to Fanny Craddock was the giggle box Christmas special because it mixed people that remembered her television show with younger people that had no idea and everyone watching and rewatching together and the commentary was so funny.
JGDC
That was altogether terrifying but it was over before I even knew what was going on. I would trust her to quickly relocate my knee or shoulder with some parchment paper.
golf-lip
Thought that was the drag queen Tammy Brown at first 😭
BenGay29
Are those mushrooms?
vintageideals
I love her so much. As a young child, I had an “ adoptive grandpa” (landlord who was a retired ww2 vet w two adult children who never had kids) and so I’d spend so much time with him one on one, going on pizza pilgrimages, hanging in his work shop or garage, whatnot. But every once in awhile, he’d take me back to his actual house and drop me in the kitchen (quite literally abandoning me) with his wife Kathryn. She was SO. EFFING. BRUSK. I sat there in that mid century kitchen scared stiff at the table and just watched her puddle around and cook. She hardly ever cracked a smile and if I thought she did, I questioned what I was seeing.
Eventually, Anthony would come rescue me when he’d felt she’d had her fill of a stand in granddaughter and he and I would swing in the porch. Kathryn still all moody in the kitchen lol.
But a large part of me believes that’s why I preferred to learn to cook from vintage mid century era women who were kinda hard to read and icy.
Frosty-Cap3344
I’m still convinced she is a drag act
OrcaFins
r/whybrows
QueenMabs_Makeup0126
I need to remember this the next time I make pumpkin roll!
ExplanationFew8890
Skills!!😲 Now all of us have to figure out how to not blast pumpkin all over the kitchen by hesitating. 😂
Mindless0ne
BBC Film ‘Fear of Fanny’ (2006) | Julia Davis as Fanny Cradock
I flinched like someone jumped out at me with a knife. The power on display here is unreal.
Fun_Giraffe1114
“What you got there, is a rolling pin. Who are ya, Fanny Craddick coming to bake us a cake? I came here for a shootout, like some proper gentlemen, like in a western.”
toomuchlaundry
Insane she just does it so quickly.
But also….she looks like Dunice from SNL (probably spelled that wrong)
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This woman is the anti-Mary Berry.
This clip is taken from one of her strangely hostile Christmas cooking specials. To see her at her best, look up Franny Cradock Cooks for Christmas on youtube. Highlights include manhandling every type of edible bird and making a questionable mincemeat omelet covered in powdered sugar.
You have probably seen jokes referencing these specials without knowing it, especially her patronizing manner toward her silent assistant Sarah. It is essential viewing.
Fanny was a television personality, writer, and also starred in commercial films promoting gas cookery at home. She left televsion after disparaging a home cook’s contribution in a competition show.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Cradock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Cradock)
Tbh ….
I love her.
Wait maybe she’s on to something…I’m convinced swiss rolls can smell fear.
I have been so afraid to make a Swiss roll! Maybe I will keep this “fuck it” technique in the back of my mind.
r/whybrows
Was also very sure this was a dragqueen for about a minute. Apparently not.
For all the bakers here who are afraid of this, freeze your cake unrolled.
Take it out the next day, and put on your filling, let it thaw for about 15 min, and then roll it.
I work in a bakery where we make a ton of these.
scary???
This woman is a queen. I love her no nonsense attitude. No fuss just GO FOR IT 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Are they wearing someone else’s face as a mask?
I am fascinated by her ruthlessness.
But it doesn’t look nice.
I think the funniest reaction I ever saw to Fanny Craddock was the giggle box Christmas special because it mixed people that remembered her television show with younger people that had no idea and everyone watching and rewatching together and the commentary was so funny.
That was altogether terrifying but it was over before I even knew what was going on. I would trust her to quickly relocate my knee or shoulder with some parchment paper.
Thought that was the drag queen Tammy Brown at first 😭
Are those mushrooms?
I love her so much. As a young child, I had an “ adoptive grandpa” (landlord who was a retired ww2 vet w two adult children who never had kids) and so I’d spend so much time with him one on one, going on pizza pilgrimages, hanging in his work shop or garage, whatnot. But every once in awhile, he’d take me back to his actual house and drop me in the kitchen (quite literally abandoning me) with his wife Kathryn. She was SO. EFFING. BRUSK. I sat there in that mid century kitchen scared stiff at the table and just watched her puddle around and cook. She hardly ever cracked a smile and if I thought she did, I questioned what I was seeing.
Eventually, Anthony would come rescue me when he’d felt she’d had her fill of a stand in granddaughter and he and I would swing in the porch. Kathryn still all moody in the kitchen lol.
But a large part of me believes that’s why I preferred to learn to cook from vintage mid century era women who were kinda hard to read and icy.
I’m still convinced she is a drag act
r/whybrows
I need to remember this the next time I make pumpkin roll!
Skills!!😲 Now all of us have to figure out how to not blast pumpkin all over the kitchen by hesitating. 😂
BBC Film ‘Fear of Fanny’ (2006) | Julia Davis as Fanny Cradock
[https://youtu.be/NZyVfDSob1o](https://youtu.be/NZyVfDSob1o)
“Leeroy Jenkins!” – Fanny Craddock
I flinched like someone jumped out at me with a knife. The power on display here is unreal.
“What you got there, is a rolling pin. Who are ya, Fanny Craddick coming to bake us a cake? I came here for a shootout, like some proper gentlemen, like in a western.”
Insane she just does it so quickly.
But also….she looks like Dunice from SNL (probably spelled that wrong)