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There's something happening across Britain.

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I know! Mams everywhere cooking their families' tea.

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Yeah And the best thing is, we're on a mission to eat it!

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Well, kind of. We're on a mission to discover and celebrate it.

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There's recipes that have been handed down through generations.

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And where we find 'em, we're going to share 'em.

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Digging deep under the crust for little nuggets of history.

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And then there's the recipe fair!

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Oh, I love that bit. All those recipes coming straight to us.

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Hey! It's another Mums Know Best recipe fair, in a field.

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Yes, we've got sun, rain, hail, shine, grass, clouds - the lot.

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Oh, and today's exploration of alfresco dining.

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Yes! Things that taste better outside.

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-Hello.

-How are you? Pleased to meet you.

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-We know loads about alfresco cooking.

-But are we going to end up doing it in the rain?

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I don't know. That's for nature to decide. That's the whole charm of eating outside.

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We'll be tracking down three families with a passion for the outdoors.

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People who cook perfect food for the sunshine...

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When you eat outside, you don't have to eat curly sandwiches.

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Oh! That's heaven.

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'People who like to cook in a field...'

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Any man that uses lard is a mate of mine!

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'And we cook our own food perfect for eating in the garden.

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'Or, for a little boating trip.

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'We know that you like to get busy in the kitchen, so every recipe

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'you see is there for you on the Mums Know Best website.

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'We have collected literally hundreds of them. And you know what that's taught us?

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'That when there's food to be cooked, our mums really do know best.'

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Before each recipe fair, we set ourselves a challenge.

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We set out to find three home cooks who epitomise the theme of the fair -

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in this case, those who cook great food for eating outdoors.

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And, I have to say, when we heard from our first mum, we knew we were onto a winner.

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We could visit mums in rainy old Blighty, or go to sunny Spain.

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Are you mad? Let's go to Spain!

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-Hola, hombres! Como estas?

-Oh, mwah, mwah!

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'Rebecca wrote to us to tell us about the Spanish food she cooks.'

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SHE SPEAKS IN SPANISH

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She grew up in Spain, but now lives in the UK with Ian, her husband,

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Amelie, their daughter, and a new baby on the way.

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So, welcome, come and meet Amelie, my daughter.

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'Ian and Amelie get to enjoy Rebecca's Spanish cooking,

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'because she was taught classic dishes by her family in Madrid.

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-My daughter, Amelie.

-Ah!

-She's fast asleep.

-Sssh.

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'We turned up just as she was making the iconic dish - tortilla.

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'It's a recipe from her mother who died two years ago,

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'but Rebecca still follows her instructions precisely.'

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Mum made me wait until I was a certain age, until I was a woman, as it were,

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And as soon as she said I was ready, she just went,

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"Right, here." Initiation.

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-We do a good tortilla, don't we?

-We do. We do.

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-Not as good as mine, though, of course.

-Oh, yeah?

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You see, it lacks that generations of Spanish woman behind me.

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They'll all be standing behind me now going like that. Arms folded.

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-Looking at you, "Men shouldn't be in the kitchen."

-You better get this right!

-Yeah.

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Tortilla, which means "little cake" in Spanish,

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is a potato and onion omelette. It starts with cooking down onions.

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-It's a lot of onions.

-You want a nice, big, fat, juicy onion.

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-You want a Spanish onion.

-That's the thing!

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-Yes.

-And it does look a lot, but when they cook down, they go really nice and soft and sweet.

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'Rebecca is using floury potatoes like we do.

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'But we then usually shallow fry them.'

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This is the secret. And this is how my mum always did it,

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-and even my nana, who didn't have a deep fat fryer, used to do it in a hot pan of oil.

-Right.

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-All you do is put it on about 160. So it's quite a low one.

-Yeah.

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And you leave it, and you leave it for a couple of minutes, so they go soft

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If you're using four large potatoes,

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you need about three medium eggs, or a couple of large ones.

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'Salt to season the tortilla gets mixed into the eggs.'

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I'm going to put the onions in first.

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-You use the frying pan to cook? You're not going to make the tortilla in there?

-I am.

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-Oh, you are.

-Because it's had the onions in it,

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-it's got the flavour of the onions which is really nice.

-Recycled flavours.

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Yeah. So you don't need to clean your pan, or anything like that. Put your potatoes in there.

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And you're just going to add your eggs on top.

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Oh! Are you not worried about the eggs scrambling on the potatoes?

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-Not at all. You're just going to take your fork, and you...

-Ah!

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You smash it up a bit, and all it does is allow you to mix it all the way through.

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This is bordering on genius. I mean, it is.

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-Well, thousands upon thousands of families can't be wrong, can they?

-Techniques!

-No.

-Absolutely not.

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'Rebecca has the tortilla on a really low heat.'

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It's quite difficult to gauge when it's done, so you just have to lift the edges slightly,

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-and you can just see a slight browning underneath.

-That looks perfect.

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'It takes about five minutes until the bottom starts to brown.'

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Do you flip it?

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No! It's not a pancake!

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I was just asking! You know! I mean, folk might want to know.

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So that's nearly ready to turn, actually. And all you're going to do is slide it onto the plate.

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-It's important you have a big enough plate. Put your pan on top.

-Ah!

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Here's the tricky bit - make sure it doesn't fall over. All you're going to do is flip it over.

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I asked you before if you flipped it, and you said "It's not a pancake!"

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-That wasn't a flip. It's a slide, it's a slide.

-Slide.

-Slide.

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You just keep cooking it like that, really. You ignore it for a while.

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While I'm doing it, I make other dishes at the same time.

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'That's what she's been doing. From her recipe book,

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'she's already whipped up several dishes which together

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'create one of Europe's greatest alfresco dining experiences - a proper tapas meal.'

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-Boomer's Albondigas.

-Boomer. Boomer is my nana.

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We called her Boomer because she had a booming voice.

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-It's her meatball recipe.

-Albondigas. It's a great word.

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Al-bon-dingas. Isn't it a great word?

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-Albondigas.

-BOTH: Albondigas.

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Yes. There you go! You're a castanet away now.

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-It makes me go all funny that.

-Oh. Ooh!

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'Nana Boomer's albondigas are keeping warm on the stove.

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'I bet she flipped those meatballs!

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'Along with Uncle Roberto's gambas al ajillo.

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'Which I expect means flipped prawns.'

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'And chickpea and steak cocido stew.

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'I'll shut up now.'

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So this is done.

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So, again, I'm just going to slide that onto there.

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And it's ready.

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'That, my friend, is a tortilla worthy of a Spanish passport.

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'Traditionally, tapas was a slice of meat or bread

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'placed over one glass of sherry to stop flies buzzing into it.

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'You can serve anything as tapas these days.

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-'It's just come to mean a small portion.

-But Rebecca's tapas -

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'whoa, what a selection.'

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Look at that! Look at the colours in it. It's vibrant and lovely and...

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And it just shows when you eat outside, you don't have to eat curly sandwiches.

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'I've got to try the tortilla that's staring me in the face.'

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Oh, that's heaven.

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-Now that is wonderful.

-It's so sweet, isn't it?

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That is absolutely gorgeous. How can you get those flavours out of eggs, potatoes, onions?

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-Because that's fundamentally it.

-And who doesn't have that at home?

-Oh, it's gorgeous.

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'Rebecca talked us through how she had made the other dishes on the table.'

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For the gambas al ajillo, you start off with a really nice extra virgin olive oil.

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You need to add chopped onions, chopped garlic,

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chopped chillies, and then you add paprika - use the spicy stuff.

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Leave it to cook for about ten minutes

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till all the flavours infuse, and then you just throw your prawns in.

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-The prawns are quite spicy, aren't they?

-Well, yeah, that's the chilli that's in there.

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Oh, it's just absolutely wonderful.

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Loads of flavour, spice... Ah!

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'And Nana Boomer's albondigas are a rich meaty tomato-y mouthful.'

