Oct 11, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min · 16 segments
Join us, Bex, Alex (two Brits), and Jenn (an American)—three Call The Midwife super fans—as we rewatch our favourite show and discuss each episode in order. Why not join us? Watch an episode, and then…
This is a big hint.
What is Sheila crediting the sheen on her mince pies to?
Icing sugar.
Egg whites.
Bex, do you want to weigh in?
Is it one of those? No, I don't think it's either of those.
we're gonna i want to try for the first question something different where i'm not going to give anything away and i want to see if you want to guess and then i thought it was egg
white because it ruined it for me
you want to
guess bex
my grandma once put egg whites on a christmas cake and then we realized that we couldn't eat it because i had raw egg on it wait she put it on after and didn't bake it yeah she put it on to attach the ice either the icing or the marzipan and it was just then she had to redo it because she realized she should have used jam
Oh, no, you can't do that.
I don't think it is egg white.
Okay, do you want to take a guess at what you think it is? Marzipan?
No. Oh,
my gosh.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Okay, well... ding ding ding you're right al it's egg white glaze that is the new that is the new thing that she's trying this year she's she's very tentative about it she's not really sure if it's gonna work i remember
saying i remember saying because i can have a mince pie and not with that flaming egg white i couldn't
Yeah, yeah.
But she's very excited about the egg white glaze.
So that's a whole new thing.
And I have to say, it was actually really fun watching back the mince pie competition.
This is a big hint.
What is Sheila crediting the sheen on her mince pies to?
Icing sugar.
Egg whites.
Bex, do you want to weigh in?
Is it one of those? No, I don't think it's either of those.
we're gonna i want to try for the first question something different where i'm not going to give anything away and i want to see if you want to guess and then i thought it was egg
white because it ruined it for me
you want to
guess bex
my grandma once put egg whites on a christmas cake and then we realized that we couldn't eat it because i had raw egg on it wait she put it on after and didn't bake it yeah she put it on to attach the ice either the icing or the marzipan and it was just then she had to redo it because she realized she should have used jam
Oh, no, you can't do that.
I don't think it is egg white.
Okay, do you want to take a guess at what you think it is? Marzipan?
No. Oh,
my gosh.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Okay, well... ding ding ding you're right al it's egg white glaze that is the new that is the new thing that she's trying this year she's she's very tentative about it she's not really sure if it's gonna work i remember
saying i remember saying because i can have a mince pie and not with that flaming egg white i couldn't
Yeah, yeah.
But she's very excited about the egg white glaze.
So that's a whole new thing.
And I have to say, it was actually really fun watching back the mince pie competition.
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