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I've started viewing this show and I'm finding it...entertaining. I can say that my year living in Scotland did NOT leave me with any positive memories of the baked goods you see being prepared on this show. I guess things have improved over there in 30 years. All I recall is the bakery chain throughout Scotland called, 'Gregg's the Bakers'. And my only memories were of 'sausage rolls' and scones. GOOD scones though.
Any of you Bake in Britain?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSqjaAO1en0
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Inspired by the show, I baked a yule log cake this year.
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It's funny you mentions Greggs, they are everywhere (they do a good meal deal).
I watch this in Canada with some friends who enjoy baking. We meet up every few months and binge a few episodes and bring baking around. It's a good Sunday afternoon.
I do miss pie shops. The north of England is full of them. There's 8 pie shops within a ten minute walk of our house back home. They're filled with cakes, too. Usually of decent quality, and fairly cheap.
The Baking Show is up and down in seasons, depending on who is in it. But mostly entertaining and gives you a few good baking ideas. It definitely got me interested in baking from time to time.
Wait, Xebec..Greggs is in CANADA as well? If that's what you're saying I should investigate further. I'd love to be able to cross the border where I live and find a Greggs in Alberta. Do you think they differ in tastes and quality from the one's in Scotland? I realize Greggs sausage rolls aren't 'baking', but that's where I found them. The more unhealthy, the better the taste!
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Inspired by the show, I baked a yule log cake this year.
I honestly don't know what that is. But my best guess is that if it requires at least two cups of Brandy and is then set a-light, you can count me in!
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Inspired by the show, I baked a yule log cake this year.
I honestly don't know what that is. But my best guess is that if it requires at least two cups of Brandy and is then set a-light, you can count me in!
https://twitter.com/ThatNeilGuy/status/1212759862616240129/photo/1
That looks like an actual log. Forget the brandy. If this is all chocolate, let me give you my address as it's only just passed the yule seaason.....
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Inspired by the show, I baked a yule log cake this year.
I honestly don't know what that is. But my best guess is that if it requires at least two cups of Brandy and is then set a-light, you can count me in!
https://twitter.com/ThatNeilGuy/status/1212759862616240129/photo/1
That looks like an actual log. Forget the brandy. If this is all chocolate, let me give you my address as it's only just passed the yule seaason.....
It was a thin chocolate cake topped with creamy whipped chocolate, then rolled into a log shape. I covered it with chocolate ganache. You'll have to come by for a slice next year! My wife - a chocolate fan - requested I start making them annually.
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Yeah, I bake, & make a very nice sponge cake, chocolate, coffee & lemon & coconut with a nice bit of strawberry jam in the middle (that's three cakes). And bread pudding (that's one from the past) bread & butter pudding, rock cakes & scones. I do love the program, but it's very stressful for the contestants, & that's the opposite of baking at home, it's very restful & relaxing baking at home.
If I may ask, what are 'Rock Cakes' and what is 'Bread and Butter Pudding'? Also, when you were describing all those flavors...until you pointed out they were THREE cakes, I thought to myself, '...sounds interesting'.
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Yeah, I bake, & make a very nice sponge cake, chocolate, coffee & lemon & coconut with a nice bit of strawberry jam in the middle (that's three cakes). And bread pudding (that's one from the past) bread & butter pudding, rock cakes & scones. I do love the program, but it's very stressful for the contestants, & that's the opposite of baking at home, it's very restful & relaxing baking at home.
If I may ask, what are 'Rock Cakes' and what is 'Bread and Butter Pudding'? Also, when you were describing all those flavors...until you pointed out they were THREE cakes, I thought to myself, '...sounds interesting'.
Yeah, I put three cakes as an afterthought, just in case someone thought it was one big (tasty) mess. Don't you have Bread & Butter pudding over there, layers of (usually stale) bread with milk & eggs (which becomes sort of custard in cooking) & currents & raisins, like Bread Pudding, it's a way of using up stale bread. They didn't like throwing away food in the old days (everyone seems to throw it away by the ton now).
I dunno, you must have Rock Cakes over there, I reckon you have.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/rock_cakes_03094
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I dunno, you must have Rock Cakes over there, I reckon you have.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/rock_cakes_03094
I have never heard of rock cakes so looked at the recipe and, um, nope, not something we have over here in the US of A.
Also, Brits sure do like their candied fruit and caster sugar.
Also also, I've got some leftover candied fruit from another British recipe I made at Christmas, so I'm thinking I'm going to try making rock cakes...
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I don't like candied fruit, whenever I see that in a recipe I replace them with just sultans (big fat California ones). I'm staying with my mother this week & she wants me to make a polenta lemon cake, with polenta & ground almonds (no flour), Pru Leith's recipe. I'll give that a go.
Do you know what That Neil Guy means by your 'caster sugar'? A British sugar of some sort? I do know that we cannot mention Black Pudding in a negative sense or Tall Guy will come down hard on us. I once saw a local butcher's shop in Edinburgh 'make' Black Pudding. The Horror - The Horror.
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