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All it is is your mince. We're going to add some chopped onions, chopped garlic,

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a couple of tablespoons of dried parsley. It has to be dried.

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Breadcrumbs and egg.

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You roll it in your hands and you fry it really gently.

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Take it out, don't worry if it's not cooked all the way through, because you'll add it back later.

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'The rich sauce is flavoured with carrots, onions, garlic, parsley and saffron,

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'boiled together for ten minutes.'

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-You just add your meatballs in at the end, and it just brings the flavour.

-It's lovely.

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-It tastes gorgeous.

-How many of these will we take to the recipe fair?

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-It's all so good. What's your favourite?

-Gambas.

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My uncle Roberto's gambas - he knows what he's doing with fish.

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-Definitely.

-You have to educate the world on your tortilla.

-Definitely.

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And you've got to bring al-bon-dingers with you!

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-Can you bring the lot?

-I can, yeah. I'll stick it all in a Tupperware and away we go.

-Fantastic.

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See you! Bye bye!

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'Rebecca's recipes are going to bring the authentic taste

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'of eating outside in the Spanish sunshine right to our recipe fair.

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'I know! That tortilla was definitely flipped though.

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'Right, Si, it's our turn to cook some alfresco patio food.

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-'Fair dinkums. Time for a barbie, mate?

-No!

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'This is a barbie-free zone. But we are going to take our viewers to our own house.

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'You mean...our special secret house? I don't know.

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'Oh, it'll be great!

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'But what's that got to do with cooking alfresco?

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'Oh, don't be so literal, Kingy.

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'Viewers, welcome for the first time on TV, to our own secret house.'

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-Dave?

-What, mate?

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-I think I'm going to open a window and let a bit of breeze through.

-Good lad.

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Tea, mate?

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Oh, belting.

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-Ah, lovely.

-Cheers.

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SLURPING Ah.

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Well, you're very privileged. Welcome to our summer house.

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-It's fabulous, isn't it?

-It is.

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We'll show you outside - we've got a lovely pool.

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Is it nice out there, Dave?

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-WATER SPLASHES

-Beautiful.

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'As you can see, we designed the house along the clean modern lines

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'of a trendy Manhattan loft apartment.'

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You've just walked through a cupboard! The door's here! Honestly!

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It's there. That's the door. Would you like a cup of tea?

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Don't be ridiculous. You're in the closet.

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'Generally we do get on quite well when we're here, but we do see a lot of each other.'

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-Shall we do some cooking?

-Yeah, let's cook kievs.

-Kievs.

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And there is only one chicken kiev.

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As cooked by Dave's partner, Lil. They're fabulous.

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'There are lots of similar recipes...'

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Isn't this lovely?

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'..from Italian pollo sorpresa to French chicken roulade.'

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You would often think they were just eaten indoors.

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But we found differently, cos the chicken kiev is an alfresco dish, isn't it?

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Yeah! My partner Lily, she's Rumanian and her home,

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it's a quarter of a mile from the Ukrainian border, where Kiev is,

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and they eat a lot of it there.

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Quite often, they'll take it outside, cold, like we would a Scotch egg,

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and have it with a cucumber salad. That's what we're doing.

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I've butterflied a chicken breast,

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and then put the cling film over the top of it.

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Nice and gentle, just start to beat it out.

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You don't have to be too brutal, but you do have to get it nice and flat and thin.

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'The version we cook in Britain is actually the American one,

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'invented in New York for Russian immigrants.

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'It became really popular with frozen food manufacturers in the '80s,

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'but Lil's is the original one from Kiev, and it's much better.'

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By giving the chicken a bit of a hammer, it ensures that you get really tender juicy chicken breast.

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But the perennial problem is how you get your stuffing in your chicken kiev.

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This is Lil's way. It doesn't burst, it doesn't leak. I've got some butter.

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And one thing I caught once in the kitchen - that I never thought was in there -

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it's cheese. Just cheddar, just ordinary cheese

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-It gives it a richness, a wonderful taste.

-It's a good thing.

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I always know I'm in for a good night when I come home, I can smell the kiev smouldering away,

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-She's got that Rumanian accordion music on - I know it's a night of passion.

-Honestly!

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# I want to break free... #

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I like an upright, you know.

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VACUUM CLEANER WHIRRS

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Oh, for goodness sake, keep the noise down, Freddie!

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SHOUTS: You should see the state of our rug, bringing it in from the garden!

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And you've got to have garlic, haven't you?

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About three cloves will do.

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-Clear off.

-CAT MIAOWS

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It's nothing to do with the cat! It's your feet!

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Have some garlic, that'll shut you up.

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Garlic goes in with the butter and the cheese.

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Chop up a bunch of parsley, and what's nice is you get

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this lovely green nugget of garlicy butter and loveliness.

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And what she always does as well is two spring onions.

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MIAOWING What have you done to the cat?

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It stinks of garlic!

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'This is the secret of how to get the filling into your Kiev without it leaking everywhere.'

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You take the filling, and what she says is,

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she makes a little baguette shape out of it, like so.

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Take the chicken...

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A bit of seasoning, some salt and some pepper.

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Now all we do is we roll this up. Because the chicken's been beaten, there's plenty of acreage,

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and the chicken's slightly kind of sticky.

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-You have to roll it quite tight...

-Yes.

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-That's important, isn't it?

-Yeah.

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'The kievs get dipped in flour, then egg,

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'then doused in breadcrumbs.'

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We've heated the oil up to a gentle rumble. Now put them in seam-side down.

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One...

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Two...

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Look at that, brilliant.

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RUNNING TAP WATER

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'We're going to make Lil's Rumanian cucumber salad as well. It goes perfectly with a picnic.'

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What I'm going to do with the cucumber is take a potato peeler -

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we've washed the cucumber, make sure you do that -

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and then just draw the potato peeler down it, so you get lovely, lovely ribbons.

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-Lil always skins the cucumber first.

-Does she?

-Yeah.

-We're on the telly,

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we want a bit of colour and a bit of greenery!

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Oh, fair enough, then.

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Do you want to see me photo wall? Come on.

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Oh! Dave and his photo wall. Honestly.

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What I've done is, it's like a collage. You know those wonderful Victorian homes

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where you have that wall of photos? That one, that's me and Kingy in the Atlas Mountains.

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I was following King up a mountain pass.

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The road was gravel! I couldn't believe we did that.

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That one, that's in Namibia, where we made a barbecue in the sand dunes. We had zebra burgers.

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'If you can tear yourself away from Dave's photo wall,

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'keep an eye on your kievs. Keep turning them, and about 15 minutes should see them perfect.

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'The salad is really easy to put together.'

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Some sour cream...

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And some mayonnaise.

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And some of that wonderful Eastern European spice, paprika, for colour and flavour.

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Then we just garnish that with some sliced hard boiled eggs.

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-Now it's time to serve up.

-Lovely.

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Resting, or even allowing the kiev to cool, won't harm it at all.

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The chicken will be tender from the bashing, and the filling will be held together by the melted cheese.

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The thing is, it's going to taste

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so much better when we eat it outside this fusty old house.

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Come on, mate.

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-Shut the door, keep the cat in.

-MIAOWING

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-I don't want it sniffing round the chicken.

-Oh!

-Oh, heaven.

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Oh, the pool is looking lovely.

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It is! That algae cleaner's worked a treat.

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Mmm.

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It's really authentic, but I think the spring onions and the cheese,

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they make all the difference.

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The thing is all the butter ensures the chicken stays juicy.

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-There's nothing, there's not one spot of it leaked.

-I like the salad.

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-Mmm. It's lovely, isn't it?

-There's a lovely fresh note to it.

-Yeah.

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So why do you think food tastes better outside?

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Think about fish and chips, you know, it tastes better out of a newspaper,

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when you eat them outside next to the beach.

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Oh! Yes, it is the air. You feel you can breathe...

