Christmas Recipes Please?

furrypig

Sorry I had to bump this thread up as it is a crime to be 17 pages in when I am getting sooooo excited about Christmas!!

oops_a_daisy

I make filo pastry mince parcels
dead easy- well it has to be for me
buy ready made filo pastry, butter the sheets as instructed on the pack then put 2 pieces of filo on top of each other and cut into 4 or 6 depending on what size you want, then put a dollop of mincemeat in the centre then pinch the sides of the filo up. Cook in oven and sieve some icing sugar on top. One jar of mincemeat and 1 pack of filo pastry makes loads so I freeze them as they warm up really quickly in the oven in the time it takes to make a coffee when friends call

flourgirl

225gm soft dried figs
250gm soft white breadcrumbs
115gm chopped almonds and or walnuts
225gm light brown sugar
85gm candid peel
3 tblsp melted butter
4 eggs beaten
1/2teasp cinnamon
1/2 teasp nutmeg
15ml (1tblsp) dark rum

you will need a 2pint pudding basin lightly greased. foil and greaseproof paper

Chop the figs and mix with the breadcrumbs in a large mixing bowl
Mix in all the other dry ingredients
Add the beaten eggs melted butter and the rum,and mix thoroughly
Put the mixture into a greased pudding bowl and cover with greaseproof and foil and steam for 2 1/2 hours. Make sure centre is fully set and cooked.
Serve hot with cream, custard or brandy butter.

When reheating steam for 1 hour or microwave 3-4 minutes.
Use within 3 months

flourgirl

115gm butter
225gm cooked turkey minced
1 tblsp Sherry
1/2 teasp lemon juice
2 or 3 drops tabasco or worcester sauce
pinch ground cloves
salt & pepper to taste

50gm melted butter

Cream the butter and mix in the minced cooked Turkey
Add the sherry lemon juice, sauce and cloves and stir well to thoroughly mix the ingredients
Season to taste with the salt and pepper
Put mixture into a dish or individual ramekins, smooth the surface and pour over the melted butter
Cover with foil and chill before serving.

Keep refridgerated and use within 3 days

mrsmortenharket

This year I am going to make my own pudding & cake.

I only want a regular sized cake & won't be icing it as I think marzipan & icing are bleurk!

Also would only need one regular xmas pud.

Post your foolproof recipies here (I see there are some already on the thread but there are thousands out there, lol!)

Thank you all!

Lisa x

Phatmouse

Lillibet wrote:

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

I use smart price maderia cake and spread jam on it and I let the jelly set over it to soak it up, yum yum:p

Phatmouse

On christmas eve I boil a gammon joint in full fat cherry coke with 1 onion halved, put the gammon joint in a snug pan and make sure its covered with the coke, top up with water if not, never use diet. Boil and reduce heat, cover and simmer for three hours. When ready take off rind score fat into diamond shapes, cover in cherry jelly, pop a clove into eat diamond scored and roast for 45 mins.

For the last 2 years i haven't bothered with the jelly or roasting, just out the pan cool it slice it.

The cherry coke is not an obvious taste but its amazing and sees us through christmas for sandwiches.

I use a 2-2.5kg gammon, unsmoked from a butchers.

Soak it for 12 hours first, changing the water a few times.

Bambam

recovering_spendaholic wrote:

You just get 2lb of sausages and skin them (or buy sausagemeat) and mix it with a made up large box of Paxo sage and onion stuffing. It MUST be Paxo and MUST be sage and onion or it never tastes right!. You stuff the turkey with it and bake any left over mix in a loaf tin.

This is exactly how I do my stuffing, but with any leftover mix I form it into small sausage shapes and wrap streaky bacon around them and pop into the oven to cook. Infact, if the sausage meat and bacon haven't been previously frozen these can be made up in advance and popped into the freezer.:xmastree:

Miss_Cinnabon

Anyone got any good recipe ideas for starters for xmas dinner, 5 mouths to feed and no idea!

Kyle

kabie

Re Figgy Pud.
Could i get away with doing the initial cooking in the microwave or does it have to be steamed? If I can how long do you think, 4-5 mins?
thanks