The Great British Baking Show (2010–…): Season 10, Episode 5 - The Roaring Twenties - full transcript

Apparently Paul's written the script
this week. As if there's a script.

Yeah, well, he feels we haven't been
setting the right tone. Really? Hmm.

OK, uh... "Hi, I'm Sandra Thompson."

"And I'm Neil Folding."

Wow, this is terrible.

Er, let's get on, Sandra.

It's Sandi.

Whatever. Action!

BOTH: Welcome to Paul Hollywood's
Great British Bake Off,

starring Paul Hollywood.

Perfect. Cut!



Is that it? Er, yeah.
You going to the tent?

No, I've got to do some
chores for him.

I've got to hoover his glove box.
Wow, that's personal.

Neil, make mine white
with one, please.

THEY LAUGH

Last time...

Curdled cheese, yum.

..the bakers faced dairy week...

Oh, my God.

..and the wrath of Paul...

They're awful. They're really bad.

..in one of the most
disastrous technicals...

Not even gonna look at that one.

..in Bake Off history.



Argh.

But after a not-so-sweet
Showstopper...

The texture's a bit like rubber.

..it was Phil and Norman
the gnome who went home.

Now...
Right, meringue.

..we go back in time
to the roaring '20s...

You've managed to make these
flapper girls look quite flirty.

..where the bakers have
old-fashioned fear.

Michael, you OK? I'm freaking out.

Keep doing the smiley face.

That's disgusting.

As the pressure builds...

If Priya doesn't have a really
strong Showstopper,

Priya may not be here next week.

Slide, slide my pretties, slide.

..to a period drama in the tent.

SPLAT

Oh, no, she's dropped her tart.

CHATTERING

I'm can't believe I'm still here,
to be honest.

I thought I was a goner last week.

I actually thought it was as easy
as, turn up for a weekend

to bake in a tent, and going home to
a normal life. It's not like that.

I am living, sleeping, dreaming,
everything Bake Off, and it's tough.

Last week, we let
the judges down a bit.

This week, we're going to show
them why we're all here.

Hello, bakers.

Welcome back to the tent.

Today we are going back
to the roaring '20s,

the time famous for jazz, the
Charleston, flapper girls...

Uh, the 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact.

It's fantastic, international peace
treaty, but... Sandi...

Sorry, yes, baking.

Uh, 1920s, custard pies,
very popular during that decade.

So for your Signature Challenge,
the judges would like you to make

four individual highly
decorative custard pies.

Your pies should be open-topped

and the custard should
set during baking.

You have two and a half hours.

On your marks. Get set. Bake!

Custard pies were a
slapstick staple in the 1920s.

Hopefully, there's no custard pies
being thrown around today.

I don't think I'll throw
this in anyone's face.

Unless I get bad comments,
I might just like, pfft!

Shove it in, er, shove it in Paul's
face. Don't tell him I said that.

Unlike the stunt pies
in the silent movies,

which were made using
thick heavy pastry,

the bakers will be making
a delicate shortcrust.

With shortcrust pastry,
you want it to melt in the mouth

and that's the critical thing.

Overwork it, makes it too rubbery.

So the best thing to do with the
pastry is just bring it together,

chill it down.

Now it goes to rest.

I want to see a beautifully-formed
custard pie, silky smooth,

but it must contain
a theme of the 1920s.

It's a lovely period to be thinking
about, because you think of

Art Deco, flapper girls, so we want
the decoration to reflect that.

While the pastry is given time
to rest, there's no respite...

Sorry, darling. ..for the bakers.

Right, orange curd.

If they are to achieve the highly
decorative finish Paul and Prue

are expecting, every second counts.

This mousse needs to
set in the freezer,

and the pastry's just resting
in the fridge, chilling,

so I can do this
while I have the time.

I know they're going to say
I'm nuts, but, hey,

I already have the reputation,
might as well live up to it.

Helena. Hey, good morning.

Helena, I'm really looking
forward to your custard pies...

That's fantastic. ..cos they're
bound to be weird. They are.

They are decorated with an ancient
Greek sea creature,

coming out of the...
Like a gorgon? Yeah.

Originally, I had them
in the shape of lemons

and then I thought, "It's just
not me, I'm going with a monster."

Helena's mythical sea creature
will be emerging from a

bed of meringue sea foam,

standing guard over her lavender
and lemon custard pies.

Is this, uh, remotely
1920s do you think?

Yeah. SANDI: I think it sounds
fantastic. PAUL: Yeah, lovely.

PRUE LAUGHS

Helena is not the only baker drawing
inspiration from 1920s pop culture.

I looked up that the drink Kool-Aid
was founded in America during

the '20s, and one of the original
flavours was lemon-lime.

Hence I'm doing lemon
and lime custard tarts,

and then one of the other
original flavours was raspberry,

so there's gonna be little raspberry
curd hemispheres at the top.

They will hopefully be mirror glazed
yellow and green cos lemon and lime.

'Tis the plan.

In addition to his ambitious domes,

Henry will be decorating
his lemon and lime custard pies

with candied lemon slices,
fresh raspberries,

and delicately piped
Italian meringue.

I'm gonna stick to the schedule
and all will be well.

That is the best part of this
challenge, is doing that.

Also hoping to wow the judges with
their impressive domes is Rosie.

What is the smell we're getting?
Um, this is elderflower jelly.

Oh, it's lovely. There's going
to be little hemispheres of jelly,

and then I'm injecting a few
different colours into them

just to make flowers.
Cos you're a vet,

have you brought the needles from
work? I brought them from work,

they are horse vaccine syringes,
but they are new.

OK, good. They are brand-new.

Finally we're getting you some
horse vaccine, darling. Phew.

Rosie's elderflower domes will
inject a touch of 1920s glamour

to her blackberry and custard pies.

I need to just not drop
these everywhere.

While Rosie creates flowers
in jelly form,

Michelle has allowed Mother Nature
to lend a helping hand.

You've made a small garden.
Do you know what?

This is, what...? I love flowers.

I love 'em. I grow
them in the garden.

With edible flowers resting
on a bruleed top

above a blueberry compote
and white chocolate custard,

today, Michelle's hoping to
come up smelling of roses.

Do you think it was quite
hard last week?

Very hard last week.
It was brutal, weren't it?

Paul was a savage, and I was just...
He is a savage though.

Really? Yeah. He's part wolf.