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'Back on our search for cooks with alfresco credentials,

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'we've left the bikes behind and are walking the footpaths of Hungary in search of some outdoor cooks.'

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Blimey. We should be able to smell the paprika, you know.

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'Don't listen to him! This is Leicestershire. But we are looking for some Hungarians.'

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See? See! I told you!

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This is posh camping. Hello!

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-How are you? It's good to see you.

-Hello, mate.

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Karl and Marika are brother and sister.

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Their late father was Hungarian, and now they keep that heritage alive

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for their own children

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by re-enacting the lifestyle of the Magyars,

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their nomadic Hungarian ancestors.

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Hello, Marika!

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'Steady on, mate. They just go camping sometimes.'

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-We bring the bograc, which is the traditional Hungarian...

-What's that called?

-A bograc.

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The farmers or the sherpas put the food in, go out and do the day's work,

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and then they come back later for a slap up...

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-And it's all done.

-It's all ready for you.

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Marika and Karl are cooking us two Hungarian recipes.

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First, a porkolt stew.

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That's that, let's make the porkolt.

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'Porkolt is a traditional meat dish

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'from the ancient nomadic inhabitants of Hungary - the Magyars.'

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-First things first, it's always lard.

-Any man that uses lard is a mate of mine!

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-I hate to use cliches but here's something I prepared earlier.

-No!

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Well, OK, you be Fanny, I'll be Johnnie.

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-Sorry?

-Do you know what I mean? Fanny Cradock and Johnnie Cradock.

-Oh, right, OK!

-Give over, will you?

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'Onions and garlic are the base of this stew,

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'which would have been cooked exactly like this by the nomadic Magyars. Well, apart from the Tupperware.

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'Their ingredients would be cooked in one pot, probably on grass next to their tents, like us.'

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Right, we're going to add the paprika now, and we need to take it off the heat.

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That's a definite, otherwise we're going to burn it.

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'If you burn paprika, the natural sugars in it will become bitter,

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'so Karl is adding chicken stock to lower the temperature of the pan.'

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-I'd probably put two tablespoons, sort of.

-Two tablespoons.

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You know those...the paprika that you get in the glass jars?

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Well, Karl's just put two of them in!

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BOTH LAUGH So you need to think bigger, and don't be shy.

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What we've got here is the belly pork.

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-If you look at that now, there's no liquid in there.

-No.

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-Next time you look at that, that'll be a third full of juice.

-Juice.

-Yeah.

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'Karl lowers the heat by raising the pot and leaves the pork to simmer,

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'which gives us a chance to ask his mum

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'how they've ended up cooking Hungarian classics in Leicestershire.

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'The story all starts with their father fleeing the Hungarian Revolution in 1956.

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'And ended up outside the grocer's shop where their mum was working.'

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I was in the shop window and then this whole lot of Hungarians

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came to the window! And I was frightened to death.

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The Hungarians are coming! Hide the cornflakes!

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-What was it that attracted you to him?

-I don't know, really.

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'Karl's dad might have been quite a looker, but he was a great cook too.

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'And it's time now to add more peppers to the stewing porkolt.

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'And since pepper in Hungarian is paprika, Karl adds some fresh ones.'

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Karl, what are those whopping big chillies?

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-Paprika is the red pepper.

-Right.

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-These are the ones that are crushed down to make the paprika.

-Yeah.

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Now, these are hot, a hot variety.

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'While the porkolt gets perkier,'

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Marika can make her Hungarian alfresco dish -

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cabbage stuffed with pork and rice.

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'Blanched cabbage leaves will be the wrapping

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'around a filling of minced pork, rice, onions and paprika.'

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Right, William, me master class.

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'It's a team effort to fill the pan up with the parcels.'

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-Is that the cabbage water?

-Yeah.

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'Marika then tops it up with the cabbage water and one can of tomatoes.

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'It's left on a simmer to let the rice cook through.

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'In preparation for the feast, the table gets dressed Hungarian style.

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'As do the ladies...

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'and us.'

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LAUGHTER I've got a Hungarian boob tube on here!

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What we say in Hungary is "egeszsegedre".

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ALL: Egeszsegedre!

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-And knock it down in one.

-Oh.

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Ooft.

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'Served with mash, Marika's stuffed cabbage is cooked long enough for the rice inside to become tender.'

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I love the flavour of the rice because it's taken all the juice from the pork.

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-Yeah.

-And the cabbage holds it together.

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It's lovely hearty food.

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'Karl's porkolt smells fantastic.'

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See the juices have come off the meat?

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Look at that, man. Go on, then.

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'It's served with cucumber dressed in white vinegar and sugar.'

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-It's so tender, you know? Sometimes belly pork, it can be tough.

-Yeah.

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-This isn't, this is falling apart.

-That contrast with the cucumber.

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-Mmm.

-Vinegar...

-Yeah.

-Sugar, heat, meat, sweet...

-Superb, man.

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'You could cook these recipes in a kitchen,

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'but it's so much more fun being outside.

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'And how cool to be taking something to the recipe fair descended from Nomadic tribespeople.

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'Now that's alfresco.'

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-Superb, man. Really, really good.

-Absolutely superb.

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Another day, another bike ride.

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I know! What alfresco nationality shall we visit now?

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We've done Spanish, Romanian, Hungarian.

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Ah, mate, it's got to be time for an Australian barbie, now, hasn't it?

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Nah! We can do better than an old barbecue. Let's go back to Blighty for inspiration.

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Us British have had a love affair with eating outside for generations.

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A lot of generations.

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And now we're going to whip up a medieval treat

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that became a staple of the British picnic hamper.

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Welcome to our potting shed. But we're not potting plants, we're potting this.

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Salmon... Beef... Ooh!

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These little jewels are a classic way of preserving meat or fish,

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and perfect for alfresco dining.

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Potted beef, which we are going to cook first, is rich in spices.

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'And the secret is the spiced butter the beef is going to cook in.'

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We need to take some freshly-ground nutmeg.

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And we want about half a teaspoon of ground ginger,

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a good pinch of cayenne,

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about half a teaspoon of good quality salt,

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two whole cloves of garlic.

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Now, we put that onto a gentle heat and just let it melt.

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Because as the butter heats up, it's going to warm the spices.

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That's going to infuse the meat, because that's what we're going to cook the meat in. Oh!

0:23:530:23:58

We're going to use braising steak. We need to cut any sinew away,

0:23:580:24:02

we don't want any chewy bits in this.

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It's like a sandwich spread, it's luxurious. There's no gristly bits with it, is there?

0:24:040:24:08

No, mate, absolutely not.

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And just pack them in this little dish here.

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Now pour the spiced butter mixture over the meat.

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-It's quite old-fashioned. The spices are old-fashioned.

-They are.

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Have you seen how it's just covered the meat?

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What we need to do now is make a really good seal on that.

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And we do that with tinfoil, because we don't want any of that flavour to leach out.

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The beef is going to cook slowly for a good three and a half hours

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at a moderate 150 degrees.

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The term "potting" actually means a method of preserving.

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A layer of fat protects the meats from the air and stops it going off.

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'So the fat we're going to use is clarified butter.

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'It's going to cover the cooked meat and form a seal.

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'Gently heat up some more butter so it separates.'

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See all this white stuff? That's all the milk solids from the butter.

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That's what we want to get rid of, because the milk solids in the butter will send it off.

0:25:010:25:06

'Skim those off and you have pure clarified butterfat left.

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'When your meat is cooked, it should look like... Well, this.'

0:25:100:25:15

-Is that tender?

-Look at this Dave, look.

0:25:150:25:17

-That looks like a bowl of Chum. Eat that, you'd

-Winalot!

-Ha-ha!

0:25:170:25:22

-Well, you've always been me

-Pal!

0:25:230:25:25

-Cut it out, will you?!

-Other brands of dog food may be abused.

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You could put this in a food processor if you wanted it fine.

