Masterchef's John Torode sifts through the archives and serves up a selection of mouth-watering dishes from some of the nation's favourite television chefs, starting with recipes and ingredients linked by the letter A. Highlights include Jamie Oliver's savoury apple crumble and Sophie Dahl cooking a toffee apple crumble.

Masterchef's John Torode sifts through the archives and serves up a selection of mouth-watering dishes from some of the nation's favourite television chefs, featuring recipes and ingredients linked by the letter B. Highlights include Levi Roots' beef pepperpot stew and Nigel Slater's spiced bread and butter pudding.

Masterchef's John Torode sifts through the archives and serves up a selection of mouth-watering dishes from some of the nation's favourite television chefs, featuring recipes and ingredients linked by the letter C. Highlights include Jamie Oliver's celery, celeriac and pomegranate salad and Raymond Blanc's cafe creme.

Masterchef's John Torode sifts through the archives and serves up a selection of mouth-watering dishes from some of the nation's favourite television chefs, starting with recipes and ingredients linked by the letter A. Highlights include Jamie Oliver's savoury apple crumble and Sophie Dahl cooking a toffee apple crumble.

Masterchef's John Torode sifts through the archives and serves up a selection of mouth-watering dishes from some of the nation's favourite television chefs, featuring recipes and ingredients linked by the letter E. Tony and Giorgio cook eels and mash and Raymond Blanc shows us how to make Chocolate eclairs.

Masterchef's John Torode sifts through the archives and serves up a selection of mouth-watering dishes from some of the nation's favourite television chefs, featuring recipes and ingredients linked by the letter F. The Hairy Bikers cook a focaccia and Nigel Slater cooks roast figs with honey and marsala.

Masterchef's John Torode sifts through the archives and serves up a selection of mouth-watering dishes from some of the nation's favourite television chefs, featuring recipes and ingredients linked by the letter G. Lorraine Pascale cooks pan-fried mascarpone gnocchi with dreamy basil pesto and Rachel Khoo makes grapefruit meringue tartlets.

Masterchef's John Torode sifts through the archives and serves up a selection of mouth-watering dishes from some of the nation's favourite television chefs, featuring recipes and ingredients linked by the letter H. Tony and Giorgio cook hambone soup and Jamie Oliver shows us how to make a pinenut and honey tart.

Masterchef's John Torode sifts through the archives and serves up a selection of mouth-watering dishes from some of the nation's favourite television chefs, featuring recipes and ingredients linked by the letter I.Ching-He Huang cooks her instant noodle soup and Mary Berry makes her lemon meringue ice-cream with fresh lemon balm.

John Torode's alphabetical journey through the BBC's culinary archive continues as he reaches the letter J. Highlights featured include Rick Stein cooking pan-fried John Dory, and the Hairy Bikers preparing their own version of jam roly-poly.

Masterchef's John Torode sifts through the archives and serves up a selection of mouth-watering dishes from some of the nation's favourite television chefs, featuring recipes and ingredients linked by the letter M. Featuring a mozzarella and chilli salad prepared by Jamie Oliver and a mousakka from the Hairy Bikers.

John Torode sifts through archive cookery clips linked by the letter N. Featuring Nigel Slater's prawn and noodle soup and Raymond Blanc's greengage nougatine.

Masterchef's John Torode sifts through the archives and serves up a selection of mouth-watering dishes from some of the nation's favourite television chefs, featuring recipes and ingredients linked by the letter O. Jamie Oliver cooks baked onions, plus Michel Roux cooks us a pear omlette souffle with salted butter and caramel sauce.

Masterchef's John Torode sifts through the archives and serves up a selection of mouth-watering dishes from some of the nation's favourite television chefs, featuring recipes and ingredients linked by the letter P. The Hairy Bikers cook paella and Nigel Slater bakes a plum pudding cake.

Masterchef's John Torode sifts through the archives and serves up a selection of mouth-watering dishes from some of the nation's favourite television chefs, featuring recipes and ingredients linked by the letter Q. Little Paris Kitchen's Rachel Khoo cooks a quiche lorraine and Raymond Blanc prepares quail egg ravioli.

Masterchef's John Torode sifts through the archives and serves up a selection of mouth-watering dishes from some of the nation's favourite television chefs, featuring recipes and ingredients linked by the letter R. Nigel Slater cooks ribs while Raymond Blanc shows us how he cooks rice pudding.

Masterchef's John Torode sifts through the archives and serves up a selection of mouth-watering dishes from some of the nation's favourite television chefs, featuring recipes and ingredients linked by the letter S. Mary Berry prepares salmon with a fresh sorrel and spinach sauce while Nigel Slater shows his sea salt chocolate snaps.

A Christmas special that sees John Torode digging through the archives and serving up a range of festive recipes from some of the nation's best-loved television chefs, including Fanny Craddock's Christmas cake and Lorraine Pascale's turkey.

Masterchef's John Torode sifts through the archives and serves up a selection of mouth-watering dishes from some of the nation's favourite television chefs. This show features recipes and ingredients linked by the letter T. Rachel Khoo cooks trout in a parcel and Raymond Blanc cooks Tarte Tatin.

Masterchef's John Torode sifts through the archives and serves up a selection of mouth-watering dishes from some of the nation's favourite television chefs. This show features recipes and ingredients linked by the letter U, and feature an 'unusual' category, with dishes including Heston Blumenthal's snail porridge and Nigel Slater's black pudding sausage roll.

Masterchef's John Torode sifts through the archives and serves up a selection of mouth-watering dishes from some of the nation's favourite television chefs. This show features recipes and ingredients linked by the letter V. Indian Food Made Easy's Anjum Anand cooks up a vindaloo and Sophie Dahl bakes a victoria sponge.

Masterchef's John Torode sifts through the archives and serves up a selection of mouth-watering dishes from some of the nation's favourite television chefs. This show features recipes and ingredients linked by the letter W. Highlights include Rick Stein's potato and watercress soup and the Hairy Bikers' white chocolate cheesecake.

Masterchef's John Torode sifts through the archives and serves up a selection of mouth-watering dishes from some of the nation's favourite television chefs. This show features recipes and ingredients linked by the letters X, Y and Z. Highlights include Raymond Blanc's exotic fruit ravioli, Levi Root's yams and Lorraine Pascale's zebra cake.

Having reached the end of his alphabetical search through the cookery archives, John Torode selects some of his favourite moments and recipes from the series.