Christmas Recipes: Main Dishes. No.12 of 12 - Spinach and Mushroom Pancakes

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Christmas recipe serves: 4 calories per serving: 375 preparation time: 1 hour plus standing & soaking cooking time: 1 hour 30 minutes suitable for freezing (pancakes only)

Christmas recipe ingredients:

• white flour, plain 50 g (2 oz)
• wholemeal flour, plain 50 g (2 oz)
• egg, 1
• milk, skimmed 350 ml (12 fl oz)
• salt and pepper
• vegetable stock, 300 ml (10 fl oz)
• mushrooms, dried 25 g (1 oz)
• oil, vegetable 30 ml (2 tbsp)
• spinach, fresh washed 450 g (1 lb) or
• spinach, frozen leaf 350 g (12 oz)
• soft cheese, reduced fat 225 g (8 oz) mushrooms, brown cap 450 g (1 lb)
• spring onions, 1 bunch
• garnish, flat-leaf parsley

Christmas recipe instructions:

1. Use a food processor for the batter so mix the egg, a pinch of salt, milk and both flours. Then stand for 30 minutes. Soak the dried mushrooms and stock for 30 minutes.
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2. Coat the base of a non-stick pan with some batter after heating oil in it. Cook until golden brown (usually a couple of minutes), then cook the other side for about 30 seconds. Repeat with the rest of the batter till you have about a dozen or so pancakes.
3. Cook the spinach for a few minutes before allowing to cool, removing the liquid and cutting up. Add the soft cheese and salt and pepper to taste.
4. Cook the chopped onions and brown-cap mushrooms in 15 ml (1 tbsp) of hot oil until light brown in color. Add the stock and mushrooms, and seasoning, then simmer for about 20 minutes or until the mixture is syrup like.
5. Take half of this mixture, make smooth in a processor, then return to the pan.
6. Take the spinach mixture from step 3 and put in an oiled ovenproof dish. Then layer half a dozen pancakes with the mushroom mixture in between along with the remaining spinach mixture. End with the mushroom layer.
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7. Cook until weel browned at gas mark 6 (200 degrees centigrade, 400 F) for about 30 minutes.
8. Serve with flat-leaf parsley garnish.

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Christmas Recipes: Main Dishes. No.11 of 12 - Glazed Pork with Fig Stuffing

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Christmas recipe serves: 6 calories per serving: 480 preparationj time: 30 minutes cooking time: 2 hours not suitable for freezing

Christmas recipe ingredients:

• loin of pork, boned with skin scored, 1.4 kg (3 lb)
• salt and pepper
• honey, clear 60 ml (4 tbsp)
• mustard powder, 10 ml (2 tsp)
• lemon, grated rind from 1
• garnish, sprigs of rosemary and a few figs

stuffing:

• shallots, 4
• garlic clove, 1
• figs, dried no-soak 225 g (8 oz)
• apple, eating 1
• rosemary, fresh sprigs 2
• butter, 50 g (2 oz)
• lemon, grated rind and juice from 1
• dry sherry, 45 ml (3 tbsp)

Christmas recipe instructions:

1. Stuffing preparation: Chopped rosemary, peeled/cored/chopped apple, choppee figs, peeled and crushed garlic, peeled and chopped shallots.
2. Cook the garlic and shallots in butter until golden brown. Add the sherry, lemon rind and juice, rosemary, apple and figs. Stir until softened and most of the liquid reduced.
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3. Place the cooled stuffing from step 2 along the middle of the salt and pepper seasoned pork loin (skin side down). Roll the piece up and tie up with string at several locations. Cook for 1 hour at gas mark 5 (190 degrees centigrade, 375 F).
4. Near the end of this time, heat together the lemon rind, mustard and honey. After the hour is up, brush this onto the pork and continue the cooking for another 45 minutes, basting every 15 minutes.
5. Serve as carved slices (thick), garnished with rosemary sprigs and a few figs.

Ho Ho Ho! As Christmas Eve is the time when Swedes celebrate Christmas and open their presents this is the most important meal of the holiday.

Heating and serving tips:

• Don't keep food hot for longer than an hour before serving
• Leave roast potatoes open to the atmosphere after cooking, to retain their crispness.
• Remember that it is harder to keep certain foods warm. e.g. root vegetable keep their heat well but spinach and cabbage don't.

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Christmas Recipes: Main Dishes. No.10 of 12 - Lamb with Chestnut and Tomato Relish

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Christmas recipe serves: 6 calories per serving: 450 preparation time: 15 minutes cooking time: 20 minutes not suitable for freezing

Christmas recipe ingredients:

• chestnuts, peeled cooked, 175 g (6 oz)
• tomatoes, cherry 75 g (3 oz)
• bacon, rindless streaky, 175 g (6 oz)
• lamb, 3 racks trimmed, 900 g (2 lb)
• garlic, 3 cloves
• pepper
• olive oil, 100 ml (4 fl oz)
• parsley, finely chopped fresh, 60 ml (4 tbsp)
• caster sugar, 10 ml (2 tsp)
• balsamic vinegar, 30 ml (2 tbsp)
• garnish, flat leaf parsley

Christmas recipe instructions:

1. Rub the lamb with garlic and finely coat with pepper. Cut the tomatoes in half and the chestnuts into rough pieces.
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2. Cook the lamb racks, having placed the bacon on top, at gas mark 9 (240 degrees centigrade, 475 F) for about 20 minutes or for about 30 minutes for well done.
3. For the relish; mix balsamic vinegar, sugar, parsley and the remaining garlic (peeled and crushed) with the olive oil. Then add the cherry tomatoes and chestnuts.
4. To complete the relish add the liquid from step 2 to the step 4 product.
5. Serve the lamb in six pieces wity the relish, garnished with parsley.

