Bake Off

Inspired by the prospect of tonight’s return to our TV screens of “The Great British Bake Off”, I went all Paul Hollywood and concocted a corned beef plate pie for tea, using the man’s very own recipe as a basis but replacing carrots and celery by sweetcorn, and Worcester sauce by tiny cubes of mature cheddar cheese; it turned out well, particularly the pastry (recipe followed to the letter) which rolled out like tanned leather but baked crisp and short with a bottom well shy of soggy.