Started off by making some lemon honey to give away as gifts. Good friend Sue gave me some lemons recently which need using up and this is a good way to do so. I picked up a little book of Christmas cooking by Alison Holst recently and decided to use these recipes on the whole this year and not waste time trolling through my folders of recipe clippings looking for other options.
Next on the list was a pineapple Christmas cake. It got a bit dark around the edges but I have cut the burnt bits off and the cake itself is moist and tasty.
Made a new type of pastry with sour cream in it and thought I would use it for my little Christmas mince tarts. It turned out to be more of a puff pastry so I'll make another batch later with some proper shortcrust pastry. I made the fruit mince myself from that little book too. It is made in the food processor and has Apple in it too so it is not so dark and strong-tasting as the bought stuff is.
Last but not least I made some Spekulatius cookies this morning from my old Dr Oetker cookbook I got when I first went to Germany all those years ago.
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