Shackbaggerly

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...

Welcome to another episode of Shackbaggerly, and it’s one of those where Katie and Howard keep on learning! There’s a vintage recipe book from 1846, a food item around for 4 decades, and one perhaps we should bring back, or maybe not. The book ‘Reluctant Hostess’ has arrived, and we love Ethelind Fearon even more now, and it’s time for another ‘What’s Cooking,’ this time from Mrs Beeton. If you en...

Welcome to another episode of Shackbaggerly, and as always, there’s a lot going on. Advice for wives from 1858, an Author with the most incredible name, and what exactly was cooking the last time we caught up. Howard at 64 still receives his Mum’s advice, and Katie is asked if she makes any difference to the World! If you enjoy Shackbaggerly, please do leave a comment, and please keep spreading th...

Here we are again with another episode of Shackbaggerly, and a little excited as you’re in for a brand new feature called ‘What’s Cooking?’ where you have to guess what the recipe from a certain old cookbook is, just by the list of ingredients (what could possibly go wrong)! There’s talk of a very strange sighting at a petrol station, Howard has been channelling Dolly Parton, and Katie has yet aga...

This week on Shackbaggerly there’s a lot going on. Air raid shelter chat, United States pudding, and there’s new about Howard’s Mum’s deckchairs which have been living in the downstairs toilet for a while now! Howard’s been to a book signing by Actress Miriam Margolyes, whilst Katie was people watching in a Hospital canteen, and if you think that’s exciting, there’s news of what’s to come in the n...

This week on Shackbaggerly, and as always, there’s a lot going on. Howard has a new obsession. Have you ever heard of a Lambeth Cake? Hungary is now tuning in, so we discover three of the countries inventions, one of which prompted Howard to reveal a little too much personal information! Staying with Howard, find out how his former Bake Off contestant, Ruby Tandoh describes him in a recent article...

Another two weeks have passed since good friends Katie and Howard caught up, and here they are again, chatting about old recipe books, as well as everyday happenings. There’s an interesting new ingredient for potato salad, a listener gets in touch to let the duo know of a rather bizarre extra in vanilla ice cream, and Katie has started on HRT, but how’s it going? Hope you enjoy the episode, and pl...

The latest from Shackbaggerly, and as always, good pals Katie and Howard have been delving into the world of old recipe books, with one from 1957 catching Katie’s eye. Howard discovers a pie he’s never heard of, and is it just Sweden that uses hot vinegar in their Mayonnaise?! The Geoduck from the last episode caused quite a stir on Shackbaggerly’s Instagram and Facebook pages, and we predict this...