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Manisha (27) is a nursery teacher in Leicester during the day then cooks all the family meals for her father and brothers in the evenings. Her passion for baking began when her mum showed her how to make a Victoria sponge when she was little. Her strengths are classic English biscuits, cakes and pastry, but she also makes some Indian biscuits and cakes too.

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11/09/2012 08:37
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I enjoy this prgramme because I like baking and cooking.  I think it is encouraging people to try their hand at making a Victoria sandwich cake from scratch rather than using a packet mix or, worse, a synthetic shop-bought cake.  With a bit of effort, most of us can manage to turn out a batch of cup cakes - this programme demonstrates how straightforward it is.  And that can only be to the good.
11/09/2012 08:40
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11/09/2012 10:51
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Normally there's a repeat on BBC HD on a Saturday afternoon/early evening, so that those of us who can't watch on a Tuesday get a chance to catch up.  Last Saturday there wasn't, which means that I've missed what has become a very good show to watch.

For those of us without Sky, or who can't be bothered with BBC i-player, there seems no way of getting a repeat.  Such a shame, given the amount of tired old nonsense they endlessly flog to death.  Another repeat of "Flog It", anyone?

 

30/09/2012 12:28
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And yet Hughie here you are commenting. Pompously an all.
11/09/2012 14:27
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what we want to know about cheap cooking shows is absolutely NOTHING
11/09/2012 13:41
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Why all this fuss about what used to be taught in schools as home economics?  The fact is we now have a generation of people so used to buying pre made items at supermarkets that making these simple items seems like brain surgery to some of them.  Celebrity chefs are brain dead but it seems too many people now think they are somethign special when all our mothers and grand mothers in the past could do all of this without breaking a sweat.  I personally am sick of these idiotic patronising brain dead programmes that seem to appeal to an apathetic soul less generation of peolle that just don't get off their arses and think that reality TV is real and that they can become famous for being a complete knob and when we promote idiots like Jamie Oliver (he really is a moron why can't people see this, just listen to the way this mockney fool talks, he's made money from old rope and isn't bright enough to see this and believes his own crap now, our apathy has created these people, did anyone actually see that xmas programme when he pretended to take his granmother from behind when she bent down in front of the cooker on national TV and you fools still buy his books which is regurgetated rubbish from old cookery books?) the day of true celebrity chefs with a personality and intelligence like Flloyd have long simce gone and that void is now filled with the flock of morons we have now and far too many useless moronic programmes which are just cannon fodder for the true purpose of TV these days which is advertising or putting across a particular political point i.e. the media.  Really there should be no TV licence today in the UK as there is no quality to rely on now and even the BBC uses advertising revenue so the licence fee is just a further insult as they tell us the BBC produces quality programmes, no it does not in fact is is worse than even channel 4 these days.
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