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Gregg Wallace visits the largest malt loaf factory in the world, encountering a production line of massive dough mixing, mind-boggling tin filling and intensely hot baking.

Malt loaf has been a popular teatime treat for more than 80 years; these days we get through a staggering 130 million of them every year. So to get to grips with how this sweet and squidgy cake-cum-bread is made, Gregg Wallace is rolling up his sleeves to get stuck in, following a production line of massive dough mixing, mind-boggling tin filling and intensely hot baking.

Meanwhile, historian Ruth Goodman reveals the surprising story of a British baking company that cooked up the first business computer, as well as visiting Cambridgeshire to find out how wheat flour was ground the traditional way, until the Victorians鈥� demand for white bread brought about the demise of Britain鈥檚 iconic windmills.

59 minutes

Last on

Tue 14 Feb 2023 19:00
主播大秀 Two except Wales & Wales HD

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Music Played

Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

  • 00:24

    Dead or Alive

    You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)

  • 00:24

    Dead or Alive

    You Spin Me Round

  • 00:29

    Black Sabbath

    Paranoid

  • 00:42

    Heinz Kiessling

    Hotsy-Totsy

    Performer: Heinz Kiessling Orchestra.

Credits

Presenter Gregg Wallace
Presenter Ruth Goodman
Presenter Cherry Healey
Director Matthew Skilton
Series Producer Nicola Lafferty
Executive Producer Lucy Carter
Executive Producer Sanjay Singhal
Production Company Voltage TV

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