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Making pizza dough in advance
Can the pizza dough recipe be made ahead?
Adeleine
Mincemeat maturing and omitting the alcohol
Hi Lindsay,
I’ve never made mincemeat from scratch, but I’m sure I remember my Nan telling me it needed to be made by a certain date (possibly stir-up Sunday?) so that it has matured enough to use… is this an old wive’s tale?
Your recipe looks delicious, but can orange or pineapple juice be added instead of alcohol for those who don’t drink for religious reasons?
Many thanks and merry Christmas!!
Steaming the Christmas Pudding was paused!
Please help. Yesterday I made a Traditional Christmas Pudding and put it to steam for 8hours but as I was called away a family member turned off the slow cooker without checking. Can I rescue it. It was steaming for 4 hours approximately.
Paola Hewins
Making an 18cm Classic Christmas Cake
Can I halve the classic Christmas cake recipe to make an 18" cake?
Worried about the flour in suet
I'm making mincemeat. Does it matter that packet suet contains a lot of flour to stop the suet clumping? I have sieved it and the powder weighed more than 50g in a 240g packet. I am concerned about the flour (15% according to the label) will cause the mincemeat to go off. I realise that some flour will stick to the suet no matter what I do. Fresh suet appears to be nonexistent. Thank you.
Bitter sweet! You can have your cake and eat it...
I love a dark chocolate cake but my husband says they are too bitter. Can I replace cocoa and dark chocolate with drinking chocolate and milk chocolate or will his affect the texture of the cake