The heat is on and taking its toll already on a new batch of considerable British Bakers. But wasn’t cake supposed to be fun?The considerable British Bake Off (BBC1) | iPlayer
One of Us (BBC1) | iPlayer[br]The Watchman (C4) | All 4[br]The Circuit (C4) | All 4Much was made back in The considerable British Bake Off’s infancy in,astonishingly, only 2010 – sometimes it feels like it’s been hanging around since a warm 1954, and in many ways a tender and a lovely thing,less so had it been actual cake – of the fact that it got Britain baking. The market in sexy spatulas and unsexy Cath Kidston aprons went bull. Finally, we were all going to educate our children in the archaic ways, and by entreating them with floury mommy smiles to beat together industrial dosages of fat,chocolate, flour and fat, and cook it just short of the required time and fade to bed with an educated intestine-ache. Because that was,um, exactly what Britain needed. More fat kids.
Everyone got it erroneous: they either caked wrongly or drizzled wronglyThere is no other single hour of drama this year in which I’ve been to my knees, or reduced to the floor,to watchContinue reading...
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