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Delia's Christmas Easy menu plan
This will whet your appetite... mouthwatering recipes to take you from Christmas Eve to New Year's Eve. Do the whole thing, or simply choose certain days: either way, with Delia's help, it will all be a complete doddle!
*NB These recipe titles are not links as this is simply intended as an overview and is also available on the site to those who have not subscribed. You can find links to each recipe elsewhere on the page. *
CHRISTMAS EVE SUPPER
Scallops in the Shell with Cream and Vermouth
Roast Collar of Bacon with Blackened Crackling
Served with English Cumberland Sauce
Jacket Potato Wedges with Melting Cheese and Spring Onion
Braised Red Cabbage with Apples
Spiced Cranberry and Orange Jellies With Frosted Cranberries
CHRISTMAS DAY LUNCH
Roast Bronze free-range Turkey with Traditional Pork, Sage and Onion Stuffing
Served with Roast Potatoes, Parsnips and Button Sprouts, Giblet Gravy, Cranberry and Orange Relish and Traditional Bread Sauce
The Delia Christmas Pudding
With Hot Buttery Rum Sauce
Christmas evening
Sandwiches and sausage rolls
BOXING DAY
Lunch
Family lunch at the football club or Turkey Feuilletes
Supper
Cold cuts, slices of turkey and collar of bacon (or gammon)
Served with
Michael’s Chunky Saute Potatoes in Turkey Dripping
Pickles, chutneys and cold sauces
Traditional Raspberry Trifle or hot
Easy Mince Pies
27 DECEMBER
Lunch
Cold cuts
Served with
Brussels bubble-and-squeak
Pickles, chutneys and cold sauces
Mincemeat and Apple Jalousie
With Cumberland Rum Butter
Supper
Hand-sliced smoked salmon with Irish soda bread, capers, cayenne pepper and Isigny butter
English cheeses, with nuts, muscatel raisins, Medjool dates and celery, served with port
28 DECEMBER
Lunch
A walk on the beach and lunch out at one of my favourite restaurants
Supper
Braised Venison with Bacon, Chestnuts and Wild Mushrooms in a Rich Madeira Sauce
Served with
Mashed potato
Sauteed Leeks
Cheese, nuts, apples, clementines, cake and hot mince pies (or leftover Christmas pudding)
29 DECEMBER
Lunch
Spiced Turkey in a Creamed Coconut Sauce
Served with
Basmati rice, poppadoms, mango chutney and lime pickle
Vanilla-bean Ice Cream with Raisins soaked in Pedro Ximenez Sherry
Supper
Anything at all… smoked salmon, sausage rolls, cheeses, Christmas cake
30 DECEMBER
Lunch at the football club.
Supper
Stilton Rarebit
NEW YEAR’S EVE
Champagne and Party Cheese Twists to start
Souffled Arbroath Smokie Creams with Foaming Hollandaise Sauce
Confit of Duck with Port and Sour Cherry Sauce
Served with
Potatoes Boulangeres with Sage
Braised Red Cabbage with Apples
Petits Monts Blancs
Festive Sugar Plums
Single malt whisky at the chimes of midnight
