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Christmas Recipes from How To Cook

Christmas Cookies

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Today’s Cooking Demonstration group got to practice decorating with colored decorating chocolate that comes in tubes.  You put the tube in a glass of hot (not boiling) water and once it melts, you can use it to decorate cookies or … Continue reading

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Fruitcake and White Chocolate Truffles

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This is a lovely holiday treat and you could decorate them with icing or green and red jellied lollies or roll them in crushed macadamia nuts. It only takes a few minutes and it’s a great way to use leftover … Continue reading

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Russian Caramels

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For food lovers everywhere, the beginning of the holiday season means it’s time to start making food gifts for family and friends.  Today the cooking demonstration class got to watch Russian Caramels being made.  Some thought it was the dental … Continue reading

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Christmas Dinner cooking essentials

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Make your Christmas ham sing with Ham Jam from Spoonfed Foods $14.40 For the world’s best potatoes cook with Duck Fat $12.99/tub

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Stained Glass Cake

Stained Glass Cake Ingredients 250g soft Californian dessert dates 250g glace pineapple 110g glace apricots 110g green glace cherries or clementines 110g red glace cherries 250g shelled brazil nuts 2 eggs ½ cup brown sugar (lightly packed) 1 tablesp vanilla … Continue reading

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Christmas Cake with 27 ingredients

Ingredients 250gms butter 250gms sugar 6 eggs 1 ½ cups plain flour 1 cup SR flour 1 tablesp mixed spice or ground cassia bark ½ level teasp salt ½ teasp ground ginger juice and rind of 2 oranges 1 tablesp … Continue reading

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Baked stuffed whole fish

Ingredients 2 cups day old breadcrumbs 1 teaspoon fennel seeds 2 green shallots finely sliced 1 red onion finely diced 125gms black olives 1/2 cup roasted pine nuts 11/2 cups firmly packed flat leaf parsley 1 egg 2 kg whole … Continue reading

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Poached Peaches, Nectarines & Christmas Berries

Poached Peaches, Nectarines & Christmas Berries in Strawberry Juice Ingredients 2 oranges 1 lemon 10 ripe peaches 10 ripe nectarines 500mls white wine 400 grams caster sugar 150 grams blueberries 150 grams strawberries 150gms raspberries Method Poached Fruit Thinly slice … Continue reading

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Gran Turner’s Christmas Pudding

Ingredients 250g plain flour 250g breadcrumbs (1 loaf bread) 250g suet  (or butter) 250g brown sugar 750g sultanas 250g raisins 250g mixed peel 1 small teacup marmalade 750g currants 125g almonds slivers grated rind of 2 lemons level teaspoon mixed … Continue reading

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White Christmas with Cranberries

Ingredients 2 cups rice bubbles 1 cup toasted macadamias 1 cup dried cranberries 1 cup diced dried apricots 1 cup shaved coconut 1 cup powdered milk ½ cup icing sugar 1 cup copha 1 tablesp triple sec or any orange … Continue reading

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