Er, what am I doing?
Getting the pastry.

Once the pastry is sufficiently
chilled, it can be rolled out

ready for blind baking.

You want chilled pastry, but you
also want to be able to roll it.

Argh, this is so hard. Ugh.

If the bakers roll their
chilled dough too thin,

it runs the risk of breakage.

Once this is baked, a tiny bit of
pressure will just crumble it

or snap it and, yeah,
I'm pretty clumsy.

However, if their pie cases
are too thick,

there won't be enough room to hold
the required amount of custard.

Shortcrust definitely isn't
a favourite of mine.

Always my biggest nemesis.

Oh, hello.

Probably shouldn't be saying that in
such close proximity to the judges.

Should Steph manage to
conquer her fears,

her sweet rich shortcrust will
surround her zesty custard,

which will be flavoured with
lemon, lime, and orange.

I'm trying to take
the classic tarte au citron

and add a bit more zest.

So they are going in at
180 degrees for 15 minutes.

It's going in for about 12 minutes.

Not enough time in the oven
during the blind bake,

and the pastry will be raw.

You need to bake it more
than you perhaps would,

were you putting not a
soggy filling in it.

Too much time...

20 minutes.

..and when they go back in,
filled with custard,

the cases will overbake.

They only want a tiny bit of colour
cos they're so delicate.

What could go wrong?

Everything.

What's the theme again today?

Can't remember. Bakers,
you are halfway through.

I'm making the custard now.

This is actually really hard.

I've not got a very long time
to do all of this stuff.

Need one more egg.

I've got eggs. I've got eggs.

A basic custard is made up of egg
yolk, sugar, cream, and vanilla,

but the judges will be expecting
the bakers to pimp up their pies.

It has got some orange extract just
to give it an extra orange kick.

You will taste the orange in this.

Alice will be hoping her
orange-infused custard

will pack a punch, alongside a
rich, chocolaty pastry.

How do you know when your
custard's baked in the oven?

So it should be kind of just set,

with a little bit of a
wobble in the middle.

Just set with a bit of a wobble in
the middle sounds like my physique.

THEY LAUGH

I'm making a blackberry custard.

So, yeah, mine is dark purple.
Why not?

I just added purple food
colouring cos it's lavender.

And I'm doing something
completely different.

Not everyone is being
quite so adventurous.

I'm actually doing a classic
vanilla custard and that's it.

Basically, when I was looking at
custard tarts, I found out that

in the 1920s, they used to
do bone marrow and dried fruit

in the custard,
which didn't light my fire.

And the judges hopefully won't
have any bones to pick

with David's classic
vanilla custard pie,

topped with on theme
flapper girl biscuits.

I went to Matt Lucas' 30th
birthday party as a flapper girl.

Nice. I felt...
I've never felt so alive.

Now if you can just punch them
in the face with flavour,

you're a shoo-in.

Well, I haven't, really.
I've gone for no flavour at all.

The judges haven't come round yet,
and that's freaking me out.

There's so much going on.

It could all fall apart
at any moment.

Hello.

Right, tell us
all about your custard pies.

I'm making mango,
lime, and ginger.

So, there's mango and
lime in the custard,

and then there's
ginger in the pastry.

Well, from the smell of it,
there's a lot of ginger in there.

Yeah.

Michael is complementing these
flavours with mango gelee discs

and a decoration
of meringue kisses,

white chocolate soil,
piped dark chocolate ganache,

ginger honeycomb,
and sugared lime peel.

Wow, is there room?

How big's the tart?
It's 15 centimetres wide.

Wow, that's not very big
to fit all that in.

No, but they're all quite small.
They're all quite little bits.

OK, then. Look forward to this one.
Thank you. I hope it works.

Well done. Thank you.

Michael may have given
himself a lot to do

but one of the bakers is doing
twice as much work as everyone else.

I'm making two custards, a lemon
custard and a raspberry custard.

The raspberry's quite sweet
and the lemon's sharp but creamy.

Priya's custards will be
decorated with meringue shapes

and piped chocolate,

and sit within a lemon shortcrust.

Right, I'm taking my pastry out.

My heart is racing.
There's so much going on.

I don't know how long we have left.

Bakers, you've got
half an hour left...

..until I cut all your fringes.

Pray for me.

For the perfect balance
of custard to pastry,

the pies should be
filled to the brim.

I don't like a very deep tart.

I like a shallow tart.

I'm just being very careful
cos I'm so clumsy.

But now they're so full, there is a
danger of any spilt custard burning

around the edges, so they need
to be moved with extreme caution.

Oh, God.

Slide, slide my pretties, slide.

Yes, right, meringue.

The bakers now have only
a small window of time

to finish off their decorations.

Can we make this snappy?

I've got three minutes and...
Oh, yeah, go on.

She's one of the dancing girls
from Bugsy Malone.

Just adding the suckers
onto the... tentacles.

SHE GIGGLES

I almost said testicles.

What are you doing?
Um, I'm injecting jelly.

Is that how you put
the horses to sleep?

This is a horse needle.
Oh, it is? Well, it's quite long.

Which animals are
the most difficult?

I find rabbits the most
difficult. Rabbits?

They just want to die.
They just...

That shouldn't be funny, but it is.

Rabbits are not my thing.

Give me an angry stallion
or a snake any day.

Or a crab with herpes.

HE LAUGHS

Yeah, herpes.

There's your outline, see you later.

They get chlamydia,
not herpes anyway.

This is the mirror glaze, which is
going to go on top of the mousse,

which is setting in the freezer.

A classic Henry.

Loves a mirror glaze.

Urgh.

Neither of them have set,
the curd or the mousse.

My freezer hates me.

Going in.

They're all right.

It's a little bit over,
but it's got a wobble to it still.

# My custard is not baked. #

I just want a thin layer
so I can blowtorch it.

It's gonna be very quick decoration.

How long have we got left?

Bakers, you have ten minutes left.

Crunch time.

Need to get them out the tins.

I mustn't stress or
I'm going to drop them.

Just being very careful
cos I'm so clumsy.

I'm just going to go with that.

This is not fun.

The moving bit is not fun.

Oh.

SHE SNIFFS

Oh, no, she's dropped her tart.

Well, I can't really salvage that.

Henry, don't bother, like...

Let's get it off the floor anyway.
Oh, darling.

What's happened?

Don't turn around.

Are you OK? That's crushing.

I'm going home.

