Melbourne Royal Show a showcase for firefighter’s hot baking skills

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Firefighter Mark Proctor, who bakes for his colleagues, is competing in eight Melbourne Royal Show cookery categories.

It’s great to have nice workmates, but a team of firefighters in Melbourne’s north have struck gold, at least when it comes to morning tea break.

He is competing in eight categories in this year’s Melbourne Royal Show cookery competition, ranging from sponge to profiterole, choux bun, and shortbread sections.The show starts on Thursday, but cooking entries were submitted on Saturday. This is Proctor’s third year competing in the Melbourne Royal Show: in his first year, a social club he formed, the Preston Pudding Club, won the Swiss roll section.

Baking cakes is now a fun hobby for Proctor, who trained as a baker in his UK home town of Blackpool and worked as chef in Germany, Greece and the Falkland Islands. After migrating to Australia in 2001, he worked at Laurent bakery in the Melbourne suburb of Clayton and later cooked patient meals at Western Hospital.Eight years ago, when visiting the Melbourne Royal Show, Proctor got chatting to firefighters at a fire brigade stall.

 

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