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Welcome to July’s OFM

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The return of Bake Off, with recipes from every series, plus Fuchsia Dunlop’s new book and Norman Cook’s Life on a Plate

Bake Off is back. The hour each week when we can put our feet up, forget the unholy mess we are in and console ourselves with tortes and bundts, kugelhopf and gateaux. Mary and Paul will return as our much-loved good cop, bad cop judges. Sue is polishing her baking-related puns and, if all goes belly up for our contestants, Mel Giedroyc will be there to dry their tears and say, “Never mind, let’s pretend it’s a trifle.”

Never has watching lovely people make cakes in a tent been quite so necessary. A sweet salve for a frankly grim moment in the country’s history. Cake can’t heal, but it can certainly take our mind off things for a bit. For the start of this, the seventh series, Tim Lewis went on set to try to get to the bottom of why a programme that has millions of viewers watching people make scones has become such a TV phenomenon. This is the time of year we say move over Olympics and Formula One, that programme where nice people make cakes is back.

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