Note: You can replace the chestnuts with frozen or canned variety.

Heating and serving tips:

• Don't keep food hot for longer than an hour before serving
• Leave roast potatoes open to the atmosphere after cooking, to retain their crispness.
• Remember that it is harder to keep certain foods warm. e.g. root vegetable keep their heat well but spinach and cabbage don't.

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Christmas Recipes: Main Dishes. No.9 of 12 - Duck with Cardamom Sauce

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Christmas recipe serves: 6 calories per serving: 400 preparation time: 15 minutes cooking time: 2hours 30 minutes suitable for freezing after step 3.

Christmas recipe ingredients:

• duck legs, 6, about 2 kg (4.5 lb)
• onions, 350 g (12 oz)
• root ginger, fresh, 5 cm piece, (2 inch)
• butter, 125 g (4 oz)
• caster sugar, 15 ml (1 tbsp)
• green cardomom pods, 8 whole
• chicken stock, 1.7 litres (3 pints)
• ginger wine, 300 ml (10 fl oz)
• dry white wine, 150 ml (5 fl oz)
• salt and pepper
• orange juice, 45 ml (3 tbsp)
• lemon juice, 15 ml (1 tbsp)
• oil, 5 ml (1 tbsp)
• sea salt, coarse 10 ml (2 tsp)
• garnish, coarse fresh coriander

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Christmas recipe instructions:

1. Simmer the duck legs gently in a large pan of boiling water for about 2 hours.
2. To prepare the sauce, fry peeled, chopped onions in 50 g (2 oz) of the butter for about 10 minutes or soft. Add peeled and grated ginger, with the sugar and csardomom seeds from one pod. Cook until the color of the mixture turns dark golden brown.
3. Add the stock and boil until the volume is reduced by half. Reduce by half again till syrup like after adding the white wine and dry ginger. Add salt and pepper and orange juice to taste.
4. Stir in 25 g (1 oz) of the butter into the sauce at boiling point. Separate the onions from the liquid and combine with the rest of the butter. Keep.
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5. Remove excess water from the duck and put over a roasting tin on a rack. Brush the duck with oil and sprinkle with salt and the remaining cardomom seeds.
6. Roast until the skin is very crisp. About 20 to 25 minutes at gas mark 8. (230 degrees centigrade, 450 F). Add the reheated butter and onion and serve the food with heated cardomom sauce. Garnish with coriander.

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Christmas Recipes: Main Dishes. No.8 of 12 - Christmas Pheasant

Ho Ho Ho! Why not try this very easy fruit cake which doesn't take a great deal of time to prepare and tastes absolutely mouth watering. This is traditional recipe for Christmas time and will always be well received by your guests.

Christmas recipe serves: 6 calories per serving: 490 preparation time: 30 minutes cooking time: 2 hours 15 minutes suitable for freezing (after step 4)

Christmas recipe ingredients:

• shallots or small onions, 225 g (8oz)
• streaky bacon, rindless 225 g (8 oz)
• pheasants, oven ready, brace
• salt and pepper
• oil, 30 ml (2 tbsp)
• butter, 50 g (2 oz)
• garlic cloves, 2
• Madeira, 300 ml (10 fl oz)
• beef stock, 600 ml (1 pint)
• thyme, fresh (sprig) or dried (pinch)
• bay leaves, 2
• juniper berries, 6
• orange, pared rind and juice from 1
• recurrant jelly, 90 (ml) (6 tbsp)
• chestnuts, peeled 225 g (8 oz), canned, frozen or vacuum-packed)
• garnish, thyme (fresh)
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Christmas recipe instructions:

1. Remove the backbone and knuckles from the pheasants and cut into four pieces each. Season with salt and pepper. Cut up some bacon and peel the shallots.
2. Brown the shallots and bacon in the butter and oil and put to one side. Add the pheasant, two pieces at a time and fry until golden. Then reome the pheasant and put to one side.
3. Add crushed garlic to the casserole dish along with the stock, thyme, juniper berries, bay leaves, the pared orange rind and half the Madeira. Heat to boiling and add the pheasant. Cover and cook at gas mark 3 (170 degrees centigrade, 325 F) for 60 minutes.
4. Add the redcurrant jelly, bacon and shallots. Cook for an additional 45 minutes or until the pheasant is tender.
5. Prepare the marinade by soaking the cranberries and chestnuts in the remaing Madeira and orange juice for 30 minutes.
6. From the casserole, remove the bacon, vegetables and pheasant and keep warm. Reduce the remaining liquid till it is syrup like. Add the marinade from step 5 and simmer for 5 minutes more.
7. To serve, season and pour the sauce over the pheasant, bacon and vegetables. Garnish with fresh thyme.

