SUNDAY, AUGUST 14 @ 5:00PM

VICTORIAN

In a Baking Show first, the entire episode is devoted to the period of history that gave birth to modern baking, the Victorian era. For the first challenge, the bakers have three hours to make a raised game pie. The pie must have thin pastry, and must be very ornate, as most game pies from the era were. For the technical challenge, a tennis fruit cake is set for the bakers. The bakers were given three hours to make a fruit cake, along with royal icing and sugar paste, with much gelatine being used. A Charlotte Russe is set as the Showstopper. To be done in five and a half hours, the bake usually has ladyfingers around jelly and a sponge – with flavor and decoration being key.

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NPR CONVENTION COVERAGE

DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION

MONDAY – THURSDAY

JULY 25 – JULY 28 @ 9:00PM

Don’t miss special primetime PBS NewsHour/NPR joint coverage of the Democratic national convention July 25-28.

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NPR CONVENTION COVERAGE

DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION

MONDAY – THURSDAY

JULY 25 – JULY 28 @ 6:00PM

Don’t miss special primetime PBS NewsHour/NPR joint coverage of the Democratic national convention July 25-28.

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PASTRY

FRIDAY, JULY 22 @ 11:00PM

With bread, biscuits and cakes complete, the bakers must now prove their pastry skills. For the signature challenge, the bakers make a frangipane tart in two hours, the challenge being that it must be open-topped and use shortcrust pastry. In the technical, the bakers strive to make flauones – a cheese filled pastry made in Cyprus. Vol-au-vents are set as the Showstopper – the bakers must make two types, all using their own puff pastry – in three hours and forty five minutes.

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ALTERNATIVE INGREDIENTS

FRIDAY, JULY 22 @ 7:00PM & 12:00AM

The remaining bakers face baking challenges without sugar, gluten or dairy. This episode has a theme of using alternatives for ingredients usually used in baking. For the signature bake, the bakers are given the challenge of baking a cake, but without using sugar. For the technical bake, the challenge is to make twelve identical gluten-free pitta breads in two hours. In the showstopper, the bakers must make an ice-cream roll using dairy-free ice-cream.

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NPR CONVENTION COVERAGE

REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION

THURSDAY, JULY 21 @ 9:00PM

PBS NewsHour convention coverage will be co-hosted by Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff. NPR host Rachel Martin will report inside the hall with NewsHour’s Lisa Desjardins and John Yang and NPR’s Sue Davis.

Ifill and Woodruff will also be joined by NPR’s Mara Liaisson, Ron Elving and Domenico Montenaro and NewsHour regular contributors including syndicated columnist Mark Shields, New York Times columnist David Brooks and Cook Political Report’s Amy Walter.  (3 Hours)

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NPR CONVENTION COVERAGE

REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION

THURSDAY, JULY 21 @ 6:00PM

PBS NewsHour convention coverage will be co-hosted by Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff. NPR host Rachel Martin will report inside the hall with NewsHour’s Lisa Desjardins and John Yang and NPR’s Sue Davis.

Ifill and Woodruff will also be joined by NPR’s Mara Liaisson, Ron Elving and Domenico Montenaro and NewsHour regular contributors including syndicated columnist Mark Shields, New York Times columnist David Brooks and Cook Political Report’s Amy Walter. (3 Hours)

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