Shackbaggerly

Welcome to Shackbaggerly, the podcast with a smile, from good friends, Katie Johnson and Howard Middleton, who is still regarded as one of the most popular contestants from The Great British Bake Off. This episode, old recipe books will feature as always, plus daily happenings from where Howard is based in the Yorkshire city of Sheffield, and Katie near Ludlow, in rural Shropshire. If you enjoy Sh...

Welcome to Shackbaggerly, the podcast with a smile, from good friends, Katie Johnson and Howard Middleton, who is still regarded as one of the most popular contestants from The Great British Bake Off. This episode, old recipe books will feature as always, plus daily happenings from where Howard is based in the Yorkshire city of Sheffield, and Katie near Ludlow, in rural Shropshire. If you enjoy Sh...

Welcome to Shackbaggerly, the podcast with a smile, from good friends, Katie Johnson and Howard Middleton, who is still regarded as one of the most popular contestants from The Great British Bake Off. This episode, old recipe books will feature as always, plus daily happenings from where Howard is based in the Yorkshire city of Sheffield, and Katie near Ludlow, in rural Shropshire. If you enjoy Sh...

Welcome to Shackbaggerly, the foodie type podcast from good friends, Katie Johnson and Howard Middleton, who is still one of the most popular contestants featured on ‘The Great British Bake Off.’ This episode, old recipe books feature as always, alongside a listener’s connection to an author mentioned on the last podcast. You’ll get to hear snippets from Howard’s demo at Pershore Plum Festival las...

Welcome to Shackbaggerly, the foodie type podcast from good friends, Katie Johnson and Howard Middleton, who is still one of the most popular contestants featured on ‘The Great British Bake Off.’ This episode, old recipe books feature as always, alongside activated nuts, weird ice cream moulds and very exciting, messages on our burner phone! There’s daily happenings from where Howard is based in t...

Welcome to Shackbaggerly, the foodie type podcast from good friends, Katie Johnson and Howard Middleton, who is still one of the most popular contestants featured on ‘The Great British Bake Off.’ This episode, old recipe books feature as always, including one from 1915, and Howard is almost inspired to go camping with his choice, but it soon wears off! There’s daily happenings from where Howard is...

Welcome to Shackbaggerly, the foodie type podcast from good friends, Katie Johnson and Howard Middleton, who is still one of the most popular contestants that has featured on ‘The Great British Bake Off.’ This episode, old recipe books feature as always, plus daily happenings from where Howard is based in the Yorkshire city of Sheffield, and Katie near Ludlow, in rural Shropshire. If you enjoy Sha...

Welcome to Shackbaggerly, the foodie type podcast from good friends, Katie Johnson and Howard Middleton, who is still one of the most popular contestants that has featured on ‘The Great British Bake Off.’ This episode, old recipe books feature as always, plus daily happenings from where Howard is based in the Yorkshire city of Sheffield, and Katie near Ludlow, in rural Shropshire. If you enjoy Sha...

Welcome to you, if this is the first time tuning in to Shackbaggerly. We are Katie Johnson and Howard Middleton, who, if you’re a fan of ‘’The Great British Bake Off,’’ you’ll probably remember Howard for his stolen custard! We met at a Food Festival twelve years ago, and fast became friends, and during lockdown, we began this podcast looking at old recipe books, and the wonderful quirky pages wit...

Welcome to Shackbaggerly, the podcast from good friends, Katie Johnson and Howard Middleton, who is still one of the most popular contestants from The Great British Bake Off. This episode, old recipe books will feature as always, plus daily happenings from where Howard is based in the Yorkshire city of Sheffield, and Katie near Ludlow, in rural Shropshire. If you enjoy Shackbaggerly, and feel the...

Welcome to Shackbaggerly, and it’s another year on for the podcast from good friends, Katie Johnson and Howard Middleton, who is still one of the most popular contestants mentioned off The Great British Bake Off. This episode, old recipe books will feature as always, plus daily happenings from where Howard is based in the Yorkshire city of Sheffield, and Katie near Ludlow, in rural Shropshire. If...

Welcome to Shackbaggerly, the podcast from good friends, Katie Johnson and Howard Middleton, who is still one of the most popular contestants mentioned off The Great British Bake Off. This episode, old recipe books will feature as always, plus daily happenings from where Howard is based in the Yorkshire city of Sheffield, and Katie near Ludlow, in rural Shropshire. If you enjoy Shackbaggerly, and...

Welcome to Shackbaggerly, the podcast from good friends, Katie Johnson and Howard Middleton, who you may recognise from series 4 of the Great British Bake Off. This episode, we’ll chat as always about old recipe books, as well as daily happenings from where Howard is based in a Yorkshire city, and Katie in rural Shropshire. If you enjoy Shackbaggerly, we’d love it if you could kindly leave a comme...