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Christmas Recipes: Main Dishes. No.7 of 12 - Garlic Poussins and Kumquats

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Christmas recipe Serves: 6 Preparation time: 20 minutes Cooking time: 1 hour Calories per serving: 580 Not suitable for freezing

Christmas recipe ingredients:

• poussins, 3, about 700 g (1.5 lb) each
• salt and pepper
• kumquats, 225 g (8 oz)
• garlic cloves, 16
• olive oil, 30 ml (2 tbsp)
• unsalted butter, 25 g (1 oz)
• bay leaves, 2 vdry cider, 450 ml (15 fl oz)
• apple juice, 200 ml (7 fl oz)
• double cream, 200 ml (7 fl oz)
• garnish, thyme sprigs

Christmas recipe instructions:

1. Cook the unpeeled garlic cloves in salted boiling water for about 5 minutes. Then cool and peel. Cut the kumquats in half. Split the poussins in half along the breast bone, having removed the backbone. Use about 10 ml (2 tsp) of salt to cover the skin side.
2. Cook the poussin pieces skin side down in hot butter until golden brown. Take out of the pan and replace with the garlic and kumquats, cooking in the hot pan until a golden color. Put the poussins back, add bay leaves and cover.
3. Now cook the poussins fully at gas mark 6 (200 degrees centigrade, 400 F) for about 35 minutes. Take everything out of the dish except 6 cloves, cover and keep warm.
4. Make a paste by crushing the remaining garlic and add apple juice and cider. Heat to boiling and continue till syrup like.
5. Add the cream and season with salt and pepper. Heat to boiling again and simmer for about a minute. Put the food back that you removed in step 3 and cook for about two ot three minutes.
6. Garnish with thyme sprigs and serve.

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Christmas Recipes: Main Dishes No.6 of 12 - Turkey and Mango Curry

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Christmas recipe serves: 4 Preparation time: 10 minutes Cooking time: 15 minutes Calories per serving: 640 Not suitable for freezing.

Christmas Recipe Ingredients:

• Onion, 175 g (6 oz)
• Green pepper, 125 g (4 oz)
• Garlic clove, 1
• Turkey, cooked 225 g (8 oz)
• Mango, 1 fresh or mango pieces 400 g (14 oz)
• Oil, 30 ml (2 tbsp)
• Lemon grass, chopped 15 ml (1 tbsp)
• Green Thai Curry Paste or Mild Indian curry paste, 20 ml (4 tsp)
• Coconut milk, 450 ml (15 fl oz)
• Salt and pepper
• Double cream, 30 ml (2 tbsp)
• Coriander (optional), chopped fresh 45 ml (3 tbsp)

Christmas Recipe Instructions:

1. Make strips of turkey, chopped and deseeded pepper, peeled and crushed garlic, pelled and chopped onion.
2. Make chunks of mango flesh having peeled and removed the stone. If using tinned, remove the liquid.
3. Combine lemon grass, green pepper, onion, garlic and add to heated oil. Stir whilst cooking for about 5 minutes. Put in curry paste and continue for a couple more minutes.
4. Add the coconut milk and heat to boiling point, simmering for about five minutes. Throw in the mango and cooked turkey, add salt and pepper to taste and boil for about two minutes.
5. Prior to serving, add double cream and garnish with fresh coriander.

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General Heating & Serving Food Tips:

• Don't keep food hot for more than an hour before serving
• Cover food that could dry out, with cling film or a clean cloth
• Keep roast potatoes uncovered so they remain crisp and dry
• Remember that it is harder to keep vegetables such as spinach and cabbage warm compared to root vegetables.

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Christmas Recipes: Main Dishes. No.5 of 12 - Turkey Meatballs with Cranberry

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Christmas recipe serves: 4 Preparation time: 15 minutes Cooking time: 10 minutes Calories per serving: 875 Suitable for freezing after step 3.

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Christmas Recipe Ingredients:

• Sherry or balsamic vinegar, 15 ml (1 tbsp)
• Caster Sugar, 10 ml (2 tsp)
• Salt and pepper
• Olive oil, 120 ml (8 tbsp)
• Cranberries, fresh or frozen 50 g (2 oz)
• Celery, 125 g (4 oz)
• Walnuts, toasted 50 g (2 oz)
• Turkey, roasted meat 450 g (1 lb)
• Garlic cloves, 2
• Olive oil, 15 ml (1 tbsp)
• Fennel seeds (optional), 10 ml (2 tsp)
• Oregano, dried 10 ml (2 tsp)
• Cranberry sauce, 30 ml (2 tbsp)
• Breadcrumbs, fresh 125 g (4 oz)
• Eggs, 2
• Parmesan cheese, freshly grated 50 g (2 oz)
• Oil
• Green salad

Christmas Recipe Instructions:

1. Chop the turkey, walnuts and celery into small pieces. Crush peeled garlic. Cook the oregano, fennel seeds, garlic and celery in oil for about five minutes. Then add the cranberry sauce. leave to cool.
2. Add salt and pepper to the vinegar and sugar, mix in the oil and cranberries. Heat to boiling, cook for 1 minute and leave to cool.
3. Combine salt and pepper, parmesan cheese, walnuts, eggs, breadcrumbs, celery mixture and turkey. Split into twelve golf-sized meatballs.
4. Deep-fat fry the meatballs until golden brown (about 4 minutes). Place them on kitchen towel paper to soak up the oil and serve onto green salad sprinkled with cranberry dressing from step 1.

