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Questions
The flour in Christmas Pudding
For the classical Christmas pudding why are we using selfraising flour and then leaving the pudding standing overnight? Surely all the raising capacity will have been consumed in the wait? It is a very dense pudding. Is it more dense if you use plain flour?
Retro dinner party menu.
Where can I find Delias menu for a retro dinner party, prawn cocktail, steak and black forest gateau
Burnt Creole Cake
I’ve just made the Creole Christmas cake for the first time in twenty years, following the recipe on this site to the absolute letter. Sadly the result is burnt and not very nice - a complete waste of about £20 worth of ingredients. When I checked the original recipe in the Happy Christmas book I realised two things: one, the quantities are for a 20 cm square tin, not round as stated on this site; two, the temperature of 140 is for a non-fan oven. I now realise I should have reduced the temperature for my fan oven, and used a square not a round tin.
Preparing Beef Wellington in advance
Can I prepare beef Wellington in advance
Mincemeat modified
Im making Delias mincemeat. Ive made it every year for so many years. Perfection every time. This year, a bit late, too much going on at home, palliative care for son etc, I added the Brandy before putting it in the oven for the 3 hours. Help!!!! Have I ruined it. What can I do, please to not change the taste at all? Sally K
No need to knead??
Hi - I’m just reading through the whole meal bread recipe and Delia doesn’t knead the dough - is this correct? I would normally knead for at least 10 minutes!!