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Ginger Cooking Tips – With Fanny Redcrack

April 13, 2012 by gingerfightback

Fanny Redcrack - Cook and Bull

Fanny Redcrack is famed for her groundbreaking TV cookery programmes in the 1960’s (her egg and amphetamine omelette is still the stuff of legend amongst the Wiltshire and South Gloucestershire Teepee community).

Fanny’s cookery skills are now at your disposal.

Eat up!

Dear Mrs Redcrack,

My mommy has promised me a new BMX bike if I win the local church’s ‘Bakeagingerbreadmanathonacompetition’ but I can’t be arsed looking for a recipe.

You got any?

Jimmy (8 and a half), Tipton

Dear Dear Jimmy,

You brought a tear to my eye young man. For as a young boy myself I too was a cheeky little sod. But as I blossomed into a young lady, I realised the importance of learning how to run one’s home.

Of course by the time I had children, Serge The Gingerbread man was a regular visitor to our kitchen. As was Terry The Milkman, Bert The Coal Man and Neville The Gardener (I still tingle at his potting skills).

So Jimmy – Gingerbread Men!

Mix;

12oz of plain flour,

6oz light brown sugar,

4oz butter

1 teaspoon of bicarb of soda.

Add 4 tablespoons of golden syrup and 1.5 teaspoons of ground ginger. Roll and cut.

Bake.

Top with a little grated sweetened carrot to really wow the judges.

Bon Chance!

Fanny

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Britain, Cookery, Drugs, Food, Hippies, Humor, People, Random, Recipes, Satire | 41 Comments

41 Responses

on April 13, 2012 at 4:56 pm | Reply Linton's Legacy

What are you like eh Jim? 🙂
- on April 14, 2012 at 10:42 am | Reply gingerfightback
  
  A great fan of Fanny and an advocate of a well baked fancy!
  - on April 14, 2012 at 10:49 am Linton's Legacy
    
    Oh My! 😀
on April 13, 2012 at 5:38 pm | Reply susielindau

Potting skills… shivers…Hahaha!
- on April 14, 2012 at 10:40 am | Reply gingerfightback
  
  Indeed Susie!
on April 14, 2012 at 1:28 am | Reply Rachael Black

Have to know…. does dear Fanny have the US slang attached to it or the UK and Aussie slang attached?
Just checking for gender correctness while cooking the gingermen/persons
Signed,
Some Demented Chef in Nevada

p.s. still cracking up at your post
- on April 14, 2012 at 10:38 am | Reply gingerfightback
  
  That is her name! Any sexual connotations are purely incidental. Her husband was called Johnny, which in UK was a source of schoolboy sniggering..
  - on April 17, 2012 at 4:18 am Rachael Black
    
    am thinking of my UK friends who visit and snicker at my friend Randy…
  - on April 17, 2012 at 2:56 pm gingerfightback
    
    Agreed
  - on April 19, 2012 at 2:11 pm HoaiPhai
    
    And I dated a girl named “Pha Ny” a while back (true story).
  - on April 19, 2012 at 2:45 pm gingerfightback
    
    A wonderful name – how long did the relationship last for?
  - on April 19, 2012 at 2:56 pm HoaiPhai
    
    A couple of months until one day when I was supposed to meet her where she worked and take the bus with her downtown for dinner together (dinner downtown, not on the bus). She called me on the phone just as I was about to head out to say, in a nutshell, “Don’t bother coming. It’s over”.
  - on April 19, 2012 at 3:01 pm gingerfightback
    
    Sorry to hear that – did you have some dinner though? – important to keep your strength up in times of stress.
  - on April 19, 2012 at 3:08 pm HoaiPhai
    
    I cannot specifically recall about my dietary intake that night but, were I a betting man, I would say “No”… I think she was supposed to be paying so losing a girlfriend AND a free meal all in one fell swoop probably put me off my supper.
  - on April 19, 2012 at 3:59 pm gingerfightback
    
    Kick a man when he’s down!
on April 14, 2012 at 4:33 pm | Reply kateshrewsday

Delicious. Would LOVE to try that egg and amphetamine omelette…
- on April 15, 2012 at 10:59 am | Reply gingerfightback
  
  It is very easy to cook Kate and as a result, you will get round the London Transport museum in next to no time on your next visit.
on April 15, 2012 at 3:11 am | Reply Three Well Beings

