Cooking Terms

[sincerelyyours2000]

The definitions make cooking seem more difficult than scientific research. The narrator keeps saying "instrument" instead of "spoon".

Chances are a girl in that era could have gone to any middle-aged woman and gotten better cooking instruction.

[FleurOlivia]

I love love love the description you made;D

[siamesemeg]

@FleurOlivia Ha! Thanks so much!

[VintageBeauty1313]

anyone else crack up laughing when she creamed the butter the first time??

[nanlisa]

Today, Margie can make healthier versions of those foods.

[SilentGig1]

Man this guys voice just SCREAMS for remixing with dubstep!

[SpeedyTase]

Anyone have the link for the Rifftrax version?

[penpapercoffee]

No Margie your cake didn't turn out so well......LOL! But is it at the soft ball stage? hee hee hee :D

[penpapercoffee]

No Margie your cake didn't turn out so well......bwahahahahahaha!

[Heasytastic]

10:04 - to soften fat with a spoon or *what*?

[MariAnKenobi]

I love it that Margie just moved into that house eight seconds ago and it's fully stocked - not only with her belongings, but with all the ingredients necessary to make whatever recipe she happens to choose from that cookbook!

Also, I wish chocolate cake was an acceptable lunch these days. :)

[siamesemeg]

@MariAnKenobi I know, right? I assume her house is so well stocked to make up for the brow-beating she's taking from the narrator.

Chocolate cake for lunch is a dream of mine.

[adrianeaglrck]

next episode how to please your man in bed...will Tim be surprised? find out soon

[wpl955g]

OK - scalloped cauliflower. Got it. Scalding milk. OK. #Add flour to melted fat, stir rapidly to avoid the formation of lumps' OH! You mean 'make a roux'. JEEEZ. Ten minutes wasted?! I could have just looked that up in a 'glossary of terms in the appendix'.

Off to cream some butter... blast, I'm out. Hope sour cream is close enough.

[ChBurkhart]

Get it right now. see

[slewis]

God, I wish I lived in the 50s.

[ChloePierre]

LOL! I like how she just tosses the WHOLE stick of butter in the bowl....Funny video...."To stir is to mix food matirials in a circular motion...." OMG YOU MEAN I'VE BEEN DOING IT WRONG ALL THESE YEARS? AHAHAHAHA!

[VIEWTUBE00000]

...."one of the best tests of a good cook is her jelly making skills" LOL!!!

[awesomeguy45]

lol soft ball stage

[LittlePinky82]

Chocolate cake for dinner? ;) LOL. I remember taking home ec in 6th and 7th grades and I enjoyed it. I learned how to make my favorite cookies: snookerdoodles. ;) LOL Margie didn't stir the ingredients? Damn even I know that one! LOL Tim will never know! Ooo so bad if he did lol.

[mattimus00matt]

i took home ec in the 7th grade and i thought i would hate it...but i acualy liked it :D

[ChloePierre]

LOL @ Chocolate cake for dinner.....I was thinking the same thing! This video is too funny!

[GreenHills77]

this is so sexist lol

[spazzz75]

scum mmmm i love that in my milk

[QueenOfTheDorkz]

Do people really learn this slowly? Even I know all of these terms already..... lol

[Skylinesandsunsets]

Did they really expect viewers to remember *EVERYTHING* that was taught in this film? Were viewers supposed to take notes?

[SpeedyTase]

These were generally shown during the home ec class in high school. They're still pretty handy since most high schools today have eradicated home ec from the curriculum.

[weewees1]

omg im not a perfect housewife ...fanny craddock will be so angry with me .i will be the talk of the town...oh no...

[gbradley626]

Who has time for cake on your lunch break?

[LordessNerevar]

I need to stop watching YouTube videos and get back in the kitchen before my man gets home!

[weewees1]

@LordessNerevar me too or I will be the talk of the town...lol

[lulz420]

cream, stir, fold, boil, SOFT BALL STAGE and beat.

[thegothicxlx]

uhh... i'm just wondering... who dumb enough not to know how to follow cooking instructions?

i mean come on, "cream"?

[causticgit]

"Sometime in your career as a cook, you WILL make scalloped cauliflower!" ...Hands up, who's never even HEARD of that?!