Ho Ho Ho! On Christmas Eve it is traditional to eat fish dishes; certainly, no meat is eaten on Christmas Eve. Panettone, a traditionally light Milanese cake, also plays a part in this meal but can be eaten at any time with family and friends during the holiday season.

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Christmas Recipes: Main Dishes. No.4 of 12 - Seafood Paella

Ho Ho Ho! Serve piping hot on the Christmas table with Swedish mustard (senap).

Christmas recipe serves: 12 Preparation time: 10 minutes Cooking time: 40 minutes Calories per serving: 605 Not suitable for freezing

Christmas Recipe Ingredients:

• Onions or shallot: 225 g (8 oz)
• Celery, 125 g (4 oz)
• Garlic cloves, 3
• Fish stock, 1.1 litres (2 pints)
• White wine, 300 ml (10 fl oz)
• Saffron, 1.25 ml (quarter tsp)
• Bay leaf, 1
• Fish fillets, skinless, cod, salmon, haddock 450 g (1 lb)
• Rice, wild 125 g (4 oz)
• Olive oil, 50 ml (2 fl oz)
• Rice, long-grain, 350 g (12 oz)
• Salt and pepper
• Butter, 25 g (1 oz)
• Mushrooms, wild in oil, drained 280 g jar
• Mushrooms, brown-cap 125 g (4 oz)
• Watercress, 2 bunches
• Prawns, King, peeled, cooked 500 g ( 1 lb)

Christmas Recipe Instructions:

1. Crush peeled garlic, chop the celery and the onions. Combine the fish, bay leaf, wine, saffron and stock. Heat till biling and stand for 10 minutes. Sieve off the fish and keep the liquid. Fork the fish into large pieces.
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2. Prepare cooked wild rice in salted boiling water. About 40 minutes. Remove from the liquid and keep.
3. At the same time, cook the garlic, celery and onions in the oil until soft. Add long-grain rice, heating for a couple of minutes before introducing the stock and bringing to the boil. Add seasoning and cook with a lid on at 200 degrees centigrade (400 F) for about 30 minutes.
4. Cook all the mushrooms in butter for about 2 minutes. Take out the mushrooms, add the watercross and stir for about two minutes, till floppy.
5. Mix the prawns, fish, watercress, mushrooms and wild rice into the long-grain rice. Season to taste and warm in oven for another minute.
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6. Then serve.

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Christmas Recipes: Main Dishes. No.3 of 12 - Smoked Haddock & Spinach Fishcakes

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Christmas Recipe Serves: 8 Preparation time: 30 minutes Cooking time: 45 minutes Calories per serving: 605 Suitable for freezing (after step 4)

Christmas Recipe Ingredients:

• Breadcrumbs, fresh 75 g (3 oz)
• Semi-skimmed milk, 150 ml (5 fl oz)
• Haddock, smoked or fresh 250 g (9 oz)
• Potatoes, 250 g (9 oz)
• salt and pepper
• Spinach, washed 225 g (8 oz)
• Egg, 1 beaten
• Lemon wedges
• Cream, fresh half-fat 400 ml (12 fl oz)
• Lemon, juice and rind from 1
• Chives, fresh chopped 60 ml (4 tbsp)
• Garnish: Fried garlic slices, fresh basil leaves

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Christmas Recipe Instructions:

1. Simmer the fish and milk for about 10 minutes. Separate the fish flesh from the bones and skin. Keep the milk. Make some lightly toasted breadcrumbs.
2. Boil even sized peeled potatoes in salted water for about 15 minutes or until soft. Drain and dry at a low heat for a few minutes before mashing with the kept milk.
3. Remove the liquid from briefly cooked spinach (2 to 3 minutes), cut up and combine with the fish and potato. Add salt and pepper to taste.
4. Make eight fishcakes with the mixture, brush with beaten egg and coat with the previouly prepared breadcrumbs.
5. Cook the fishcakes for 20 to 25 minutes at 200 degress centigrade (400 F) until hot in the middle.
6. For the sauce combine the cream and lemon rind, heating softly. Add salt and pepper, chives and lemon juice.
7. To present: Pour the sauce over the fish. Add lemon wedges and garnish with chives.

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Christmas Recipes: Main Dishes. No.2 of 12 - Plaice with Tomato and Caper

Ho Ho Ho! Have a simple and festive centerpiece -- a small, live, Christmas tree (the smell is so awesome) and decorate with miniature cookie cutters. (You can find the cookie cutters at a lot of dollar stores in a package!) Make special tent cards to write the name of each type of goodie and place the tent cards in front of each plate of goodies (these would be the goodies your guests bring to swap).

Christmas Recipe Serves: 4 Preparation time: 15 minutes Cooking time: 10 minutes Calories per serving: 340 Not suitable for freezing

Christmas Recipe Ingredients:

• Plaice fillets, 8 (550 g, 1.25 lb)
• Black Olive Paste, 75 g (5 tbsp)
• Dry white wine, 150 ml (5 fl oz)
• Tomatoes, 1 large or 2 small
• Black olives, 25 g (1 oz)
• Capers, 30 ml (2 tbsp)
• Lemon juice, 60 ml (4 tbsp)
• Lemon rind, half a lemon
• Olive oil, 60 ml (4 tbsp)
• Salt and pepper

Christmas Recipe Instructions:

1. Remove the plaice skin and put black olive paste on the smoother side. Then roll up the fish.
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2. Combine the fish and wine. Then simmer until just cooked (about 10 minutes). Next, separate the fish from the liquid and keep warm on the serving dish.