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They never had them in Napoleonic times, did they?

0:25:330:25:37

You know, they never had them. I like the manual method.

0:25:370:25:40

But you're absolutely right, you could.

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'Flatten the top of the meat, and then carefully cover it with your clarified butter.

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'The meat is freshly cooked, and should be free from bacteria

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'and that butter is going to keep the air out, keeping it fresher for longer.'

0:25:520:25:57

And that's the potting part.

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Sprinkle some green peppercorns on the top. Another top tip -

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we can honestly say with this potted beef, there's no need to put butter on your bread.

0:26:050:26:10

-DAVE CHUCKLES

-No.

0:26:100:26:11

Now Dave is going to make the potted salmon.

0:26:120:26:15

This is going to be our little tea

0:26:160:26:18

for when we go out fishing to tickle the odd trout.

0:26:180:26:21

-I'm looking forward to that.

-Oh, it'll be good, Dave.

0:26:210:26:24

'I'm using two types of salmon -

0:26:240:26:26

'chopped smoked salmon, and freshly poached salmon.'

0:26:260:26:30

-Oh, that's flaking nicely, isn't it?

-It is.

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Some cream cheese goes in there.

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You add some lemon zest, and some dill fronds.

0:26:350:26:38

Use as much dill or as little dill as you like.

0:26:380:26:41

I'm not putting salt in this - I've got smoked salmon, that's salty enough.

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But what I am doing - loads of black pepper.

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And just give that a good whip up. If I was in the kitchen at home, I would put this in a food processor.

0:26:480:26:53

Now there's a third type of salmon to go in.

0:26:530:26:57

That's just been cooked in butter.

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I've cut this into chunks because I want it to stay chunky.

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The rest of it's going to be a spread, this is going to be like little nuggets in it.

0:27:020:27:06

-A lovely textural difference as well there, isn't there?

-Oh, yes!

0:27:060:27:11

I just want to fold this salmon in gently. I don't want to break those chunks up.

0:27:110:27:16

-You see? look at that.

-Oh!

0:27:160:27:18

All I do now is pot the potted salmon in the pot.

0:27:180:27:22

Now we use the butter we used to cook that salmon in

0:27:220:27:26

as our butter to pot the salmon.

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And that, my friends, is potted salmon!

0:27:300:27:33

Just pop that in the fridge,

0:27:330:27:36

and let's take these potted treasures for our tea.

0:27:360:27:41

And the other ones we can have for our supper.

0:27:410:27:44

Right, we're there!

0:27:450:27:47

Have you got the painter?

0:27:470:27:49

Yeah, I've got the painter, mate. I'll get the stuff.

0:27:490:27:52

Go on, keep going.

0:27:540:27:57

That's it. Will you pass the food?

0:27:570:27:59

Go on, dude, you'll be all right. It's nice there, look.

0:28:020:28:05

I want me tea.

0:28:050:28:07

Not only is this going to be delicious,

0:28:070:28:10

but it's really easy to deal with on a picnic. Or a boating trip!

0:28:100:28:14

Let's break bread...

0:28:150:28:17

Take the potted beef...

0:28:170:28:19

You'll get fat!

0:28:200:28:22

Oh! Dave, it's brilliant!

0:28:220:28:25

I hope it chokes you.

0:28:250:28:26

Dave, I'm having the potted salmon with the brown bread

0:28:270:28:31

because I just think there's a certain happiness of marriage of flavours with brown bread, you see.

0:28:310:28:37

-Well, I hope it poisons you!

-In fact, I cannot stop eating it!

0:28:370:28:41

I hope your heart stops.

0:28:410:28:43

You see?

0:28:430:28:44

Bitter.

0:28:450:28:46

'Onwards, my friend! Out of the countryside and into suburbia.

0:28:480:28:53

'Well, at least it's got lots of lawns for ball games and barbies and that.

0:28:530:28:57

'Give up on the barbecue nonsense, Kingy! And, anyway, the weather's rubbish.

0:28:570:29:02

'Oh, well, never mind. You've been looking forward to this next lady we're visiting, haven't you?

0:29:020:29:07

'Oh, not half. Apparently she does things with summer fruit flavours you wouldn't believe.'

0:29:070:29:12

-Put the kettle on.

-Lovely.

-Make some tea.

0:29:120:29:15

Jayne lives near Lincoln with her husband Bob.

0:29:150:29:18

Her daughter Claire wrote to us

0:29:180:29:20

to tell us that apparently her mum is the queen of desserts.

0:29:200:29:25

Follow me into the dining room.

0:29:250:29:27

'Now Jayne seems like a perfect housewife,

0:29:270:29:30

'but I have a feeling there may be more to her than meets the eye.'

0:29:300:29:33

When I was about, dare I say that age... 40...

0:29:330:29:37

I thought it's now not Mrs, not Mum, it's Jayne's time.

0:29:370:29:41

Our son had joined the army cadet force, and I went along to help out

0:29:410:29:47

and amazingly, I was offered a commission.

0:29:470:29:49

They said, "Are you prepared to train up for four years?"

0:29:490:29:53

You had a weapon and all that sort of stuff and mud and...

0:29:530:29:55

Oh, yes. And full army uniform.

0:29:550:29:57

The children used to love it. I used to come home in full army uniform,

0:29:570:30:01

straight from a weekend away, and you come back absolutely...

0:30:010:30:05

I would have bet my mortgage that a woman like you wouldn't do something like that.

0:30:050:30:09

I've got to be honest with you and hold my hand up and go, that's quite remarkable.

0:30:090:30:14

-I'm very impressed.

-Oh, bless you. Well, I'm very humbled. Thank you.

0:30:140:30:18

So what are we cooking?

0:30:180:30:20

The thing that we're going to cook today, in honour of my mother, is Mum's wild plum summer pudding.

0:30:200:30:27

A classic Victorian dessert made exactly the way Jayne's mum learnt from her mother,

0:30:270:30:33

using wild plums gathered from the hedgerows.

0:30:330:30:37

-I love to delegate. One pan.

-Officer.

0:30:370:30:40

-Yes, sir.

-Sir.

-Hold it. How do we get...?

0:30:400:30:42

-Ma'am. Was it ma'am?

-Ma'am.

-Ma'am.

-Ma'am.

0:30:420:30:45

'Pay attention! There's a briefing on plums, straight ahead.'

0:30:450:30:48

Wild plums are very tiny, like cherries.

0:30:480:30:50

Because they're so small, the flavour is very intense. That is pure wild plum pulp.

0:30:500:30:57

I've never tasted hedgerow plums before.

0:30:570:31:00

I don't use a lot of sugar because I think that plums should actually have a sour taste.

0:31:000:31:05

They're certainly sticky and a huge plum flavour.

0:31:050:31:07

That's perfectly balanced.

0:31:070:31:09

-Yeah.

-With citric acid, all those citrics and all those kind of yummy acids kick in.

-All the citric-th!

0:31:090:31:15

It's got us like that!

0:31:150:31:16

I'm actually cheating. Rather than use up all the store in the freezer,

0:31:160:31:21

by adding plums that have been bought.

0:31:210:31:24

-Oh!

-Shock, horror.

0:31:240:31:26

-You've not bought plums, ma'am?

-I know.

0:31:260:31:29

-To make up the bulk. But the flavour...

-Will come...

0:31:290:31:34

-Will come from...

-The wild ones.

-So, who's on plum duty?

0:31:340:31:38

-I'll do plums.

-Are you're going to be on bread duty?

0:31:380:31:41

I'd love to be on bread duty.

0:31:410:31:42

OK.

0:31:420:31:44

Si is commissioned as Corporal Plum De-stoner, and I am posted to the rank of Private Bread Trimmer.

0:31:440:31:50

That's what I like to see. Everybody working.

0:31:500:31:52

My battery of thrillingly specific bread shapes will form the outer defence wall of the summer pudding.

0:31:520:31:59

So we just tip the old sugar in.

