I don't know what's more impressive, the baking or the narrator's seemingly endless supply of puns.

A lot of men who find baking intriguing in this video.

"for the housewife, or a man who finds it an intriguing hobby"

This is why the cameras were made for .. this is what all media should be.

Can't stop watching these old videos of people making stuff. Genuinely fascinated by it, knowing that today most local craftsmen and specialties have been lost due to the development of mass production. We really live in a dystopian nightmare compared to the bright-eyed, hopeful curiosity of the mid-20th Century.

These all look so stunning. The cinematography is like nothing you see today. So beautifully restored as well. And shot and edited with such discipline. Very educational too. Thanks for making these available!

Seeing paul showing us how to make marzipan in the 1960s and then jumping back to the same man in the 1930s was such an amazing transition. Bravo

For a history nerd like me this channel is perfect and I can't stop watching we need to archive everything that is made so that history nerds in the future can enjoy things in the way I enjoy this channel

"Marsipantimime" might be one of the best puns I've heard in a long time.

The true Great British Bake Off

I was once given a marvellous cook book which was an exact copy of Baking & Cooking for a Tudor Banquet !! I was left speechless at the photos of carefully reproduced cake decorating of 500years ago! The utterly exquisite sugar paste figures, shields, flora & fauna, replica jewels, fruits & Even musical instruments in painstaking detail & tremendous skill & artistry Also similar creations in Marchpane ( a forerunner of marzipan ) Colour photos of cakes up to 8 tiers in hight! Bowls of life size sugar paste fruits, incredible menus of Banquets for kings & Queens of 20 courses !!! There are even lists from the masterchefs & pastry chefs, makers of sweetmeats & the patisserie makers of all the ingredients required for the huge feasts The lists gave amounts, prices I cant tell you the amount of produce required.. its mind boggling! But some of the big banquets went on for 2 or 3 days & guests were in the hundreds & had to be seated & served all these courses In 1st, 2nd or 3rd servings over the required days! Whole herds of sheep & cattle were driven from the country into the Royal kitchens & put in paddocks to cater to the vast guest lists 100's of chickens, ducks, pheasants, thousands of eggs, gallons of milk, every fish available ready in the Royal ponds! So huge was the amount of work & people to do it that outside great fires were set with meat on spits as the kitchens werent big enough I wont even get started on the beer, ale & wine consumption! Its a brilliant book! & ive another book similar with all the recipies in! But! Ive NEVER seen such cake decorating or Sugarpaste sculpting so marvellous ! There was even a set of Playing Cards all made from Sugar paste work! Thank you, this was a really interesting video Regards 🇬🇧👧

This is a pleasure to my eyes and to my soul. Thanks a lot for share such a treasure. Greeting from Argentina.

He used Pi to measure the amount of marzipan on the cake edge!

Thank you for this relaxing video British Pathe! I used to make apple strudel with my Mom and sister in the 60s! Mom had learned from her grandmother. The three of us stood around our round kitchen table, stretching the dough in the air with our fingertips, until we could read the newspaper through the dough! From Boston USA

Thank you so much for sharing this treasured Video.

The music is soo good. It takes me back in time.

Don’t stop archiving these video treasures!!!!

The pace, the cinematography, the narration... and the bread. Lovely!

Next month should be retro futurism! What people thought the future would be like!

This British Pathe videos shall be watch for young generations.Greetings from the Philippines

DOUGH BOY ❤❤❤

I am watching this on 25th December 2020. Happy Christmas everyone

For the housewife, or the the man who finds it an intriguing hobby.

I could watch old news reels all day long.

3:08 Those figures are simply adorable!

Oh my gosh i found the vintage food channel with the amazing voice over. 😂

Didn't know that Nick Jonas was a baker

they should have an art museum to exhibit these brillilant artwork

Before machines' influence on mankind, people were so talented

I love the great old films of manufacturing, production, bakery and pastries, etc. The only thing I always notice is the narrator's puns...

“A slice of Queen Elizabeth cake” - shows painting of Mary, Queen of Scots

I can't believe how far cake technology has come since then!

Oh my! Its only 9'45am, but I'm hungry! It shows how much we have lost when one looks at these experts at work! They took pride in their work!

