Making Liqueur Chocolates: Boozy Sweet Treats (1965) | British Pathé
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- Let your sweet tooth ache as you watch these handmade liqueur chocolates being expertly prepared by a team of talented ladies in the 1960s.
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Piccadilly, London.
Absolutely wonderful footage of home made liqueur chocolates being made - yum. Pathe Pictorial takes us through all the various steps involved. They are being made for a "famous Piccadilly store" - which is not named (could be Fortnum and Mason - SL).
Sugar syrup is made then liqueur added. Various shots of moulds being made in trays of warm starch. The liqueur mixture is dripped into the moulds then the top is covered over with the starch. The delicate shells of liqueur are taken out of the moulds when the outside has solidified slightly. (Always wondered how they did that!)
Cherries soaked in brandy are taken from a big barrel then covered with gooey pink fondant cream - mm! Melted chocolate is seen in a big vat - it pours out of the bottom. Peppermint creams are covered in chocolate. The liqueur shells seen earlier are covered with chocolate. "There are women up to their wrists in it" says the narrator over a shot of a woman dipping chocolates in melted chocolate - her hand is absolutely covered in chocolate - not very hygienic!
Various shots of the chocolates being wrapped by hand and arranged in boxes. C/U of a box of very cute foil covered chocolates with the name of the liqueur contained within. Narrator suggests that this is the last place where hand made chocolates are made but I'm not so sure about that. He says that "mass-production" is an ugly word here and talks of the old world charm of chocolates that are made one at a time.
Various shots of chocolates on display in the shop then C/U of woman popping a choc into her mouth. "That's probably what you've been wanting to do since we started this story" says the narrator - too right!
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It makes sense why people would gift a box of chocolates back in the day. They were literally hand made works of art. Today, you just know they are made by a machine in mass numbers.
That is an excellent point. When chocolates and candies were made like that, a box would be a very special gift.
Absolutely, today's chocs, are light years behind these gems.
@@robharding5345in my opinion today's chocolates are better because it's more accessible thanks to increased production numbers, more hygienic due to reduced human contact during manufacturing and more uniform products thanks to reduced human errors, but the taste is what really matters which is only affected by storage,production and ingredients
@@perlasandoval7883 and your opinion is as valid as mine, or any other for that matter, But I'm sticking to my old recipes, Even the boxes were far better back in the 60's, But that could also be open to question !😄😄
Very true, but I think back then more things were hand made. But this is *SPECIAL* ❤
1:20 awwww that single cherry fell 😢🍒
With the amount of booze in that cherry, it likely sterilized the floor. Would've slurped it up just the same :)
She was fired on the spot.
That saddened me too.
Dont worry, on the floor is waiting another one for sure. 😉🍒
Rat took it.
i love the color intensity in these films
Same as the old school colour cookbooks mainly from USA.
and the lack thereof
I also love when they don't have color
people always point out the film process in these old videos. but they forget to grasp the importance of the lighting of back then
Is it Technicolor?
The precision of these chocolatiers is phenomenal.
if you work several years in a domain you eventually get to master it
@@eduardd.1086 that doesnt even make you a amuture in the kitchen its 22 years for professional 35 years for master 8 years for amateur. Thats the time frame for all baker mentorship
Trust me my dad was treated like a amture for 22 years before he found a place that understood my dad could replicate anything someone made and do it probably faster and tastier even with the same ingredients.
@@Mystickrage I worked in a bakery few years ago and took me 3 months from getting the job to leading the whole production, from getting the flour to placing the bread in baskets of a small shop inside.
@@Krompierre. sir bread baking isnt baking end of story thats a flour only bakery and thats simple as 6 ingredients
When quality meant more than money. Gone times.
Although, if people put in much hard work into their products, they will be unique in their good products and most likely become famous for it
It meant money back then too. Those chocolates could not be bought by your average person back then. Those ladies working the lines could not afford them.
it's tru they are quality but they'd be £50 a box now, easy.
There are still hand-made chocolates. They're produced in small quantities, in quant, artisanal shops, and priced accordingly. That said, it's good to have nice quality sweets that people can enjoy more frequently (more often than a special occasion), and are more affordable.
I think there's still quality if you want to pay for it. Haven't you seen how those customers are dressed? That's not you average supermarket
I think they still make this except most of us commoners can't afford the price for a piece of chocolate..
0:44 glitch in the matrix
What?
well spot !
That's... weird. Especially because everything else in the shot seems to move seamlessly.
@@kkgt6591 that long thing used to make the candy mold twitched side ways as if there are two of them then it snaps back to its own dimension back to the fiery pits of hell in another parrarel world leaving it back to a normal state again
@@linnen_elm oh right. Thank you I see it now.
these women are amazing... they know the trick ...haha it is funny when you remember lucy having problems in the chocolate factory, this is not for everyone
Hahaha she made a mess
wow! i'm seeing double! four melanys!
Eat some of the chocolate for herself
1:20 cherry casually rolls off the edge.
Months and months of pickling in brandy to just . . . fall off.
I need a moment.
