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Mini Christmas cakes advice
I have been making Delia’s rich fruit cake for Christmas for many years now and always get compliments. This year I would like to use the recipe to make mini cakes as gifts. I will be using the Lakeland mini pudding tins and would like to know for how long the cakes should be baked in a fan oven. Thank you.
The tea towel over cooked rice
I cook basmati rice to Delia's recipe. However, the second phase of cooking is to cover pan with a cloth for 10 minutes. Do you put the lid back on or leave it off?
Looking for a pork recipe...
Hi, several years ago I used a really tasty recipe for pork loin stuffed with chorizo and I think apple. I also think there may have been cassis in the gravy.
Unfortunately I have lost the recipe and can't find it anywhere on line.
I would like to make it again for some friends 60th wedding anniversary lunch.
Would you know where I can find the recipe please.
Kind regards
Gordon Roberts
Gluten free Christmas cake was too liquid!
I have tried making the traditional Christmas cake with gluten free flour and no other changes. The mixture largely leaked out of the loose base so the fruit was exposed on top. I have used this recipe with standard flour successfully for many years. Please advise.
Fondant Icing with liquid glucose
What proportions of glucose to icing sugar would you use for fondant icing?
Flaming the Christmas pudding
Hi Lindsey,
I'm creating a custom cookbook for my Delia-Smith-recipe-loving mum for Christmas, and I'm planning on inserting a page on how to flame a Christmas Pudding. Are there other ways except how the recipe says?
Thanks!!