She found fame nearly a century after her death due to being portrayed in a series of YouTube videos made by English Heritage, who now manage the site.

[7] By 1871, she was working as a cook and housekeeper in the household of Thomas Proctor Beauchamp at Langley Hall, Norfolk, one of 16 servants employed by the family.

Although staff wages are not known at Audley for 1881, in general male cooks commanded around £100-120 a year (the upper end if French), whereas women's salaries ranged from £40-60.

Crocombe copied several recipes from Eliza Acton's Modern Cookery for Private Families (1845), for example, while others were sourced from newspapers and visitors to the house.

[12] English Heritage has commissioned a number of videos for their YouTube channel featuring Kathy Hipperson playing Mrs Crocombe.

[13] The videos were produced by Gareth Clifford of the Digital Content Team, assisted by Annie Gray, and several English Heritage staff have also appeared, including historian Andrew Hann (whose work on Avis has enabled positive identification of a photograph donated with the recipe book as probably being Avis and Benjamin),[14] and the current curator of Audley End, Peter Moore.

In 2018 English Heritage also collaborated with James Townsend & Son, an American costumed interpretation and historic props company, with crossover videos featuring packages sent from the UK to the US and vice versa.