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Cookery series with Big Cook Ben and Little Cook Small. Mary Mary Quite Contrary comes into the cafe and they make her Fancy Flowers. She gives them flowers in return.

Customer: Mary Mary Quite Contrary
Recipe: Fancy Flowers

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00:00Big cook, little cook, welcome to our cafe.
00:11Big cook, little cook, want you to come and play.
00:18Meeting all the friends we cook for, sharing stories, trips and fun.
00:25Big cook, little cook, we'll cook for everyone.
00:30Oh, hello, welcome to our cafe, the best cafe in the world.
00:41I'm staying out of Ben's way at the moment, he's in a terrible flap and I've got no idea why.
00:47His face looks like this.
00:51You wait and see.
00:56Look, he's doing it again.
00:58Oh, we've got a problem.
01:01Calm down, Ben.
01:02Whatever's the matter?
01:04Oh, hello everyone.
01:06It's Aunt Millie's birthday and we haven't got her a present.
01:10Oh, it's Aunt Millie's birthday and we haven't got her a present.
01:14Oh dear.
01:15Well, maybe we could buy her one.
01:18Ben, we haven't got time.
01:19We're in the cafe all day.
01:22Well, perhaps we could cook her something.
01:23You know what Aunt Millie's like about food?
01:26I don't like this.
01:28I don't like that.
01:29Well, what are we going to do?
01:30I don't know.
01:31I really don't know.
01:34We've got a customer.
01:36A customer?
01:37Well, customers come first, Ben.
01:39But we still need to get something for Aunt Millie's birthday.
01:42We'll have to think of that later, Small.
01:44Go and see who the customer is.
01:45I'm on my way.
01:47Who is it today, Small?
01:54I'll give you some clues.
01:56See if you can guess too.
01:58It's someone who likes growing silver bells and cockle shells and pretty maids all in a row.
02:04Is it a girl or is it a boy?
02:06It's a girl.
02:07A girl who likes spending lots of time in her garden.
02:09Oh, I think I know who it is.
02:12Is it Mary Mary?
02:13Yes, it is, Ben.
02:14It's Mary Mary Quite Contrary from the flower garden.
02:22Mary Mary Quite Contrary
02:25How does your garden grow?
02:29With silver bells and cockle shells
02:33And pretty maids all in a row.
02:37Ho-ho!
02:38I bet she's hungry after all that watering and weeding.
02:41Now, what shall we cook for her?
02:43What would somebody who grows flowers like to eat?
02:46I think it's time to look at my book.
02:56We need a story to help us cook.
02:59Let's take a look in Little Cook's book.
03:02Little Cook's Adventures in the Big World.
03:05Let me see.
03:06This is a story about Mary Mary, who more than anything in the world loved her flower garden.
03:15Lots of people came to Mary's stall to buy her beautiful flowers.
03:19Sometimes a bunch of tulips or daffodils or sometimes just one rose.
03:24It was lucky Mary Mary had a big garden, just the place to grow lots and lots of different flowers.
03:30But to grow flowers, you need seeds.
03:33Today, she was going to plant some more.
03:37She went to her shed and picked up a seed packet.
03:40She planted the seeds in little rows all over the garden and watered them with her watering can.
03:45Then there was nothing to do but wait for the seeds to grow.
03:50So she waited and waited and waited until one morning she came out and as far as the eye could see,
03:59there were hundreds and hundreds of big green leafy things and not a single flower in sight.
04:06Mary Mary was so disappointed, she just sat down and cried.
04:12I knew I had to help.
04:15Poor thing.
04:16She thought she was a really bad gardener.
04:19But Little Cook Small knew better.
04:21I could tell straight away what the problem was.
04:24I started to pull up the leafy things and underneath the earth, I found carrots.
04:30Mary Mary realised she must have planted the wrong seeds.
04:33They weren't flower seeds, they were carrot seeds.
04:38And very good carrots they were too.
04:41We poured them up together until we had stacks and stacks of juicy orange carrots.
04:46Then we planted the flower seeds in the empty garden.
04:49Mary Mary was going to have to wait until the flowers grew.
04:53But in the meantime, she put a big display of lovely orange carrots on her stool.
04:58Then she made carrot soup, carrot cake and carrot juice for all her customers.
05:02Little Cook to the rescue once again.
05:08That was a great adventure.
05:10Well, roast my potatoes.
05:12What a lovely story, Small.
05:15Whey!
05:17Thanks, Ben.
05:18So what are we going to make for Mary Mary Quite Contrary?
05:22Well, why don't we make her some silver bells and cockle shells?
05:25Oh, no, Small.
05:27I don't think they'd be very tasty.
05:29This needs some careful thought.
05:34I know, Big Cook's Big Cookery book.
05:44Of course, the Big Cookery book.
05:46There's recipes for everything in there.
05:48And where do we look for things to cook?
05:51In the book.
05:52In the book.
05:52In Big Cook's book.
05:56Oh, yes.
05:57The very thing.
