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Make your own Spiced Cranberry Sauce
There’s something very rewarding about making your own cranberry sauce for Christmas – and giving it as a gift is even more rewarding.
Here’s how we make ours.
Ingredients
200g cranberries
100g light muscovado sugar
6 tbsp port
2 cardamon pods
3 cloves
2 cinnamon stick
½ tsp nutmeg
Instructions
- Place all ingredients in a pan and simmer for 10 minutes until the sauce thickens and the cranberries start to burst.
- Take off the heat, and allow to cool to room temperature.
- Store in the fridge in a clean glass jar, or freeze for up to 2 months.
Christmas en française with Reflets de France
Nothing says elegance like French cuisine: why not add a touch of continental sparkle to your Christmas party? Read on for three delicious recipes that will wow at the dinner table.
It’s Ideal Home Show at Christmas time!
The Ideal Home Show at Christmas is back for 2015 and we’re delighted to be part of the team again. 2015 brings a new home for the show with this year’s event being held at one of the best venues in town, Olympia London.
12 drinks of Christmas – Tommy’s Margarita
Happy Christmas! The last of our 12 Christmas cocktails is a proper celebratory drink. Agave is king in this simplified Margarita.
Ingredients
- 50ml tequila blanco
- 20ml lime juice
- 15ml agave syrup
12 drinks of Christmas – The Clubland
The penultimate cocktail in our series is a heady but elegant mix of vodka and white port. Here’s how you rustle up a Clubland.
Ingredients
- 40ml Taylor’s Chip Dry White Port (£13.29 for 75cl)
- 40ml vodka
12 drinks of Christmas – The Jalisco
The ninth cocktail in our series, the Jalisco, is a fresh burst of apple and cucumber with a tequila bite.
Ingredients
- 50ml tequila blanco
- 20ml lime juice
- 20ml cloudy apple juice
- 20ml 1:1 sugar syrup
- Cucumber slice
12 drinks of Christmas – The Williams Chase Apple G&T
Day eight of our Christmas cocktail countdown (how’s your head?!) and we’ve got a G&T with a delicious twist.
The Williams Chase Elegant Crisp Gin (£38 for 70cl) is made with vodka distilled from organic Bramley cider apples.
Ingredients
- 50ml gin
- Quality tonic water
- Fresh apple
12 drinks of Christmas – The Floradora
Our seventh Christmas cocktail is a very pretty affair. Some recipes add 20ml Framboise raspberry liqueur. Here’s how you make a Floradora.
Ingredients
- 50ml gin
- 3 fresh raspberries
- 20ml lime
- 20ml 1:1 sugar syrup
- ginger beer
NOW CLOSED: Win a hamper and shake up G and Tea cocktails
The new G & Tea gift set hamper from We Are Tea has everything you need to make delicious cocktails using Britain’s two most iconic drinks – gin and tea. Continue reading