Bakers, you have five minutes left.

Feeling the pressure now.

Oh, my days.

What I'm doing now is the decoration
that can be thrown on

when I have one minute left.

I'm almost there.

It's coming up quite cloudy,
isn't it?

Yeah, it's looking good.

Will the entire jelly melt?
That is the question.

Bakers! You have one minute left,
60 seconds.

It's definitely been quite
stressful, this one.

Kind of just, er, making it up
as I go along, to be honest.

God, I can't get it off.

That jelly is melting.

Everything is just going
wrong in the world right now.

Bakers, your time is up.

Please place your custard pies
at the end of your benches.

I don't think there's
the possibility of anything

going any worse
in my life right now.

It's judgment time for the
bakers' Signature custard pies.

It looks like a custard pie you'd
see in a French patisserie shop.

Yup. Very professional.

Very neat on the outside.

It is absolutely exquisite.

You've managed to make these
flapper girls look quite flirty.

The base to the amount
of custard, perfect.

Beautifully cooked. That's cooked.

That's a custard pie.

It's silky smooth, delicious.

Yes.

Hey, yeah!

It's a perfect custard pie.

The base - crumbly, crispy.
The custard - baked to perfection,

beautifully level,
filled to the top.

And then the design - impeccable.

Wonderful, David.

Thank you!

I like the decoration, I think
the decoration's very good.

It's not full enough.

You could've had more
filling in there.

That custard texture looks perfect.

It looks lovely and silky.

The balance with the
ginger is perfect.

It's baked beautifully.

If you'd had more custard in there

and a little bit neater on the top,
you're looking at perfection.

It's a beautiful pie.

Wow. Well done. Thank you.
Thank you.

Oh, dear.

What happened with the decoration?

Well, surprise, surprise,
I ran out of time.

You could've had a little
more custard in there too. Yes.

You've boiled it, basically,

and so what's happened is
it's bubbled up,

and as you've brought it out, you
bring it out, and then it sinks.

Yeah.

Tastes amazing.

Problem is, you've boiled
your custard,

and your pastry's too thick.

Yeah. Far too thick.

Mm, is there booze in there? No.

Um, so orange juice, orange zest,
and a bit of orange extract as well.

Celebrate the orange
with the zest. Mm-hm.

And not with an extract. Yeah.

For me the flavour has been
overwhelmed by that extract. OK.

The decoration, it's
simplistic but quite effective.

The colour of it looks good. OK.

It looks like the perfect
colour, it's golden.

And I think the custard
looks beautifully set.

The flavour's beautiful.

The pastry is fantastic
as well, cos it's flaky.

It's delicious because you've got
lots and lots of citrus.

OK.

Are you getting the blueberry?

I've just had a mouthful of
blueberry and didn't get anything.

I don't think blueberries have
much taste. That's a shame.

OK. The sugar top hasn't quite
worked like a creme brulee.

But nice idea, and they do
look very neat, though.

Thank you. Thank you.
Well done. Thank you.

Um, they look quite neat. Mm-hm.

Very thick, that base.

Yeah, it's... There's more base
than there is filling.

Yeah.

Your flavour of the custard's good.
There's a lovely zing of zest.

The flavour's OK? It's good.

It's overbaked because
there's so little of it.

This is Helena all over, isn't it?

It's amazing.

I think the design is incredible.

What a colour!

It's got lavender, so I thought
I could get away with purple.

That is so much,
too much of lavender.

Oh, really? Mmm.

It's a little bit soapy. OK.

It's not bad. It's not brilliant,
but it's not bad.

All right, I'll take that, Paul.

I did have an accident.

You've lost one.
With one of them. Yeah.

It's down there.
You can... You can... Yeah.

These are incredible.

Yeah, they're absolutely exquisite,
the jelly that you've injected.

Was the plan that these
would've looked like that on top?

Yeah, they were on top.

And they melted.

It looks a bit sad on the top,
cos it's not finished.

Pastry's quite damp.

It isn't crisp.

The matcha sort of
does come through.

It's not one of my favourite
flavours, matcha, but...

Fair enough. I love the
blackberry. I love that flavour.

Flavour of the custard is delicious.

Thank you.

I am never baking
a custard pie again, no.

I despise pastry. I despise custard.

That could've gone better.

The pastry -

Paul said it was thick. It felt
thick when I was rolling it out,

but I thought, "I haven't
got time to roll it thinner."

Should've done that.

Yeah.

I got a handshake.

1920s has been all right so far,
but there's still two challenges.

The Technical will be a disaster.

Just always is.

With only mystery ingredients
and a deep-fat fryer as a hint,

the bakers can only guess
what fate awaits them

in the Technical challenge.

Right, my lovely bakers, time for
your Technical challenge,

which today has been set for you
by Prue. Any words of advice?

Yes, there are four basic skills
needed for this challenge,

but you need to get them all right.

Now, as ever, this challenge will be
judged blind, so we're gonna have

to ask you two lovelies to leave
the tent - off you pop.

Uh, what are they up to today?

I think they've gone fracking.

OK, I need to have a chat with them.

Uh, right, today, Prue would like
you to make 18 beignets souffles.

What's that?

Noel?

I've got nothing.

OK, basically
it's a fried choux ball

filled with a smooth raspberry jam.
It needs to be crispy on the outside

and light and fluffy on the inside.

I'm imagining they need to be
uniform in size and shape.

Yep, served with... a sabayon.

Sabayon. Yeah.

Exactly. Yeah.

I mean, what is a... Souffle.

..without a...? Sabayon.

OK, you've got an hour and a half.

On your marks. Get set.

Bake!

Urgh.

I have never heard of it in my life.

I don't know what it is.

I assume it's
like profiteroles, kind of.

There's literally six instructions.

Your guess is as good as mine, mate.

Prue, beignets souffles?

It is 1920s week and
these were very popular then.

They should all know how
to make choux pastry,

so that shouldn't be too
much of a problem.

I reckon most of them wouldn't have
fried choux pastry before.

Because you usually bake choux.
Normally bake choux.

But the most difficult thing
is how you're going to get it

into perfect balls
and drop it in the fat.

I think the best way to do it
is to do it with two spoons.

The quenelle. Yeah,

but try and get it round
rather than quenelle shaped.

So what do we expect to
see inside this?

Lots of air and
some soft, almost stretchy, dough.

I just want to see what it's
like with the sabayon as well.

