{"id":238,"date":"2015-09-10T12:17:20","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T12:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/consumingauthenticities\/?p=238"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:25:07","slug":"flaounes-starred-on-bbc1-great-british-bake-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/consumingauthenticities\/2015\/09\/10\/flaounes-starred-on-bbc1-great-british-bake-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Flaounes starred on BBC1 \u2018Great British Bake Off\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Flaounes were the start of Britain\u2019s favourite baking competition, \u2018Great British Bake Off\u2019. The seven remaining contestants had to prepare \u2018flaounes\u2019 from scratch for this week\u2019s technical challenge, using Paul Hollywood\u2019s recipe.<\/p>\n

Paul, a flaounes enthusiast, picked up the recipe while living and working as a pastry chef in Cyprus. Mary Berry, on the other hand, just like all the contestants, had never heard of flaounes before.<\/p>\n

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The show’s famous judges, Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood, sample the contestants’ flaounes.<\/p><\/div>\n

The contestants were a bit puzzled by the pungent flavour of the two main spices for flaounes: mastichi or mastic (the small, sun-dried pieces of resin from the mastic tree) and mehlepi (made from the tiny stones of the St Lucie cherry). Mastichi reminded Nadiya (last week\u2019s star baker) of an industrial detergent!<\/p>\n

As the contestants have never seen flaounes before, and were given very little instructions on how to shape them, they\u00a0were not able to fully emulate the fully risen, golden brown \u2018authentic\u2019 flaounes. According to Paul, only the best one \u2018could just about pass for a real flaouna\u2019. Still, they all tasted good, according to the judges, at least.<\/p>\n

Look out for our upcoming book<\/a>\u00a0(Authentic Recipes from Around the World) for the best (!) and most detailed recipes for flaounes.<\/p>\n

Click on this link to enjoy the full episode:
\nhttp:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/episode\/b06bffq2\/the-great-british-bake-off-series-6-6-pastry<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Flaounes were the start of Britain\u2019s favourite baking competition, \u2018Great British Bake Off\u2019. The seven remaining contestants had to prepare \u2018flaounes\u2019 from scratch for this week\u2019s technical challenge, using Paul Hollywood\u2019s recipe. Paul, a flaounes enthusiast, picked up the recipe while living and working as a pastry chef in Cyprus. Mary Berry, on the other […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":188,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,31,32],"tags":[52,50,10,33,51],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authenticity","category-cooking","category-flaounes","tag-celebrities","tag-cyprus","tag-flaounes","tag-recipes","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/consumingauthenticities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/consumingauthenticities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/consumingauthenticities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/consumingauthenticities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/188"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/consumingauthenticities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/consumingauthenticities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/consumingauthenticities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/consumingauthenticities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/consumingauthenticities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/consumingauthenticities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}