title: Great British Bake Off: Learn to Bake: 80 Easy Recipes for All the Family (The Great British Bake Off)
author:  Linda Collister 
description: <b>Linda Collister</b> is the author of <i>The Great British Bake Off: How to Bake</i>, <i>The Great British Bake Off: How to Turn Everyday Bakes into Showstoppers</i>, and <i>The Great British Book of Baking</i>.
zlib_text: THE STORY OF THE GREAT BRITISH BAKE OFF
  
  
  
  
  
  Anita Singh
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  [About this Book](part0001.html#UGI0-872a06f30962418f8f72f500ae41f480)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [About the Author](part0036.html#12AK80-872a06f30962418f8f72f500ae41f480)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # [About The Story of The Great British Bake Off](part0002.html#a4)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  A Recipe for the Nation’s Most Popular Cookery Show
  
  
  INGREDIENTS
  
  
  1 tent • 12 amateur bakers
  
  
  1 venerable cookery writer • 1 blue-eyed bread maker
  
  
  2 comedy queens with a love of innuendo
  
  
  When The Great British Bake Off made its debut in August 2010, it had the
  makings of a modest hit. But nobody – not the programme-makers an