0:31:590:32:01

My bought plums, now thoroughly de-stoned, get some sugar rations added, and a little water.

0:32:010:32:06

A couple of tablespoons to cover the bottom.

0:32:060:32:07

That then goes on the stove. Give it a whirl because it is vital that you don't burn this sugar.

0:32:070:32:13

Oh, will you two stop!

0:32:130:32:17

Just behave.

0:32:170:32:18

Most fruit can be treated like this for summer pudding, not just plums.

0:32:180:32:23

Jayne has more tastes of the hedgerows to add in...

0:32:230:32:26

-her wild damson vodka.

-Over here. Now this was made last September,

0:32:260:32:33

and has been stewing in my garage since then.

0:32:330:32:37

Oh, that's lovely! It's quite tart, isn't it?

0:32:410:32:44

What we're going to do now... or what you're going to do.

0:32:440:32:48

-Yes.

-Is...

-Yes, ma'am.

-We're going to compile it. First of all we're going to add the wild plum puree.

0:32:480:32:54

It's a fabulous colour, Jayne.

0:32:540:32:56

And that's going to thicken it,

0:32:560:32:59

and it's going to add a lot of intense flavour.

0:32:590:33:02

-Mm.

-Pick out the larger of the base circles.

-Yeah.

0:33:020:33:06

Drop it into the pulped fruit.

0:33:060:33:08

Jayne's summer pud boot camp!

0:33:080:33:10

The idea is to charge the trimmed bread with the juice, and post it to the outer reaches of the pudding.

0:33:100:33:16

-Dip and place, Dave. Dip and place.

-It's important to overlap the pieces...

0:33:160:33:20

-that provides the strength.

-The juices are absorbed into the

0:33:200:33:23

rest of the bread, and in doing so it thickens the pulp, so that when it's been chilled and turned out...

0:33:230:33:30

-Mm-mm.

-..you can actually carve it. Now your lids.

0:33:300:33:33

-Private Bread Trimmer, you have made a beautiful job of covering up your plums.

-Why, thank you, Corporal!

0:33:330:33:37

-So what we do is, we put clingfilm on. As tight as possible.

-Yeah.

0:33:370:33:41

-Turn.

-Fridge.

0:33:410:33:44

The weight will then sink.

0:33:440:33:46

-Fantastic. Send on R&R to the fridge for two days for it all to thicken up.

-Have you got the colour?

0:33:460:33:50

Can I just say If it takes two days, have... have we...

0:33:500:33:54

have we made one earlier or have you got camp beds and, like you know... rations?

0:33:540:33:59

Well, I just happen to have two in the fridge.

0:33:590:34:03

Now, where should you enjoy a summer pudding at its best?

0:34:030:34:07

Well, not today in Jayne's garden, it seems.

0:34:070:34:11

I hope our commander has a backup plan.

0:34:110:34:15

Would you like to come into our dining room, which has now been set out with...

0:34:150:34:19

-Oh, wow!

-Look at that!

-That is fantastic, man.

0:34:190:34:21

-Absolutely.

-Look at the colours, though. The colours are fabulous.

0:34:210:34:25

-I know.

-Yeah.

-Well, this proves that you can still have outside, inside on a rainy day.

0:34:250:34:31

-Would you like to sit down and we'll discuss what drinks...

-Oh, yes. Absolutely.

0:34:310:34:35

Claire was right. Her mum really must be the "Queen of Desserts".

0:34:350:34:39

I don't think I've ever seen such a plethora of fruit flavours on a table.

0:34:390:34:43

Cake one - Jayne's orange semolina cake. Whole oranges...

0:34:430:34:48

-skin, pith and all.

-Oh!

0:34:480:34:52

-Oh, that is amazing, actually.

-That's perfect.

0:34:520:34:55

-There's just a slight bitterness but it's a whole, it's a whole orange flavour.

-Orange.

0:34:550:34:59

It's like the Mad Hatter's Tea Party, isn't it?

0:34:590:35:01

Oh, it's just amazing. 'Right, number two...

0:35:010:35:03

'gooseberry fool.'

0:35:030:35:04

Oh!

0:35:060:35:07

Man! 'Sharp gooseberry fruit balanced with a sweet custard.'

0:35:070:35:10

That's fabulous. It's zingy and tangy but, just sweet.

0:35:100:35:15

-Yeah.

-Just sweet.

-Just enough.

-Yeah.

0:35:150:35:18

Dessert three... tarte au citron.

0:35:180:35:20

With an entire lemon grove stuffed into it.

0:35:200:35:24

It takes eight lemons, which...

0:35:240:35:26

you have to zest all eight.

0:35:260:35:29

-You know you've been zinged, don't you?

-Mm.

0:35:290:35:31

They catch you there, don't they?

0:35:310:35:33

Yeah. 'And there's more! Mississippi mud pie.'

0:35:330:35:36

'Raspberry waffle cake.'

0:35:360:35:38

'Victorian jelly honeycomb.'

0:35:380:35:40

'Old-fashioned summer punch.'

0:35:400:35:43

'And the most amazing fresh lemonade.'

0:35:430:35:47

-Oh, it's wonderful.

-The recipe here is from great-grandma.

0:35:470:35:50

-That's spectacular.

-Lip smacking!

0:35:500:35:53

You're good at this, you, aren't you?

0:35:530:35:55

-Dear me!

-Oh! We've got the cake yet.

0:35:550:35:59

Oh, you're joking.

0:35:590:36:01

And finally, the one we have really been waiting for...

0:36:010:36:04

Jayne's Mam's Wild Plum Summer Pudding.

0:36:040:36:07

Not cooked, just rested for a few days.

0:36:070:36:10

A really rich, dewy...

0:36:100:36:11

Wow!

0:36:110:36:12

-Oh, wow!

-Oh, that is spectacular. Mm.

0:36:120:36:17

I think that's one of the nicest puddings I've ever had.

0:36:170:36:19

The right amount of balance between the acidity and the fruit and the sugar.

0:36:190:36:21

-And sharpness.

-It's perfect.

-Oh!

0:36:210:36:23

But what on earth are we going to ask you to bring to the Recipe Fair?

0:36:230:36:28

-What do we have?

-We've got to have the summer pudding and we've got to have the orange and semolina cake.

0:36:280:36:33

-I think the lemonade.

-The lemonade because we can serve jugs of that with the main meal.

0:36:330:36:37

I think I'm going to give you a kiss.

0:36:370:36:41

-Oh, steady.

-Military precision, that.

0:36:410:36:43

Oh, it was, wasn't it?

0:36:430:36:45

What a truly inspirational visit to end off our exploration of alfresco dining.

0:36:450:36:50

-Now we can do the washing up.

-Oh, man!

0:36:500:36:53

I knew it! I knew it.

0:36:530:36:55

I almost hope it's raining at the Recipe Fair, so our guests

0:36:570:37:01

get a taste of Jayne's desserts the way we have.

0:37:010:37:04

That's going a bit too far, Si. But we've had so many tastes of the outdoors,

0:37:040:37:08

without even a barbie in sight. This is going to be a great Recipe Fair.

0:37:080:37:13

So, have we done it?

0:37:150:37:17

Have we got three family cooks to take to the Recipe Fair?

0:37:170:37:19

I'd say! We have got Rebecca's awesomely authentic recipes from her family in Madrid...

0:37:190:37:25

Tortilla and Gambas.

0:37:250:37:27

And the food cooked by the Hungarian Magyars, but prepared for us by Marika and Karl.

0:37:270:37:33

And from my Lil, traditional Chicken Kievs... perfect patio food.

0:37:330:37:37

And from Britain, the Victorian picnic classic...

0:37:370:37:41

Potted Beef and Potted Salmon.

0:37:410:37:42

And the most marvellous trooping of the summer fruit colours, from Jayne.

0:37:420:37:46

It's official. We've done it! Bring on the Recipe Fairs.

