The handshake
Hollywood Handshake · Ruby Bhogal, 9 (2018), 6 / Pastry.
Ruby Bhogal’s Traditional Sweet/Savoury Samosas
The handshake card
- Baker: Ruby Bhogal
- UK series: Series 9 (2018)
- Week/theme: Week 6, Pastry
- Challenge: Signature
- Handshake fact: Ruby received a Hollywood handshake for her traditional sweet/savoury samosas.
- Evidence: Master index entry #28; research sources [S1], [S2], [S7].

Lore
Ruby’s handshake bake makes the samosa a conversation between savoury and sweet. “Traditional” is doing useful work here: the appeal is not pastry for pastry’s sake, but a familiar folded form carrying two contrasting directions in one Signature. The verified record gives us the bake and its week, while leaving the exact fillings and dough proportions unpublished.
Recipe source pending
No exact or near-exact public recipe for Ruby’s handshake bake was located in the verified research pass. No sweet filling, savoury filling, ingredient list, or shaping method is invented here.
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