Mairi MacRitchie travels the Highlands and Islands meeting experienced home bakers who know that classic recipes which work well every time will never go out of fashion. From South Uist to Eynort on Skye Mairi samples the recipes her home cooks can always depend upon.

She tastes traditional Cornish pasties with fantastically crisp pastry and a tender meat and vegetable filling. The cooks show her that the simplest things are often the best. Lemon posset only uses three ingredients but makes a delightfully refreshing after-dinner treat.

Mairi also takes on some traditional recipes herself and shows us they can be easier than we think. She bakes a Battenberg cake with its colourful sponge squares wrapped in a thick layer of marzipan and she shares her tips for a classic cherry cake to ensure the lightest of sponges with evenly dispersed sweet glacé cherries throughout.

Tha Màiri NicRisnidh a' siubhal na Gàidhealtachd is nan Eilean a' tachairt air bèiceirean sgileil aig a bheil fios is cinnt nach tèid na seann eòlaich a tha a' còrdadh ris a h-uile duine, gu bràth a-mach à fasan.Eadar Uibhist a Deas agus Aoineart an Eilein Sgitheanaich, feuchaidh Mairi na nithean anns an cuir na còcairean is aithne dhi earbsa an còmhnaidh, leithid taoisein traidiseanta às a' Chòrn, làn feòil thais agus glasraich. Seallaidh na còcairean dhi gun iad na nithean sìmplidh gu minig is fheàrr: nì thu barrag liomaine gun ach trì nithean a chuir còmhla, ach 'sè tha math mar chrìoch air dinneir.Tha Màiri a' sealltainn gun gabh grunnd chèicean traidiseanta a bhi nas fhasa na shaoileadh duine, eadar Battenberg le ceàrnagan dathte, tiugh-chòmhdaichte ann an taois mhilis almoin, agus cèic shirisean, le spuinnse aotrom agus na dh' íarradh duine de shirisean air fheadh.

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