0:37:460:37:51

We invite people from all over Britain, to join us for a day in a field,

0:37:530:37:58

to share and celebrate all their recipes.

0:37:580:38:00

And they have brought not just recipes, but lovely cooked food too.

0:38:000:38:05

-What have you got?

-Lime and mascarpone cheesecake.

-Wor!

0:38:050:38:09

-Beef Stroganoff.

-You star.

0:38:090:38:11

-This is a minced lamb crumble.

-Vanilla fudge.

-Vanilla fudge, Yes.

0:38:110:38:15

-That looks lovely.

-Meat and potato pie.

0:38:150:38:18

That looks fantastic. Black treacle?

0:38:180:38:21

No, it's just dark brown sugar.

0:38:210:38:22

What have you got?

0:38:220:38:24

-Ooh! That certainly makes the sun shine on a grey day.

-Doesn't it?

-How lovely.

0:38:240:38:29

We have as our special guests, the Studley Grow, Cook and Eat Group.

0:38:290:38:33

They're going to be feeding our fairgoers, once they're sorted.

0:38:330:38:38

And of course, our home cooks we've collected

0:38:380:38:42

on our travels need installing in their very own special tent.

0:38:420:38:44

It's nice to see you.

0:38:440:38:46

Normally, all the cooking goes on under cover, but not today.

0:38:460:38:50

-You we want here.

-With your kind of Magyar ancestry, you could cook

0:38:500:38:54

over there by that rock.

0:38:540:38:55

Come rain or shine, your pot'll be on fire.

0:38:550:38:58

-Thanks very much.

-Right then. Come on.

0:38:580:39:00

Here are your Mums Know Best aprons.

0:39:000:39:03

-Oh. Why, thank you.

-And we've done a bit of waterproofing on your two,

0:39:030:39:08

-you know. Good luck.

-Right. That's us. Crack on, all right?

0:39:080:39:11

-See you later.

-OK, Bye.

0:39:110:39:13

Over in the Little Top, we have our recipe sharing wall,

0:39:140:39:21

and also our resident food historian, Gerard.

0:39:210:39:24

His job is to uncover some of the more unusual recipes, and the stories behind them.

0:39:240:39:30

Well, we have a novel food item, made by this wonderful lady here, Pip Mannion,

0:39:300:39:39

-who is going to tell you...

-Hello.

-all about this splendid cake pie.

0:39:390:39:42

It's cake pie, yes. My - at the time - boyfriend

0:39:420:39:44

made a comment that surely, cake pie would be

0:39:440:39:47

the best food invention there could be. I had a think because if you make a sponge cake, it'll rise

0:39:470:39:53

-and it's split the pastry.

-Yes.

0:39:530:39:54

But I had this recipe for a chocolate brownie cake

0:39:540:39:57

-and I thought, that... that might just do the trick.

-Oh, brilliant.

0:39:570:40:01

So on his next birthday I turned up with cake pie for him and now we're married. So it all worked!

0:40:010:40:07

-Oh, brilliant!

-You're married?

-That's brilliant.

-It is.

0:40:070:40:11

It's deliciously light looking pastry.

0:40:110:40:14

-Ooh! Wow!

-Oh, my lord.

0:40:140:40:15

-Wow!

-Have a taste. It looks fantastic.

0:40:150:40:19

-That is definitely a pie, and a cake.

-Mm.

-It's really good.

0:40:190:40:24

-Oh, it's lovely Because the cake's nice and moist.

-Mm.

0:40:240:40:27

-Oh!

-So you're getting the benefit... It needs to be contained, to be imprisoned.

-Yeah.

0:40:270:40:31

And I say it's a great vehicle as well for getting it to your gob. Mm.

0:40:310:40:36

-Exactly.

-Beautiful.

-How have we come to the 21st century and not been previously invented?

0:40:360:40:41

-Yeah.

-I have to say, if you delivered that on your birthday, I would have married you and all.

0:40:410:40:45

Thank you very much indeed. Brilliant.

0:40:450:40:48

-Guys, we've got a lovely picnic food made by Tim. Hi, Tim.

-Hello, Tim.

-How are you doing, man?

-Good.

0:41:000:41:06

-And it's called fridge chicken.

-Oh!

-As simple as that. Why?

0:41:060:41:09

What you do is you see what's left in your fridge, and you put it on a chicken.

0:41:090:41:15

-Who's living in there then?

-You spatchcock a chicken.

0:41:150:41:18

-Yeah.

-And you stick it into a pan. And if you've got any leftovers in the fridge, any leftover vegetables,

0:41:180:41:23

chuck in on top with a tin of tomatoes, some mushrooms, some chilli.

0:41:230:41:26

-Right.

-And some chorizo. And cook it for a couple of hours.

0:41:260:41:29

Leave it to go cold and you've got a superb picnic.

0:41:290:41:32

-That's lovely. Great hangover food.

-It is. It works.

-Oh, yeah. Mm.

0:41:320:41:35

-It works. Definitely.

-Is there a recipe as such?

-There is a recipe, yeah.

0:41:350:41:39

-The joy of it is...

-Enjoy eating fridge chicken.

0:41:390:41:41

-Thank you very much.

-Thank you very much.

0:41:410:41:42

-Nice to meet you.

-Thank you.

-Well done, Tim.

0:41:420:41:44

Now then guys, we've got a couple of lovely German people to come and

0:41:490:41:51

tell us what these delightful things are, and it's Michael and Stephanie...

0:41:510:41:55

-brother and sister.

-Hi Mike.

0:41:550:41:57

-Hi Michael.

-Hi Morning Hi.

0:41:570:41:59

-Hello, mate. Nice to see you. Hiya.

-What are these wonderful things?

0:41:590:42:02

-Tell us all.

-Well, these are frikadellen.

-Yeah.

0:42:020:42:05

And these are bone marrow dumplings.

0:42:050:42:09

Bone marrow dumplings?

0:42:090:42:10

That's a new one on us.

0:42:100:42:12

-They're lovely, aren't they?

-Oh, they're lovely.

0:42:120:42:15

-Really meaty.

-Really beefy.

-Mm.

0:42:150:42:17

The bone marrow dumplings and frikadellen meatballs are specialties

0:42:170:42:20

from the north Rhine region in Germany.

0:42:200:42:24

-They are superb.

-They are superb.

-I'm glad.

-And how do you get the bone marrow in there?

0:42:240:42:28

Well, you get a little bit of bone from the butcher and you scrape it out.

0:42:280:42:32

-Yes.

-And then you heat it up and it liquefies.

-Yes.

0:42:320:42:36

And then you pour the fat into the mixture.

0:42:360:42:39

-It's a shame that we don't use bone marrow more in our cooking.

-Yes.

-Because it's such a useful thing.

0:42:390:42:44

-Frikadellen.

-Yes.

-Mm.

0:42:440:42:46

They're quite strong, quite spicy and a quite salty

0:42:460:42:51

-version of meatballs. It's the ideal picnic and party food really.

-Mm.

-Yes.

-And so tasty.

0:42:510:42:57

-Fantastic Thank you very much.

-Thank you very much.

-Thank you. Much appreciated.

0:42:570:43:02

Michael and Steffi's recipes will be on the website, with all the others shared at the Recipe Fair.

0:43:080:43:15

In the other top, today's team of invited community cooks are starting to give out their food.

0:43:220:43:27

-Oh, hello.

-All right?

0:43:290:43:31

-So you're the Studley Grow It, Cook It, Eat It group.

-Yeah!

0:43:310:43:36

They run a weekly workshop educating people that great food can be cheap.

0:43:360:43:40

So we try to keep it so we always have a starter, two main courses and a pudding, and we try to do it

0:43:400:43:45

for two pounds.

0:43:450:43:46

We've got a lot of young mums that are not confident cooking, special needs adults.

0:43:460:43:51

-Right.

-And you know, people that live on their own.

