Tag Archive 'Christmas'

I’ve been meaning to post this for about a month so it’s a bit out of season now, but it was so good I had to put it up.  I decided to give mince pies a miss this year (although Belle’s were very tempting!), and have a go at some stollen from a recipe in [...]

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In these times of economic woe, I decided to avoid the shop bought ‘luxury’ Christmas pud and make my own based on a recipe by the multi-michelin starred Gordon Ramsay.  The recipe was from BBC Olive Magazine. 
The recipe was incredibly simple and can be summarised in a Ramsay-esque way as  
‘…mix ingredients…pudding bowl…steam…done’. 

As I struggled around [...]

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Only one month to go!  This weekend we had a bit of a mad Christmas baking session, we made quince mince pies, ginger and pineapple Christmas cake and the biggest Christmas pudding I’ve ever seen! The recipe for the mince pies is below and Paul will add the recipes for the other two later.
 
Quince mince pies
When [...]

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