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Delia's Happy Christmas by Delia Smith

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  • My classic Christmas cake

    • Categories: Cakes, large; Dessert; Christmas; Cooking ahead; Winter; British
    • Ingredients: currants; sultanas; raisins; glacéed cherries; candied peel; brandy; plain flour; nutmeg; mixed spice; butter; brown sugar; eggs; almonds; black treacle; lemons; oranges; blanched almonds

  • Creole Christmas cake

    • Categories: Cakes, large; Quick / easy; Dessert; Christmas; Cooking ahead; Winter; Cajun & Creole
    • Ingredients: rum; brandy; cherry brandy; Port wine; Angostura bitters; ground cinnamon; nutmeg; ground cloves; molasses sugar; raisins; currants; prunes; glacéed cherries; candied peel; self-raising flour; demerara sugar; butter; eggs

  • Royal icing

    • Categories: Quick / easy; Frostings & fillings; Christmas; Cooking ahead; Winter
    • Ingredients: icing sugar; egg whites; glycerine

  • Fondant icing

    • Categories: Quick / easy; Frostings & fillings; Christmas; Cooking ahead; Winter
    • Ingredients: icing sugar; egg whites; liquid glucose

  • Glazed nut topping

    • Categories: Quick / easy; Frostings & fillings; Christmas; Cooking ahead; Winter
    • Ingredients: pecans; Brazil nuts; walnuts; apricot jam; brandy

  • Almond icing (Marzipan)

    • Categories: Frostings & fillings; Christmas; Cooking ahead; Winter
    • Ingredients: ground almonds; icing sugar; caster sugar; almond extract; brandy

  • Glacé fruit topping

    • Categories: Frostings & fillings; Quick / easy; Christmas; Cooking ahead; Winter
    • Ingredients: prunes; glacéed cherries; apricot jam; brandy; dried apricots; dried figs

  • Simple decoration for a Christmas cake

    • Categories: Frostings & fillings; Quick / easy; Christmas; Cooking ahead; Winter
    • Ingredients: apricot jam; Armagnac; marzipan; egg whites; ready-to-roll white icing; silver dragees

  • Italian chocolate nut Christmas cake

    • Categories: Quick / easy; Cakes, large; Dessert; Afternoon tea; Christmas; Cooking ahead; Dinner parties/entertaining; Winter; Italian
    • Ingredients: dark chocolate; breadcrumbs; blanched hazelnuts; walnuts; brandy; ground cinnamon; golden caster sugar; eggs; oranges
    • Accompaniments: Panettone and zabaglione trifle

  • Stollen

    • Categories: Bread & buns, sweet; Afternoon tea; Breakfast / brunch; Christmas; Cooking ahead; Winter; Austrian; German
    • Ingredients: strong white bread flour; easy-blend yeast; caster sugar; butter; currants; sultanas; dried apricots; dried sour cherries; candied peel; almonds; lemons; marzipan

  • Chestnut cupcakes

    • Categories: Cakes, small; Frostings & fillings; Afternoon tea; Christmas; Cooking ahead; Winter
    • Ingredients: crème de marrons; butter; chestnut flour; mascarpone; marrons glacés

  • Traditional Christmas pudding

    • Categories: Baked & steamed desserts; Dessert; Christmas; Cooking ahead; Winter; English; British
    • Ingredients: suet; white breadcrumbs; mixed spice; nutmeg; dark brown sugar; sultanas; raisins; currants; candied peel; almonds; apples; oranges; rum; barley wine; stout; self-raising flour; ground cinnamon
    • Accompaniments: Brandy butter; Christmas rum sauce

  • Christmas pudding (without the pudding) with Marsala syllabub

    • Categories: Mousses, trifles, custards & creams; Sauces for desserts; Dessert; Christmas; Winter; English
    • Ingredients: dried apricots; Agen prunes; muscatel raisins; candied peel; mixed spice; nutmeg; apples; oranges; Marsala wine; flaked almonds; gelatine leaves; molasses sugar; double cream; dried figs

  • Marsala syllabub

  • Cranberry queen of puddings

    • Categories: Baked & steamed desserts; Dessert; Christmas; Winter; English
    • Ingredients: milk; white breadcrumbs; golden caster sugar; lemons; cranberries; oranges; ground ginger; ground cloves; ground cinnamon

  • Steamed panettone puddings with Eliza Acton's hot punch sauce

    • Categories: Baked & steamed desserts; Sauces for desserts; Dessert; Christmas; Cooking ahead; Winter; Italian
    • Ingredients: panettone; mixed dried fruits; rum; candied peel; flaked almonds; oranges; lemons; molasses sugar; milk; double cream; caster sugar; brandy; sherry