05:58Fancy flowers.
06:00Mary Mary will love these.
06:02They'll remind her of her garden.
06:04Come on, Small.
06:04You read out the ingredients and I'll see if we've got them.
06:07OK, let's see.
06:08We're going to need butter.
06:09OK.
06:10Over to the fridge.
06:11Here we go.
06:13There we are.
06:13Butter.
06:14An egg.
06:15One egg.
06:17Got the eggs, Small.
06:18Castor sugar.
06:19Oh, over in the cupboard.
06:21Here we are.
06:22Castor sugar.
06:23Yep.
06:24Plain flour.
06:25Oh, plain flour.
06:27There we go.
06:28And boiled sweets.
06:30Boiled sweets.
06:31Boiled sweets.
06:33Er, er, yes.
06:36Oh, here we are.
06:38Everything we need, apart from the boiled sweets.
06:42I was a little bit hungry earlier, Small, and I ate them.
06:46They are my favourite.
06:48You've eaten all the boiled sweets.
06:51Well, don't worry, Ben.
06:52It's another job for Little Cook Small and his magic spoon-mobile.
06:57Great idea, Small.
06:59And I'll get everything ready.
07:01Hey, why don't you come along, too?
07:03Woo-hoo!
07:03Go, Small, go, Small, whizz away.
07:11I wonder what he'll see today.
07:22I'm in the right place here.
07:25This is where sweets are made.
07:27Sweets are made from sugar.
07:28All the ingredients are mixed together and heated up in a big pan.
07:41It's really hot.
07:45Look at all the steam.
07:46Yeah, this one's turned red.
08:02He's going to make orange and red sweets.
08:11Ah, I love sweets, but I make sure I brush my teeth after eating them.
08:15It's all gooey.
08:25Yummy!
08:30That machine is rolling out the sweets.
08:38There's hundreds of sweets, but they're all joined together.
08:41When they've cooled down, they're all broken up.
08:52Sweets come in lots of pretty colours,
08:55just like the flowers in Mary Mary's garden.
09:01Mmm, that was fun!
09:03See you later!
09:04There, I think I've earned a nice tasty boiled sweet now.
09:17Did you bring any back, Small?
09:19Whey!
09:20I certainly did, Ben.
09:23It was amazing watching the sweet maker.
09:25First, he mixed lots of hot, sticky stuff on a table.
09:30And as it cooled, he turned it into lots of colourful boiled sweets.
09:34And here they are!
09:36Whoa, thanks, Small.
09:40All measured out and ready to cook.
09:42We're all ready, so take a look.
09:44And we will show you how to cook.
09:46The jelly boats and pirates go, Princess Pee Pies.
09:54Carrot cakes and fruit smiles.
09:56And envelopes surprise.
09:58We love our cafe and we love to cook.
10:01We have a fantastic recipe book.
10:07He is big cook and he is small.
10:11Friends in our cafe, we cook for them all.
10:15When your tummy gets all rumbly, you're ready for a treat.
10:21You can make something delicious to eat.
10:30Have you cleaned the surfaces?
10:32Yes.
10:33Have you washed your hands?
10:34Yes!
10:36All clean and ready to cook.
10:39Do you remember the ingredients to fancy flowers?
10:42You do.
10:42There was butter, 200 grams.
10:46An egg, one.
10:48Caster sugar, 200 grams.
10:50Plain flour, 400 grams.
10:53And boiled sweets, six.
10:55Whoopee!
10:56Let's get started!
10:58First of all, I'm going to turn on the oven to 180 degrees Celsius, gas mark four.
11:03And make sure you get your grown-up helper to do that bit for you, because the oven is hot, hot, hot.
11:10And be careful not to fall over on one of those sweets, small.
11:13As if I do something as daft as...
11:16Oh!
11:16Just making sure.
11:21Hmm.
11:22Right.
11:23I'm going to get these sweets sorted out once and for all.
11:26And I'm going to put the sugar...
11:29...and the butter...
11:33...a little bit more...
11:34...into a mixing bowl, and I'm going to cream them both together.
11:39Creaming is a special kind of mixing.
11:43Here we go.
11:47All the red ones first.
11:50One, two, three.
11:54There we are.
11:56All nice, pale, creamy and fluffy.
11:59So now, it's time to add your egg.
12:05In it goes.
12:07And I'm going to give it a good stir.
12:10Round and round.
12:11And get it all mixed in.
12:13Now it's time to sort the yellow sweets.
12:16One, two, three, four.
12:23Now we need this to be a little bit thicker.
12:25And what makes things thicker?
12:28That's right.
12:29Flour does.
12:30Hey, hey.
12:30So I'm going to add in our flour a little bit at a time.
12:35There we are.
12:36And as I'm doing this, I'm going to give it a bit of a stir with the spoon.
12:41In it goes.
12:42Keep stirring.
12:44Mix it all in together.
12:46And last of all, the orange.
12:48I wonder how many there are.
12:50One, two, three.
12:54Here we are.