3. Cut the tomatoes open and remove the seeds. Cut into small pieces. Slice the black olives finely.

4. Mix the capers, lemon juice, lemon rind, olive oil, salt and pepper, and the cooked liquid from step 2 (60 ml, 4 tbsp). Add the seedless tomatoes and sliced olives from step 3. Then pour over the fish and you are nearly done.

5. Garnish with fried garlic slices and basil leaves.

General Heating & Serving Food Tips:

• Don't keep food hot for more than an hour before serving
• Cover food that could dry out, with cling film or a clean cloth
• Keep roast potatoes uncovered so they remain crisp and dry
• Remember that it is harder to keep vegetables such as spinach and cabbage warm compared to root vegetables.

Ho Ho Ho! There are of course your traditional Christmas cookie shapes. These come in the form of candy canes, Santas, stars and just about any kind of shape that you can associate with the Christmas season.

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Christmas Recipes: Edible Gifts, No. 2 of 8 - Shortbread

Ho Ho Ho! As Christmas Eve is the time when Swedes celebrate Christmas and open their presents this is the most important meal of the holiday.

Traditional Scottish produce and ideal in a box or tin for a christmas gift.

Christmas recipe makes: 2 to 3 dozen Calories per biscuit: 180-270 Preparation time: 20 minutes Cooking time: 20 minutes Not suitable for freezing

Christmas recipe ingredients:

• butter, 450 g (1 lb)
• sugar, caster 225 g (8 oz)
• flour, plain white 450 g (1 lb)
• rice, ground or flour 225 g (8 oz)
• salt, pinch
• sugar, colored granulated or golden
• sugar, caster for sprinkling

All these recipe ingredients must be at room temperature.

Christmas recipe instructions:

1. Mix the sugar and butter until a creamy and fluffy consistency. Mix together the salt, rice flour and flour. Now blend with the creamy mixture and mix until it is breadcrumb like.
   Ho Ho Ho! There are of course your traditional Christmas cookie shapes. These come in the form of candy canes, Santas, stars and just about any kind of shape that you can associate with the Christmas season.
2. Take some mixture in your hand and form a ball shape that can be rolled into a 2-3 inch (5-7.5 cm) tube shape. Enclose in cling film and cool till hard.
3. Cut the tube of dough into half inch slices (10 mm) and coat the edges with the golden or granulated sugar. Bake until slightly golden at 190 degrees centigrade(gas mark 5, 375 F) for about 25 minutes. Sprinkle with caster sugar after removing from the oven.
4. After 10 minutes transfer to a wire rack for complete cooling.

Changes you can make to the recipe:

• Add a spice such as 'mixed spice' to the flours to make a Spiced Shortbread.
• To make a Ginger Shortbread add ground ginger to the flours and crystallized ginger to the dough from step 1.
• For Chocolate Chip Shortbread blend chocolate pieces into the dough.
• For Lavender Shortbread, add half a dozen lavender flower tops into the dough. This time roll the dough into thin pieces, cut intobiscuit shape and bake for about quarter of an hour.
  Ho Ho Ho! There are a couple of favorite German Christmas Recipes that I make sure to add to our celebrations every year, and I've included variations of them here for you and your family to enjoy this holiday season.
• For Rosemary Shortbread, just replace the lavender with fresh chopped rosemary and carry on as above.

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Christmas Recipes: Edible Gifts. No.4 of 8 - Chocolate Truffles

Ho Ho Ho! Place Christmas candles everywhere even in the bathroom. Crank up those Christmas tunes and you have a party. Have each guest tell about the creation they have brought to contribute.

Christmas recipe makes: 2 dozen Calories per truffle: 65 Preparation time: 30 - 60 minutes Cooking time: 0 minutes Suitable for freezing

Christmas recipe ingredients:

Truffle Mixture:

• chocolate, bitter, plain or milk 225g (8 oz)
• double cream, 75 ml (3 fl oz)
• brandy, 75 ml (3 fl oz) or rum,orange liqueur, coffee liqueur, coconut liqueur

Rolled Truffles:

• cocoa powder
• chopped nuts
• coconut, dessicated or grated
• chocolate vermicelli or grated choclate for rolling

Dipped Truffles:

• chocolate, plain, milk or white (350 g (12 oz) or mixture of all three

Christmas recipe instructions:

1. Truffle Mixture: Add the cream to grated chocolate and melt in a bowl over water at boiling point, stirring until smooth. Allow to cool and thicken.
2. Add your alcohol of choice and whisk until the mixture is strong enough to stay 'up' when a strand of mixture is pulled up by the whisk. Then put the mixture into a shallow tin (covered) and cool till firm.
3. Rolled Truffles: Place teaspoonful size amounts of truffle mixture onto a tray sprinkled with cocoa powder and roll into ball shapes. Alternatively you can substitute the cocoa with grated chocolate, chopped nuts, coconut, or chocolate vermicelli. Cool in a refrigerator for at least two hours.
   Ho Ho Ho! With an increasing number of Christians, it can only be expected that more people will be celebrating the festive season in China each year. With little tradition and history, cooking for a Chinese Christmas dinner means you can cook any special occasion dish you choose.
4. Dipped Truffles: Roll the truffle mixture into 2.5 cm (1 inch) size balls and freeze overnight until rock hard. [If you wish you could push some edible decor into the balls before cooling, such as nuts, ginger or cherries.]
5. Prepare some melted chocolate over water at boiling point. If you can, check the temperature is in the range 46-49 degrees centigrade (115-120 F) or for white chocolate, 43 degrees centigrade.
6. Taking two or three truffles at a time, use cocktail sticks to dip them into the melted chocolate before placing them on non-stick paper. Transfer to a refrigerator for cooling for at least two hours to harden. Repeat for the remaining truffles.
7. Present the truffles in paper cases and store in boxes. Keep in a refrigerator for up to ten days.

