ANTIQUE cook Pat Matthews has revealed she will be offering a taste of the north when she appears on the Mel and Sue show tomorrow.

Mrs Matthews, aged 68, has been invited onto the daytime ITV show as the guest cook to showcase her Grandma Sarah's 100-year-old recipes, which feature in her book Grandma's Antique Recipes.

The show, which started last week, reunites Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins in their first live chat show in more than 16 years, inviting different celebrities and cooks each day to prepare a sweet or savoury dish.

Mrs Matthews, of Longfield Road, Middle Hulton, has already been in rehearsals for the show.

She said: "I'm starting to get really excited now but I don't want to think too much about it because I'll get nervous. It's a live show so anything could happen.

"I was asked to cook a savoury dish so I've chosen a typical tasty northern dish, so hopefully people in Bolton will enjoy watching me make it.

"It will feature grandma's homemade pastry and I'm also going to bring in some of her spicy piccalilli which is like nothing else and will really lift the dish. I will also take some of her coconut ice sweets, just for a treat.

"While I cook they will be asking me to talk about grandma, of course, which I am looking forward to. After all she's the reason why I'm on the show."

The grandmother will be joined on the show by comic Jack Whitehall and his father Michael, and Most Haunted's Yvette Fielding.

Mrs Matthews said: "I'm looking forward to meeting Mel and Sue as well as Jack Whitehall, who I think is really funny. Plus Yvette is a fellow northerner so hopefully she will like what I make.

"I don't know how long they will give me to speak but hopefully I'll be able to have a laugh with the other guests."

Mrs Matthews will be on The Mel and Sue show tomorrow at 4pm.