Stir up what? I’m sorry to admit that I’d never heard of stir up Sunday before… but it is a tradition that harks back to Victorian times when the family would gather together to ‘stir up’ the Christmas pudding before the start of Advent and allow flavours to mature before the big day. The opening...Continue Reading

Christmas Pudding that will delight on Christmas day. Christmas Pudding in a pressure cooker This is a great luxury Christmas pudding recipe that’s run in our Deputy CEO Jonathan’s family for many years and makes a fantastic old fashioned Christmas pudding.  We are great believers in Pressure Cookers (the one we uses advertised below)and use...Continue Reading

Homemade Christmas Mincemeat. Its so easy to make, and then to give away or eat So  once you have tasted homemade Christmas mincemeat in mince pies, shop bought mince meat will just never quite have the right feel again. INGREDIENTS: for our Zetetick Housing Homemade Christmas Mincemeat in pounds and ounces, because that’s how our Deputy CEOs mum gave...Continue Reading

Candied Peel recipe here is a  Candied Peel recipe , it’s an age-old recipe, becoming more important in the Covid-19 era as fruit and veg go up in price and nothing needs to get wasted, but used more at Christmas So if you ever wondered where you would find a candied peel recipe – here...Continue Reading

Christmas Cake Recipe This English Christmas cake recipe, a christmas fruit cake recipe, is a cake that can be cooled, foil wrapped and put in an airtight tin with a dribble of whiskey and will mature until Christmas if made well ahead of time. Idea lt to make during Covid-19 Lockdown. It is the best Christmas cake...Continue Reading