The Great British Baking Show ™
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Apple and Blackberry Pie
Great British Baking Show ™ - Judging
Gill: "This is the pastry that I've made with my mum for over 50 years. This is proper old school margarine and lard."
Voice-over: "Gill's been making her family favorite apple and blackberry pie every year since she was a child. Today, she's using a rich, short crust to recreate the windy autumn days spent blackberry picking with her Auntie Flo."
"Love the look. I love the color."
"It's absolutely lovely."
"There's a crack there on the side."
Gill: " I know. I tried to move it off the base and I got a little crack. I've sat myself down. I've given myself a good talking to. It's an apple and blackberry pie with a ginger filling inside."
"What's nice is there's still a little bit of bite to the apple. You've got the tartness coming from the BlackBerry as well. And then the note of ginger is grace. It marries everything together."
"Almost unimprovable. Pastry is wonderful. It's just a lovely pie."
"Clever. Well done."
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About The Great British Baking Show ™
The Great British Bake Off ™ (often abbreviated to Bake Off or GBBO and referred to in the United States as The Great British Baking Show ™) is a streamed British baking competition, in which a group of amateur bakers compete against each other in a series of rounds, hoping to impress the judges with their baking skills. One contestant in The Great British Baking Show ™ is eliminated in each round, and the winner is selected from the three contestants who reach the final.
The Great British Baking Show ™ operates on a weekly elimination process to find the best all-around baker from the contestants, who are all amateurs. In each episode, the bakers are given three challenges based on that week's theme: a signature bake, a technical challenge, and a show-stopper. The bakes are assessed by the judges who then choose a "Star Baker" for the week, and a contestant is also eliminated. In the final round, three bakers are left and a winner is chosen from the three.