  • Eighteenth-century creamed apple flan

    • Categories: Mousses, trifles, custards & creams; Pies, tarts & pastries; Dessert; Christmas; Cooking ahead; Winter; British
    • Ingredients: apples; ratafia biscuits; golden caster sugar; lemons; brandy; nutmeg; egg yolks; double cream; lard; plain flour

  • Panettone bread and butter pudding with Marsala

    • Categories: Baked & steamed desserts; Dessert; Christmas; Winter; Italian
    • Ingredients: panettone; raisins; Marsala wine; candied peel; double cream; golden caster sugar; lemons; eggs; nutmeg; butter
    • Accompaniments: Marsala syllabub

  • Christmas cracker puddings with mascarpone rum cream

    • Categories: Baked & steamed desserts; Mousses, trifles, custards & creams; Cookies, biscuits & crackers; Dessert; Afternoon tea; Christmas; Winter; English
    • Ingredients: Christmas pudding; oranges; lemons; brick pastry; mascarpone; dark muscovado sugar; dark rum

  • Spiced pickled pears

    • Categories: Chutneys, pickles & relishes; Christmas; Cooking ahead; Winter; Vegan; Vegetarian
    • Ingredients: pears; light brown sugar; white wine vinegar; cider vinegar; cinnamon sticks; whole cloves; juniper berries; mixed pepper berries

  • Pickled shallots in sherry vinegar

    • Categories: Chutneys, pickles & relishes; Christmas; Cooking ahead; Winter; Vegan; Vegetarian
    • Ingredients: sherry vinegar; white wine vinegar; coriander seeds; bird's eye chillies; pink shallots

  • Christmas chutney

    • Categories: Chutneys, pickles & relishes; Christmas; Cooking ahead; Winter; Vegan; Vegetarian
    • Ingredients: prunes; dates; dried apricots; onions; cider vinegar; ginger root; allspice berries; demerara sugar

  • Spiced pickled prunes in Armagnac

    • Categories: Chutneys, pickles & relishes; Christmas; Cooking ahead; Winter; Vegan; Vegetarian
    • Ingredients: Agen prunes; Lapsang Souchong tea; red wine vinegar; light muscovado sugar; whole cloves; blade mace; allspice berries; cinnamon sticks; Armagnac
    • Accompaniments: Duck liver pâté with Armagnac; Pheasant terrine

  • Pear and cranberry chutney

    • Categories: Chutneys, pickles & relishes; Christmas; Cooking ahead; Winter; English; Vegan; Vegetarian
    • Ingredients: pears; cranberries; cinnamon sticks; allspice berries; onions; brown sugar; malt vinegar; oranges
    • Accompaniments: Pheasant terrine

  • English mustard pickle (piccalilli)

    • Categories: Chutneys, pickles & relishes; Christmas; Cooking ahead; Winter; English; Vegan; Vegetarian
    • Ingredients: cauliflower; onions; cucumbers; French beans (haricots verts); malt vinegar; nutmeg; ground allspice; caster sugar; English mustard powder; turmeric
    • Accompaniments: Brussels bubble-and-squeak

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  • ISBN 10 0091933064
  • ISBN 13 9780091933067
  • Published Apr 01 2009
  • Format Hardcover
  • Language English
  • Countries United Kingdom
  • Publisher Ebury Press
  • Imprint Ebury Press

Publishers Text

Delia has long been the person we turn to for stress-free Christmas celebrations. This year, she celebrates 40 years of writing recipes and brings you "Delia's Happy Christmas" - the definitive guide to all aspects of cooking for Christmas. This cookbook will help you to plan your Christmas festivities to the very last culinary detail, acting as an invaluable Christmas organiser from reminding you to make your Christmas pudding and chutneys in November to giving you a crucial countdown for the Last 36 Hours. "Delia's Happy Christmas" will give you 150 recipes, including 100 new recipes and 50 much-loved classics, plus menu plans and shopping lists, illustrated with glorious full-colour photography. There are recipes for all your favourite traditional dishes - Delia's Classic Christmas Cake recipe has been in print for over 40 years and has never been bettered, but Delia has also created Chestnut Cupcakes recipe to satisfy modern tastes. Of course there is Delia's foolproof recipe for a Traditional Roast Turkey and all the trimmings, and The Only Traditional Christmas Pudding as well as ideas for parties, boxing-day suppers, vegetarian feasts and what to do with leftovers. Organisation is the key to success. If you follow Delia's Christmas calendar, you will be sure to create a very special Christmas. And even if you don't, there is always Delia's The Last-Minute Christmas - a chapter for those who leave things to the eleventh hour. Everyone needs Delia at Christmas.

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