John Whaite Bakes: Recipes for Every Day and Every Mood

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Bake for 30-40 minutes, until the filling is bubbling. If the potatoes start to burn before the filling is ready, cover the dish with foil. Toss the flours and baking powder together and put into a mixing bowl with the butter. Rub the butter into the dry ingredients with your fingers and thumbs, until it resembles inelegant breadcrumbs. Remove the stalks from the cherries, then take out the stones – I find it oddly satisfying to tear them apart over a bowl and root out the stones with my fingers, but you can, of course, use a newfangled pitting contraption. I ended up with about 340g cherry flesh after I’d done this.

Put the flour, orange zest, baking powder, salt and sugar in a large bowl and whisk to blend. Rub in the butter until you have fine, inelegant breadcrumbs – do this by hand or in a freestanding electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. After this time, remove and discard the star anise and add the jam sugar, then put the pan on a medium-high heat. Stirring frequently, allow the jam to boil until it reaches 105C on an instant-read digital thermometer (for me, this took about 17 minutes, but please don’t get bogged down with timings). Pour the hot jam into a sterilised jam jar, seal and leave to cool completely. Store in a cool, dark place, where it will keep for 12 months. Once open, refrigerate and eat within three months. My parents had several jobs: with three children to bring up and a mortgage to pay, they worked their arses off to survive. If I wasn’t serving people in their chip shop, I’d be in the van with my dad dropping things off for his courier service late into the night. He was also a musician, so I’d be his little roadie. It was an exciting, varied life, and no two days were the same. In a second bowl, whisk the egg yolks with the remaining sugar and malt extract until pale, then beat in the buttermilk. Fold the egg yolk mixture into the meringue.Heat the oven to 170°C fan/gas 5 and grease and line the bases of the sandwich tins with butter and baking paper. Put the pistachios in a food processor and whizz to a fine crumb (don’t overwork otherwise they may start to release their oils and become buttery). Tip 260g of the whizzed nuts into a large mixing bowl and set the rest aside for later.

While the squash roasts, put the couscous for the filling into a large heatproof bowl and set to one side. Heat a generous frying pan over a medium heat and add the pecans. Toast, shaking about the pan frequently, until the nuts smell aromatic. Remove from the pan and place onto a chopping board, then return the pan to a high heat. Meanwhile, beat the egg yolk with a pinch of salt and the smallest possible splash of water. Once rested, glaze the scruffy scones liberally with the egg wash, using a pastry brush, then generously sprinkle over the pearl sugar, if using. After Holly Willoughby stepped down from This Morning, with the likes of Alison Hammond and Josie Gibson filling in, Steph was tipped to be a replacement.Dianne Bourne (1 October 2014). "Great British Bake Off winner John Whaite tips Luis Troyano as 'dark horse' of competition". Manchester Evening News. I was two and a half and sitting on hay bales at my grandad’s farm in this photo. That is where I and my two sisters and cousin would play most weekends. It’s also where we’d do naughty things like wee in Grandad’s wellies. We were quite mischievous.

First stir together the milk and the lemon juice and set to one side to allow the lemon juice to curdle the milk. This creates a more acidic liquid, which will react with the bicarbonate of soda in the baking powder to give more of a rise to the scones. A few days earlier, John shared a behind-the-scenes clip of baking croissants and pastries as he ‘went on work experience’ in a bakery.

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Yeates, Cydney (1 May 2022). "John Whaite 'heartbroken' as West End's Cinderella axed before his debut". Metro . Retrieved 2 May 2022. We are so thrilled to re-open as Barn Kitchen Baking School. Our one and two-day courses offer stylish, modern recipes with detailed technical instruction. We use as much domestic equipment as possible, so our students can recreate everything they learn in the comfort of their own kitchen. We welcome small groups, pairs and lone wolves - our classes are for 10 students at a time, so even if you come alone, you most certainly will not feel lonely.

Tip the flour into the bowl of pistachios and add a pinch of fine salt. In a jug, lightly beat the eggs with the vanilla extract. In a second bowl, use an electric whisk or stand mixer to beat the butter and sugar together for 8-10 minutes, or until the mixture is very pale and fluffy; almost mousse-like. The Strictly experience was the start of an incredible two years of pulling myself out of the darkness. Alcoholism, drugs, ADHD, depression – I managed to extract myself from those places and situations with nothing but the love of friends and good relationships. a b c "On the rise: Manchester law student John Whaite wins The Great British Bake Off". Manchester Evening News. 17 October 2012. After appearing on Bake Off, Whaite studied for a Diplôme de Pâtisserie at Le Cordon Bleu, London. [9] [21]

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