12:58Oh, and this is the fun part.
13:00Now I'm going to squidge it up with my nice clean hands.
13:04Here we go.
13:05Oh, yes.
13:07Give it a good old scrunch up.
13:11This will teach you sweets.
13:13Keep you in order.
13:14There are five red, four yellow and three orange.
13:20There we are.
13:22Look at that.
13:23Perfect.
13:24So now I need to roll it out to make the biscuits.
13:28I've already floured the board, so I just need to start rolling it.
13:33There we are.
13:34Turn it round.
13:37Very good.
13:38There we are.
13:40There'll be no more slipping over on sweets.
13:42Hee-hee.
13:44Oh, these biscuits are going to be very tasty.
13:47And they're going to look just like the flowers in Mary Mary's garden.
13:51So I'm going to use this flower-shaped pastry cutter to cut out the biscuits.
13:56So I'm going to pop it down on there, press down, and then, oh, up it comes.
14:08I'm going to scoop it up.
14:11There we are, nice and careful, and pop it onto a grease baking tray.
14:16There.
14:17And now I need to use this round pastry cutter to take a little hole out of the middle.
14:22On it goes.
14:28Twist it, and out it comes.
14:30There's one, and now for another.
14:32Mary Mary, you're such a beautiful garden.
14:35I wish we had silver bells and cockle shells in our garden.
14:39It would make the vegetable patch look so pretty.
14:41And just finish off the last one.
14:45There we are.
14:47These holes are going to be for our boiled sweets, which we're going to pop in later.
14:50We need to let them cook a little first.
14:52So, in the oven they go for ten minutes until they're nice and golden.
14:57I'll set the timer.
14:59For ten minutes.
15:02There.
15:11The biscuits are ready.
15:13There we are.
15:14We just need to leave them to cool down for a couple of minutes.
15:17So, how are those sweets coming along, Small?
15:20Ready when you are, Ben.
15:22All present and correct.
15:24Which colour would you like first?
15:26Oh, that doesn't matter, Small.
15:27We're going to have multi-coloured flowers.
15:29Mary Mary will love that.
15:30Thanks very much.
15:34You've messed up all my sweets, Ben.
15:37Oh, sorry, Small.
15:39These are cool now.
15:41So, I'm going to pop in the boiled sweets.
15:44One there.
15:45One there.
15:47Another one in there.
15:49One there.
15:51And that one.
15:53And then that one.
15:55Brilliant.
15:55Multi-coloured flower biscuits.
15:58Oh, Mary Mary's going to love these.
16:00And don't worry if your boiled sweet doesn't fill up the hole you've cut out.
16:04They'll spread out once they're in the oven.
16:06Which is where they're going right now.
16:08So, oven gloves on.
16:10And we pop them back in the oven for another three minutes.
16:13And remember to get your grown-up helper to do this bit for you.
16:16Because the oven is hot, hot, hot.
16:24There we go.
16:27And now we wait.
16:32They're as pretty as real flowers, Ben.
16:34Mary Mary Quite Contrary is going to love these.
16:38Oh, no doubt about it, Small.
16:41Just look at the light shining through.
16:46Mmm, they look great.
16:51Fancy flowers coming through.
16:57So, what do we do now?
16:59Can we play?
17:00Not yet.
17:01Time to clean and put away.
17:03Hooray!
17:04Wash, wipe, scrub and clean.
17:14Make the kitchen sparkle and gleam.
17:19My name's Ben.
17:21And my name's Small.
17:23We've got the cleanest kitchen of all.
17:27Tidy all the bits and pop.
17:29The things that help us do our job.
17:31Ingredients well put away.
17:32Ready for use another day.
17:34Pots and pans will start to smell.
17:36If we don't wash them really well.
17:38And now it's clear.
17:39Let's all smile.
17:40We'll be finished in a little while.
17:42All around.
17:42All around.
17:43Up and down.
17:45We've got the cleanest cafe in town.
17:48We've got the cleanest cafe in town.
17:52We've got the cleanest cafe in town.
17:54We've got the cleanest cafe in town.
17:55Aha!
17:55Here comes the plate.
17:57Hey!
17:58It looks like Mary Mary enjoyed her fancy flowers.
18:01And look, Small.
18:03There's a note.
18:04What does it say?
18:05What does it say?
18:07Let's see, shall we?
18:09It says, dear Big Cook Ben and Little Cook Small.
18:13The fancy flowers were yummy.
18:17And to say thank you, here's some real flowers from my garden.
18:21Isn't that kind?
18:24Ben, are you thinking what I'm thinking?
18:27I think I might be.
18:29What are you thinking?
18:31Happy birthday Aunt Millie.
18:33See you soon.
18:36See you soon.
18:37Oh, yeah.
18:41Big Cook, Little Cook.
18:44Welcome to our cafe.
18:48Big Cook, Little Cook.
18:51We'll cook for everyone.
18:54We'll cook for everyone.
19:03Big Cook, Little Cook, Little Cook.

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