They're delicious and the jam
gives that nice richness to it -

nice and smooth. And the sabayon,
it's like a little cloud

which carries a little bit
of flavour to it as well.

I just hope we get

some fantastic, light, airy
beignets souffles in the tent.

With the perfect sabayon.

Not much to ask, is it?

"For the beignet batter,
make pate a choux."

What the hell's a pate a choux?

Well, I assume it's choux pastry.

Choux pastry I made once upon a time

but I've kind of
forgotten everything.

I think I might just
literally chuck everything in,

and see what happens.

We've got all the measurements -
it's just how they go in.

Melting the butter in the water,
cos I feel like that's right.

And then I'm getting ready to shoot
the flour in and beat a lot.

Not entirely sure why
I need to shoot it in,

but I remember hearing that.

From what I remember with choux,
I've got to cook off the moisture

and this should come cleanly
away from the side of the pan.

This looks fine but I...
I know I've got to add the eggs,

but I'm concerned if I put them in
now, will they scramble?

But I don't know
when to put them in.

Not while it's hot,
cos that'll cook the eggs.

Maybe it needs to cook the eggs.

I just...

I'm adding the egg bit by bit.

I don't want to shock it all and
add all the moisture in one go.

How happy was your face?
Beignets souffles, sabayon...

Keep doing the smiley face.

Oh, what, really?

Well, it's just not, like, looking
like a choux should look.

OK, and what should it look like?
It should drop.

And it's so...

I mean, it's dropping,
but it's not dropping nicely.

I think this is what it's
meant to look like.

It's pipeable
but it's like... It's runny.

Put a little bit more in.

Let's see what that does.

I might just take it off the heat
now.

Maybe let it sit for a bit?

I have no idea.

OK. "3. Work in batches,

"and piping directly onto
an oiled dessert spoon,

"pipe 18 round balls of choux

"and carefully drop into the oil
and fry."

Obvious.

Deep-fat fryer on 190.

I'm going to try and pipe my choux
and just hope for the best.

But this feels quite runny.

This looks lovely, doesn't it?

How the hell do you make
a ball out of them?

I'm just going to put a bit
of dough in.

Let's go.

It's gone straight to the bottom.

Come on, float, float, float.

Blow up, get crispy and float.

Ooh.

I mean, it's puffed
into something, hasn't it?

Why won't it flip over?

Is that really hot, that fat?

Watch your face. It's 190 degrees.

This could be like a Face/Off
thing... Have you seen that film?

..where our faces get burnt
and we have to swap our faces

and I have to become a vet,
and you have to go and do stand-up.

How would you feel about that?

I think your audiences will
be a little disappointed.

I think there are
some angry stallions

getting pretty riled as I put
the wrong hands up their bums.

The wrong hands? How can
you put the wrong hands?

Oh, is it either hand?

Surely... You've got to be
an ambidextrous rectaler.

That could be a ball, you know.

I don't know how people are making
balls. This need to be round.

Makes me want to cut one open

and just see what the hell's
going on inside.

What's it meant to be like again?

Crisp on the outside,
soft on the inside.

That's disgusting.

It is just totally
raw in the middle.

I'm going to remake the choux
to make it stiffer.

Maybe I didn't whisk it enough.

Hmm...

..interesting.

Time for a time call, Noel.

OK, I got this, don't worry.
Halfway through.

Bakers, you are halfway through,
halfway through, halfway through.

You know, even without batteries,
these are working brilliantly.

I'm going to make
the choux pastry again.

It needs to be stiffer, but I don't
know how to make it stiffer.

I'm starting my pastry again.

The problem is, I don't
know how to make choux.

That's the basic problem.

How many are these
am I meant to make? 18?

I seem to be
getting maybe a technique here.

Basically, the choux's just
not stiff enough to pipe.

See, it's runny again.

This is embarrassing.

Second batch - looks
the same as the first one.

That one looks like a round one.

The rest don't.

Mine are burnt.

It's too soft, I know it's too soft.

See, it just doesn't hold together.

At this point, I don't think I'm
going to have anything to present.

Michael, are you OK?
I'm freaking out.

I'm finding it really hard.

Keep going. Keep going, Michael.

HE SIGHS

Come on, come on, come on.
Please, please, please, please.

Bakers, you have half
an hour left, half an hour!

I can't, I can't. It's too much.

These aren't looking too shabby.

They're deflating, Noel.

I don't think
I can do this any more.

Why don't you get those two out,

have a little quick walk for
five minutes and then come back?

No, I need to keep going,
otherwise I'll stop.

But you're doing really well,
you're good at this.

Imagine me doing this.

I've got nothing.

We're nearly there.

You can do this.

I'm happy with the balls.

Better than David's,
that's for sure.

They look like Scotch eggs.

11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16. 18.

We've got 18 things.

I'm just wondering
whether to get the jam on.

Nothing on the instructions,
just, "Make a jam."

I'm just going to chuck in the
berries and the sugar together.

I've not stopped,
and that's really good.

Anything at this point, I've won.

I'm getting there.

OK, jam is looking jammy.

We're going pips out, cos
we were asked for smooth jam.

So I'm making jam. I'm just seeing
if I can get something to present.

Bakers...
You have 15 minutes left.

I'm going to make the sabayon.

What is a sabayon?

I'm going to assume
a sabayon is a custard.

Caster sugar, egg yolks and masala.

Ooh.

At the moment, I'm thinking whisk
the egg and sugar over a bain-marie.

It's raw egg yolk, so
I've got to somehow cook it

and I thought this might be
the best way to do it.

Well, I'm guessing it's
gotta be quite thick to dip in.

I am going to get this to ribbon
stage

and then I'm going to put
some of this in.

I just don't know if this is done
or what it's meant to be like.

This is not a sabayon.

Let's try it.

It's looking nice and thick.

Oh! That's all right.

How long's left?

Bakers, you have five minutes left.

I need to pipe jam
into these bad boys.

I can do anything for five minutes,
I can do anything for five minutes.

Don't want to go too much because
probably haven't got enough.

I can't actually fit any
jam in this, cos it's solid.

I have to scoop some
stuff out of it first.

They've deflated,
but at least it's something.

OK, I'm going to pick my 18.

Can you count them for me, Noel?
Yep.

One, two, three, four, five,
six, seven, eight, nine.

COUNTING UNDER HER BREATH
It's 18, isn't it?

You got 14 there. Thank you.

