Christmas recipes

• 41 Pear & Ginger Bread & Butter Pudding
  Dish type: Dessert Serves 4-6 Preparation and cooking time: 40 minutes Ingredients 2 ripe dessert pears (200g each), peeled, cored and cut into thick slices 400g of unsliced white farmhouse bread, roughly...

• 42 Ingredient of the week: sprouts
  A relative of the cabbage (a descendant of the wild variety), debate rages over the Brussels sprout. Some love their hint of bitterness, leafy flesh and healthy bite; others detest these same faculties...

• 43 Ingredient of the week: turkey
  So you can have a rib of beef, a shoulder of pork, a leg of lamb or even some game; but would it really be Christmas without the turkey? Debates rage – the bird is too big! It’s much drier...

• 44 Roasted turkey with fig, apple and shallot stuffing with fresh sage from Totally Traditional Turkeys
  Ingredients 5kg free-range Totally Traditional Turkey 4 tbsp rapeseed oil Sea salt and black pepper 75g butter 2 tbsp rapeseed oil 8 shallots, peeled and finely chopped...

• 45 Christmas gifts for the chocoholic in your life
  The festive season is the perfect time to indulge – what better time to give loved ones a sweet treat? From a weekend in a chocolate boutique hotel to a home chocolate-making kit, we've searched...

• 46 Ingredient of the week: Mincemeat
  A marginal break from convention for our usual ingredient of the week column but we love mincemeat – as soon as anyone mentions Christmas the first mince pies get cracked open. Mincemeat, true...

• 47 Ingredient of the week: Mincemeat
  A marginal break from convention for our usual ingredient of the week column but we love mincemeat – as soon as anyone mentions Christmas the first mince pies get cracked open. Mincemeat, true...

• 48 Top turkey tips
  Each year the turkey seems to prove a hefty Christmas challenge and rightly so – we are all used to cooking a chicken on a Sunday but the turkey is a bigger beast completely and with all the scare-mongering...

• 49 Delia wishes us all a Happy Christmas
  Delia has been lending a helping hand in our kitchens for many years and has always helped with a stress free Christmas (no solution to the domestics yet though!). In Delia’s Happy Christmas...