The Bake Off is not a game of poker, but the stakes are arguably just as high. For example, if you’re asked to make twelve garibaldi biscuits, you need to make sure that every single biscuit in your batch is evenly coloured and perfectly golden to get this compliment.Įxample sentence: ‘This biscuit has a beautiful even bake’ Fold
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Even bake is Paul Hollywood code for a truly excellent bake, and it’s an important mark of consistency for contestants in signature challenges. If you hear one of the judges praising a baker for their even bake, you know they’re onto a winner. It’s commonly used in baking to fill pastries and tarts and if you’re in a Bake Off contest, you live in fear of making it too lumpy or too runny.Įxample sentence: ‘My crème pat didn’t cool enough and now it’s leaking!’ Even bake Crème pat is a type of rich custard made with milk or cream, sugar and egg yolk which is believed to have originated in France or Italy in the 17 th century. Stodgy, on the other hand, describes weight, meaning solid, dense or heavy, making it difficult to digest.Įxample sentence: ‘Those brownies were too claggy for me’ Crème patĪ term casually thrown around the GBBO tent as if it’s an everyday foodstuff, crème pat is shorthand for crème pâtissière or pastry cream. In the context of GBBO it is used to describe the texture of a baked good as lumpy or overly sticky and drying in the mouth. Claggy means to be stickily clingy, like mud.
What’s the difference between claggy and stodgy? Both terms could cause some confusion, but they’re common words in the world of baking. You might also find it called a cob, a bun, a barm cake, or a bread roll.Įxample sentence: ‘Susan has some tasty baps this week’ Claggy In the UK, the name for baps also differs regionally. Baps are small bread rolls, usually filled with savoury ingredients such as cheese, bacon, or burgers. Likely to cause a few giggles given that ‘baps’ is a slang term for breasts in the UK, baps on GBBO can be floury, fluffy, or akin to chewing rubber.
Once a year, GBBO’s Bread Week comes around with its infamous baps. Ready to be the Star Baker in your WhatsApp chat? On your marks, get set, bake! Baps Whether you watch The Great British Bake Off or The Great British Baking Show ( to mayto, to mahto), we’ve got everything you need to translate the baking lingo. It also has its fair share of risqué innuendos, giving us a delightful range of soggy bottoms, baps and spotted dicks to keep fans chuckling the whole way through. With over 4 million viewers weekly, The Great British Bake Off (GBBO) is a great British institution, famous for baked Alaska controversies and the Paul Hollywood handshake.
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