Prue Leith 'still learning how to bake' as Bake Off's Paul Hollywood offers advice

Great British Bake Off prima Prue Leith has revealed that her chap justice Paul Hollywood often offers proposal to her arsenic she's 'still learning however to bake'

Prue Leith says she is inactive learning tons astir baking - acknowledgment to chap justice Paul Hollywood. Despite a beingness successful the concern and being a Great British Bake Off justice 84-year-old Prue insists determination is inactive overmuch she tin prime up.

She said: "I've learnt a batch from Paul. Mostly from listening to him judging. I mean, it’s casual for maine due to the fact that I’m there, too. What ever amazed maine is helium would often accidental of a soggy cake: ‘This is overbaked…’ And I’d say: ‘But it’s not, it’s underbaked, due to the fact that it’s soft. It’s excessively soft.’ And he’d say: ‘No, it’s got excessively overmuch liquid successful it and it hasn't been capable to escape, but it’s really overbaked.’ And I’d say: ‘How bash you tell?’ He’d say: ‘Well, the barroom is not crumbling arsenic it should.’ You cognize however helium scratches it with a fork? If it's well-baked, it volition inactive crumble similar that adjacent if it’s excessively wet. I bash larn worldly each the clip from him. And to ticker Paul kneading thing oregon plaiting bread, for example, is implicit magic. It's similar watching a Chinese noodle cook knitting noodles. It’s magic to ticker due to the fact that he's so accelerated and he's so good. So, yeah, I’ve learned a lot."

Prue besides told however she besides ends up asking for immoderate of the recipes from the UK and US versions of the show. She added: "I rather often nick different people's recipes. I mean, immoderate of the recipes are mine. You cognize the technicals are either Paul’s oregon mine. "But the signature ones I rather often nick the look due to the fact that it’s truthful good. And, the different day, we had a cocoa barroom [on the American Baking Show ] – it was unbelievably bully – truthful I nicked the recipe. I said to the location economist, the miss who bakes these things, and she said: ‘This is the champion cocoa barroom I’ve ever met.’ She and I had agreed earlier this the champion cocoa barroom was 1 of Paul’s – his Devil’s Food Cake. And truthful I said to Paul, I’ve recovered a amended cocoa barroom and it's that one. He tasted it and helium said: ‘You’re right. It is.’ So, we some learned something."

Last week the Mirror told however Prue had stepped backmost from the personage mentation of the amusement truthful she could person much clip disconnected from filming. She expected to person to permission the Channel 4 bid but bosses worked the docket astir her. Prue said: "I was getting truly tired. It meant we were filming from April to the extremity of August without a interruption and, though we got days disconnected successful each week, they were ne'er the weekends. We were ever filming astatine the weekend. And I was just… you know. I was successful a caller location and I hardly saw the garden, I hardly saw my household and I ne'er had a summertime holiday. I thought I mightiness person to permission altogether due to the fact that I didn't realise there’d beryllium an option.

"And so, I went to the producers and said, ‘I deliberation I'll person to quit…’ and they said: ‘Oh, don’t discontinue altogether. Don't discontinue truthful you tin person a holiday. If you privation a holiday, let’s organise it truthful you tin have a holiday’."

* The caller bid of The Great British Bake Off starts tonight(Tuesday) connected Channel 4 astatine 8pm.

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