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Christmas Recipes: Edible Gifts No.3 of 8 - Gingerbread Decorations

Ho Ho Ho! Whilst you won't find the hype and shopping madness of Western countries, in major cities you'll see lights, trees and Christmas decorations on the streets and in stores. Christmas Day is not even a bank holiday in China, although it is in Hong Kong and Macao.

Christmas recipe makes: 2 dozen Calories per biscuit: 125 Preparation time: 30 minutes Cooking time: 10 minutes Suitable for freezing at end of step 5.

Christmas recipe ingredients:

• flour, plain white 350 g (12 oz)
• bicarbonate of soda, 5 ml (1 tsp)
• ginger, ground 30 ml (2 tbsp)
• cinnamon, ground 15 ml (1 tbsp)
• cloves, ground 2.5 ml (0.5 tsp)
• butter, 125 g (4 oz)
• sugar, soft light brown 175 g (6 oz)
• golden syrup 60 ml (4 tbsp)
• egg, 1

icing:

• egg white, 1
• icing sugar, sifted
• food coloring

Ho Ho Ho! Whilst many of the recipes above are traditionally eaten for the Chinese New Year, they will serve just as well for a Christmas dinner.

Christmas recipe instructions:

1. Blend the butter with a mixture of the spices, bicarbonate of soda and flour. Do this until it is breadcrumb like and then mix in the sugar.
2. Beat an egg into slightly warmed syrup and pour into the mixture from step 1, mixing till it becomes a soft dough. Then knead until smooth.
3. Make a 5mm (¼ inch) thick dough layer on a floured surface and cut out biscuit shapes using vaious cutters. Pierce a hole in each one for putting ribbon through later on, for hanging.
4. Put two non-stick baking sheets on two baking trays.
5. Place the various shaped cut outs onto the baking sheets and bake at 190 degrees centigrade (375 F) until golden brown, about 10 minutes. Allow to cool and harden for about 10 m inutes before placing on a wire rack till cold.
   Ho Ho Ho! Cookie cutters - You should have a set of Christmas themed cookie cutters. Made of metal or plastic, you can find them at any grocery store or even dollar stores.
6. For the icing add sifted icing sugar to a beaten egg until stiff enough for piping. Add colorings if necessary to brighten up the decorations.
7. Put icing patterns of your choice on the biscuits. After allowing the biscuits to dry, put ribbons through the biscuit holes, ready for hanging on a christmas tree.

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Christmas Recipes: Edible Gifts No.1 of 8 - Florentines

Ho Ho Ho! Serve piping hot on the Christmas table with Swedish mustard (senap).

Christmas recipe makes: 12 Calories per biscuit: 170 Preparation time: 15 minutes Cooking time: 8-10 minutes Not suitable for freezing

Christmas recipe ingredients:

• cherries, 25 g (1 oz)
• almonds, flaked 40 g (1.5 oz)
• butter, unsalted 60 g (2.5 oz)
• sugar, caster 50 g (2 oz)
• cream, double 30 ml (2 tbsp)
• sunflower seeds, 25 g (1 oz)
• mixed peel, chopped 20 g (0.75 oz)
• sultanas, 20 g (0.75 oz)
• flour, plain white 15 g (0.5 oz)
• chocolate, dark plain pieces 125 g (4 oz)

Christmas recipe instructions:

1. Take the almonds and crush slightly. Prepare roughly cut pieces of cherries.
2. Prepare a solution of sugar in the butter and bring to the boil. Away from the heat, mix in flour, almonds, cherries, sultanas, mixed peel, sunflower seeds and cream.
   Ho Ho Ho! There are of course your traditional Christmas cookie shapes. These come in the form of candy canes, Santas, stars and just about any kind of shape that you can associate with the Christmas season.
3. Grease a sheet of baking paper and place heaped teaspoonful amounts of the mixture from step 2 onto it ensuring there is enough room for expansion during cooking.
4. Bake till the edges are golden brown. 180 degrees centigrade (gas mark 4, 350 F). About 7 minutes. Take out of the oven and use a plain large metal biscuit cutter to make rounds by pushing into the biscuits. Bake again until golden brown.
5. Cool for a couple of minutes before removing to a wire rack for complete cooling.
6. Repeat steps 3-5 for the remaining mixture from step 2.
7. Prepare melted chocolate by heating in a bowl over water at boiling point. Then take each biscuit and dip it into the choclate so all the edge is covered. Place on non-stick paper till cooled.

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Christmas Recipes: Cakes & Tarts. No's. 4 of 7 - Date & Ginger Cake

Ho Ho Ho! Although traditional children had to wait until January 6th, more families are allowing them to open their presents on Christmas Day. However, there are more celebrations to come.

