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Despite a few challenging years as a result of COVID-19, legendary ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ bakery Fitzbillies has emerged triumphant, with the help and insights of a group of students from ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ’s Institute for Manufacturing.

Researchers hope that working out the behaviours of soft solids, which can act like either solids or liquids, may make for tastier cakes – and safer oil wells.

As Great British Bake Off sizzles towards tomorrow’s final, historian Sophie McGeevor reveals the less glamorous realities that faced working class women in the mid-19th century when home baking was already considered a dying art.