Then it's the sabayon.

Need every little bit of this.

Ooh, sprinkle with icing sugar!

They look appalling.

Last one, 18.

Come on.

Bakers, your time is up.

I have finished.

That's for sure.

Right, everybody, uh,
up to the table, please.

Bring your beignets souffles

and place them behind your
photograph on the table.

Prue and Paul are looking for 18
perfectly formed beignets souffles

filled with raspberry jam and served
alongside a beautiful sabayon.

Shall we start at that end?

Absolutely.

They look good, the balls.

They're all fairly round
and they look fairly light.

Not a bad filling. No, and...
The structure's there.

Yes.

Tastes good.

Mm-hm.

Well, that is a
very interesting sauce

but it's not what we asked for.

Now, these are interesting.

They look like potatoes.

The colour's not bad.

No, the colour's OK.

Very good jam, but they
are too doughy inside.

How's the sabayon?

It's got the flavour of it.

It's not quite there on the texture.
It needs to be much fluffier.

Moving on. Now these - way too dark.

They're fairly even.

The texture inside is pretty good.

Mmm, nice and light.

Although the
sabayon's split as well.

Now, moving on.

I've got a few issues.

They're more like blinis,
aren't they? Yeah.

They just never got
the volume in the choux.

Although the sabayon...
Looks very, very good.

Taste good? Yeah, it is good.

These are round, aren't they?

And the colour's not bad.
It's a little bit dark.

They are cooked inside, though,
these beignets.

A little bit too much jam,
but they taste OK

and they are baked
all the way through.

Unfortunately, the sabayon
is just not whisked enough.

No, it's not,
it's split really badly.

These beignets, you've gone
from the sublime to the ridiculous.

Hmm, I wouldn't call
that sublime but it's...

But it's sublime-ish. Compared to
that. Compared with that one. It is.

They seem all baked
through just. Yeah.

Too much jam. Although
the sabayon's flavour's OK.

Right, this is not a happy sight.

It's like a churros that hasn't
quite opened up, slightly.

Yes.

They're raw inside. Yeah.

And that is not a sabayon.

Now these don't look too bad.

They're a nice colour.

I hope when you cut into it that
we see a nice aeration inside,

which we do.

Not too much jam.

They're delicious. Mmm.

They are good.

The sabayon's not there. Sabayon's
split. Yeah, it's a bit thin.

Now, moving on to the last one.

Bit of variety of different
colours here. Mm-hm.

These are all cooked inside.
Oh, they look rather nicely done.

The structure's good.

It's just a pity
that they are so uneven.

That's very thick and very dark.

It's like a cream, isn't it?

Prue and Paul will now rank
the beignets souffles

from worst to best.

Right, bakers.

Well, in ninth place,
we have this one.

# Bom, bom, bom, bom! #

David. Sorry. Well, it was
a fair old disaster.

Yeah. Wrong shape,
raw in the middle, not good.

In eighth spot we have this one.

Whose is this?

Burnt and raw.

Michelle is seventh,

Alice sixth,

Rosie fifth,

Steph fourth

and Henry's in third.

And in second place is...

..this one.

Whose is this? Mine.

These were actually not bad at all.

I don't know what happened
with your sabayon.

Which means that in first place...

Yeah!

Your actual beignets were perfect.

The structure was lovely,
the jam was lovely, but you did

split your sabayon, so you
only just scraped into top place.

I'm taking it, Prue. I don't care.

Can you believe it? Oh, my God!

Bless all the bakers.

They genuinely wanted me to win it

cos I've struggled every
week with the Technical.

Screw the handshake,
I want a hug please.

After such a high in the morning
and having a really good Signature,

it is a shame to have done so badly
in the Technical.

I could've gone outside
to have a walk,

but I knew that
I wouldn't come back.

So, I'm not bothered about
coming eighth out of nine

because I still
managed to make them.

I'm so excited! Yay.

That's enough.

Just the Showstopper challenge
remains

before we discover who will
be Star Baker...

Good luck. ..and who will be
leaving the tent.

I don't think I've ever seen such
a flip-flop as we've had.

It has been extraordinary.
With David?

Well, David...
Is that a term, flip-flop?

It is, flip-flopping, yeah.

Uh, so David, first of all.
Amazing - handshake.

Signature - fantastic.
And then ninth in the Technical.

But then also at the other end,
if you get somebody like Helena

who didn't do so well
in the Signature

and then first in the Technical.

I really fear for Priya.

She has to do something
amazing in the Showstopper.

She didn't do very
well at all in her signature.

The whole thing had sunk.
She boiled it, basically.

I'm not a baker but the way you say
she boiled it, I'm imagining

that's not a good thing.

No. I think ultimately,
this challenge is going to

be the maker or breaker of people.

We were worried about
Michael being so emotional

but Michael shouldn't be so worried.
He's doing all right.

Yeah. What's all this emotion?

I'm missing this,
obviously, in the tent, cos...

You've never had emotions.
It's not your area.

Darling, you steely alpha male.

You're like a marine.
You've never had an emotion.

Do you ever get a funny feeling
in your tummy when you like someone?

Just sort of tingle?

I thought that was the curry.

ALL LAUGH

Hello, bakers.
Welcome back to the tent.

Now, continuing our celebration
of the Roaring Twenties,

you'll be making a Prohibition-era
cake.

So, obviously, Prohibition
was the time

when alcohol was banned in America.

It was sold only by gangsters
like Al Capone.

So just think of yourselves
as Al Capone

but in an apron,
with no Mafia connections.

OK, thank you, Noel. Uh, basically,
Paul and Prue would like you to make

a 1920s-themed two-tier cake.

Your flavour should be
based on your favourite cocktail

and the design should be a visual
spectacle of the era.

Bring back the Roaring Twenties
cocktail culture.

You have four hours. On your marks.
Get set. Bake.

Eggs.

It's gone quiet. I hate the quiet.

I love it.

That's surprising from you, Helena.
Yeah.

We've given the bakers four hours
to produce this Prohibition cake

so you've gotta think backwards.

How long is it going to take
to decorate the cake?

Allow yourself at least an hour,
maybe more.

Your sponges should be in
and out of the oven within the hour

and that gives you plenty of time
to produce real baking magic.

I want three things. I want
wonderful design, a delicious cake

and it will taste
of a recognisable cocktail.

I need to get the hashtag
#RealMenCry trending this year.

