Christmas recipes - 79 recipes
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Christmas Chutney
By Bartbear1
Peel the tomatoes - prick them with a sharp knife, place in a bowl and cover with boiling water
- 900g tomatoes
- 3 red peppers
- 1 large aubergine and 1 green pepper (total weight of about 900g/2lb)
- 700g onions
- peeled and fairly finely chopped by hand or in a food processor
- 4 fat cloves garlic
- crushed
- 350g granulated sugar
- 300ml/½pint white wine vinegar or distilled malt vinegar
- 1 tbsp salt
- 1 tbsp coriander seeds
- crushed
- 1 tbsp paprika
- 2 tsp cayenne pepper
Christmas pudding
By sahteeny
Mix the flour, baking powder, bread crumbs, butter, salt and brown sugar in a bowl
- 150g flour
- 150g breadcrumbs
- 200g butter
- 150g of brown sugar
- 150ml of milk
- 4 eggs
- 500g raisins
- soaked and drained (Smyrna
- Corinth and Malaya)
- 300g candied fruit (cherries and lemon zest
- grapefruit and orange)
- 12 chopped prunes
- 60g chopped almonds
- 1/2 grated nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ginger
- 1 pinch of salt
- 1 sachet of baking powder
- cognac or brandy
creamy shortbread
By amazing cravings
the creamiest shortbread ever
- 225g butter room temp
- 140g caster sugar
- 1 egg yolk splash of milk
- 280g plain flor
- .5 tablespoon of vanilla
Roast turkey with baked apples
By piednoel lucie
The day before, add the truffle to the stuffing and stuff your turkey
- 500g fine pork stuffing
- 1 tin of truffle peels
- 1 turkey 3 to 4kg
- 30g of fat (oil or butter)
- Salt & pepper
- 24 golden delicious apples
- 1 lemon
- 25 ml calvados
- 50 ml creme fraiche
- 1 bunch watercress.
Unbelievably easy mince pies
By kenzofish
To make the pastry, rub 225g cold, diced butter into 350g plain flour, then mix in 100g golden caster sugar and a p...
- 225g cold butter
- diced
- 350g plain flour
- 100g golden caster sugar
- 280g mincemeat
- 1 small egg
- icing sugar
- to dust
Christmas Pudding
By Pepper666
A family recipe from Great-Nanna Lottie
- 1 lb flour
- 1 lb breadcrumbs
- 1 lb suet
- 1 lb currents
- 1 lb raisins
- 1 lb sugar
- 2 lemons
- 1/4 lb candied peel
- a little milk
- nutmeg and mace to taste
- 4 eggs
- 1/4 pint brandy
Carrot cake with hazelnuts, or not!
By Nadège du blog Cooking Nadoo
Preheat the oven to 180°C/gas mark 4
- For 1 large cake or 8 mini cakes:
- 175 g flour
- 1 egg
- 125 g of caster sugar
- 2 teaspoons of baking soda
- 115 g butter
- melted
- 60 g of ground almonds
- 2 tablespoons of honey
- Juice of half a lemon
- 2 teaspoons of cinnamon powder
- 2 teaspoons of allspice or 4 spice mix (ground pepper
- cloves
- nutmeg
- ginger)
- 35 g hazelnuts (optional)
- 350 g grated carrots and chopped (about 3 large carrots)
Apple Sauce
By meadows
Great way to use those apples from your garden
- 2 Medium Cooking Apples (peeled & cored)
- Dollop Butter (or to taste)
- 5 tsps. Sugar (or to taste)
Lemon Fudge
By Clarkey500
A Lovely treat. That makes a fantastic present!
- 200g Sugar
- 120ml Milk
- 3TBSP Golden Syrup
- 25g Butter
- 2TBSP Lemon Juice (Better if fresh)
Christmas Cake
By presentface
Mix all fruit, peel, nuts and lemon rind with brandy and leave overnight
- Round 17.5cm/7in Round 20cm/8in Round 22.5cm/9in
- Square 15cm/6in Square 17.5cm/7in Square 20cm/8in
- gram gram gram
- Currants 100 150 200
- Sultanas 100 150 200
- Raisins 150 225 275
- GlaceCherries 50 75 100
- Mixed cut peel 50 75 100
- Mix chopped nuts 50 75 100
- Lemon rind (5ml/tsp) 1 1.5 2
- Brandy(15 ml/tbsp) 1.5 2 2.5
- Plain flour 125 200 250
- Mixed spice(5ml/tsp) 1 1.5 1.75
- Ground Almonds 25 50 60
- Soft brown sugar 100 175 225
- Butter 100 175 225
- Black treacle(15ml/tbsp.)1 1 1.5
- Eggs 3 4 5
Pheasant cooked in a nettle sauce
By ToniC
Cook the pheasant in the oven or bbq (with wood or charcoal)
- 1 whole pheasant
- a bunch of nettles
- a pint of water
Mulled Wine
Approved byThe Chef
By lpsatchell
Christmas and Wine....what's better than that?
- 1 Bottle Red Wine
- 2 Tablespoons Caster Sugar
- 1/2 Glass Orange Juice
- 1 Cinnamon Stick
- 1 Nutmeg (halved)
- 8 Cloves
- 8 Allspice Berries (also known as Whole Pimento)
- 1 Thumb Ginger
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