Tell that to my mother! She was an absolutely belting cook but always ended up with a caldera in her sponge cakes.

She was able to make clotted cream from first principles - she was Devonian. She also introduced pasties to several parts of West Germany in the 1970s/80s. The food traffic went both ways in Germany and I have a massive fondness for schnitzels - "Zigeuner" (gipsy, I think) and "Jager" (hunter - deffo).

Mum was also a soldier as well as dad (they were both Captains when they met in Scotland) but she was told to get out what with her being a woman and hanging out with a male Army occifer. That was back in the late 1960s. Times have changed a lot since then.

Anyway, cakes. mmmm cakes.