Hashtag #ManTears.

For their sponge tiers the bakers
must choose flavours that

celebrate their chosen cocktails.

I'm putting a little bit of coconut
extract in to make sure that

it's quite coconutty.

Coffee liqueur, vodka,
chocolate caramel

and cream is the cocktail, so, yeah,
what is not to love about that?

Most of the bakers will be
introducing alcohol

in the form of a drizzle,

which cannot be added until
the sponges are baked.

Once this cake's
in the oven and once

this cake's out of the oven,

I'll feel a lot better.

Hello, Michael.
Hello, good morning.

So, Michael, tell us
all about your Prohibition cake.

So it's based on a bramble,
which is gin and lemon

with a blackberry syrup that
trickles through it, and I want

when you cut into it, hopefully...

I shouldn't say this because you'll
look for it now. But I'm hoping...

Careful. ..that you'll see in the
layers the syrup trickling through

the sponge like in a bramble.

Michael will also be replicating
the bramble cocktail around

his drizzled sponge with an
ombre-effect buttercream coating.

Trying to do a simple
and elegant '20s.

Whether I achieve that or not
we'll discover in about

three hours and 43 minutes.

As Michael counts down the time,
true to form,

Helena has a far more
ghoulish count in mind.

The inspiration for the cake is
based on Bram Stoker's first

adaption of... Nosferatu.
..Dracula.

Dracula. That's right.
And that was in 1922.

So the sponge is red velvet,
obviously, cos I'm thinking blood.

Hold on one second. I just need
to get a fly off you.

They come to me cos I'm dead. Um...

Helena's dead - sorry, red - velvet
sponge will be

soaked in a home-made
raspberry vodka.

Isomat bat wings will protrude from
the top of her cake

above white chocolate fangs inspired
by her cocktail of choice,

a vampire's kiss.

Is a vampire's kiss a real cocktail
or did you make it up?

It is a real cocktail.

Have you heard of vampire's kiss?

Don't want to talk about it.

It's between me and Noel.

Right. I just need to get these in.

My oven's at 180. I'm going to put
them in for about 25 minutes.

With multiple sponges in varying
sizes, the bakers now face

an epic test of their ability
to multitask.

They will take different
times to bake just

because there's three
different sizes.

I just feel like I've got
so much to do.

While this is cooking,
I'm going to make my curd.

The filings give the bakers
another opportunity to

supercharge their cocktail flavours.

I'm adding the booze.

I hope they like coconut rum.

Just making the raspberry coulis.

I'm going to put raspberry
liqueur in there.

Now, my darling boy. I wish to
discuss with you your progress.

So, yesterday. Let's re-enact
for ourselves a handshake.

Excellent, excellent. Now,
let's think about the Technical.

Honestly, it looked something
the dog had done.

It was a weird Tech...
Hero to zero, literally.

But it was a weird Technical,
wasn't it? Was it? Wasn't it?

Uh, yours is the only one that
looked like the dog had done it.

Yeah. So I don't know if you're
optimistic today or miserable.

I'm optimistic. Yes.

David is confident his highly
decorated cake will contain

the correct amount of Amaretto

and aromatic bitters to represent

his chosen cocktail,
an Amaretto sour.

I've still not actually had one yet.
I don't really drink.

I mean, every now and again I'd have
a glass of prosecco at a wedding

but I'm not really
an alcohol drinker, no.

Someone who's a little bolder when
a wedding is involved is Michelle.

We went to Liverpool for my sister's
hen do. Oh, my God.

That was some crazy weekend and we
drunk copious amounts of cocktails.

So I've actually made
this cake for my sister.

Michelle is recreating the classic
flavours of a pina colada

by layering her coconut sponge with
a pineapple filling.

The bottom tiers' rum buttercream
textures are inspired

by Impressionist painters,

whereas the top tier will feature

a more up-to-date,
geode-effect fault line.

I love pina colada.
I do too.

I mean, coconut and pineapple
are a marriage made in heaven.

It seems Michelle isn't the only
baker pursuing a tropical taste.

Mine is inspired by, uh,
pina colada.

So this is the Swiss meringue
buttercream.

Now, that is going to be
coming from a white rum.

I think there's, like,
four pina colada cakes.

Uh, yeah, we, uh... We didn't get
the memo, uh, not to do...

..all do the same thing.

Alice's interpretation will have
pineapple and rum sponges

sandwiched with coconut buttercream
and a rum pineapple filling,

giving a classic pineapple
upside-down cake

a pina colada twist.

I was doing my research
and I found out

that pineapple upside-down cakes
were a massive thing in the '20s.

Is that right, Prue, in the 1920s?

When you were dining out around
that time, did you...?

He's so rude.

I mean, I like the idea
of a pineapple upside-down cake cos

there's a few people doing
these pina colada cakes

and this is a different way of doing
it. Yeah. It's a popular drink.

You've got to be the best
out of the pina colada gang.

Ooh, pressure, pressure.

One of the baker's 1920s research
has seen her raiding the pantry.

Apparently, tinned goods were
all the rage in the 1920s -

flavours like pineapple
and pineapple upside-down cake.

Um, yeah, so, yeah,
we're using the tradition.

But the point of this as well
is that apparently you can get

a considerably better curd
with canned pineapple juice.

Steph's curd will sandwich
alternating lime

and coconut sponges, inspired by a
family holiday in the Caribbean.

I remember us all sat on a sunbed
in the sea drinking pina colada.

I think it was one of those
all-inclusive hotels where

they probably water it down
quite a lot but it was good.

The little ones can
probably come out.

I'm not expecting
the big ones to be done yet.

Oh, that should be fine.

This is the top tier.

The big cake is in the oven
but I need to get some other stuff

done in the meantime, so getting
my coffee liqueur syrup made.

This is the strongest coffee
I could find in the world.

Well, in Waitrose.

Henry will be using
his strong coffee

throughout his White Russian cake

in a coffee sponge drizzled with
coffee liqueur.

His three tiers will then be
coated in Italian meringue

coffee buttercream

and decorated with
chocolate geometric shapes.

This looks good. This bit here.

If it looks anything like this,
I'll be so happy. Honestly.

Right, bloody calm down.

Flip these cakes over and let's go.

I'm not dropping anything today.

There are enough ways
I can mess it up

without throwing things on
the floor.