0:43:510:43:53

And we had... one of the adults the other day, she was...

0:43:530:43:56

she's got special needs, and she was just chopping and helping Sophie,

0:43:560:43:59

and she went away and phoned her mum in the corner.

0:43:590:44:02

She said, "Mum, guess what! I've opened a tin, I've chopped an onion... "

0:44:020:44:05

That's fantastic. Basic skills like that are transferred to the family, then the children eat well and...

0:44:050:44:11

-Yes Yeah.

-Oh, well done you guys.

0:44:110:44:12

For such cheap food it's pretty inventive

0:44:130:44:16

-The pork mince with Thai spices and plum sauce is simply served in a pancake. And it works.

-Phwoar!

0:44:160:44:23

-They're lovely.

-They are.

-Good.

0:44:230:44:25

And these ricotta pancakes are genius. A really light batter flavoured with ricotta and vanilla,

0:44:250:44:31

served with plum compote from their allotment.

0:44:310:44:33

-Ah!

-Oh, he liked that, then.

0:44:350:44:36

-I'm just necking the juice, you know.

-Oh, yeah.

0:44:360:44:38

Outside the mums' tent, Karl is getting his fire going.

0:44:380:44:43

Hello! I've just bought these for you.

0:44:430:44:45

-Jayne's executing her battle plan.

-There's plenty to do. I think we'll prepare this fruit.

0:44:450:44:50

-So our mums...

-and Karl...

0:44:520:44:54

are all gainfully employed, which means that we can psych ourselves up for Gerard's Skills Challenge.

0:44:540:45:00

We've got a sushi challenge going on today with our skills test.

0:45:020:45:06

-Na-na-na!

-Ta tat ta!

-Book!

-Wiyah-hi!

0:45:060:45:08

-But we need some other competitors, Si. Ladies.

-Ladies, Ladies. I do like ladies...

0:45:080:45:14

'Now's the time for Gerard to put us and three fairgoers through our paces.'

0:45:140:45:18

You've got great hair that matches your top So you're coming in.

0:45:180:45:22

And you just look worried, so you can come in. It'll be all right. Be all right.

0:45:220:45:27

Today Gerard is making Japanese sushi rolls, bite-sized treasures of rice and raw fish. I love 'em.

0:45:270:45:34

So we start with the rolling mat that helps to construct and press the sushi together.

0:45:340:45:42

And the nori sheet, the sheet of seaweed.

0:45:420:45:44

'On top of the Nori seaweed sheet, Gerard is layering up sushi rice

0:45:440:45:48

and a little wasabi, a hot Japanese horseradish.'

0:45:480:45:51

-And the fish of choice we're using today is some lovely salmon loin here we've got.

-Yeah.

0:45:530:45:58

And then, alongside that, I'm going to have a green stripe of sliced avocado

0:45:580:46:05

and then what we have to do is use the bamboo mat, to fold

0:46:050:46:10

the nori and the rice, keeping it really as tight as you can.

0:46:100:46:14

'If it's been rolled tightly, you should be able to slice it and display it elegantly on a plate.'

0:46:140:46:19

-What we're all going to have to do at the end is pick it up with our chopsticks and eat it.

-Yeah.

0:46:190:46:24

Listen. He's just found out that you can eat seaweed,

0:46:240:46:28

and now you've got to ask him to use two sticks to pick what he's made up with. He's not a happy man.

0:46:280:46:33

So, I'll give you a countdown. Three...two...one. Get rolling.

0:46:330:46:39

Is there a time limit on this, Gerard?

0:46:390:46:41

-Well, by the end of the week would be nice.

-Fine, OK.

0:46:410:46:44

'There are loads of types of sushi This is maki. Literally in Japanese it means rolled sushi.'

0:46:440:46:50

That's right. Nice and tight. Press the rice down.

0:46:500:46:52

Think gentle. We're not all Texan.

0:46:520:46:57

'But seriously, maki sushi? Making a mess, more like.'

0:46:570:47:00

'The sticky sushi rice is dressed with rice vinegar and sugar, which compliments the flavour of the fish.

0:47:000:47:05

'And nori is actually a sea algae. It's been pressed, rolled and dried into sheets.

0:47:050:47:11

Keep it nice and tight.

0:47:140:47:16

Sushi ingredients are quite common and cheap in oriental supermarkets

0:47:160:47:19

and this makes a great fun DIY dinner party.

0:47:190:47:22

The innards have come out!

0:47:220:47:24

Just squash it in a bit. It'll be all right there, look. Nobody will ever know.

0:47:240:47:28

'You don't have to use raw fish You could use smoked fish, crab,

0:47:280:47:31

'prawns, vegetables or strips of cold omelette.'

0:47:310:47:33

-Look at the Myers Man!

-Ha!

0:47:330:47:37

-Look at this. Well done.

-Have you finished, dude?

-Yeah.

0:47:480:47:51

-He can't wait!

-Look, guys, this person is about...

0:47:510:47:54

Les, stop! You've got to dip it in there.

0:47:540:47:58

Yeah, and I've got to judge it first. I need to have a look at them.

0:47:580:48:01

Oh, sorry, Les is off.

0:48:010:48:03

-I have to see it before you do it. They're pretty good, aren't they?

-They're mega.

0:48:030:48:07

This one is pretty good but it sort of fell apart, didn't it?

0:48:070:48:10

It did really, yeah.

0:48:100:48:11

I like this one.

0:48:110:48:13

-Very neat.

-A little bit of a gap there.

0:48:140:48:17

But I think the blokes have it, really. Can you give them a round of applause, ladies and gentlemen?

0:48:170:48:22

-A big round of applause everyone.

-Well, done you men.

0:48:220:48:26

-He's done very well. I think we should let him eat it.

-Go on, Les.

0:48:260:48:32

CHEERING

0:48:320:48:37

It's nothing like steak and kidney pudding, is it?

0:48:370:48:41

Over in the mums' tent, it's just one big masterclass.

0:48:430:48:46

Put that cabbage right tucked under.

0:48:460:48:48

Marika is passing on her cabbage-rolling skills.

0:48:480:48:52

It's like the Generation Game, isn't it?

0:48:520:48:55

Rebecca is holding court on tapas techniques.

0:48:550:48:58

Yeah. You cook them just till it kind of goes quite cloudy.

0:48:580:49:01

Jayne is drilling the fairgoers in operation "dessert storm". Get it?

0:49:010:49:07

And Karl, he's just doing his own thing.

0:49:090:49:13

Over in Gerard's tent, he's just struck picnic jackpot!

0:49:130:49:19

What a beautiful display we've got here from Helen, Helena and Beryl. What have we got, anyway?

0:49:190:49:24

I can see some soda bread here, that's delicious. You've made that, with your lovely jam.

0:49:240:49:30

-Yes, I've made that.

-Brilliant. Beryl, what's your favourite picnic food?

0:49:300:49:34

-I can see you're clutching a book there.

-It's very special and all my cooking is out of this book.

0:49:340:49:38

-You are the modern housewife, I can tell.

-I am. This book is at least 100 years old.

0:49:380:49:44

It's yellow with age, and this is...

0:49:440:49:47

-was my mother's, and these are her recipes.

-Yeah.

0:49:470:49:50

We used to use this as a child.

0:49:500:49:52

Brilliant. So you've really brought your family's food history to life,

0:49:520:49:56

on this picnic table here. I love the way that you've made some homemade drinks because...

0:49:560:50:00

I think it's one thing we often neglect in picnics is, some squash or Pimms, dare I say.

0:50:000:50:06

-Those are out of this book.

-Are they?

-Yes.

-It says in brackets...

0:50:060:50:10

-alcoholic.

-Yes.

-As if I'd need to guess that it wasn't.

0:50:100:50:12

-It's got the Welsh cider in.

-Has it? Fantastic. A lovely bit of cider.

0:50:120:50:16

So Satvinder and Harpreet, I know that you're big picnic people.

