TO celebrate the Great British Bake Off finale, the Black Country Living Museum asked two members of staff to rise to the occasion and get stuck into a ‘technical challenge’.
But there was a twist, the pair had to go head to head and create the perfect gingerbread man in a Victorian kitchen with no electricity, no refrigeration and no modern weighing scales.
Managers Hayley McCafferty-David and Kevin Cooksey recreated a recipe from the world famous Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management with the instructions removed.
They had to master a 150- year-old cast iron range as well as the fine art of weighing their ingredients on an old-fashioned pair of scales.
The two then presented their creations to a pair of Victorian costumed characters who crowned one of them the Black Country bake off champion.
But who won? Watch the video below to find out.
Anyone who has the baking bug is invited to see the museum’s costumed characters cook up a range of authentic seasonal recipes and pick up a little inspiration for their own showstoppers.
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