Rosie is coating her coffee liqueur
sponges with a chocolate ganache

before decorating
with a mirror glaze,

pulled sugar feathers
and piped gold royal icing.

Rosie, this is an amazing lot to do.

I just hope you pull it off.

I blooming need to.
You do need to.

Good luck. Thank you, Rosie.

Thank you.

I think that's code for,
"Better be bloody brilliant

"or you're out of here."

OK, Sandi, we're going to
have a sack race.

Basically, you're in the sack
and I'll just be

using my own legs. Actually,
I'll give you a head start.

Bakers, you're halfway through.

They're done.
That's all cake done now.

This is my caramel
and coffee liqueur syrup.

But I'm trying not to make
the cakes too wet with it.

Just brushing on enough to add
a bit more flavour.

A heavy hand at this stage could
result in a soggy unstable sponge.

Going a bit liberal with
the Amaretto.

It's a bit of a nightmare
if you're doing a cocktail cake

and they can't even taste
the alcohol.

But not enough alcohol runs
the risk of the cake being dry

and flavourless.

It's a bit of booze
but it's not very boozy.

I'm not looking for a boozy
flavour in my cake.

Ooh, loving the colour.

It's vampire inspired.
Oh, really?

Yeah. No.

I made my own raspberry vodka.

You want to try it? Give it a sip.

OK, let's just give this a go.

How much do we love this stopper?

Sandi, you actually go for it.
Go for it.

OK, I'm just going to lie in
a dark room for a bit

and I'll be right back. OK.

Whoo!

The only baker abstaining
from the demon drink is Priya.

I'm coating it with
a passion fruit syrup.

I guess mine's a proper
Prohibition cake

cos it has no alcohol in it.

The fourth member of the
pina colada gang is sandwiching

passion fruit sponges with
coconut buttercream

and pineapple curd in an
alcohol-free mocktail cake.

If Priya doesn't have a really
strong Showstopper,

Priya may not be here next week. So,
yeah, I kind of want to be here.

It's nice.

Bakers, you have one hour left.
One hour.

Assembling their multi-tiered cakes
quickly is crucial...

This is so time-consuming.

..if the bakers are to leave enough
time

for their all-important
decoration.

Just don't want to be
shoving decoration on with

like a minute to go.

I would love to just spend my time
decorating it nicely.

It is a dark chocolate ganache.

Slightly thicker than I wanted.

All my cakes have slightly
sunk in the middle.

Are you going to be
all right for time today?

At home I'm generally really quick,
cos I have to be.

Cos you got kids?
Cos kids...

Are you going to let them
watch this on telly?

Yeah. They'll find
it really odd. I'm sure they will.

They'll think you've been kidnapped.

"Mum, why has that vampire
kidnapped you in the tent?"

"What's happening? Who is this?"
"And that Ewok." "Who's that guy?"

"And that angry polar bear?

"And that glamorous posh lady?"

I must say, I think there are
no flavours here that I fear.

Well, there seems to be like four
different techniques of making

a pina colada cake, so that's going
to be quite interesting too.

It's a question of who's going
to do the best bake

and who's going to do the most
interesting 1920s design.

It's all down to this Showstopper.

This is probably going to be
the one, the challenge.

I want them all to do well
and then we can judge it from there.

Which will make it difficult.

Fairy cake.

Oh, you're too good at this game.

Bakers, you've got half an hour
left, half an hour.

I'm really scared to move it.

Like, really scared.

I've gotta put that on there

and I just don't know how
stable it is at the moment.

Whoa. BLEEP.

That was close.

That's so near the edge.

Oh, Christ.

It's a mess.

At the moment, I feel like the fear
is making me very, ooh, sloppy.

With their tiers safely assembled...

I've got a cake.

..decoration can now begin
in earnest.

This is a hot job.

God, I've got such a sweat on.

It's so hot in here.
Buttercream's melting.

I'm shaking.

You seem very calm. Yeah, well...
You don't get flustered, do you?

You know it's going to be fine...
Things are always... ..ultimately.

And if they're not, then
you can't change it, can you? So...

Wow, you're like the Dalai Lama.

You need to chat to Michael.

Bless him. Is he all right today?

He's very quiet today.

He's silenced the screaming
in his mind with gin.

Yeah.

That's what I do. Definitely.

This is the first tiered cake
I've made in my life.

And possibly the last.

Bakers... You have...
Ten minutes... Left.

I feel some pressure
in this challenge

cos it's a lot about decoration.
It has to look spectacular.

I've done it better than this

but I'm happy that I'm getting
there, if that makes sense.

Just going to remind myself
that I do actually enjoy this.

It's melting.

These are just like falling down.

Henry, do you need any help?

I'm having triangular
misbehaviour over here.

Do you want me to move these?

Could you? Oh, this is... Got a
place reserved in heaven for you.

You know I like decoration.

It's stained glass
so it's supposed to be a bit rough.

Just doing kind of extra things now.

Any chance I thought I might have
had of surviving is gone.

Bakers, your time is up.

Please place your Showstoppers
at the end of your benches.

OK, I'm done.
I Think less is more, isn't it?

Yours looks beautiful,
like really cool.

Why the hell did I do that?

NOEL: It's time for
the Prohibition-era cakes

to face the judgment
of Paul and Prue.

I must say, Michael,
it's really neat.

It's original, nicely done.

And it's stark because
you've got the blackberries

with the black icing.

It's really unusual.

Your piping's pretty good.
It's pretty accurate.

You know, you had this idea that
you'd have the drizzle running down

like... Yeah. ..you do in the drink.

Yeah.

Sort of hasn't worked.
It looks like a smudge.

I like the lemon.

I think the sponge is good,

but I'd love to have had
that fruit coming through,

that sharpness coming through.

You may have got the colour, but you
certainly haven't got the flavour.

OK.

Nice cake, though.
Thank you. Well done.

Er, you know, it's such a mixture
of sinister and very pretty.

That's me.

THEY ALL LAUGH

I don't like the outside of it
and I tell you why. Why?

I think your piping work
is not good.

OK, let's have a look inside.

That's a red cake.

It's a bit bland inside.

Bland? Yeah, it's quite dry.

You get the vodka.

You don't get much raspberry.

But, I must say,
I find it a pleasant cake.

If you shut your eyes,
it's a nice sponge cake.

Thanks, Prue.

It's quite an elegant-looking cake.

It looks really dramatic
and very '20s.

I like that.

Lovely flavour.

Really good flavour.