She lost her cherry on the factory floor :)
it's not pickling. It's just maceration/infusion. The word _pickling_ in English refers to two processes - lactic fermentation or vinegar immersion- this already makes the word very vague, as those are completely different processes, so let's not muddy the -waters- brine even more by adding liqueur to the mix :)
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руками трогает да еще без маски а вдруг она больна чем?!?!
@@ghost-ul1dl you asked this 2+ times! no one here reads russian!
@@MaryStewart ты же смогла прочитать . точно так же как и я без переводчика смог прочитать то что ты пишешь. не зря же говорят -"могучий русский язык" возможно за ним будущее. за ним или за китаем,не важно россия или китай,все рядом,не далеко!
I loved watching this. I'm not that old, but I used to make hand made peppermint creams for my daughter when she was little. I made other sweets too. She's lactose intolerant so i liked to know what was going in them.
What was it like riding dinosaurs as a kid?
@@portablerefrigerator4902 whats it like to have your virginity still?
@@daddysfatsausageinyourbumb4419 -daddyfatsausage inyourbumbums
@@portablerefrigerator4902 Go touch some grass, random person in the internet.
Oh that's lovely!
Those green liquer centers look like cough drops
Those were probably creame de menthe ones. It's a green liqueur.
@@R.M.MacFru Or green chartreuse.
Or green wine
Aleksander Dogger I doubt it, if I remeber correctly chartreuse wasn't exactly common place because it had wormwood in it, and anything with wormwood was banned for a while because wormwood is a poison. So if the ban was lifted by then it still was taboo to have chartreuse in stuff. ( I might be wronge, but I'm pretty sure I'm right )
@@allangarry9068 I think it says chartreuse on the bottles she is pouring in the sugar solution. But I could be wrong. It says chartreuse on one of the chocolate wrappers at the end.
So many lost arts. Thank goodness they're still on film.
It’s incredible how they don’t drip any chocolate anywhere! This is truly an art!
We all love a clever grandma.
Lmao
I love the light jazz music that is often used in these Pathe documentaries.
It's quite a world away from today's documentaries, wouldn't you say? Numerous British Pathe films from the 1950s through the 1960s (and also the intro to the first Willy Wonka movie from the early 1970s) have a soundtrack that seems to have no common match in today's world.
(And yes, I was speaking slightly British here on purpose, though I live not in the United Kingdom.)
The music is as delicious as the chocolates
Can we just appreciate the craftsmanship that went into making that tiered box with the drawers at the end?
But they should wear gloves, it is unpleasant to see how they handle the chocolates without gloves, I do not like to see how the lady dips her hand in the liquid chocolate. 😝👎
@@untalfelipin5202 We should write the factory a letter
@@untalfelipin5202 Nobody used plastic gloves in 1965. Life was better, then. Way better.
you know it was a different time when a woman with manicured nails could just have her hand with no glove or anything just constently in a pool of chocolate that the candy would be dipped in.
True but hygiene wasn't much of a thing back then. Lol! I still see people not wash their hands after going to the toilet in this day and age... Yet they are wearing a mask so its fine....
@@ZeliardFTW People have been washing their hands for centuries. Midwives/birth surgeons started washing their hands in the 1850s. So from then on, childbed fever almost died out.
Yes, that was really off-putting. And every last one of them would have been handled while being hand-wrapped, too!
@@nordiskkatt good thing it was 56 years ago so it’s not like you’ll be eating any of them or anything …
It's what give home made goods that extra flavor. My aunt use to say it was her essence that makes food taste different from others. I'm sure most people would say grandma's cooking was the best and she didn't wear gloves. It's her own special seasoning. 😜🤣 We like the way people taste. 😏🤣🤣🤣
Flying kiss for those ladies in chocolate factory 😍😄😙
All dead..
So sad they died.
@@majorgenerall it's only from 1965 lmao of course some of them are still alive and well
well. this acquired a necrophiliac tone all of a sudden lmao
All zombie now
Love the music, sounds like a “Carry On” movie!
Sure does. 😁
2:16 CWORRR, they’re up to their wrists in it
Or a goofy cartoon voice over
"Would you like to dip something in it or just pop it straight in your mouth?"
"'Ooh er missus!"
Carry On Sweeties
OR - You Show Me Your Cherry Drops, I'll Show You My Turkish Delight
This was beautiful to watch, love the narration too!
I love these British Pathe films. What a delight.
This seems like a magical time
Yes the house wife tends to the house, while the man works all day, and if he isn't happy then she should be ashamed!
@@ZeliardFTW yeah back when racism and sexism were very okay. Not that magical.
@@TonySolis99 Ah shut up. The world had a backbone back then, unlike today. The only thing deemed ''racist'' about that time were words used in a time when people didn't get offended over words. The meaning of certain words back then meant something different. Now they've been redefined to suit the snowflake brigade.
Definitely a lost art. Not a machine in site. All hand crafted another area. So delicious and beautiful. 😀
Look at the quality of these products, these were the boxes of chocolates that we ate as children in the 60s on special occasions, like when our Grandmother would let us each have one from the box we just gave her...
