Summary
Jay Rayner and a panel of expert chefs, cooks and food writers are at the Fallibroome Academy in Macclesfield, answering questions on bilberries and treacle. Joining Jay are Sarah Rankin, Angela Gray, Rob Owen Brown and food historian Dr Annie Gray.
The panellists discuss their favourite ways to use up miso paste, the best savoury recipes involving treacle, and what to do with vegetables that have seen better days. They also share their true feelings about fried bread on a full English and what to do with a glut of homegrown berries.
Situated on the cusp of the Peak District, Jay chats to local forager Richard McManus about the upcoming bilberry picking season, and the unique flavour profile of the bilberry.
Producer: Dan Cocker Assistant Producer: Dulcie Whadcock A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, it's Lucy Worsley here and we're back with a brand new series of ladies swindlers. |
| 0:07.5 | Promise never to mention a word of what is going on. |
| 0:10.1 | Join me and my all-female team of detectives as we revisit the audacious crimes of women trying to make it in a world made for men. |
| 0:19.5 | This is a story of working class women trying to get by in a world made for men. This is a story of working-class women trying to get by. |
| 0:24.4 | This is survival. |
| 0:25.3 | Join me for the second season of Lady Swindlers, |
| 0:28.2 | where true crime meets history with a twist. |
| 0:31.4 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:41.7 | Hello and welcome to the kitchen cabinet. This week we've come to Macclesfield in |
| 0:45.4 | Cheshire, about 20 miles south of Manchester, within kissing distance of the Peak District. |
| 0:50.3 | Macklesfield is famous for many cultural icons, including Hovis Bread, AstraZeneca, and of course, |
| 0:55.6 | Joy Division singer Ian Curtis. It's also a town which has been voted one of the UK's happiest |
| 1:00.6 | places to live, even on a Blue Monday. I know that's a New Order song and not by Joy Division, |
| 1:05.5 | but I really don't care. Hoping food will not tear us apart again are writers and cooks Angela Gray, Sarah Rankin, |
| 1:13.1 | Rob Owen Brown and a food historian who always brings us joy in Heels Division, Dr. Annie Gray. |
| 1:19.2 | Ladies and gentlemen, your kitchen cabinet panel. |
| 1:32.9 | Macclesfield has an unusual landmark leading up from the train station to St Michael's Church in the marketplace is a straight cobbled stairway that has become famous in the town |
| 1:37.8 | at 108 steps. It's a long schlep to the top, but local legend has it that if you run up |
| 1:42.8 | all 108 steps without taking a |
| 1:44.9 | breath, you'll have a wish come true. So panel, when it comes to food, how do you feel about |
| 1:50.2 | recipes that have seemingly endless steps? Rob Owen Brown. It gets to a point, doesn't it, |
| 1:55.5 | if there's that many ingredients in a dish, that it just all becomes confused and the bit of a |
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