0:50:180:50:22

A little bird has told me that And today you've brought a wonderful big box of pakora,

0:50:220:50:27

which for me is an ideal spicy picnic food. Tell me,

0:50:270:50:30

-are these held together with a kind of flour?

-Yeah it's gram flour...

-OK.

-.which is made from chickpeas.

0:50:300:50:35

Right. And they're lovely cold, aren't they?

0:50:350:50:37

I had one earlier on. I nicked one. I love them! They really looked so nice and I thought oh,

0:50:370:50:43

they look really good. And they're always vegetarian, are they?

0:50:430:50:46

No. You can have anything in them, as long as it can be held together.

0:50:460:50:50

What would be your favourite picnic destination?

0:50:500:50:52

We picnic mostly in the lounge.

0:50:520:50:55

Right. Great. I'm going to have a sneaky snifter of one of these. You have one as well

0:50:550:51:02

And then you can help me pass them round.

0:51:020:51:04

-Pakoras are really easy.

-That is really spicy.

0:51:060:51:09

Which means you'll have more time to eat them - in the lounge.

0:51:090:51:13

Before our Recipe Fair closes for the day, it's our turn to cook.

0:51:130:51:16

Sausage rolls are a picnic classic but we are going to cook something that's similar, but a bit more fun.

0:51:160:51:21

For our alfresco offering, we're going to do minced beef pinwheels. It's one of those wonderful things

0:51:210:51:28

you can do with a slab of puff pastry.

0:51:280:51:30

'These are really easy, and once you've got the method,

0:51:300:51:32

'you can be as creative with the filling as you like.'

0:51:320:51:35

Now the pinwheel, it was one of those things when you were a kid, you know you used to pin like a

0:51:350:51:39

whirligig to a stick - the pinwheel.

0:51:390:51:41

But this is the same but with mince and pastry and without the stick.

0:51:410:51:46

it's basically a savoury mince you're making. Finely chopped onions and sweated down garlic.

0:51:470:51:52

-That'll do us I think.

-Beautiful.

-Take that off and let it cool.

0:51:520:51:56

Minced beef.

0:51:560:51:58

A little bit of fat in it, you need that. What we're going to do,

0:51:580:52:02

is we're going to add some flour. All the juices that come out of the meat,

0:52:020:52:06

the flour will absorb that and we're going to add some mixed herbs, plain common or garden

0:52:060:52:11

dried mixed herbs.

0:52:110:52:13

A big dollop of tomato puree for a bit of richness. Now season it well. Salt. Pepper.

0:52:130:52:18

Lots of pepper cos it's great with the beef.

0:52:180:52:20

What we do is then we just massage the meat.

0:52:200:52:24

Now meanwhile, I have a pack of puff pastry and I'm going to roll it out.

0:52:240:52:30

And bought puff pastry is OK. There's not much wrong with it.

0:52:300:52:33

Once your mince is well mixed, it needs to be pressed out onto the pastry.

0:52:330:52:38

-This isn't one for the vegetarians. A sheet of beef flesh. What would a vegan put in a pinwheel?

-Nuts.

0:52:380:52:44

-Nuts?

-Nuts?

0:52:440:52:45

I'd rather eat my own feet.

0:52:450:52:47

Now this, we're topping that with cheese But if you don't

0:52:490:52:52

like cheese, don't put cheese in. You could put horseradish in, or a spread of mustard would be nice.

0:52:520:52:58

Eggy wash the edges...

0:52:580:53:00

and roll it up into a sausage.

0:53:000:53:03

I reckon we'll get a dozen out of this.

0:53:030:53:05

Cut them up evenly into about one- inch thick discs, and lay them out

0:53:050:53:07

on greaseproof paper. It doesn't matter if they puff up and touch each other.

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You can do this if you want. You brush it with egg.

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I like this bit.

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I just love the formality of this But you could do really posh ones,

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you know like chicken and wild mushroom ones Just make a duxelle

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of mushrooms out of...

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you know, like you would do for a beef Wellington. And chicken. Gorgeous, you know?

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Haggis would be good. Haggis pinwheels.

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Will you stop watching us? You're putting us off!

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Just pop those into a moderate hot oven...

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about a hundred and seventy degrees Celsius...

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for about 15 minutes and honestly, they'll be puffed up, they'll be golden, tasty and brill.

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Doesn't 15 minutes go quick when you're having fun?

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There we are.

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-Oh.

-Oh-ho! And I'd just take these outside with a nice

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glass of wine or a pint of beer, and I think the job's a good 'un.

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Sit in your garden. Ladies and gentlemen... mince beef pinwheels.

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How do you get on? Did you get any recipes?

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Yes, super. I've got Grandma's Ginger Cake for my daughter to make when we get home.

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-Brilliant.

-Oh, good. Good.

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I've chatted to lots of people

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and written some things down off the recipe board.

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-We've got the pakoras which I think everyone loves.

-Yeah.

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-They were brilliant. And the cake pie.

-That was good, wasn't it?

-We thought it was a good invention.

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-Gooey chocolate cake in a pastry.

-The cake pie was good, wasn't it?

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-It was good.

-I've written that down, along with half of the people here.

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-I think half the country's going to be cooking cake pie.

-Yes, cake pie.

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After each Recipe Fair, we have a banquet to thank everyone who's helped to make it so special.

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And we eat all the grub we've discovered.

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The perfect end to a perfect day. We get to feast now.

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We do. We do.

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For starters, we're off with Rebecca's selection of tapas, which is albondigas, the tortilla...

0:55:120:55:19

-And all the prawns have been eaten, but never mind.

-Oh!

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-Ah!

-Look at that!

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Have you ever seen a plate of albondigas as good as that? Look at them!

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We have Karl and Marika with their perkelt. And perky perkelt it is too!

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Now this is catering Hungarian style, yes!

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-Come on! Look at that.

-Hey!

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And stuffed cabbage, and last but no means least,

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we've got Jayne with her wonderful summer pudding, and other assorted treats of summer, brought to us.

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-And there's our chicken Kievs.

-Potted beef and potted salmon.

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And minced beef pinwheels.

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-Quick... march!

-Hey!

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You know, Si, whatever we eat under this summer evening sky, it's going to feel very special.

0:56:090:56:15

Yeah, mate, and this is really good food to be eating alfresco.

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-Come on!

-Hooray!

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There's something about having hot foods outside,

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and when it gets colder and you're sort of wrapped up

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and it just tastes a lot nicer outside, I think.

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I've eaten absolutely everything and it was fantastic!

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Stuffed cabbage, perkelt, tapas.

0:56:440:56:47

I think the fried potato, the Spanish stuff.

0:56:470:56:50

-Very nice.

-Lovely.

-Some of the recipes I've tucked in my pocket

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to take home with me so I've got a collection.

0:56:550:56:58

Kievs. Magnificent.

0:56:580:57:01

I really like the potted salmon because it's very creamy and very fresh, and lovely to eat outside.

0:57:010:57:06

My food went down really well. I was surprised how many people came back for seconds.

0:57:090:57:13

And I can't wait till I get into them cakes over there.

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Woah!

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A work of art!

0:57:250:57:26

It's been a most wonderful day. It's been a wonderful experience, meeting

0:57:330:57:35

everybody. But the wonderful thing is the camaraderie between the mothers.

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Exhausting but brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.

0:57:400:57:44

Dude, alfresco dining. Fantastic, man. And the food definitely tastes better outside.

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It does and without a doubt, we've certainly pushed the gastronomic envelope.

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Great food, great people. What a day.

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-What a feeling!

-What a sensation!

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-Ha-hey!

-Hey! Oh, it's brilliant.

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Next week on Mums Know Best, we look at the food people love to cook on a lazy weekend.

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From posh puds. ..Yes!

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To quick and simple snacks.

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Banana duvets.

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And slow and special dishes.

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I wish you could smell this - it is absolutely unbelievable.

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