Clips
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Gerard’s Web Extra – pecan & chocolate clouds Duration: 00:57
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Gerard’s Web Extra – Telegraph pudding Duration: 01:17
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Si and Dave talk about Asparagus (amongst other things!) Duration: 01:17
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The Hairy Bikers and Mum Avis’ ode to Dewi the marrow Duration: 00:57
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The Hairy Bikers play polo in their own inimitable style… Duration: 01:39
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Star Mum Number 1: Avis
Avis and her daughter Eiry have strong connections with Malta and Maltese cuisine. One of the dishes they are keen to share is a marrow dish that was passed down to Eiry’s father though many generations of Maltese men.
Avis' recipes
Now, marrow may not sound that posh an ingredient, but when you hear that this dish is called “Arabali bil-mimly” (a family mispronunciation of it’s original and rather daunting name “Qara’baghli mimli bil-laham”) you begin to understand its poshness potential. Then when you discover that Avis was cooking this dish in the 60s using ingredients such as garlic and tomato puree it becomes clear how posh this must have been when Avis first brought the recipe back to Wales!
With that, and the offer of a toffee dab, the Bikers couldn’t resist a trip to visit Avis and Eiry! -
Star Mum Number 2: Derith
Derith’s grandmother was an instinctive cook, never using written recipes or scales to create her dishes, and while that lead to fantastic food, it made it much harder for Derith to learn her granny’s recipe secrets. Learning to cook like that, Derith may not have come away with a book full of detailed recipes, but she did learn to be adventurous in the kitchen combining flavours and textures in audacious ways…
Derith's recipes
With that introduction, we couldn’t refuse the offer to visit to Derith’s kitchen to taste one of her most successful culinary combinations – Welsh-cake cheesecake. The idea of taking a local classic – in this case Welsh cakes, and poshing them up by using them as an ingredient is an idea bordering on genius. Given that Welsh cakes are great, and the Bikers love a good cheesecake, they needed no more enticement to get on their bikes over to Derith’s! -
Star Mum Number 3: Ruth
Ruth is a cooking marvel. The Bikers first met her when she brought dishes to share at a recipe fair in the first series of Mums Know Best. Then she wowed them with a Kuchen recipe from her mother and one taste of that meant that they knew that if we were back in Wales then not to visit Ruth was out of the question!
Ruth's recipes
Rising to the challenge of sharing some of her poshest dishes, Ruth offered to show the bikers a dish called Orchid Gateaux, a luxuriously decorated cake cooked in the same tin that her mother brought with her on the Kindertransport before the Second World War. But she didn’t stop there, creating a feast of the poshest nosh for the Bikers and her family to share… -
Featured recipe swap recipes
Over the course of filming many fascinating dishes were shared with food historian Gerard Baker and the Hairy Bikers. Below are links to those recipes that feature in the show.
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'Posh' Sausage Rolls
Link to Gemma’s sausage rolls recipe -
Posh fruit and marmalade shortbread
Link to Jane’s posh shortbread recipe -
Chocolate cake
Link to Helen’s chocolate cake recipe -
Scotch eggs
Link to Sue’s scotch eggs recipe -
Gerard's recipe swap extra
At every recipe fair we record more recipe swappers than we have time to feature in the show, so in the clips at the top we've added a couple more great ideas that were shared at the recipe fairs… and below are the links to the recipes on our database.
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Pecan & chocolate clouds
Link to Greg’s pecan and chocolate clouds recipe -
Telegraph pudding
Link to Joss’ Telegraph Pudding recipe -
The Community Group - Slow Food Oxon
Slow food Oxon are one of nearly 1,000 Convivia (local chapters) of Slow Food International, which was founded in 1986 in Italy to celebrate the simple pleasures of cooking (and eating) great food. Slow Food promotes not only the pleasure of eating, but responsibility for sustainable agriculture and production.
Slow Food's recipe
Slow Food Oxon has over 80 members, and is an active group, hosting regular events which combine education, fun and good dining.
Credits
- Series Producer
- Oliver Clark
- Presenter
- Dave Myers
- Presenter
- Si King
- Director
- Joanna Brame
- Producer
- Joanna Brame
- Executive Producer
- Gill Tierney
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