The public were incensed at her eye-rolling rudeness and condescension, and felt that Fanny Cradock had ruined Troake's special day. "The Daily Telegraph" wrote "Not since 1940 can the people of England have risen in such unified wrath...". Fanny wrote a letter of apology to Troake, but the BBC terminated her contract two weeks after the broadcast of the programme. She would never again present a cookery programme for the BBC. (Troake, by contrast, published "A Country Cookbook" of recipes the following year; it included the coffee cream dessert Cradock had vetoed.) Speaking about the incident on "Room 101" in 1999, "The Big Time" producer Esther Rantzen described Cradock as "hell on wheels", and that she had "reduced this poor little lady to nothing".