Welcome to Shackbaggerly, the podcast from good friends, Katie Johnson and Howard Middleton, who you may recognise from series 4 of the Great British Bake Off. This episode, we’ll chat as always about old recipe books, as well as daily happenings from where Howard is based in a Yorkshire city, and Katie in rural Shropshire. If you enjoy Shackbaggerly, we’d love it if you could kindly leave a comme...

Welcome to Shackbaggerly, the podcast from good friends, Katie Johnson and Howard Middleton, who you may recognise from series 4 of the Great British Bake Off. This episode, we’ll chat as always about old recipe books, as well as daily happenings from where Howard is based in a Yorkshire city, and Katie in rural Shropshire. If you enjoy Shackbaggerly, we’d love it if you could kindly leave a comme...

Welcome to Shackbaggerly, the podcast from good friends, Katie Johnson and Howard Middleton, who you may recognise from series 4 of the Great British Bake Off, although according to AI, Katie was on the programme as well! This episode, we’ll chat as always about old recipe books, as well as daily happenings up in Howard’s home of Yorkshire, and Katie’s home in rural Shropshire. If you enjoy Shackb...

Welcome to Shackbaggerly, the podcast from good friends, Katie Johnson and Howard Middleton, who you may recognise from series 4 of the Great British Bake Off (although according to AI, Katie was also on the series too)! This episode, as always, there’s chat about old recipe books, plus everyday life happenings. If you enjoy Shackbaggerly, we’d love it if you could kindly leave a comment and/or re...

Welcome to Shackbaggerly, the podcast from good friends, Katie Johnson and Howard Middleton, who you may recognise from series 4 of the Great British Bake Off. This episode, we’ll chat as always about old recipe books, and also discover our very first ‘Shackbaggerly Ambassador Gals/Geezers’ or SAGS! If you enjoy Shackbaggerly, we’d love it if you could kindly leave a comment and/or review, and ple...

Welcome to Shackbaggerly, the podcast from good friends, Katie Johnson and Howard Middleton, who you may recognise from series 4 of the Great British Bake Off, although according to AI (which you’ll hear about if you stay tuned), Howard had company! This episode, we’ll chat as always about old recipe books, including one from the 1930s. There was very nearly a new hobby taken up, but you have to b...

Welcome to Shackbaggerly, the foodie type podcast which has now reached 68 countries, all of them probably thinking, ‘what the devil are they talking about?!’ Your hosts are good pals, Katie Johnson and Howard Middleton, who you may recognise from series 4 of the Great British Bake Off. This episode, as always, old cookery books feature, alongside some unexpected news regards Howard’s time on Bake...

Happy New Year and welcome to the first episode of Shackbaggerly for 2026, and it’s a cold one here in the UK, so to keep warm, we revisit the Nun’s Cookbook, and discover an old name for Rhubarb. Speaking of old, there was a patent given back in 1791, with a method on how to keep eggs for longer than we would probably want to (and indeed should), and have you ever heard of a talking candle? Thank...

Welcome to Shackbaggerly, the podcast from good friends, Katie Johnson and Howard Middleton, who you may recognise from series 4 of the Great British Bake Off. This episode, as we build up to our Christmas song (yes there is chance for you to bale out in plenty of time)! we’ll discover the identity of Lady Maria Clutterbuck and the link to Charles Dickens. Why are we rolling in crushed cornflakes...

Welcome to Shackbaggerly, the podcast from good friends Katie Johnson and Howard Middleton, who you may recognise from series 4 of the Great British Bake Off. This episode, we’ll chat old cookery books, including the discovery of how many eggs we all should have in our fridge, just in case, plus a sneak preview of our Christmas song. If you enjoy Shackbaggerly, we’d love it if you could leave a co...

Welcome to the podcast Shackbaggerly, an adjective to describe absolutely anything loose and disorderly, which sums our conversations up rather well! This episode, we’ll chat old cookery books, strange encounters, parsnip advice for those of us of a certain age and how marshmallows and mayonnaise can go together, plus the usual happenings that we seem to attract! If you enjoy Shackbaggerly, we’d l...

Welcome to our podcast Shackbaggerly, and as always, there’s a lot going on! Old cookery books, a possible song for Christmas, a bucket list item helped by a listener in New York and what was Mrs Beeton cooking last time? If you enjoy Shackbaggerly, we’d love it if you could leave a comment and/or review please, and do keep spreading the word. Thank you as always for getting in touch, we love hear...