I’m disappointed that I haven’t previously been introduced to this saucy and obviously very stylish personality! Where have I been? We Americans have been shortchanged, and this must be remedied. I’m on it! Debra
- on April 15, 2012 at 10:55 am | Reply gingerfightback
  
  Thanks Debra – I think there is room for an American Fanny. Just a shame the name is double entendre Nirvana. Best wishes!
on April 15, 2012 at 4:59 am | Reply lostnchina

I have to apologize in advance – I read Fanny Redcrack as “Fanny Redrack” and “tingle at his potting skills” as “tingle at his potty skills”. Must switch to another brand of prune juice….

But absolutely hilarious all the same.
- on April 15, 2012 at 10:53 am | Reply gingerfightback
  
  Thanks glad you enjoyed it – the potty skills got me!
on April 15, 2012 at 1:24 pm | Reply Subhan Zein

Hello my friend,

You have posted some good stuff up here. Nice! So keep it up my friend! 🙂

have a wonderful day! 🙂
on April 15, 2012 at 2:56 pm | Reply Andrew Thomas

As a fan of fanny for many years, its nice to see you helping out the community. You will let us know if Jimmy ever gets his BMX won’t you? I would love to donate some spokey dokeys to the cause. A BMX without spokey dokeys is like a day without Fanny.
- on April 15, 2012 at 3:51 pm | Reply gingerfightback
  
  Don’t worry I shall post the result in a couple of weeks. As for the spokey dokeys – just pop ’em in the post – look forward to receiving them (even if I haven’t the foggiest what they are!). Cheers!
  - on April 16, 2012 at 6:17 pm Andrew Thomas
  - on April 16, 2012 at 6:36 pm gingerfightback
    
    Cheers
on April 15, 2012 at 5:21 pm | Reply trixfred30

Dear Mrs Redcrack

I’ve just acquired some Colombian laughing powder together with a half ounce of top notch Morrocan Oxo Cubes. In the store cupboard I have a small bottle of Grandma’s Sicilian Knock-Out drops and a package of Mexican Sensimila. I am at a loss as to what to do with this list of ingredients. I did think of making some cupcakes for the kids to take to school tomorrow but the Mrs said this was ill advised. Any suggestions?
- on April 15, 2012 at 6:23 pm | Reply gingerfightback
  
  Fanny will get back to you in a short while!
on April 16, 2012 at 9:49 am | Reply butimbeautiful

Mrs Redcrack, you should collaborate with Oily George some time – I wish more women of a certain age would adopt your under-stated yet elegant look!
on April 16, 2012 at 10:32 am | Reply Oily George

Trust me i frequently do collaborate with Fanny.

Yours

Oily George.
on April 16, 2012 at 12:36 pm | Reply aFrankAngle

You have such a cast of characters here! 🙂
- on April 16, 2012 at 12:57 pm | Reply gingerfightback
  
  Unsavoury Bunch though!
- on April 16, 2012 at 2:16 pm | Reply gingerfightback
  
  I know and sadly they are all real people (sort of!)
on April 16, 2012 at 9:57 pm | Reply Rachael Black

I’d add a chennel to my cable television package to see a new series called Oily George cooks with Fanny
on April 19, 2012 at 1:25 am | Reply Lorre

What an amazing woman. She looks like she posed for calenders in her younger years.
- on April 19, 2012 at 8:40 am | Reply gingerfightback
  
  She is and she did.
on April 19, 2012 at 2:10 pm | Reply HoaiPhai

To you think things would turn out if I took Dame Redcrack’s dough and wrapped it around a breakfast sausage before baking?
- on April 19, 2012 at 3:05 pm | Reply gingerfightback
  
  Deep filled Sausage Rolls are an essential part of anybody’s diet. Fanny suggests that you lightly dust with crushed barbiturate for a lovely crunchy topping. Mmmmm……….
on April 19, 2012 at 3:14 pm | Reply HoaiPhai

Mmmm…. time to take the wire suede brush to my tooth nubs and get cookin’ !
on April 25, 2012 at 10:46 am | Reply Dionne

You should do a whole cookbook – you actually made the recipe sound exciting lol
- on April 25, 2012 at 11:11 am | Reply gingerfightback
  
  Thanks!