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Get the sauce right and the whole dish will follow suit: avoid lumpy, floury sauces with Delia's selection of the very best, from classics to more recent finds.
Serves 6Wild Mushrooms in Madeira en Croûte with Foaming Hollandaise Sauce
This recipe is ideal for entertaining; you can make the filling and pastry cases the day before. Serve with Foaming Hollandaise Sauce, see Related Recipe below, which can also be made ahead.
Serves 6Spring Sauce for Lamb
I always part company with mint sauce if it's made with malt vinegar which completely overpowers the flavour of the lamb, but the following sauce - my grandmother always served with lamb.
Makes about 1 pint (570 ml)Traditional Gravy
Gravy powders, stock cubes and granules are all well and good, but for the real thing you have to make it yourself. Here, Delia tells you how with her totally foolproof recipe. Sunday roasts will never be the same!
Serves 4-6Pepper-Crusted Fillet of Beef with Roasted Balsamic Onions and Thyme
A Sunday lunchtime treat: a pepper crust helps to keep the meat succulent while roasting, while the onions and thyme adds intriguing flavours and a hint of Italian to this superb recipe.
Serves 1Gammon Steak with Honey and Mustard Sauce
This is so quick and effortless – and proves that simplicity is so often the best. Excellent served with quick stir-fried cabbage.
Serves 1Poached Pear in Caramel Sauce
This makes just the right-sized, and most attractive, dessert for one. This idea also works very well with a poached peach in the summer. To poach a peach, follow the same method as for the pear, but when the sugar has dissolved, place the peach, who
Serves 4 (with plenty of leftovers for Boxing Day)Cheat’s Turkey with Pistachio and Apricot Stuffing and Pancetta and Cranberry, Balsamic and Sage Sauce
This really is Christmas eating without the hassle: Delia turns a turkey crown into a meal of real succulence and flavour, with a gorgeously festive stuffing and a sauce that has all the festive flavours of Christmas.
Serves 6Roast Gammon with Blackened Crackling with Citrus, Rum and Raisin Sauce
The citrus, rum and raisin sauce is the perfect foil for the richness of the gammon and the sweet crisp crackling. This would make a superb centrepiece for a hot buffet at Christmas.
Serves 4The ‘How to Cheat’ Christmas Pudding with Rum and Mascarpone Sauce
This is a bit of a clever wheeze, if I say it myself. Instead of buying all those Christmas pud ingredients, take a jar of mincemeat from Sainsbury’s and short-circuit all of that.
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