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Great British Bake Off winner Frances Quinn bowls over Aggers on Test Match Special with Trench Cake

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Great British Bake Off winner Frances Quinn stumped former Leicestershire and England fast bowler Jonathan Agnew with a special cake.

The 32-year-old baking queen from Market Harborough presented Aggers with a Trench Cake during this week's Test Match Special from Hampshire.

Frances handed over one of the cakes - baked from an original recipe from The First World War - during the commentary at the India versus England test match in Southampton yesterday.

Frances has been working with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, to re-created the famous fruit-based home-made cake which was made by loved ones for soldiers in the trenches.

Frances told Aggers, who lives in Leicestershire, said: .

"Hopefully you are not going to be stumped by this."

Aggers joined in the fun after Frances said they would need a knife to cut some cake to sample.

He said: "We are going to need more than a knife.

"I think we are going to need a chainsaw to get through this one.

"But let's face it if you were in the trenches you would be so pleased to get that."

Frances said that baking the cake had seen her learn more about her family history.

She told Aggers: "I was looking back to the past via a cake rather than a book.

"It has made me tap into my own family's past.

"Speaking with my dad I learned my great granddad was posted in India before he came to fight in the World War One."

Frances was invited onto Test Match Special to mark the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War.

She told Aggers she would return one day with a cake baked to her own recipe.

Great British Bake Off winner Frances Quinn bowls over Aggers on Test Match Special with Trench Cake


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