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\"snake-fritters-regula-ysewijn-2-6\"<\/a>It was batter week on the Great British Bake Off. And many people felt a bit battered after the news came in yesterday\u00a0that Love Productions<\/em> have sold the GBBO to\u00a0Channel 4. The Beeb just didn’t have the amount of cash needed to keep the bun in the oven. Mel and Sue<\/strong><\/a> aren’t swallowing the cake\u00a0and quit with a statement full of buns, I mean puns (I just had to, sorry). And I love them for it, though they will be missed like the icing missing from an iced finger.<\/p>\n

We were very shocked and saddened to learn yesterday evening that Bake Off will be moving from its home. We made no secret of our desire for the show to remain where it was.<\/em><\/p>\n

The BBC nurtured the show from its infancy and helped give it its distinctive warmth and charm, growing it from an audience of two million to nearly 15 million at its peak.<\/em><\/p>\n

We\u2019ve had the most amazing time on Bake Off, and have loved seeing it rise and rise like a pair of yeasted Latvian baps.<\/em><\/p>\n

We\u2019re not going with the dough. We wish all the future bakers every success.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Outrage on social media, others are outraged by those who are outraged… life on social media every day.<\/p>\n

My opinion? Yeah I’ll give it since it is my blog innit<\/em>?
\nWhen Britain voted to leave the EU, I as a Belgian felt as if half the British population were basically dropping us like a scone.<\/p>\n

What has this brexit shizzle got to do with the GBBO you say?<\/p>\n

We watch it in Europe!!
\nMost people can get BBC1 and BBC2, which means I can watch Eastenders every night except wednesday. We hate wednesday because there is no Eastenders on wednesdays. (don’t judge, judging people on how they look, talk, prey or which soap they watch religiously is bad, bad, bad.)<\/p>\n

On Channel 4, we will all loose out. I mean, first\u00a0Brexit, now Bake Off<\/strong>.
\nAs if Britain couldn’t make itself even more unpopular with the rest of Europe!<\/p>\n

Luckily there have been rumours that we would maybe get our own Bake Off in Belgium! How great is that, no one can watch Great British Bake Off anymore but we can watch the\u00a0Great Belgian\u00a0Bake Off! I’m already excited by the idea of it. Especially since I’ve been asked to\u00a0be one of the presenters of the program.
\nSo here I am practicing my baking puns. There’s nothing set in shortcrust pastry yet but if it does happen I’ll let you know.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Back to the news of the day! Batter week! Churros!<\/p>\n

The bakers made them into all sorts of different shapes, which didn’t really feel right to me as the whole idea is that you pipe the batter into the hot oil, not pipe + shape + then fry. But hey, you can even buy churro machines now, they look like waffle irons but shaped like sausages, so Bake Off is allowed to be creative with “what is a churro” too. But what is a churro? The first clue is that a churrera is a syringe in Spanish.<\/p>\n

Did you know that I wrote a book full of puddings<\/a><\/strong>? Well they aren’t all savoury so here I’m sharing the recipe for the 17th century English version of the churros you saw on the Bake Off last night. Yes, English! Tweeting about my 17th century churros nearly caused the same kind of outrage on twitter as when Jamie added chorizo to his Paella. I was threatened to leave Spanish cuisine alone and that I am an absolute dumb-ass for suggesting they were also English… Well…<\/p>\n

They were called snake fritters<\/strong> or syringe fritters<\/strong>\u00a0and not just a dish popular in Spain. In fact they appeared at the same time in Italy, Spain, France, England,\u00a0Portugal and Germany by the seventeenth century. Medieval Arabic recipes for piped fritters are\u00a0also common, which makes you think that maybe the Moors are the origin of the Spanish churros.\u00a0They fritters were just more popular in Spain and died out in England where they vanished from the cookery books that same century.<\/p>\n

The first printed recipe in English for these fritters can be found in Robert May\u2019s The\u00a0Accomplisht Cook from 1660. The recipe is titled:\u00a0To fry Paste out of a Syringe or Butter-squirt.\u00a0A\u00a0\u2018butter-squirt\u2019 was a syringe used for making decorative\u00a0butter swirls. He flavours the fritters with saffron and sugar and fries them in clarified butter.\u00a0Another 17th century author\u00a0suggests\u00a0brushing the curls with some butter and rosewater melted together, and then to \u2018scrape\u2019some sugar on them.<\/p>\n

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To fry Paste out of a Syringe or Butter-squirt.<\/em>
\nTake a quart of fine flower, & a litle leven, dissolve it in warm water, & put to it the flour, with some white wine, salt, saffron, a quarter of butter, and two ounces of sugar; boil the aforesaid things in a skillet as thick as a hasty pudding, and in the boiling stir it continually, being cold beat it in a mortar, fry it in clarified butter, and run it into the butter through a butter-squirt. <\/em>
\nRobert May, The Accomplisht Cook, 1660<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Want a taste of the past?<\/p>\n

You can come and see me at Abergavenny Food Festival<\/strong> on saturday at 10:30 and learn how to make these, or if you can’t make it, here is the recipe for you! Don’t forget to share your bakes on social media using #PrideandPudding!<\/p>\n

Love x<\/p>\n

Snake Fritters – taken from Pride and Pudding<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Serves 2 people<\/strong><\/p>\n