Christmas Planner.pdf

The Christmas Planner

Norfolk House, 5a Cranmer Road, London SW9 6EJ

Tel: 020 7840 7640, Fax: 020 7840 7600

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Email: enquiries@alisonprice.co.uk

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Contents

Our menu includes food that can be prepared in advance

Planner Guide

Follow the step-by-step guide for a stress-free Christmas Day

Ideas for simple table decorations

Frosted fruits and gilded nuts to make your table sparkle

Great Drinks and Snacks

Christmas drinks full of seasonal lavour

Recipes

File them in your recipe box

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Christmas Day Menu

Champagne

Lacquered Nuts, Parmesan Shortbreads

Roast Turkey with Cranberry, Walnut and Apple Stufing

Maple Glazed Ham with Dried Cherry and Gold Raisin Relish

Best Roast Potatoes Ever

Shredded Brussels Sprouts with Crispy Bacon and Toasted Pinenuts

Butternut Squash and Parsnip Purée with Grated Nutmeg

Corn Pie

Cranberry Relish

Great Gravy

Christmas Pudding

Mulled Wine Poached Pears

Vanilla Bean Custard

Brandy Butter

Oatmeal Biscuits

British Farmhouse Cheeses

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Planner Guide

First Week of December

Make a shopping list of food and wines for

Christmas

Try and inish your Christmas shopping and

start wrapping presents

Write and post Christmas cards

Unwrap Christmas decorations, check tree

lights, and buy new ones if required

Order Christmas tree, door wreath and garlands

for the ireplace

Order any plants and / or lowers for

decorating the Christmas table

Buy candles for the house and table

Buy wines

Order turkey, ham and any other meats or ish

Buy dry store items for Christmas menus

Buy nuts, chocolates and sweets; store in a cool

dark place

Wash and starch linens for Christmas day, re-

pack in clear plastic and don’t forget to label

them

Fourth Week of December

Gild fruits and nuts

Finish food shopping

Two days before Christmas

Collect lowers and plants and arrange

Make Sorrell drink

Bake oatmeal biscuits

Bake ham

Christmas Eve

Prepare stufing

Make giblet stock

Poach pears

Make vanilla bean custard

Make mascarpone cream

Glaze ham

Prepare ingredients for corn pie

Chill wines

Prepare ingredients for drinks

Set the table

Place nuts, sweets etc into containers

Second Week of December

Cook and freeze roast potatoes

Make and freeze Parmesan shortbread dough

Make and freeze the oatmeal biscuit dough

Make and store brandy butter

Finish wrapping presents

Polish silverware and re-wrap

Fill stockings

Christmas Day

Follow your timetable for the day

Third Week of December

Make cranberry relish; store in the fridge

Make dried cherry and golden raisin relish; store

in the fridge

Make butternut squash and parsnip purée and

freeze

Make lacquered nuts; store in an airtight

container in a cool place

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Gilded Fruits and Nuts

Gilding or glittering fruits and nuts is one of the easiest and most

pleasurable ways to decorate a table, side tables or mantles.

Always work on a lat surface, use plenty of newspaper or craft paper and don’t forget to ventilate

the room when using spray adhesive. Be careful using glitter, too much can look very garish.

Glittered nuts look wonderful when mixed with natural ones; add some leaves to the arrangement

such as bay.

Supplies

Glue, spray mount, small paintbrush, small bowls, ine grain glitter, newspaper or craft paper, paper

towels, nuts, pine cones. Cooling rack or wire rack

Pine cones and nuts

Hold the pine cone and brush down the outside edges with the glue, roll the cone in the bowl of

glitter until the glue is coated with a thin amount. If you are using very large cones, just apply the

glue to the tips and roll in the glitter

Applying the glitter to nuts

Spray the nuts with glue, roll in the glitter, remove and leave to dry on a cooling rack.

Gilding fruits

In lorist sundries shops you can buy spray cans of gold, silver and copper. This is a very quick way of

achieving festive decorations.

Supplies

Spray cans of paint, bamboo skewers, cooling racks, newspaper. Pears, pomegranates and apples

are the best fruits to gild.

Shake the can well, place the skewer into the lower end of the fruit, spray evenly, place on the

cooling rack to dry. Arrange in piles in bowls

Simple candles

Decorating a table with candles can be as simple as placing candles into glass cylinders and illing

them with fresh cranberries.

Make use of tall candle sticks in a different way by placing a sugared pear on the holder with a bay

leaf to add a touch of green.

Simple table decorations

Using fruits such as pomegranates with their wonderful red skins on footed stands or plates lined

with ir, bay leaves or holly leaves will bring a Christmas table to life with the colours of the season.

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