Favourite Homemade Christmas Recipes Reviews

Green and Black's Fruit Cake Ingredients: 2 2lb loaf tins 175g raisins 100g currants 200g stoned prunes 115g mixed peel 100ml brandy 50ml dark rum 275g muscavado sugar 3 medium eggs 200g self raising flour 150g plain flour 1 tsp cinnamon 1/4 tsp mace 1/4 tsp ...  Read the complete review

I have always made my own mincemeat at Christmas following in the footsteps of my mother and grandmother. I used to love helping nan make hers on that old scrubbed kitchen table - sorry, I'm off into the realms of childhood memories there! I now use a recipe that I found in a book called Everyday Cookery by Mrs. Beeton, which I received ...  Read the complete review

This is a very simple way to make a Yule Log cake. ~~~You will need~~~ 1 packet of gingernut biscuits. (The larger in diameter the better) 1 Large tub of whipping cream. 2 Tablespoons of cointreau (Or your favourite liqueur!) 1 Teaspoon of cocoa powder. A sprinkling of icing sugar if you have it. ...  Read the complete review

Clootie Dumpling is a traditional Scottish favourite. A Cloot is the Scottish word for cloth - as in dish cloot, face cloot etc. Just as the name would suggest this is pudding cooked in a cloot. It was traditionally served up for special occasions like birthdays, anniversaries and Christmas when little charms or pennies would be cooked inside, ...  Read the complete review

We are mostly vegetarians in our family and so there is no turkey for us on Christmas day. I like to ring the changes for Christmas lunch and this is one of the nicest recipes I have found. The recipe uses my favourite cashew nuts and is really delicious! Layered cashew and mushroom roast. This will serve about 6 people so ...  Read the complete review

The supermarkets are full of mince pies at the moment and many have special offers, but if you can find time to make your own they will surely taste better. You can try changing one or two of the ingredients to suit your taste. You can of course buy a jar of mincemeat if you are short of time. Ingredients ========= 2 ...  Read the complete review

So, whether you like it or not the festive season is racing towards us like an unstoppable express train. For many people, Christmas is an excuse to indulge in rich food and drink that would not be consumed at any other times. And with this in mind I have gathered up three of the best recipes I could find for Christmassy drinks. If you decide to ...  Read the complete review

I thought i would share with you this wonderful recipe i found and added to to create gorgeous brownies the brownies are deliciously moist, laden with chocolate and crusted in a glossy coat of sugar. They are packed with generous chunks of gorgeous chocolate! here goes: the ingredients you need: 500g bournville chocolate or ...  Read the complete review

Hello and Merry Christmas, I'd like to share a recipe with all of you that has brightened and warmed up my family's annual Christmas eve party. First off I am an accomplished amatuer self trained gourmet who specializes in Down Home cooking. For true Poor white trailer trash cooking you must understand what my style of food ...  Read the complete review

Though winter definitely isn't my favourite season there are a few things that I really like about this time of year - the football on Boxing Day, Christmas dinner (the eating part not the hours I spend in the kitchen before and after) and, best of all, the feeling you get when you have your hands wrapped around a hot alcoholic drink, the ...  Read the complete review

Here are some of my favourite recipes for Christmas Food. They are suitable for any celebration meal really ~ but I thought I would try to be seasonal and give them to you as Christmas Dinner food. They are good ways to make your Christmas vegetables taste and hopefully look a bit more interesting on your table this year. Hope you like them as ...  Read the complete review

Christmas biscuits Its been a bit of a tradition in my family that Sleepydormouse makes her grandparents gingerbread Christmas men or shapes and Shortbread Christmas trees or stars I started to make these with her when she was very young. Now she has grown up and left home I still make them but, on my own. I make similar ...  Read the complete review

Home made mince pies have always been part of our family Christmas, they are my husbands favourite , although he has to make do with the shop bought variety until the week before Christmas. Mince pies have been traditional Christmas fayre for centuries, as a consequence there are many variations, but this is my favourite recipe handed down from my ...  Read the complete review

Well firstly I would like to ask anyone reading this op for a wee bit forgiveness if I make some errors, this is because currently I have only 1 hand i can use so it is somewhat more difficult to get used to using my cpu single handeed. I broke some bones in my right hand so I have a cast on that totally restricts all use of that hand. ...  Read the complete review

No, I'm not proposing to serve her up instead of turkey in case you are wondering! One of the many benefits of marrying into my wife’s family is the fact that her mother is an excellent cook, with puddings being her forte. And, yes, my wife is just as capable as her mum when it comes to those things that add inches to the ...  Read the complete review

To lots of people Christmas food means turkey, sprouts, Christmas pudding, mince pies and yes, chocolate Yule log. If you’ve read my Christmas dinner op you will know that I like to do some things rather differently, although I do love some of the traditional goodies! So although the log with butter icing and a Robin perched on top ...  Read the complete review

Christmas pudding, like mice pies (as they were referred to last week) is part of the great Christmas culinary traditions and yet, what is the alternative festive pud for those of us who either have had enough of the main course to now resemble a Christmas Pud, or else just plainly don’t like the awful thing? Step forward Gothiron’s ...  Read the complete review

I'm not a vegetarian but I have a lot of friends who don't eat meat or meat products and it's good to be able to serve food which they're happy to eat. Some things are obvious - you wouldn't serve turkey with sausage stuffing and bacon rolls to a vegetarian, but there are other areas where it's very easy to find that you ...  Read the complete review

I have been reading many recipes here on dooyoo and I have found out how to make many an interesting dish. I thought I would submit my contribution :-) With “Christmas just around the corner” – I thought I would share these delicious sweet recipes with you all. They make really thoughtful presents or maybe even ...  Read the complete review

Whilst I am all in favour of “Traditional” Christmas lunch I do like to try and slip on something a little different each year. Last year I quite successfully stuffed my Turkey with Apple and Prunes, and it was quite well received by most of my family, apart from my son who spent rather a long time searching through all the ...  Read the complete review