The “Definitive” Method for Perfect Mulled Wine
I have to make mulled wine every year, it’s something I feel truly romantic about, but I never...
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Tag: Holiday Recipes
Holiday Blues!
This holiday, switch up the menu and add wild blueberries to your festive occasion. Delight...
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Jen Agg’s Black Hoof Manhattan Recipe
On a recent snowy December afternoon, I visited Jen Agg at the bar of her celebrated Black Hoof Café to see her fashion her very favourite cocktail, the Manhattan, which just happens to be very deliciously holiday appropriate…
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Plum Pudding and a Brandy Butter Recipe
In our kitchen we follow the classic 19th century tradition. Our rich steamed puddings are packed with currants, raisins, candied lemon and orange peel and slivered almonds, flavoured with ginger, nutmeg and cinnamon with a hint of brandy.
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Marzipan Magic and a Stollen Recipe
In the Middle Ages there was a grain shortage in Europe and the bakers in the German city of Lübeck made a bread with almond meal. Still today the city has a proud tradition of making the finest quality marzipan in the world and marzipan forms a luscious rich centre in many family recipes for Stollen, the traditional Christmas bread of Germany.
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Best Christmas Cake
The recipe comes from my grandmother’s Victorian kitchen. My mother grew up on the family farm in Moorlinch, a small, off-the-beaten-track village in England, situated on the edge of the Somerset Levels. For history and nature buffs… this is a fascinating part of England, rich in wild-life, legend and ghostly tales.
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