Good job, Margie, for thinking "lunch" means "chocolate cake." Where's the nutrition video?

[dalehouse]

Even Margie can! Don't worry Margie, the 70s are around the corner. You both will be smoking dope and exchanging house keys.

[SUPERTUBER01]

...good thing Tim didn't find out she ruined her first cake or he would have given her a good walloping!

[mechta]

WOW i honestly never thought that someone would need to explain those terms 0_O i mean come one stir ... ehh duh what could that mean lol

[AuroraBorealisAK]

i love old fashioned folks.

[pilar433]

Oh, c'mon..the soft ball stage? I can't stop laughing. This is hysterical. This is so funny. Lucky Tim.

[electrogeek77]

This is one of my favorite social guidance films.

So many nowadays see these films as being stuffy and conservative, but back when they first came out they were considered to be very progressive and modern.

[melaniestevens]

I am amazed at (although I shiuldn't be) at how hypersensitive everyone is to the narrator. I guess that comes with the 'aren't we all special and deserve an award for doing nothing' attitude of the last 2 decades. Ugh

[TwoLOUDsrEVIAL]

FUNNY!

[thrivesurvive]

yeeeees, even dumba** Margie can make a cake. Can you believe how condescending that narrator is?

[redfootwalking]

My 10 year old can run circles around Margie! hehehe...with her Easy Bake Oven. :) cute video!!

[thjadewolf]

I love that Margie, who evidently has never cooked anything before, is expected to have magically learned how to cook for her beloved breadwinner sometime during the wedding. Since she's a failure at that, guess they HAD to make a film explaining her womanly responsibilities to her.

Also, I have not and never plan to serve "scalloped cauliflower." Sorry, narrator guy, but I want to keep my friends.

[Adria20]

lol

[FoodStampOpera]

It disturbs me that he had to describe "stir."

[prayfertrey]

Tim is smiling because he has two wives.

[SCOBYsnacks]

i guess women in 1950 was retarded :p

[electrogeek77]

You might want to double-check your grammar before making statements like that.

[Maxload66]

Still laughing

[Maxload66]

the narration should back up a porn film. soft ball ? oh Margie

[bmaleyko]

so old school

[yoshi3329]

first of oall as a woman I don't find that to be sexit at all. the man is at work so it's going to be a little hard to cook when your somewhere else. and also hope to become a stay-at-home mom when I'm of age. and where can I find more of these videos please tell!

[kookomusician]

cant beleive how sexist those days were... why didn't the guy make his own food(im a guy, learning to be a chef) if the guy only read. If I had to do that(forced) I would poison the food"nobody tells me what to do"

[Neoality]

Wow, that's awesome

[MachiavelliNZ]

Another job well done, another slave, erm... wife educated! (yes, I'm being sarcastic :P)

[thegoodreverend]

Very cool. It's actually from 1949, though.

[yrurdnivek]

where are the bots when u need them...

[BSacchetti13]

i feel bad for the women in the 1950'5

[lillaura01]

it was funny and useful 4 owr thing. woo!

circular pygmies :)

[jetgirlart]

IRON CHEF MARGIE SMITH/JONES! Todays secret ingrediant is LARD!

[sweeneyt1]

I like how apparently Margie is too incompetent to figure out "stir" on her own, but "mixing with a circular motion to ensure uniform consistency"...THAT she gets.

[zerotreehill]

LOL "One of the real tests of a cook is their jelly making.."

I learnt a few things from this though!

[alanespinney]

If this was the state of cooking instruction in the 40's and 50's it's no wonder women went for every pre-processed, mix, and stuff-in-a-box.

[flychic89]

How misogynistic is that presenter! treating women like they are completely incapable of anything, like not understanding what "boil' is. wth.

[Cherrysweetdeal]

You'd think if she had a few brains... that she would look up the term before she baked it.

[claredontyoudare]

LOL...Soft balls!

[BSacchetti13]

LOL get a life

[Pneumothorax]

"To work it with an instrument"? Will a trombone do?

[Menoly]

This video made me giggle, but hey, at least I leaned something while cherishing the fact that I was not alive in the 40s/50s. Thanks for posting this!