Anyone watching Britain's best bakery? & a girl called jack

MrsE_2

Anyone watching Britain's best bakery?

I really enjoy it, if I'm being picky I would like to see them each make a bread, a pastry & a cake (s) in each of the first 3 rounds, to go through.

I think it's really hard to compare their sig bakes. It would make more sense if they flocked birds of a feather together & compared three that wanted to enter bread as their sig bake & then set them a pastry & a cake as their challenge & bakers dozen.
If they wanted to enter cakes them they could give them bread & pastry for the bakers dozen & so on for pastry.

I love the cream tea round when they go into the finals, but it looks like the judges only taste 2 of the 5 items!

On a seperate note, A girl called jack is £7.00 on Amazon:money:

meritaten

I have been watching this - and totally agree with you. Bread, Bakers dozen then a pastry to finish I would have thought to be more appropriate format. the cream tea is a nice round - would have preferred to see that instead of the sig dish. which should have been saved for their 'last ditch attempt to impress in the final'.

orangesmartie

TY for the heads up on a girl called jack

meritaten

Did you see how they made 'rough puff pastry'? totally wrong! my old cookery teacher would be spinning in her grave! we made this lots of times and the CORRECT method is

8 oz Self raising flour
4 oz butter
pinch of salt
water to mix

divide the butter into thirds, rub one third of the butter into the flour and salt.
add water to make a soft but pliable dough.
roll out to a long rectangle. dot butter over two thirds of it and fold the unbuttered bit onto the buttered bit, then the buttered bit back on top.
roll out again in a long rectangle - and do the same again.
now you rest it in a cool place for a while. roll out and use.

ash28

meritaten wrote: »

Did you see how they made 'rough puff pastry'? totally wrong! my old cookery teacher would be spinning in her grave! we made this lots of times and the CORRECT method is

8 oz Self raising flour
4 oz butter
pinch of salt
water to mix

divide the butter into thirds, rub one third of the butter into the flour and salt.
add water to make a soft but pliable dough.
roll out to a long rectangle. dot butter over two thirds of it and fold the unbuttered bit onto the buttered bit, then the buttered bit back on top.
roll out again in a long rectangle - and do the same again.
now you rest it in a cool place for a while. roll out and use.

I thought that was puff pastry, not rough puff.

I didn't see the programme but when I was taught, puff pastry you dotted the butter over the rectangle like your method.

And for rough puff you chop all of the butter into the mix and go through the same folding and rolling out as you do with puff pastry. It's a lot quicker.

I use rough puff for pasties and sausage rolls, you still get the flaky layers, it's not quite as good as puff pastry but is a lot quicker to make and perfectly acceptable.

Muzikmaster

Only caught a few episodes but really enjoyed watching it. I have now started to record them so I can watch them in my own time.

I want to purchase 'A Girl Called Jack' for my iPad but the release date is listed as 2016 ;-s

hilstep2000

meritaten I keep getting cross with the rough puff too!My cookery teacher told us to put our hand underneath the fold to trap more air, none of the contestants have done that yet!

Justamum

MrsE wrote: »

Anyone watching Britain's best bakery?

Which channel is it on?

AnnieO1234

Jack is asking people to try and purchase from an independent bookstore where possible, check her website for details of how to find it.

Xxx

MrsE_2

AnnieO1234 wrote: »

Jack is asking people to try and purchase from an independent bookstore where possible, check her website for details of how to find it.

Xxx

That's nice in practice, but this is MSE & Amazon are £7.00 & the book store is 35% more & not local to me.

MrsE_2

Justamum wrote: »

Which channel is it on?

ITV 4.00pm