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Ingredients
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10oz/275g mincemeat
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1 x 275g fresh ready-rolled puff pastry
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42 whole blanched almonds
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Golden caster sugar, to dust
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42 cranberries
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Icing sugar, to serve
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Method
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Pre-heat oven to 220°C
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Cut 2in/5cm pastry discs, add to baking tray.
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Make a 1.5in/4cm incision to three-quarters of the way into the pastry.
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Brush edge of each disc with milk.
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Pile a teaspoon of mincemeat into the centre.
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Arrange 3 almonds on half the mince pies and 3 cranberries on the rest.
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Dust fruit and nuts with caster sugar.
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Bake on high shelf for 10-12 mins or till golden.
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Remove to a wire cooling tray.
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Serve warm, dusted with icing sugar.
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Ingredients
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12 eggs, separated
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1+1/2 cups sugar
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6 cups milk
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3/4 cup brandy
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2 cups heavy/ thickened cream
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2 teaspoons ground nutmeg
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2 cups bourbon
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Method
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Beat egg yolks in large bowl with mixer with sugar (until firm and colour of butter, 10 mins).
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Add in bourbon and brandy very slowly.
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Cool in the fridge for up to 6 hours.
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30 minutes before guests arrive, stir milk into chilled yolk mixture.
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Stir in 1+1/2 teaspoons ground nutmeg.
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In another bowl, beat cream (mixer on high speed) to stiff peaks.
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In another bowl, beat egg whites to stiff peaks.
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Gently fold egg whites into egg yolks.
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Gently fold cream into egg mixture.
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Ladle into cups, garnish with ground nutmeg.
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Ingredients
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2 oranges
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3 cinnamon sticks
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2 bottles red wine
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1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
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1 bottle white wine
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5 tablespoons demerara sugar
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6cm ginger, thinly sliced
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4 tablespoons brandy
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Method
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Remove zest from oranges in strips.
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Juice oranges into large, heavy-bottomed pot.
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Add wine, orange zest, ginger, cinnamon, cloves and sugar.
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Simmer for an hour, without boiling.
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Add brandy and serve.
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Aim to use within 5 days - the fresher the better. Discard sprouts with loose leaves or any signs of yellowing.
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Cut off the outer stem and remove outer leaves.
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Cut a deep X into each stem.
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Soak in cold water for five minutes.
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Boil or steam for three minutes, until almost cooked through.
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Drain, and place into ice water for three minutes.
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Remove ice cubes, drain and halve.
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Fry in butter (five minutes).
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Salt and pepper to taste.
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Serve with any or all of: bacon, chestnuts, shallots, garlic, toasted almonds.
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(My true love gave to me ... )
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Twelve Drummers Drumming
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Eleven Pipers Piping
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Ten Lords-a-Leaping
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Nine Ladies Dancing
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Eight Maids-a-Milking
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Seven Swans-a-Swimming
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Six Geese-a-Laying
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Five Gold Rings
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Four Colly Birds
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Three French Hens
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Two Turtle Doves
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And a Partridge in a Pear Tree
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Dasher
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Comet
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Dancer
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Cupid
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Prancer
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Donder
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Vixen
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Blitzen
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Dec 8
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Bodhi Day
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Dec 17 to 24
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Saturnalia
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Dec 21 to 25
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Pancha Ganapati
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Dec 21 or 22
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Winter Solstice
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Dec 23
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Festivus
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Dec 25
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Birth of Attis
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Dec 25
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Birth of Mithra
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Dec 25
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Birth of Jesus
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Dec 26
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Kwanzaa
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Dec 31
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New Year's Eve
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Christmas Turkey Sandwich
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Turkey and Ham Pie
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Turkey Thai Green Curry
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Turkey Shami Kebabs
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