I think it's a little dry.

Yeah, it's... it's a bit dry. OK.

But the design, structure
and flavour is very good.

Thank you.

I think that's one of the most
interesting-looking cakes

I've seen for a long time.

That took a bit of getting through.

It's the ganache, it...

I wanted it really firm-set
so I could Chromacake it.

Wow. Wow.

That's not a ganache,
that's a bar of chocolate.

Can certainly taste the alcohol.

I like the sponge inside.
I think the flavours are beautiful.

My biggest complaint
is the thickness

of the outside of the cake. OK.

I think it's a really good cake.

But you know it's not perfect.

I like the sort of naked cake look.

Are they meant to be
dropped into each other?

No.

SANDI: Could've got away with that,
David. I know.

No, it definitely weren't.

Hmm, it's fine.

Nice and lemony.

Good strong flavour.

The buttercream's quite grainy. Hmm.

And I don't like that
in a buttercream.

It should be absolutely
silky smooth.

But the sponge is baked well
and I like the lemon.

Close up, it does look
a bit of a mess.

I think the drawing
on here's not good. Hmm.

It could be a lot neater than that.

There's some really big pieces
of pineapple in here.

The flavour's nice.

I just think the pieces
are a little bit clumsy.

It's a really good cake.
It could be fantastic. Yeah.

I think the decoration
has been rushed.

It needs to be much more vibrant.

Yeah.

It's quite a delicate flavour.

Very nice.

I'd like perhaps a little more
passion fruit.

I think overall the cake's nice.
Yeah.

But your fondant on the outside's
a bit too thick. Yeah.

I suppose, if you're thinking of
pina colada as a cake,

I think you've got one. OK.
And it tells you what's in there.

Yeah. Pina colada.

But let's see how it tastes. Hm.

Wow.

That just dropped through.
Is that good or bad?

SANDI: I don't know.

That looks really appetising.

I like the different colours.

I love the lime sponges.

They're delicious, aren't they?
I've never had anything like it.

That's a first for me.
And it works, doesn't it?

It's really good. Clever.

Thank you, Steph.

Michelle, I think this decoration
and the way you've tackled it

is really interesting
and it's actually quite pretty.

But I think you've overthought it.

It's... There are too
many concepts here.

That doesn't go with that
and that doesn't go with that.

Right, let's have a look inside.

The sponges are nice and equal.

They look nice texture. Yeah.

You've got shavings
and flakiness of coconut in there,

which don't work in a cake. OK.

And I think that cake's
slightly too dry as well.

You're getting a lack of flavour
in there, you see.

A smaller cake with
more of the pineapple in

with none of the coconut,
you would've ended up with a cake

that's slightly shorter but full
of flavour all the way through.

It couldn't get any worse,
could it? I had a roasting.

I felt like I was being told off
by teachers from school.

ROSIE: I mean Prue said
this morning,

"I hope you pull it off,
you need to."

And then she said to me,
"Not perfect."

PRIYA: I so badly want to stay
for another week.

But might be the end of the little
Bake Off dream for me. Who knows?

Every week I've nailed
the Showstopper, it's what saved me.

This week that I don't nail it,

thankfully I came top
on the Technical,

did OK in the Signature.

Gee, I hope that's enough.

Let's just go through
the top of the pack,

the ones you really
particularly like.

So Steph is looking good.
I think Steph's looking good, yeah.

Steph has been
a very consistent baker.

She had a good week.
The lime knocked you out.
You thought that was great. Yeah.

Henry, Henry I think
did a decent job.

Oh, his flavours were really good.

I liked it, it was... again
quite an elegant cake.

Henry normally misses that,
slightly.

David's, you liked?

I thought it was a great decoration,
very well thought through,

very artistic and he did back
that style up with a little

bit of substance as well. Yeah.

So, who might we be
saying goodbye to?

Wow, uh, there's...

There's quite a lot, to be honest.

There's an awful lot.
I think you're looking at Michelle,

uh, Helena, Priya, Rosie.

But on this point, I think,

when you look over the three
challenges closely, I think

there are two people
that are beginning to fall away.

OK.

Well done, bakers, for getting
through the roaring '20s.

Now, fortunately, I've got
the wonderful job of announcing

the person who's won Star Baker.

The person who's won Star Baker
this week is...

..Steph.

Hey.

So, that means I have
the horrible job of sending home,

I'm afraid, two of you...
Oh. ..this week. OK...

And the two people
who are going home are...

..Michelle and Helena.

I'm so sorry.

Oh, Helena.

Oh.

At least we go together.

I'm so sorry, sweetheart.

It's all right.

No surprise, is it?
To be fair. Oh, darling.

I'm so happy getting to week five.

I never thought I'd actually
get here so to be here,

to get Star Baker
and to leave on week five, perfect.

I'm bringing the geode cake to
Extra Slice cos I love it.

I love the fallout.

I've loved it. It's been fun.

It's been emotional.
It's been emotional...

I have enjoyed it and I've made
some really good friends.

Friends for life, yes.

What? What's happening here?

PAUL: I'm sorry we got rid of
your sister, mate.

Family.

Brutal.

I'm actually OK about it.

I've had an amazing time.

Also I've learned that
I can take criticism.

I can have a laugh with it and just
like, take the positives out of

everything, which is, like,

hopefully something that
I'll carry on doing.

I definitely feel like I've dodged
the biggest bullet in the world.

Cat with nine lives.

I was ready to like, hold hands
together and w... and skip out.

I thought I was going.
I'd accepted it. I'd moved on.

I'd come to terms with it
and so now it's like, wait, what?

I don't understand.

But it's all right,
Prue came over and told me that

it was really close,
I did nearly go so, you know. Yeah.

You legend, twice in a row.

Steph has been the Star Baker
two weeks running.

Um, she doesn't know
how good she is.

I literally feel like
the person that's always been

middle-of-the-road.

And it just all feels a bit weird.

Ah, I'm just so speechless.

I'm like, what?

I just, yeah, lost for words.

SANDI: Next time...

Chocolate time.

It's dessert week
and the bakers "whisk" it all.

Oh, that's bad. ..get to grips...

New territory, again.

..with a puzzling tiered
Technical Challenge.

What? What? No idea.

And a first in the tent sees
the bakers defy all odds...

This is madness.

..and demonstrate that
the proof is in the pudding.

If this comes away,

I'm converting to
some other religion.

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