Roll up, roll up, Hollywood Handshakes for all! Great British Bake Off 3rd Thread

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And we’re off

Oh good idea! So they would be thinking they were going to make it themselves? (sorry I'm a bit dense today )

Yes!

If I'm writing a recipe for someone else, I put so much info in to it (like PAGES with a story) and I notice my friends do this for me too.

But if I'm writing a recipe for myself, its just:
8 flour, 6 sugar, 6 butter, 1 egg, mix in, 180 for 40.

Its a brilliant idea luckystars all the competitive side of WI show bake competitions and Secret Squirrel xmas gifting (sort of) - you dont know what you are getting or from whom - rolled into one ! 🤣. Camera focuses in on major disappointment when a recipe is allocated! There is drama the stuff of legends when the recipients baking is better than the original! Top stuff! I would copyright that format right now. 👍

Regards your Me Week suggestion, 3luckystars, I’m guessing Schaden meant the idea was inspired, not insipid. (She has a preternaturally malevolent autocorrect demon which stalks her - tragic really)

I also think it is genius by the way, take a bow 👏 👏 👏

Aw fleas, I thought schaden was just being blunt (not really). 😀

Bugger! Did I put "insipid"?

fleas (who knows me so well) is right. I meant INSPIRED!

Slobbers! Down boy - Down, Sir! I will not tell you again!

Take a good sniff, Slobbers! Now -find that autocorrect! SEEK, SEEK, SEEK!

that poor keyboard Schade you'll get reported to the CTK authorities Cruelty to Keyboads

I love your idea luckystars ..that would be a great twist. It would only work once though, or they'd just find the most fiendish recipe they could!

(I am ignoring schady's rather excellent autocorrect in case I start laughing again. I wouldn't want to embarrass anyone)

I was wondering if there's a copyright on the programme anyway, Paul's and Prue's recipes aren't totally original are they?

I doubt that there are any truly original recipes TBH*. And I suspect to professional chefs pick up ideas etc along the way and customise them for their own nefarious ends.

Even my groundbreaking "stickleback en croute" owes a lot to FuzzyCustard* and the inventor of en croute. Getting 20,000 sticklebacks per portion stops it being as popular as it deserves

Sorry - have no idea why random bolding and italicising

Autocorrect has gone to ground somewhere - Slobbers is a lazy are!

Seeing as it's Danish week does a bacon butty count as a show door stopper?

I love Stickleback en croute. We only have it at Christmas though as it takes all year to catch the fish. However it is better than the starter...Tadpole Tart.

... just getting organised for tonight after whipping up a clam and winkle pavlova with aquafaba (yak)

actually I can seriously recommend adding red pepper and walnut pesto and creme fraiche to home made french onion soup base. It was awesome. 👍 no baking involved!

Autocorrect had ‘creme’ as ‘crime’ which I took extremely personally 😡 although on reflection I quite like ‘crime fraiche’ and wonder if it will be implicated this evening 😀

Shall we have a sweepstake on the number of times certain danish keywords are mentioned?

Rye 5-1
Kringle 3-1
Cinnamon odds on favourite

(Don’t have a scooby about betting obvs)

checking in

Hello whatashower. Signing in for tonight's Danish Week. (apart from pastries I know nothing of Danish food.

I think "sandi should know this one" will come up at least four times.
"Sandi's mum" may also feature as a phrase.

Let's go!

Rahul...what is a "crawshaw"???

Prue is wearing a very fetching IKEA curtain. (Well, it is Scandinavian)