Victorian week

Great British Bake Off episode 8 2015

Great British Bake Off episode 8 2015 – Patisserie

Great British Bake Off episode 8 2015 – Patisserie: The remaining bakers must work their way through delicate french fancies. In the first quarterfinal challenge, the bakers have to make twenty-four cream horns in three and a half hours. They are asked to make twenty four cream horns – twelve of each flavor, using either puff, ruff puff or flaky pastry. Mary’s recipe for nine Mokatines is set for the technical challenge. These are small, delicate genoise sponges, filled with a coffee buttercream meant to be attractive, as if “in a patisserie window.” Religieuse à l’ancienne are set as the […]

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Great British Bake Off episode 7 2015 - Victorian

Great British Bake Off episode 7 2015 – Victorian

Great British Bake Off episode 7 2015 – Victorian: In a Baking Show first, the entire episode is devoted to the period of history that gave birth to modern baking, the Victorian era. For the first challenge, the bakers have three hours to make a raised game pie. The pie must have thin pastry, and must be very ornate, as most game pies from the era were.     For the technical challenge, a tennis fruit cake is set for the bakers. The bakers were given three hours to make a fruit cake, along with royal icing and sugar paste,

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