Metadata
WORK ID: YFA 7286 (Master Record)
Title | Year | Date |
GOOD ENOUGH TO EAT | 1962 | 1962-01-01 |
Details
Original Format: Standard 8 Colour: Colour Sound: Sound Duration: 12 mins 30 secs Credits: Ronald Padgett Genre: Instructional Subject: Women Education |
Summary The second of two amateur educational film produced by Ronald Padgett in which a woman provides instruction on how to decorate a Christmas cake. |
Description
The second of two amateur educational film produced by Ronald Padgett in which a woman provides instruction on how to decorate a Christmas cake.
Title: Good Enough to Eat
A woman in a white coat holds up for the camera a round fruit cake before placing it on an icing turntable. She walks over to the cake holding a saucepan and using a small brush proceeds to apply the top of the cake with the sugar liquid.
Next she kneads a ball of marzipan pressing small pieces into the top of the fruit...
The second of two amateur educational film produced by Ronald Padgett in which a woman provides instruction on how to decorate a Christmas cake.
Title: Good Enough to Eat
A woman in a white coat holds up for the camera a round fruit cake before placing it on an icing turntable. She walks over to the cake holding a saucepan and using a small brush proceeds to apply the top of the cake with the sugar liquid.
Next she kneads a ball of marzipan pressing small pieces into the top of the fruit cake. She then places a rolled tube of marzipan around the edge of the cake before using a metal ruler to check the cake is even.
She places the cake to one side, takes out a rolling pin and dusts a wooden chopping board with icing sugar. She rolls the remaining marzipan in a circle and places the upturned cake onto it. Using a sharp knife, she cuts off the excess around the edges before turning it back over.
Another piece of marzipan has been rolled out on the board and the woman uses a piece of string to measure the circumference of the cake. She places the cake on its edge over the marzipan and rolls it around the cake.
Using a metal spatula, the woman begins to smooth white icing onto the top cake, which now sits on a turntable, before adding more icing around the sides. She uses a plastic scraper to even the icing around the edges.
Decorations are placed onto the cake and a pipette is used to create a star. More icing is piped around the edge of the cake.
The woman places a piece of sugar paper onto a table and proceed to produce a drawing in Santa Claus in icing. Once the icing has hardened, she unpeels it from the sugar paper and places it onto her cake adding more detailed icing with the pipette. The cake is completed with a red ribbon being tied around it.
End title: The end
Context
About Ron Padgett (1923-2001)
Ron Padgett was born in Birkenshaw, Yorkshire, but spent his entire married life living in Leeds. He became a keen cinematographer in the late 1950s and was an active member of the Leeds Cine Club throughout the 1960s – winning competitions for his 8mm films.
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