Christmas recipe makes: 16 slices calories per serving: 210 preparation time: 20 minutes cooking time: 60 minutes suitable for freezing

Christmas recipe ingredients:

• oil
• dates, stoned 125 g (4 oz)
• stem ginger, in syrup 50 g (2 oz)
• bicarbonate of soda, 2.5 ml (half tsp)
• milk, 50 ml (2 fl oz)
• butter, 125 g (4 oz)
• sugar, soft brown 125 g (4 oz)
• eggs, 2
• syrup, golden 150 g (5 oz)
• treacle, black 150 g (5 oz)
• flour, plain 225 g (8 oz)
• ginger, ground 7.5 ml (1.5 tsp)
• salt

Christmas recipe instructions:

1. Take a square 9 inch cake tin, grease and line with non-stick baking paper. Mix the bicarbonate of soda with the milk and chop the stem ginger and dates into rough pieces.
2. Blend together the sugar and butter, then add the beaten eggs. Stir in the stem ginger, dates, milk, treacle and syrup.
3. Blend in a pinch of salt the ground ginger and the sifted flour. Place into the cake tin and bake at gas mark 2 (150 degrees centigrade, 300 F) for about 60 minutes. Another test is to put a skewer into the mixture and it should come out clean. After baking leave the cake in the tin for 1 hour, then remove fron the tin and place on a wire rack.
   Ho Ho Ho! With an increasing number of Christians, it can only be expected that more people will be celebrating the festive season in China each year. With little tradition and history, cooking for a Chinese Christmas dinner means you can cook any special occasion dish you choose.
4. Wrap in greaseproof paper when cool.

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Christmas Recipes: Cakes & Tarts, No.7 of 7 - Christmas Swiss Roll

Ho Ho Ho! There are a couple of favorite German Christmas Recipes that I make sure to add to our celebrations every year, and I've included variations of them here for you and your family to enjoy this holiday season.

Christmas recipe makes 8 slices calories per serving: 720 cals Preparation time: 45 minutes Cooking time: 10 minutes Not suitable for freezing

Christmas recipe ingredients:

• oil for greasing
• caster sugar, 125 g (4 oz)
• flour, plain 75 g (3 oz)
• eggs, 3
• cocoa powder, 30 ml (2 tbsp)
• chestnut paste, can of sweetened 440 g (15.5 oz)
• icing sugar
• decoration, holly sprigs

Christmas recipe instructions:

1. Prepare a swissroll cake tin, about 13 x 9 inch, inserting greaseproof paper into the greased tin and then greasing the paper itself. Shake a small amount of caster sugar around the tin, then do the same with some flour, finally shaking out the extra.
2. Whisk the eggs and sugar in a bowl placed over steam from water at just at boiling point. Be careful not to over heat the mixture. It should be just thick enough to make strands as you lift the whisk out of the ingredients.
   Ho Ho Ho! This goes way back and to most families is the main focal point of their Christmas. Waiting to see what that big juicy Turkey will taste like and how it will be presented on the table.
3. Take thr mixture away from the heat and continue whisking as it cools, (about 5 minutes). Blend in the cocoa powder and flour followed by hot water (15 ml, 1 tbsp).
4. Take the tin from step one and pour in the mixture. Bake at gas mark 6 (200 degrees centigrade, 400 F) until the cake has come away from the sides of the tin a bit (about 10 minutes).
5. Remove the cake from the tin and place on greaseproof paper, previously coated then shaken with caster sugar. Trim the hard edges off the cake, then bake the rolled up cake (with paper inside) for an additional 20 minutes.
6. Melt the chocolate with water (15 ml, 1 tbsp) in a bowl placed over water just at boiling point. Mix icing sugar into some softened butter and then add the melted chocolate.
7. Take the cold swiss roll, unroll it and add the chestnut paste, spreading over the complete surface. Remove the paper, roll up again and put on a plate.
8. Attach a slice of the roll to the side of the log with butter cream. Preferably a diagonal slice.
   Ho Ho Ho! With an increasing number of Christians, it can only be expected that more people will be celebrating the festive season in China each year. With little tradition and history, cooking for a Chinese Christmas dinner means you can cook any special occasion dish you choose.
9. Complete the presentation by using a piping bag with star shaped nozzle to run lines of butter cream along the swiss roll log. Finally, sprinkle with icing sugar and decorate with sprigs of holly.

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Christmas Recipes: Cakes & Tarts, No.6 of 7 - Chocolate & Orange Cake

Ho Ho Ho! This goes way back and to most families is the main focal point of their Christmas. Waiting to see what that big juicy Turkey will taste like and how it will be presented on the table.

