Cooking for Christmas [antikvár]

cyNTRODUCTIONFine food and edible treats are among the most traditional and best-loved aspects of Christmas, especially if you are sharing them with family and friends. For the family cook, however, the whole event can be quite stressful and involve a lot of hard work. This book is designed to make all the preparation and cooking as trouble-free as possible, so that everyone has a really enjoyable time. It is divided into four chapters, to make planning your Christmas entertaining easy.Even if you usually leave your Christmas shopping until just before Christmas Eve, you wall find the recipes in the first chapter. The Festive Season, invaluable for getting a head start on your Christmas catering. You may even decide to make some edible gifts. The recipes allocated to Christmas Eve include many special touches that we often intend to add but never quite get round to. Preparing them on Christmas Eve ensures that they are not overlooked. The third chapter, Christmas Day, is packed with all the traditional favourites to make your Christmas meal a sparkUng and memorable occasion, including a fabulous breakfast to help you start the day in style. The last chapter, Boxing Day, offers some ingenious ways with leftovers and some tempting dishes to counterbalance the richness of the Christmas feast, while still maintaining a mood of celebration.Timing the preparations for the main Christmas meal and the other festive meals can be complicated, so a timetable for each chapter is included in the following pages. These will help you avoid such common hiccups as finding that the potatoes are still rock hard when everything else is ready to be served or suddenly realizing at midnight on Christmas Eve that you have almost forgotten to ice the cake.