The boys are back! The Hairy Bikers, Dave Myers and Simon King take to the road to find the very best in baking in Britain. The first programme in the series looks at bread. How many of us can turn out a decent loaf? Our biking Bakers show how easy and rewarding it can be, visiting Doncaster market and baking a healthy white roll for the perfect bacon and sausage buttie They also conjure up homemade naan bread and a curry on the shores of Derwent Valley in the Peak District.
Tonight, against a backdrop of indifferent fields, the divisive cooks announce their intention to "get out the posh china and put on a right hairy tea". A euphemism? If only. Alas, they are merely creating slightly unusual versions of "the classic high tea", such as sprinkling some cinnamon in a Victoria sandwich. Among the clouds of cornflour and innuendo, we may discern the following: a visual joke involving an unsettlingly thick cucumber and an argument over the correct pronunciation of the word scone.
The Hairy Bikers take their longest trip in this baking series, from Cornwall to Scotland. Dave and Si start in the far South West cooking traditional pasties at Geevor Tin Mine in Cornwall, then head northwards to the Midlands, and then on to Huntly in Aberdeenshire, where our hungry hairy bikers sample an extraordinary range of pies - Scotch pie, macaroni pie, and mashed potato and baked bean pie.
Simon King and Dave Myers delve into the world of celebration cakes.
Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat, and the Hairy Bakers are embarking on their first ever Christmas special. On brand-new motorbikes, the Hairy Bakers travel round the country cooking up their favourite festive recipes as they plan an early Christmas party for families who won't be spending Christmas together: fire-fighters, nurses, police and ambulance crews. The Hairy Bakers' Christmas tour takes them from an indoor ski slope where they cook up Christmas pudding and mince pies for hungry snowboarders, to a turkey farm where they turn leftovers into a delicious turkey and ham pie. They go to a Christmas tree farm to rustle up a festive chestnut soup and giant cheese straws and a prison in Cumbria where they make bagels filled with salmon smoked within the prison grounds. At a Lancashire school, the Bakers and kids make festive biscuits to hang on the tree. And they drop in to Betty's Tea Rooms in Harrogate, to learn the art of making the perfect chocolate yule log. The journey ends with a feast in the world's largest tree house. Full of festive cheer, lashings of mulled wine, reindeer and even an elf or two this is the first ever Hairy Christmas party.