Christmas recipe serves: 16 calories per serving: 495 preparation time: 25 minutes cooking time: 1 hour 40 minutes Suitable for freezing after step 5

Christmas recipe ingredients:

• oil for greasing
• white chocolate, 125 g (4 oz)
• milk chocolate, 125 g (4 oz)
• plain chocolate, 375 g (13 oz)
• softened butter, 175 g (6 oz)
• caster sugar, 175 g (6 oz)
• ground almonds, 175 g (6 oz)
• eggs, 6 separated
• breadcrumbs, fresh brown 75 g (3 oz)
• cocoa powder, 45 ml (3 tbsp)
• orange, grated rind & juice from 1
• salt, pinch
• double cream, 150 ml (5 fl oz)

Christmas recipe instructions:

1. Chop the milk and white chocolate into unequal pieces. Take an 8 inch (20.5 cm) diameter cake tin and grease and line.
2. Melt plain chocolate (225 g, 8 oz) over hot water and allow to coll for a bit.
3. Mix the sugar and butter until airy and add the orange rind, ornage juice, cocoa powder, breadcrumbs, egg yolks, ground almomds and the melted chocolate.
4. Make soft peaks with the salt and egg whites and blend a quarter into the mixture from step 3. Mix what is left with the chopped chocolate from step 1.
   Ho Ho Ho! On Christmas Eve it is traditional to eat fish dishes; certainly, no meat is eaten on Christmas Eve. Panettone, a traditionally light Milanese cake, also plays a part in this meal but can be eaten at any time with family and friends during the holiday season.
5. Place into the cake tin and bake at gas mark 4 (180 degrees centigrade, 350 F) for 1 hour 40 minutes. Allow to cool for about quarter of an hour before placing onto a wire rack.
6. Melt the remaining plain chocolate (150 g, 5 oz) with the cream over a bowl of hot water and allow to thicken slightly. Cover the cake with this mixture, cool and store.

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Christmas Recipes: Cakes & Tarts. No.5 of 7 - Old Mince Pies

Ho Ho Ho! Ask each guest to bring nine and a half dozen of their favorite Christmas goodies with recipe cards of the recipe. Here's how the Goodie Formula works: 9 guests = 9 dozen goodies, plus add an extra dozen for 9 dozen goodies.

Christmas recipe makes: 24 pies calories per serving: 105 preparation time: 30 minutes cooking time: 25 minutes suitable for freezing

Christmas recipe ingredients:

• butter, 125 g (4 oz)
• white flour, plain 225 g (8 oz)
• mincemeat, 225 g (8 oz)
• egg, lightly beaten 1
• caster sugar
• cream

Fruity Mincemeat:

• lemon, grated rind and juice from 1
• raisins/sultanas, 125 g (4 oz) of each
• currants & dried peaches (or apricots, pears),125 g (4 oz) of each
• mixed spice, 1.25 ml (quarter tsp)
• sugar, light brown 100 g (3.5 oz)
• brandy, 100 ml (4 fl oz)
• eating apples, 200 g (7 oz)
• white grapes, seedless 125 g (4 oz)

Christmas recipe instructions:

1. Mincemeat: Combine the brandy, brown sugar, mixed spice, dried fruit, and lemon rind with juice. Add cubed apple and halved grapes. Mix and keep at about 5 degrees centigrade for a minimum of a day.
2. Make a dough with water (60 ml, 4 tbsp), the butter and flour. Knead until smooth and roll out a layer of thin pastry. Cut out 48 round pieces of pastry using a cutter (5.5 cm, 2.25 inch).
   Ho Ho Ho! With an increasing number of Christians, it can only be expected that more people will be celebrating the festive season in China each year. With little tradition and history, cooking for a Chinese Christmas dinner means you can cook any special occasion dish you choose.
3. Place some mincemeat in the middle of each and seal with another round piece wetting the edges before closing. Pierce the top for ventilation purposes.
4. Bake the mincepies until set but not browned at gas mark 6 (200 degrees centigrade, 400 F).
5. When ready, remove from the oven, brush with beaten egg white and sprinkle withg caster sugar. Bake again for an additional 10 minutes or until well browned.
6. Serve warm with cream.

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Christmas Recipes: Cakes & Tarts. No.3 of 7 - Christmas Day Muffins

Ho Ho Ho! You can vary this basic dough to make a wide variety of Christmas cookie recipes. Add other flavorings like maple, ginger or cinnamon.

Christmas Recipe Makes 12 calories per muffin: 175 preparation time: 15 minutes cooking time: 20 minutes Not suitable for freezing

Christmas recipe instructions:

• cranberries, fresh 175 g (6 oz)
• icing sugar, sifted 50 g (2 oz)
• flour, plain wholemeal 150 g (5 oz)
• flour, plain white 150 g( 5 oz)
• baking powder, 15 ml (1 tbsp)
• mixed spice, ground 5 ml (1 tsp)
• salt, 2.5 ml (half tsp)
• sugar, light brown 50 g (2 oz)
• egg, 1
• milk, 250 ml (8 fl oz)
• vegetable oil, 50 ml (2 fl oz)

Christmas recipe instructions:

1. Mix the icing sugar with halved cranberries.
2. Take a twelve cup muffin tin and grease with butter or use paper cases. In a bowl mix the brown sugar, salt, mixed spice, baking powder and both flours. Make a hole in the middle.
3. Add a mixture of beaten egg/milk/oil into the hole and just blend. Then add the cranberries and quickly stir. The end product should be a rough mixture with lumps and air pockets visible. [Note: Instead of the cranberries you can use mincemeat (225 g, 8 oz) to put in the hole.]
   Ho Ho Ho! Then of course there's Christmas Day and the week following when we have about 6 tins of these treats to munch on. This is our excuse to have cookies at breakfast, lunch, dinner and at every chance we get during the day.
4. Take this mixture and fill the muffin cups to two thirds and bake at gas mark 4 (180 degfrees centigrade, 350 F) until they are golden brown and well risen. About 20 minutes.
5. Cool for a bit and serve warm.

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