Posts tagged Christmas
Newsletter: Christmas with ckbk – everything you need to prepare for the main event 🎄

No matter how many office parties or meetups with friends and family the coming weeks hold, Christmas Day itself is central to the holiday season. And for the cook of the household that can mean a lot of work and expectation. Tip one: delegate. Tip two: take your time to look through the wealth of Christmas recipes and resources on ckbk to make your Christmas lunch a pleasure to cook and eat.

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Consuming Passions: Rosewater and Orange-Flower Water

Until bullying vanilla swept them aside, the flavours of orange blossom and of roses were the UK’s favourites in both sweet and savoury food. Following vanilla’s all-conquering rise, flower waters are now comparatively rarely used in Europe and the USA (except in better restaurants from the Near and Middle East and the Indian continent). 

What a lot we are missing, ignoring the flavour heritage of many centuries of British cuisine that has fascinating roots…

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Newsletter: Get ready for Thanksgiving and Stir up Sunday

The American holiday of Thanksgiving falls on the fourth Thursday of November – this year November 24. Its origins lie in various days for thanksgiving across US history, and since the 1800s has become established as a date that brings families across the US together. Cooking for a crowd brings its challenges, even before you factor in everyone’s expectation of the special meal. Fear not, we’ve got everything you need to keep everyone happy.

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The Twelve Shoulds of Christmas

Food historian Annie Gray is a familiar to many through her regular appearances on BBC Radio 4’s The Kitchen Cabinet. Annie has a passion for cookbooks, the older and more eclectic the better, and we are proud to have several of her own cookbooks on ckbk, including The Official Downton Abbey Cookbook and How to Cook the Victorian Way with Mrs Crocombe. Annie’s most recent cookbook, At Christmas We Feast which was added to ckbk this week, looks at the culinary traditions and mythologies which mark the festive season.

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A Christmas like no other: how to make your festive meal matter

Christmas celebrations may not have gone exactly to plan this year. Gatherings may be smaller and prone to last-minute adjustments, yet the urge to observe and celebrate festive traditions seems stronger than ever. We hope the recipes and ideas from these books, from classic cookies to traditional dishes, will provide help in marking this most unusual of Christmases. Here’s our guide to help you get into the spirit of the season.

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