...memories.
Back when food was meant to be made with two hands, love and a grandma's touch.
“Where mass production is a cheap and ugly word.”
I couldn’t agree more.
Brandy cherries. So good
"ummm thats what you probably wanting to do since we started this story"
PLEASE DONT TEMPTED ME
Beautiful handmade work of art.
...and delicious.
Definitely You can See the Good Quality of things and Food Being Made in This Era.
Loved each and every video of British Pathe...wonderful, eye shooting videos made with elegance .
How beautiful, a beautiful golden time of the past.
Absolutely mouthwatering
Exquisite presentations! How colourful it is!
Now there is a woman who knows how to pour her spirits.
I never get tired of watching this video. Those techniques are so fantastic! Who discovered and enhanced those was a genius
I like how in many of those videos they have things falling down without editing it out
Marvelous! This is one of my favorite kind of videos 😉 I love chocolate ☺
This truly amazing, I am always amazed on how they do it and the quality of the films spite there age
When I watch this, I can smell a vintage Christmas 🎉❤
What a perfect video to get recommended this Christmas ☃️🌲
Old times=good times
I Love this, it's So beautiful, and the gorgeous narration as well, oh those were the days...
Take a look. No additives just really good ingredients. Made by hand no less.
Que coisa mais linda essa fábrica, tudo feito a mão, que delicadeza esses bombons! ❤
absolute bliss
i love the colour of intensity in these video
The music is so classy
This camera quality is too good for 1965, well done 👍
Какая трудоемкая работа!!! И как же раньше все было с душой сделано ))))
British Pathe is my favorite! But I think the video was in Fortnum and Masons.
Very unique talent skill, because it's hand made .
Thank you for this
So perfect.
love this series ❤🧡💙
Edible works of art.
I love these old videos
I love this anchor voice
Take me back. I hate 2020 I wanna live in 1957
You did live in 1957 in your past life
Omg, this is magic!
Where can you find chocolates like that now, I wonder. Don't know if any Grandmas who made chocolates, but as a child, my neighbor next door was a chocolate maker and made beautiful candy and chocolates in her basement kitchen. Easter was wonderful.
There's a chocolate factory in New York that's been making handmade candy for over a century.
@@sun_chariot6141Is it Li lac? Those were amazing.
You know one of the things I love about these old Pathe films? They show English men and women, working in factories, using their hands and doing the jobs we are told must go overseas or be done by immigrant labor.
Wow, I love it
I love the music so much.
Honey get my time machine out.. am going to make a quick run for chocolates and come back..
The chocolate box case it's so colorful . 😍
i would kill for a barrel of brandy cherries
love this mood
Thank you !!
My goodness I love this video. ❤
They look like they're made with Nyquil.
Pretty much was
Licqeur is disgusting
@@CoinsAndCapsaicin do they still make it? What did it taste like?
@@CoinsAndCapsaicin what are you? 6? candy is dandy but liquor is quicker!
I love clever grandmas
I think this might be Fortnum & Mason.
It is and it is a shame that their chocolates have deteriorated so much and the service is atrocious
I bet they taste divine !!
They must've had such soft hands from all the chocolate!
2:16 me during loose motions....
3:16 arhhh she ate it!!!
I wish things were still like this!
Now these are real chocolates not the waxy plastic artificial looking ones that you get nowadays 😋
I loved how times were simpler
NICE. ORIGINAL CANDYS THAT IS SO VERY HARD TO FIND NOWADAYS. 🍬🍬🍬😊
Then Cadbury's moved in and bought them out...Enjoy your plain chocolate bar ...
Thanks to Cadbury and industrialization, generally speaking, everyone can enjoy decent quality sweets. In those days it was only for special occasions like Holidays and Birthdays because the vast majority of people couldn't afford them.
@@dncviorel the way it should be.
@@themagnanimous1246 Ok boomer
freakyflow I was thinking the same thing, then I thought, we still get artisanal chocolate stores AND we have more affordable options, so actually I’m fine with the change 😁
@Western Unity I blame that on people without self-control, not on the industrialisation of sweet production :D
elizabeth II probably ate 1 of those, good job elizabeth!
Beautiful chocolates.
I left a jar of cherries filled with Everclear in my Aunts cupboard in England for 5 years , they were well pickled
I miss this quality and these stores
Those were the days
Às embalagens dessa época era lindas perfeitas
Queria ser deste tempo 🌸
bring it back, all of it
Gorgeous!!! But if I worked there dipping chocolates I’d been dipping into the brandy
Imagine the taste? Proper cherry brandy. Yum.
I would be fired...
I looooooove this video
nothing is amazing like getting dead drunk on a mix of brandy, whiskey and cherry handmande chocolates
Lovely!
It's amazing
wow i like it a lot!
unbelievable
I wish such shops were still around in such numbers.
There are shops still around. Like the one in New York that's been around for over 100 years. Or Lofty Pursuits in Tallahassee. He has a CZcams channel.
These little gems are out there. Just keep your eyes open ❤
Amazing.
Wow superb 👌
Amazing