Victorian Bakers - Episode Guide

The bakers are tasked with setting up their new shops and learning traditional ways of making bread. The bakers are also tasked with door to door deliveries.

As Britain's middle class enjoy the democratisation of luxury, the bakers move into their new elegant shop on the high street. The bakers are tested with the large range of goods they have to produce and then take part in trying to put on a typical Victorian tea.

The bakers bake their way through the reign of Queen Victoria and learn the story of how bread first came to England. In the 1900s, the bakers have to adjust to their elegant shops on a high street, with new equipment designed to take the hard work out of baking. Their final task is an epic afternoon tea.

Victorian Bakers is back for Christmas. In this one-off special, our four professional bakers discover the role their trade played in creating Christmas as we know it today.

Historians Alex Langlands and Annie Gray are on hand to tell the fascinating story of how a riotous mid-winter break, stretching into January, became a more respectable family-based occasion on 25 December.

Long lost recipes include mammoth ‘twelfth cakes', bread-based punch and the Queen Victoria's mincemeat pies made from roast beef, (replaced with humble tripe for the masses). The Victorian bakers' oven was used for everything from Christmas tree decorations to Christmas roasts for entire communities.

Featuring hosts, Alex Langlands and Annie Gray, and with bakers, John Foster, Duncan Glendinning, Harpreet Baura and John Swift.