Ginger and Almond Christmas Biscuits

  Christmas Tree shaped Ginger and Almond Christmas Biscuits strung on ribbons.     For those of you who like raw biscuit mixture rather than cooked, I can recommend this gingerbread biscuit recipe as a very, very tasty raw mixture indeed (I kept sneaking off to the fridge and cutting off pieces while the dough […]

Christmas Decorations

  This year sees a gorgeous selection of Christmas decorations available. Here are a few of the ones I like (and trust me, I have done a lot of looking about (which I will term as ‘shopping research’) to bring you this list!)   3-D LIGHT-UP STAR   I just love this night-light shaped as […]

Mum’s Christmas Tree and a Christmas Poem

This poem sums up memories of Christmas Trees from my childhood perfectly, and I’m sure many peoples’ Christmas trees, with important home-made decorations and gifted decorations added to the tree year after year. Thanks to Mum’s neighbour (T) who found the poem in a Next Magazine and kept it, and let me borrow it to […]

My Christmas Tree, 2013

  I intended to put the Christmas Tree up on 1 December, but procrastinated as it is a large artificial tree, (that almost touches the ceiling), and is constructed out of many many many individual pieces. Each branch is assigned a letter that matches to letters on the trunk. It takes a lot of time […]

Christmas Cakes : A History

CHRISTMAS CAKES : A HISTORY   Here, I am going to look at what we now know as a Christmas Cake: how it came to be associated with the Christmas Day tradition, how it became known as a Christmas Cake, and changes to recipes and ingredients. “Christmas Cake”, as the title of a recipe, only […]