FROXFIELD breadmaker Vickie Christie has risen to the challenge of baking to order for a TV food programme.

She made around 80 loaves over two days of filming for BBC1’s James Martin:Home Comforts, which features the celebrity chef sharing recipes from his own kitchen and showcasing the food of quality producers.

Vickie will be seen up to her elbows in flour in the oak-timbered garage of her Froxfield home she has converted into a bakery.

Viewers may also be treated to shots of Petersfield, including Lavant Street, where Vickie (49) delivers her mostly sourdough bread to The Happy Cow, Madeleine’s Kitchen and Annie Jones Restaurant.

She also supplies Durleigh Marsh farmshop and other outlets in the area.

Food lovers in Petersfield also enjoyed watching her whip up a loaf or two at a workshop for various producers held in October last year at St Peter’s Church.

Although she is grateful for the exposure for her long fermented, organic bread on the programme, to be aired on Monday afternoon at 3.40pm, she won’t be rushing to be on television again.

“It was unbelievably stressful,” said Vickie, of The Real Bread and?Food Company. “They were very nice people and kept telling me to just be myself, but then an aeroplane would go over or a dog would bark and we’d have to do it again. It wasn’t really my thing.”

What is her thing though is the provenance of food.

If there’s a loaf of bread to be eaten, she’ll want to know the background to the full process, from field to plate.

Whether the wheat has been grown responsibly and well so the flour is good, for example, and even whether the farm workers bringing in the wheat have been paid enough.

Hundreds of loaves a week, made with British flour, are produced by Vickie in her bakery.

In the pre-Christmas rush it was around 500, with the sourdough recipe her most popular.

You wouldn’t catch her with any cheap bread that tastes of cardboard anytime soon. “I?really don’t like bad bread. Bread that is made in under two hours and is full of additives. I think it’s just really unpleasant.”

She is a one-woman cottage industry operation although her family – husband Miles and children Fionn (19), Kitty (16) and ten-year-old Millie do help out.

“They all join in – if I pay them – and they all love their food.”