Fanny Cradock’s mincemeat omelette is the real taste of Christmas. Bon appétit! | BBC Archive

With less than a week to go to Christmas, why not follow Fanny Cradock’s tips for “lubricating the dry bird” that is turkey. Fanny Cradock cooks for Christmas is available in its entirety, here, on BBC iPlayer - https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p05jvnwl/fanny-cradock-cooks-for-christmas-series-1-5-petit-fours | BBC Archive

Today we have 'Fanny Cradock Cooks for Christmas' from 19th December 1975. 47 years ago today. This was a 5 part mini-series that ran from the 15th to the 19th December in the run up to Christmas that year. | TVARK

📺 'Fanny Cradock Cooks for Xmas' Tuesday 16 December 1975 ~ BBC1: 15.43 Continuing her five-part series from yesterday, today Fanny shares her recipe for Christmas pudding and the method for making the old-fashioned 'round pudding', together with her brandy butter and the recipe for her Mum's trifle. And if you thought Bake Off was bad for innuendos, in this series Fanny talks about forking birds, how you can't cook without "using a finger" and lubricating the bird - and all around forty years

📺 'Fanny Cradock Cooks for Christmas' Friday 19 December 1975 ~ BBC1: 15.43 Part 5/5: Petits Fours - Fanny's recipe for choux pastry with her advice and know-how on making miniature eclairs, choux buns and glacé icing. Fanny dedicates an entire episode of her 'Cooks for Christmas' series to Petits Fours which is a strange one in itself but what seems even stranger is that she only gives one recipe - for choux paste (with general advice on making miniature eclairs, choux buns and glacé icing). F

📺 'Fanny Cradock Cooks for Christmas' Thursday 18 December 1975 ~ BBC1: 15:43 Part 4/5: Royal Mincemeat Fanny's recipe for mincemeat and special advice on how to use it: in pies, puff pastry, pancakes, omelettes and even mince-filled swiss rolls. Fanny saves the dish she is most pleased with in her mincemeat story until last - the stomach churning - Mincemeat Omelette. It is essentially an omelette richly filled with mincemeat and dusted liberally with icing sugar quicker than you could snap yo

📺 'Fanny Cradock Cooks for Christmas' Part 3 : The Christmas Cake. Wednesday 17 December 1975 ~ BBC1: 15.43 It's all in the booklet, Fanny tells us, the tone acerbic and dry, before only with a smidgen of disdain, blesses us with not one but two recipes for Christmas Cake. Her Grandmothers 'Rich Fruit Cake', that apparently so many people love (although not Fanny it would seem) and a 'spit new' one that Fanny has never shared before, her 'White Christmas Cake', which is beige of course. Fanny i