Wow those icing portraits!!! And i thought my Elmo cake was elaborate!!!! Thank you for sharing

Such amazing craftsmanship!

Ppl were so creative back then

6:03 they just made a "WHO ELSE DOES THIS?!?!" meme before it was even a thing

I love that these old films exist and have been digitised.

見てて楽しいぃ〜っ！✨✨🥐 このテカテカツヤツヤした焦げ茶色🤎のパン！！ おとぎ話とか、絵本に出てくる感じで好きなのよね。 あと後半やっぱり科学者みたいなおじさんがお菓子作ってるのウケる。

Ahh Sweet Old Days

Good thing we watched this while we're eating lunch! I'd be eating the mouse otherwise, and licking the wall!

They never used masks, gloves and caps. Yet surprisingly healthy. I liked this bread engineering. Clay for using their endless creativity.

I love how the narrator keeps commenting on how hard it is to find handmade bread “in this day in age”

its more like fine delicate art than baking. Very inspirational.

Old is gold 😍..thanks for sharing 🥰

that bakery person is a perfect for the queen

Well that's a real Baker.

Very enjoyable! ❤️👍🏻

What patience these people had, on the other hand, people today complain about peeling a banana badly

Absolutely love these videos thank you sir 🇬🇧

they make it look so easy. sigh.

All your films are amazing. Greetings from Russia, Syzran town

superb. Enid Blyton’s England come to life.

I'm so happy I found this channel, I subscribed!

Such a delightful video..loved the narration 💛

Great Video! Greetings from Hong Kong.

Amazing Artistry ! 😄 Thank you for posting , I really enjoyed

I thought that was a octopus in the thumbnail

I wish I was alive during those simpler times

I like this channel muchh!!!!!!

Baking the old fashioned way, but still love it, nowadays bakers have all the convenience to make all sorts of breads and cakes in a whim 🥰😋

Paul looks so happy making his little marzipan animals

5:00 he's using math

Simply amazing.

6:50 kinda proves that a red Sana Clause predates Coke Ads.

8:20 Creepy 'Bake' Face.

Everything was an art in those era. :)

I love British culture. The marzipan animals are really kawaii

There's something about this narration style that is perfect when it comes to subtly taking the piss.

Beautiful Queen Cake🌹

8:21 LOL

Thank you for sharing this 🥰🥰

It's a really high art. Wow, just amazing !!! 🇮🇱❤️😋😲

i loved the old civilization...and its beautiness

Qué paciencia! obras de arte culinarias!

WOW, such a fine dough for the Apfelstrudel (= apple strudel) and then ruining all with this weird cutting and rolling of it!

Not seen a harvest festival wheatsheaf since I was in Infants School, the 80s. Don't hear of them being made at all, nowadays

So the pillsbury dough boy is literally a play on how the people who worked dough (like Apprenticeship) were called dough boys and they worse solid white uniforms because white is the only color flour doesn't make look bad when baking/working with flour.

That trick of cutting through both sides is often used in the goldsmiths trade for creating a perfect solder line when sizing a ring

god his puns are so dry in a really funny way. typical british humor

Flies are included in the recipe?

Look at all that mold on the wall. And the scorched paint too, due to the humidity. Yum.

next month: shops, shoping groceries like theese days wallmart

Grandes artistas ... Estou fascinada

Brilliantly documented, as usual! 😄

Excellent video

Thank you.

Omg this looks so yummy

Wonderful. All so beautiful done.

Bread! It’s just delicious bread! Seeing the thumbnail picture, at first I thought they were snakes, then I thought they were some kind of nasty creepy crawlers. Thankfully, I was wrong! 😅

Прекрасно и вкусно!👍

I'm happy nobody asked where are the gloves ...

No effort put in like this anymore.

I am now craving breads and cakes 😬

I wish more people still spoke in this "BBC" style rp. or am I the only one who wants to weep when I hear the "youth" trying to sound all "ya know Wat a mean blad innit"

Nice look and hard work

Nothing better tham this

What always amazes me is the quality of that dough. 2:00 - !!

Gracias

the puns and dry humour in this documentary