Christmas Recipes Please?

Lillibet_2

beachbeth wrote:

For dessert I always make this trifle:


Slice four trifle sponges up and spread in them raspberry/strawberry jam, as though you are making sandwiches with them! Cut each 'sandwich' in half and arrange in the bottom of a trifle bowl.

I always use swiss roll instead of trifle sponges : ready jammed:D & cheaper:money:

Aril

Crimble Crumble
This year I'm going to put a layer of stewed apple followed by a layer of mincemeat with a cinnamon spiced crumble on top in individual ramekin dishes for our pud
Aril

Madmel

I just thought of another one.

If you buy a turkey with all the giblets in, take the liver and fry it in olive oil for a few minutes with an onion, til it's brown all through. Then put the liver, oil, onion and a hard-boiled egg into a food processor or blender and smash it together. It makes fab liver pate, so we have this normally for lunch on Christmas Eve.

I also make veg soup and throw the neck and other bits in the giblet bag into that. If you cook it for about an hour, the meat comes off the neck and it makes a really nice soup which you can have when you're sick of turkey, or freeze it and eat it in the new year.

scuzz

Not very original but what about stuffed dates?

Dates, stones, fill with a "sausage" of marzipan and roll in sugar

linzibean

Does anyone have, by any chance, the Dairy Book of Home management? I use the rich fruit cake recipe ut of that every year for my christmas cake and it is the best I usually make it first week in September - but I left the book at home and my folks cant be bothered to send it or photocopy it for me :rolleyes:

Elljay_2

Wow! Go away for a few days and the thread fills up!! Thanks guys. Loads of inspiration for Christmas. Bring it on!! Think I might have to have a practice run at the end of Nov.

furrypig

linzibean wrote:

Does anyone have, by any chance, the Dairy Book of Home management? I use the rich fruit cake recipe ut of that every year for my christmas cake and it is the best I usually make it first week in September - but I left the book at home and my folks cant be bothered to send it or photocopy it for me :rolleyes:

So sorry I don't have this to help you out and have never made Christmas cake but do Delias Christmas pud every year (slightly adapted!).

Thought this thread deserved a bumpas isn't it only 100 days to go now!!!

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susank

I think I have this one I have The Dairy Book of HOme Cookery 1978 edition - do you think its that one.? Believe it or not thats the recipe I use too.

Rich Fruit Cake
8oz plain flour
1 tevel teasp mixed spice
half level teasp cinnamon
half level teasp grated nutmeg
1 level teasp cocoa powder
6 oz butter
6 oz soft brown sugar
1 level tablesp black treacle
1 level teasp each finely grated orange and lemon rind
4 standard eggs
1lb 4 oz mixed dried fruit
4 oz chopped peel
2 oz shelled walnut halves or blanched almonds
2 oz chopped dates
2 oz chopped glace cherries
1 tablesp milk

8" round tin or 7" square tin

Sift flour with spice, cinnamon, grated nutmeg and cocoa, cream butter with sugar, treacle and lemon and orange rind. Beat in whole eggs one at a time, adding sifted dry ingreds with each egg. Stir in all dried fruit nuts, dates and cherries. Fold in dry ingreds left alternately with milk.
Transfer to prepared tin and bake in centre of slow oven 150/300 degrees for 4 - 4 and half hours. Or like me omit the milk and add brandy. Feed with brandy every week till xmas!!!


I make cranberry relish - 1 packed fresh cranberries , grated rind of 1 orange and also the juice of the same orange, port, brown sugar.

put cranberries, orange rind, orange juice and a glass of port in a pan - bring to boil and add sugar - now dont ask me how much I add to taste so bung in quite a lot and boil this up like jam - taste it and add more port if not enough liquid and more sugar if not sweet enough and boil till thick enough to be put in jars as relish - same consistancy as chutney I suppose - I just dont use a recipe.

susank

Bumping this one up to the top again for more recipes please.

Nix143

And I now have 6 people for Christmas Dinner and am already worrying about affording the cost of the meal :rolleyes: sometimes I hate being skint.

So if there are tips about
1. cheap christmas nosh
2. stuff I can pre-prepare so I can spread the cost

I would be REALLY interested

Cheers OSers! xx