Product Description
In this collection of the very best of her Christmas recipes Delia Smith demonstrates how you can easily cope with the whole gamut of Christmas entertaining while still having plenty of time to relax with your family and friends. Whether this is the first time you have had Christmaas at your own home or have been doing it for years you'll find this book will be indispensible every Christmas for years to come. Delia gives advice on how to choose the very best produce, from turkeys to chocolates, from glace fruits to smoked salmon. She shows that you've got plenty of time when everyone arrives - with her help you can prepare many dishes in advance, and her 36-hour countdown to Christmas lunch will ensure that nothing goes wrong for that most difficult of meals to get right. She gives lots of unusual ideas for all sorts of Christmas parties from fork buffets to drinks parties including Roast Goose with Potatoe, Sage and Apple Stuffing. and Iced Christmas Pudding topped with glace fruits marinated in Madeira. Over 100 new recipes include 5 different kinds of Christmas cake and foolproof ways to ice them, a complete vegetarian Christmas including Cheese Terrine with Apricot Chutney, and recipes for Christmas gifts such as Chocolate Truffles. Christmas is the time when you most want everything to run smoothly - with Delia Smith's Christmas at your side you can relax and enjoy it.
About the Author
Delia Smith is Britain's bestselling cookery writer, whose books have sold over 21 million copies worldwide. Delia's first job as a cookery writer was for the Daily Mirror in 1969 - numerous phenomenal best sellers and television series followed including Delia Smith's Complete Cookery Course in 1978 and Delia's Christmas, Summer & Winter Collections in the 1990s. Towards the end of the decade Delia commenced work on a new major project - Delia's How to Cook, publishing three separate volumes and the accompanying tv series. The Vegetarian Collection and The Delia Collection followed. After a five year break concentrating on Norwich City Football Club (where she is a director) and Canary Catering, Delia returned triumphant in 2008 with a new BBC TV series and the fastest selling cookery book of all time 'Delia's How to Cheat at Cooking' - which has sold over 800,000 copies to date. Delia is married to the writer and editor, Michael Wynn Jones. They live in Suffolk.
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